This week George Bush and other Western war-mongers celebrate the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
War is good news for the corporations which the war-mongers represent.
War is profitable and militarism plays a key role in the capitalist system.
Wars are fought for class interests. The Iraq was is no exception.
Writing fifty-two years ago in their book Monopoly Capital, American economists Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy characterize the impact militarism has on society and the function of militarism in capitalist society :......
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Honestly Guv, we’re not militarist, war-loving type people… we are latter day peaceniks. The snaps are just because we love bronze sculptures. Look there, we have Henry Richard and Keir Hardie, both pacifists.
Thus our conscience does battle with the fact we spend much of our blogging time discussing imagery of war sculptures and memorials.
Photos of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart are now available in the Gallery.
The sculpture is situated in Gorsedd Gardens, opposite the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff.
The sculptor was Sir William Goscombe......
Britain, Britain, Britain land of sculptures, too many of which depict a fascination for war, war, war.
And then in 2005 the Alison Lapper Pregnant by Marc Quinn was unveiled in the heart of London.
She is situated in Trafalgar Square named after the 1805 naval battle during the Napoleonic wars.
For companions she has bronze statues of British generals and other members of the warrior aristocracy.
Along with Sir Edwin Landseer’s four couchant lions guarding Nelson’s Column.
Lapper is depicted naked and heavily pregnant.
The material used is Carraran marble, also famously used for Marble Arch, London.
The sculptor Marc Quinn writes eloquently about his work thus :
“At first glance it would seem that there are few if any public sculptures of people with disabilities....
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Come and hear the powerful stories of the Iraqi oil workers and trade unions resisting the military and economic occupation of their homeland . . .
Tuesday 2 October at 7 pm
WALLACE LECTURE THEATRE
Main Building
Cardiff University
Park Place (opp. Student Union Building)
Speakers-
EWA JASIEWICZ
UK rep for the Basra Oil Workers Union & founder member of NAFTANA, an organisation that builds solidarity with Iraqi workers.
+ Speaker from the Stop the War Coalition
About the Ewa Jasiewicz:
In 2004, Ewa Jasiewicz visited Iraq to build links between the anti-war movement and Iraqi trade unions resisting both occupation and the corporate take-over of their counrty. She became the UK rep for the Basra Oil Workers Union, a militant...
Iraq For Sale Film
Thursday 15 February at 8 pm.
Chapter Arts Centre, Market Rd., Canton
Tickets available from Chapter box office.
Organised in association with Oyster Clothing.
The film will be introduced by poet, Robert Minhinnick, who will also show a short film about his recent visit to Iraq.
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Corporate Watch UK research and report on the corporate carve-up of Iraq.
Ann Clwyd, cardiff city hall, Chapter Arts Centre, corporations, iraq,...
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