Workers' Liberty

Another pathetic article slandering the AWL over Iraq in the latest Weekly Worker (28 June), notable only for Mark Fischer’s ever more vapid rhetoric.

Nowhere does Fischer address the central point: what would happen if the troops left Iraq tomorrow? The CPGB avoids the question, because given the current balance of forces, it’s clear the sectarian militias would effectively partition Iraq into mini-statelets and in all probability smash the labour movement in most areas. That’s not self-determination in any meaningful democratic sense.

The Weekly Worker is a paper that concerns itself not with the realities of world politics but with the internal machinations of other groups. It can’t even discuss politics seriously, never mind put up a decent argument of its own. On Iraq, its contribution is utterly worthless.