Iraq

The build up for war on Iraq continues at a frightening pace, but the international opposition to war is also growing. The build up for war on Iraq continues at a frightening pace. This month the Government sent a further 26,000 soldiers to the Gulf. Fortunately the international opposition to war is also growing. According to one poll outright opposition to war in the UK now stands at 47%. On 18 January up to 500,000 marched in Washington, USA, 200,000 in France, and thousands more in major cities across the world - from Pakistan to Japan to Ecuador. But on what basis should the international...

A speech by Dr Barham Salih, Prime Minister, Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq, to the Socialist International (SI) Council, Rome, January 20th, 2003 Dear Comrades and Friends, I come to you from Iraqi Kurdistan - bringing you greetings from the Kurdish leadership - and a message from our people who hope for your support and solidarity in the struggle for democracy and liberation. It is profoundly symbolic that we are meeting here in Rome. As the world watches the gathering storm around Iraq, there is no better place to meet than in this city, so laden with history, to reflect on the...

This continues my report of the Stop the War Coalition conference on 11 January. There's the composite resolution on trade union work and then comment.(VM) "This conference welcomes the support of those trade unions involved in the anti-war movement. Conference understands the action of the organised workforce as one of the most effective means of opposing war on Iraq. In the run-up to and the execution of a war by the USA/UK against Iraq, trade unionists are well placed to undertake action that can hamper and undermine the war effort, strengthen the movement to stop the war and bring direct...

As we enter a new year, the stench of another murderous war is looming in the air. UN inspectors, frantically scuttling around Iraq in the attempt to find some nasty weapons, have so far drawn a blank. As they continue their 'inspections' large chunks of the US army is relocating to the Gulf. 'War games' are being played within striking of Iraq in the Kuwaiti desert. The twisted logic of the 'war on terror' will see thousands of innocent people, already battered by Saddam's totalitarian regime, bombed to death in the name of freedom. Bush and his poodle Tony, have declared themselves the...

Please join Michael Albert, Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox-Piven, Edward Said, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Stephen Shalom, Alan Sokal, Immanuel Wallerstein, Naomi Weisstein, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn in signing this anti-war statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. To see the latest signatories, or add your name, click here . See below for the list of initial signers. We oppose both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. War on Iraq. A call for a new, democratic U.S. foreign policy We oppose the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq, which threatens to inflict...

NO TO BUSH, NO TO SADDAM, YES TO SOCIALISM! STOP THE WAR! - Bolshy Editorial/January 2003 Welcome to 2003. My crystal ball's fairly heavily fogged at the moment, so I can't tell what this year holds. However, if the signs are to be believed, one event does seem pretty imminent; everyone's favourite trained ape is about to launch a brutal, imperialist attack on the innocent citizens of Iraq. Happy New Year, Baghdad! We're dedicating this month's issue of Bolshy to that same topic - why we must oppose this war, why Bush wants it, and what we can do to stop the damn thing. We'll also be looking...

by Michelle Goldberg Salon.com December 20, 2002 http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/12/20/makiya/index_np.html Kanan Makiya, the Baghdad-born journalist, Brandeis professor and human-rights activist, has done more than anyone else alive to expose the sadism of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian state. With his 1989 book "Republic of Fear," he emerged as Iraq's Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, laying bare a system built on the torture and mutilation of its subjects. Back then the world was indifferent -- though the book was finished in 1986, it took him three years to find a publisher because editors...

From Solidarity 3/21, 11 January 2003 No support for the Iraqi government The Stop the War conference in London on 11 January is due to feature applause for the "Cairo Declaration" adopted by an international conference in Cairo, Egypt, on 18-19 December. The conference opposed the planned US war in Iraq - but from a standpoint of solidarity with "Iraq" (the Iraqi government), rather than with the workers and peasants of Iraq against both US militarism and Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Saad Hammoundy, the Iraqi government's ambassador to the Arab League, was a keynote speaker. According to a...

Please join Michael Albert, Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox-Piven, Edward Said, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Stephen Shalom, Alan Sokal, Immanuel Wallerstein, Naomi Weisstein, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn in signing this anti-war statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. To see the latest signatories, or add your name, click here . See below for the list of initial signers. We oppose both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. War on Iraq. A call for a new, democratic U.S. foreign policy We oppose the impending U.S.-led war on Iraq, which threatens to inflict...

By Martin Thomas the juggernaut is speeding towards war. There is no reason to doubt that the Bush administration is absolutely determined on war in the New Year. But we can still stop them. Public opinion in the US is turning against the war-mongers. According to the latest Gallup poll, done at the end of November, 37% of the population of the USA are against President George W Bush's planned war on Iraq, and 58% in favour. In a country where the mass media is almost unanimously pro-war, and at a time before any US war casualties, those figures represent a lot of opposition. On 10 December...