re-issues
DAVID GRANT Frust Fredrich War Against War Journeyman 26.95 Aia Briggs Marx in London -in illustrated guide Journeman. E2:05 TWO WELCOME re publications frora Jowneyman should he added to everyone's bookshelves - and not only to support the efforts of a radical publisher to keep alive works thar would otherwise go out of print.
War Agamst War first published in 1924 by the anarchist pacilist Ernst Friedrich is a gruelling photographic/political commentary upon the carnage of the first world war, It is alo an internationalist call to oppose war from an activisr who participated in the many youth urganisanons that flourished in Germany in the revolutionary period following Lie Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Yet more than this ir is an analysis of the system of capitalist exploitation char focuses specific attention upon the psychological conditioning of people which results in acceptance of war in the hatc ol honour', demucrucy'. Tather/motherland. les message is as valid today as ir was in the inter-war perind when Friedrich was imprisoned for "bigh-treason", his book along with his Anti: war museum later being suppressed by the nazis:
The photographic images rogether with the hiring irony of the commentary amass damning evidence against those responsible for war. The culprits never for one instant escape the accusing finger Friedrich points at them. The depiction of mass slaughrer builds with an ellect that 1s similar to a film, the black and white photographs piling upon each other like so many of the dead and smashed bodies they. have captured on film.
Those in the labour movement who (correctly) denounce the potential use of 38 nuclear weapons and yet
'To die like a hero' from
Friedrich's "War against war!
(mistakenly/hypocritically?)
campaign for a massive build up of conventional weaponry would do well to study this