Iraq

Cinq textes en francais: Venezuela, Irak, Iran, Grèce, NPA

Alliance for Workers’ Liberty: cinq textes Mai 2012 Cliquez ici pour télécharger pdf Table des matières Venezuela: Le capitalisme d'État de Chavez vacille Les États-Unis se retirent d'Irak Non à la guerre! Non à la bombe iranienne! Contre l’étranglement de Grèce par les banques! Un appel au NPA: non à la scission ! Traductions de Hugo Pouliot

Homophobic murders in Iraq

The Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq has issued this protest statement jointly with Iraqi LGBT . "New barbaric attacks started against the Iraqi LGBT in many cities like Baghdad and Basra while using inhumane methods such as hitting the head and body parts of gay victims with building concrete blocks repeatedly till death or by pushing them over high building roof which took place in Basra city. The actions of killings, torture, and dismembering against those who were described as “adulterous” by Islamic Shia militias, besides hanging lists on the walls of several sections in Al-Sadr...

Class-struggle dispatches from Iraq

1,200 workers in a cement factory in Karbala held a strike calling for increased benefits. The factory is operated by the French company Lafarge, and bosses want to massively increase production to about 60,000 tonnes per month. This is a huge amount for an old factory and the capability is not really there to meet these targets. According to the contract between Lafarge and the Iraqi government, the furnace must be upgraded before the increase in production can take place, but the upgrade hasn’t been made The furnace has receive routine repairs only. It’s meant a massive increase in workload...

Les États-Unis se retirent d'Irak

A la fin du mois de décembre, les dernières troupes américaines se retireront d'Irak, huit ans et huit mois après l'invasion de mars 2003. Bâclant jusqu’à la fin, les États-Unis ont envoyé le vice-président Joe Biden pour visiter l'Irak en déclarant l'opération comme un succès, et il dissertait à un public perplexe sur les grandes choses que les États-Unis ont fait à Bakou. Bakou est en Azerbaïdjan et non pas en Irak. L'invasion a été le produit d'une vague de triomphalisme américain après l'effondrement du stalinisme russe et européen en 1991, les succès de l'armée américaine au Koweït (1991)...

US withdraws from Iraq

By Martin Thomas At the end of December, the last US troops will withdraw from Iraq, eight years and eight months after the invasion of March 2003. Bungling to the last, the USA sent vice-president Joe Biden to tour Iraq declaring the operation a success, and he held forth to a puzzled audience on the great things the USA has done in Baku. Baku is in Azerbaijan, not Iraq. The invasion was the product of a surge of US triumphalism following the collapse of European and Russian Stalinism in 1991, easy US military successes in Kuwait (1991), Bosnia (1995), and Kosova (1999), and seeming US...

Iraqi unions send solidarity to UK pensions strike

A statement from Iraq's FWCUI trade union federation. Comrades, The capitalists assign the leaders of the G20, the officials of the IMF and the World Bank the right to discuss the capitalist crisis, as if it is only their own matter, and not an issue for the whole of society and the people. While the current crisis has already affected the lives of billions of the inhabitants of our planet, the bankers and bosses continues to seek solutions serving their projects and profits. None of the "democratic" capitalist leaders is even willing to meet and seriously discuss with the demonstrators...

Campaigning for women's rights in Iraq

Emily Muna gives an account of an interview with Houzan Mahmoud of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. When you meet an extraordinary person, it can be in the most mundane of places. Our interview with Houzan Mahmoud, of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), a socialist-feminist activist, was carried out in a softly-lit, sleek little café, not far from Hampstead station. Houzan was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973; she is a socialist and campaigner for women’s rights in Kurdistan, Iraq and the Middle East. A striking woman, with lots of beautiful, dark hair, sharp eyes...

US troops to quit Iraq

On Friday 21 October US president Barack Obama announced that the 46,000 US troops still in Iraq (down from a peak of 170,000) will all leave the country by 31 December 2011. The US had been negotiating to keep 30,000 troops and some bases in the country, and then at least to keep 3,000 trainers. In the end it has had to comply with the letter of the deal which George W Bush signed with the Iraqi government in late 2008 after first and unsuccessfully (in summer 2008) trying for a deal which would license US troops to remain in Iraq for many years, in large numbers and with large powers. The...

"Saddam had to tell him to calm down"

By Emily Muna I had seen the film posters for The Devil’s Double , the new film about Uday Hussein, son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, plastered around the London underground. Looking at the poster, I imagined it some kind of comedy. "Have you heard about the new film coming out, about Uday?" I asked my grandmother, who escaped Saddam’s regime with my mum and uncles in the late seventies. I didn’t need to say his full name. She knew who I was talking about. "They said they had to tone it down. It’s an 18, but they had to tone it down, because the reality was even more violent and disturbing...

The US military is making Iraqi children sick

By Falah Alwan, president of the FWCUI We have a catastrophic situation in Haweeja, near Kirkuk. There is an American munitions training centre in the province and the local people are suffering from living near the weapons testing. 412 children are suffering from radiation sickness. The FWCUI recently participated in a delegation organised by the Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) to meet local residents and discuss the issues. There are hundreds of people with illnesses, including cancer. People cannot afford proper medical treatment; FWCUI and OWFI are demanding that the...

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