Why we have “peace” in the headline
The front page headline on Solidarity this week says “Peace”. It is a way of saying in one word what we said in three (“stop the massacre”, “stop the war”) in previous issues . It is also a slogan rarely used by Marxists in recent decades. Why, and what is different now? From the early 1950s, and the reverberations persist, the Communist Parties in the stronger capitalist countries made “peace” a big slogan and busied themselves heavily with building “peace movements” designed essentially as adjuncts to the USSR’s diplomacy. For Algeria’s independence war, the French Communist Party’s slogan...