Defend Iraqi and Kurdish socialists!
On 5 September US president Barack Obama announced a “game plan” to wear down the “Islamic State” movement (ISIS), which has seized a large swathe of Syria and Iraq and imposed Sunni-sectarian ultra-Islamist rule. On 8 September US Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the formation of a new Iraqi government in Baghdad. The US will bomb more. (Obama ruled out ground troops). There is much less “breakthrough” than claimed. Although every government in the region fears and dislikes ISIS, so far the USA has only been able to sign up Turkey to its “core coalition”. US bombing may help the armed...