David North

Into the Maelstrom: The Invasion of Iraq and the Crisis of American Imperialism

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March 19, 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the invasion, a criminal act taken in defiance of mass protests all over the world. Since then, the American government has engaged in one military intervention after the next, as the former leaders of anti-war protests integrated themselves into the imperialist framework through their support for the Obama and subsequent administrations. With the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, a proxy for US-NATO, the danger of World War Three is coming ever nearer.

The articles in this pamphlet provide a revolutionary socialist program and perspective for the resurgence of mass opposition to war, with the growth of international working-class struggles, especially after two years of the Pandemic have devastated working-class life.

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March 19, 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the invasion, a criminal act taken in defiance of mass protests all over the world. Since then, the American government has engaged in one military intervention after the next, as the former leaders of anti-war protests integrated themselves into the imperialist framework through their support for the Obama and subsequent administrations. With the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, a proxy for US-NATO, the danger of World War Three is coming ever nearer.

The articles in this pamphlet provide a revolutionary socialist program and perspective for the resurgence of mass opposition to war, with the growth of international working-class struggles, especially after two years of the Pandemic have devastated working-class life.

The pamphlet contains two essays written by David North immediately after the 2003 US invasion, analyzing its social and political causes and consequences, as well as an introduction by North and Bill Van Auken, “The Iraq War ten years on: A turning point for US imperialism.”

David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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