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When Workers’ Struggle Stopped Wars

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 George Martin Fell Brown, Tom Crean

War and militarism are an inextricable part of imperialism. Even in periods of relative stability and less sharp inter-imperialist tensions—like during the height of neoliberal globalization in the 1990s and early 2000s when the number of wars decreased—the contradictions that produce war under capitalism did not go away. Now the war drums are beating as […]

The Vietnam War: US’s War Machine Was Stopped

March 28, 2018November 15, 2025 George Martin Fell Brown

Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975 at 7:53 in the morning, the Marine helicopter Swift 2-2 departed from the United States embassy in Saigon, capital of South Vietnam. The helicopter carried the last batch of soldiers who had been waging a brutal, protracted war against the revolutionary peasant uprising of Hồ Chí Minh’s Việt Cộng […]