Table of Contents of ‘BATTLE PLAN AGAINST WAR AND WAR PREPARATION’
– New and much Enlarged edition –
BATTLE PLAN AND OTHER PRACTICAL PROPOSALS FOR ANTIMILITARIST ORGANIZING.
1. Introduction 5
2. Soldiers and workers, strike! (1918, 20p) 8
3. Exerpt from ‘War or revolution, speech before the IAMV congress in Den Haag’, 1920. 26
4. The anti-militarists and their means of struggle (1921) 29
5. Positive revolution (1921) 34
6. Revolution and evolution (1923) 38
7. Revolution and anti-militarism (1924) 42
8. War against war. What everyone of us can do (1933) 45
9. Mobilisation against the war! (1934) 61
Introduction. 61
A. MOBILISATION AGAINST THE WAR! (‘100 Minutes Speech’ WRI Welwyn – 1934) 62
1. Necessity of systematic struggle against war. 62
2. Voluntarism against coercion. 63
3. First things first. 64
4. The meaning of military conscription. 66
5. The nature of modern conscription. 67
6. Woman and the modern war. 68
7. International character of the war against war. 68
8. Don’t wait until the last moment! 69
9. To prevent is better than to cure. 70
10. Moral education. 71
11. Now or never! 72
12. The most vulnerable points of the war system. 73
13. Key industries and companies. 73
14. The intellectuals and the war. 75
15. Nationalized war industries? 76
16. No money, no war! 78
17. Our chances. 78
18. Technical fight against war [aka Sabotage]. 79
19. Necessity to decentralize the war against war. 79
20. Necessity to spread the Battle Plan against mobilization and war in all countries and all circles. 80
POSTCRIPT 80
B. DRAFT OF “Battle Plan AGAINST ALL WAR AND ALL PREPARATION FOR WAR”, PROPOSED TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE WAR RESISTERS’ INTERNATIONAL, HELD AT WELWYN (HERTS, ENGLAND), JULY 1934 83
10. The conquest of violence (1935) 96
1. The religion of violence. 96
2. Violence and war in history 97
3. The violence of the bourgeoisie. 100
4. Unsustainability of bourgeois pacifism. 102
5. Violence and proletariat 105
6. Efficiency of supra-violent means of struggle. 109
7. Violence and revolution. 118
8. Armed defence against Germany? 123
9. The Japanese danger. 126
FURTHER READING: 128
11. Gene Sharp – 198 Methods for nonviolent action 130
Source: Brian Martin, ‘Social Defence, Social Change’ 130
From Gene Sharp ‘The Politics of Nonviolent Action’ (3 Vols.) Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973: 131
1. The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion 131
Formal Statements 131
Group Representations 131
Symbolic Public Acts 131
Pressures on Individuals 131
Drama and Music 131
Processions 132
Honoring the Dead 132
Public Assemblies 132
Withdrawal and Renunciation 132
2. The Methods of Social Noncooperation 132
Ostracism of Persons 132
Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions 132
Withdrawal from the Social System 132
3.The Methods of Economic Noncooperation: Economic Boycotts 133
Actions by Consumers 133
Action by Workers and Producers 133
Action by Middlemen 133
Action by Owners and Management 133
Action by Holders of Financial Resources 133
Action by Governments 133
4. The Methods of Economic Noncooperation: The Strike 133
Symbolic Strikes 133
Agricultural Strikes 134
Strikes by Special Groups 134
Ordinary Industrial Strikes 134
Restricted Strikes 134
Multi-Industry Strikes 134
Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures 134
5. The Methods of Political Noncooperation 134
Rejection of Authority 134
Citizens’ Noncooperation with Government 134
Citizens’ Alternatives to Obedience 135
Action by Government Personnel 135
Domestic Governmental Action 135
International Governmental Action 135
6. The Methods of Nonviolent Intervention 135
Psychological Intervention 135
Physical Intervention 135
Social Intervention 136
Economic Intervention 136
Political Intervention 136
12. From @nti-militarism of the deed to social defence. 137
13. Further reading. 139