Volume 1: From Protest to Resistance/ the International War System
This profound and timely work provides an analysis of the various forces which bring us ever closer to nuclear annihilation. It also takes the reader on a tour of the numerous anti-war and disarmament organisations and identifies a myriad of political issues contributing to international tensions.
Roussopoulos has worked with the disarmament movement form ore than 25 years, and he has just completed a thorough investigation of the intensified arms build-up and the emergence of the new disarmament movements of the 1980s. He believes a third world war will happen, because not enough is being done to prevent it. The author offers a sympathetic yet critical analysis of the movement, country by country, in a last-ditch attempt to make both activists and the public see the issues clearly and take action to prevent a third world war.
“The Coming of World War Three is perhaps the most provocative, thoughtful and important book on the nuclear issue of this decade. It is indispensable reading for all peace activists and thoughtful people generally who are concerned with the future of our planet and our freedom.”--Murray Bookchin
“Roussopoulos faces a fear that is rapidly becoming in all our minds a certainty we dare not admit- the coming of World War Three. The only way to defuse the certainty is by mass popular action on a larger scale than ever before so that at least we can add an ‘unless’ to the phrase, ‘The war will happen’.”--George Woodcock
Table of Contents
PART 1: The Drift and Thrust Towards World War Three
Notes to the Reader
The Dogmas of the Imperial Centres
The New Technology and Instability
Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Conventional Weapons
The Third World Time-Bomb
The Economics of Militarism
Civil Liberties and the Nuclear State
From the U.N.’s SSD2 to No Disarmament News from Geneva
The International War Systems PrevailsPART 2: From Protest to Resistance
Britain
Federal Republic of Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Italy
Greece
Spain
Nordic Countries
France
A Note on Switzerland
Japan
The Pacific
Turkey
Canada
USA
European Nuclear Disarmament (END)PART 3: The Independent Peace Groups in Eastern Europe
The Moscow Group and the Soviet Union
Hungary
German Democratic Republic
Poland
Czechoslovakia
UpdateVolume Two FROM RESISTANCE TO SOCIAL CHANGE
PART 4: From Resistance to Social Change
Human sacrifice in a warring world
Disarmament and what Development
Is the Peace Movement single issued
The need for security and social defence
A libertarian social organisation
Women, feminism and militarism
Reformism is not enough
A social movement for fundamental social changePART 5: The Dialectics of Moral Realism
Thesis: What’s on the political agenda?
The old thesis: the non-aligned nation-states from Bandung and Belgrade to New Delhi
The new thesis: a non-aligned nuclear free Europe, the rest of us and the old left…
Anti-thesis: What’s on the social agenda?
Synthesis: Is there time?
Black, Green and some Red--a superhuman taskBibliography
Index
Volume One: From Protest to Resistance
299 pages, appendices
Paperback ISBN: 0-920057-02-0 $14.99
Hardcover ISBN: 0-920057-03-9 $43.99
Volume Two: A New Agenda: From Resistance to Social Change
200 pages
Paperback ISBN: 0-920057-85-3 $14.99
Hardcover ISBN: 0-920057-83-7 $43.99
