A selection of our main articles, comments, and links dating back to the run-up to the 2003 invasion.
Solidarity with Iraqi workers
Iraq Union Solidarity Group website [1]
Ewa Jasiewicz's report on union struggles in Basra, January 2004 [2]
Iraqi workers organise [3]: interview with Alex Gordon about the British trade union delegation to Iraq, December 2003.
TUC report on Iraqi trade unions [4]
US unionists launch Iraq solidarity fund [5], April 2004
The occupation and the "resistance"
Capitulators of yesterday and today: a reply by Sean Matgamna to Alan Johnson of "Labour Friends of Iraq", part 1 [6], part 2 [7], part 3 [8]. Alan Johnson's article Don't think twice, it's all right [9], and another response by Martin Thomas, The ghost of Peter Struve [10].
Trade unionists or Islamists: who are the "Vichyists" in Iraq? [11], a reply by Martin Thomas to Sami Ramadani (November 2004)
Reactionary anti-imperialists [12], editorial from Solidarity 3/60, 21 October 2004
Iraq: help build 'Third Camp' against US and Sadr [13], Solidarity 3/49, April 2004.
Appeal by Rebwar Ahmad, leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq [14], 14 April 2004
No to America, No to political Islam! Yes to freedom and security! [15] Worker-communist Party of Iraq, April 2004.
Militias Attempt to Turn Workers' Factories into Military Bastions [16], Worker-communist Party of Iraq, April 2004.
Worker-communist Party of Iraq statement on the crisis in Iraq [17], April 2004
The aftermath of the invasion
Help Iraqi workers organise! [18], Solidarity 3/37, 25 September 2003
Worker-communist Party of Iraq [19] on Iraq today, July 2003
Notes on perspectives in Iraq [20], by Clive Bradley, 5 May 2003
Interview with Nadia Mahmood [21] of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, Solidarity 3/29, 1 May 2003
The Galloway/Saddam affair: what we think [22]
The US/UK occupation: priorities, priorities [23], Solidarity 3/28, 17 April 2003
Let Iraq's peoples decide their future [24], Solidarity 3/28, 17 April 2003
Freedom for the Kurds [25], Solidarity 3/28, 17 April 2003
What Iraqi socialists say [26], Solidarity 3/28, 17 April 2003
After the fall of Baghdad [27], 11 April 2003: also as pdf [28]
Theoretical issues
Debate on 'ultra-imperialism' [29] from Workers' Liberty Australia [30] no.31
Was the war about euro versus dollar? [31], Solidarity 3/29, 1 May 2003
The New American Century? [32], Solidarity 3/28, 17 April 2003
Contribution from the Revolutionary Democratic Group [33]: excerpt on imperialism from their programme
The invasion of 2003
Bush's war is for oil not freedom [35]; a reply to Christopher Hitchens and David Aaronovitch
A working-class answer to US imperialism and to Saddam Hussein [36]
Questions and answers on Iraq [37]
An international appeal [38] against war and against Saddam's regime
Issues behind the war
Contributions from the AWL day school on War, Imperialism and Globalisation.
Why not "victory to Iraq"? [42]
Call union leaders to account! [43]
Recall Labour Party conference! Unions should dump Blair [44]
Stop work to stop war! [45] AWL National Committee resolution on anti-war activity, 16 February 2003
What way for the anti-war movement? [46]: Workers' Liberty leaflet, 22 March 2003
Why we were against signing the Cairo declaration [47]
For more
Go to the Iraq topic page [49] on this website for a complete listing of comments and articles on Iraq. See
Readings on the "war against terrorism", Al Qaeda, and Afghanistan 2001
Read Workers' Liberty magazine [50], no.2/3..
Links:
[1] http://www.iraqunionsolidarity.org
[2] http://www.workersliberty.org/files/Occupied_Basra_19.pdf
[3] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D1500
[4] http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-7859-f0.cfm
[5] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2033
[6] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3465
[7] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3534
[8] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3647
[9] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3406
[10] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3464
[11] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3324
[12] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3296
[13] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2041
[14] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2039
[15] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2038
[16] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2036
[17] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D2032
[18] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D1217
[19] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D1100
[20] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D925
[21] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D902
[22] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fmodule%3DNS-Modules%2526amp%3Bop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DWL-Pages%2526amp%3Bfile%3Dindex%2526amp%3Breq%3D11
[23] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D855
[24] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D827
[25] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D829
[26] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D831
[27] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D811
[28] http://www.workersliberty.org/files/12april.pdf
[29] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D1059
[30] http://www.workersliberty.org/%3Freq%3D5
[31] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D907
[32] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D832
[33] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D1062
[34] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D691
[35] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D634
[36] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D286
[37] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D262
[38] http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~martin/
[39] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D775
[40] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D776
[41] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D774
[42] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D781
[43] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D696
[44] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D682
[45] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D638
[46] http://www.workersliberty.org/files/antiwar.pdf
[47] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D583
[48] http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%2526amp%3Bname%3DNews%2526amp%3Bfile%3Darticle%2526amp%3Bsid%3D570
[49] http://www.workersliberty.org/iraq
[50] http://archive.workersliberty.org/warandterror/index.html