Consider the Vietnam war. Anti-war activists in the US and other capitalist countries similarly sought to end war by raising its costs. But, perhaps counterintuitively, they also create an opportunity for a potentially even more effective anti-war movement than those of the past. Although our era is very different from that of the Vietnam war, the same imperative of anti-war organizing holds: finding ways to collectively raise the cost of war from within. In the 60s, organizers held fast to the analysis that their task was not just to end the Vietnam war, but also to prevent future “Vietnams”.

Source: The Guardian March 29, 2026 17:30 UTC