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Nonviolence/Antimilitarism
10. June 2006 - 16:21

Conscientious objection is one important aspect of nonviolence and antimilitarist action. I myself refused to perform military and substitute service in 1986, and got some trials which lasted until 1991.
This section contains some articles I wrote, and gives some information on the field of nonviolence and antimilitarism. I try to expand this section step by step.

A queer antimilitarist perspective on the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' in the US
2. February 2011 - 0:00
Andreas Speck, July 2008Andreas Speck, July 2008

In December 2010, the US House of Representatives and the Senate both voted to repeal the policy

We can stop new nuclear – if we want to!
10. December 2010 - 0:00

Thoughts on the anti nuclear power movement in Britain

By Andreas Speck

Anti-nuclear campaigners blockade EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power plant
4. October 2010 - 21:00

Blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, 4 October 2010Blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, 4 October 2010From 6.30am until 10:45am, anti-nuclear campaigners from diff

Militarization and masculinities
1. March 2010 - 0:00

Refusing militarism is not possible without refusing hegemonic masculinity

  • Andreas Speck, War Resisters' International

“Questioning

Local Democracy Dumped!
23. February 2010 - 14:49

As government ends flawed consultation on nuclear power, anti-nuclear power activists step up resistance and blockade Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, England.

Blockade of Sizewell nuclear power station, 22 February 2010Blockade of Sizewell nuclear power station, 22 February 2010Since 6.40am on 22 February 2010, anti-nuclear power activists from the 'People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition' [1] have been blockading Sizewell power station in protest against the flawed government consultation on nuclear new build, which ends today, and the dumping of local democracy.

Against NATO: Continuing the struggle – until the summit in Portugal (and beyond)
26. October 2009 - 21:41

From 15-18 October a series of meetings took place in Berlin, to discuss the continuation of work against NATO and the war in Afghanistan after Strasbourg. A special focus was on European and international co-operation.

After Strasbourg: On dealing with violence in one's own ranks
19. April 2009 - 23:00

“The more violence, the less revolution,” Bart de Ligt wrote in The Conquest of Violence in 1936. If we accept this, then there was very little revolution in Strasbourg, despite all the romantic revolutionary rhetoric from certain groupings. I put this first in order to make it clear that this is a critique from a revolutionary perspective, and not a criticism of violence from a Green or Left-Party state-reformist point of view which accepts the state's monopoly on the use of force.

A global NATO? From NATO to a “global alliance of democracies”?
5. March 2009 - 22:26

Not only since the end of the Cold War NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – has expanded considerably beyond what could be called the “Northern Atlantic” region. In fact, most of NATO's expansion has been in Eastern and South Eastern Europe. But NATO is more than just a North American and European affair. It now has global connections and partnerships, and some strategists propose to develop NATO into a “global alliance of democracies”.

Shut down NATO
24. January 2009 - 16:58

Nonviolent action against NATO

On 4 April 1949, the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded with the signing of the NATO treaty. On 3 and 4 April 2009, the heads of state and government of the 26 member states and their delegations will meet in Baden Baden and Strasbourg to celebrate NATO's 60th birthday with a NATO summit (ed.).

Since its foundation in 1949 NATO pretended to defend the so-called “free West” against the allegedly aggressive communism. If this would have been the real reason of NATO's existence, NATO would have had to dissolve in 1991 after the end of the Warsaw Pact. But this did not happen.

During the Cold War NATO fueled for more than 40 years the arms race, which is not to legitimise the senseless actions of Russia's armament policy. But recently released documents show: the strategic objective of NATO has been – at least for many years – the military push back of the Sowjet Union and the revision of the outcomes of the Second World War. During the Cold War NATO participated with its secret operation Gladio in repression against leftist movement with the NATO countries, and was linked also to the military coups in Greece in 19671 and in Turkey in 19802.

After the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact NATO quickly turned itself to new tasks.