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15 February 2007
Leicester: EVEN BUSH'S government now admits that Iraq is in a civil war, but Britain's Home Office considers Iraq a safe place for refugees fleeing the bloodshed to be forcibly returned to...
15 February 2007
HSBC imposes charges on aid to Palestinians
HSBC BANK that has offices in 77 countries, claims to be a 'socially responsible corporation'...
1 February 2007
Iraq - build for 24 February demo
HUNDREDS OF thousands of people protested in cities across the USA last Saturday, 27 January against Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq and to demand that the troops be brought home now...
1 February 2007
CWI World Congress: Building the forces of socialism worldwide
The ninth world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium in mid-January...
25 January 2007
Iraq: build for 24 February protest
Iraq: SINCE US president Bush announced that he will send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq, there have been more terrible bombings in Baghdad, killing hundreds more people...
18 January 2007
Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder
"THE MOST dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush's latest revised Iraq strategy...
18 January 2007
Blair's vision: 'wars without end'
TONY BLAIR'S political failures in Iraq and Afghanistan - which have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and nearly 200 UK service personnel deaths - has not stopped the megalomaniac prime minister envisagin...
18 January 2007
Review: "IT'S 2010, Hillary Clinton's in the White House, Gordon Brown's in No 10 and Tony Blair is in the dock at The Hague." Thus ran the promotion for More 4's latest attempt at satirical drama from Alistair Beaton, author o...
11 January 2007
Iraq: AS WE go to press, President Bush is due to tell the US Congress his plans for Iraq...
4 January 2007
Fighting the bosses' offensive
2007 - a new year of struggle worldwide: As the new year begins, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe looks at the challenges lying ahead for socialists in 2007
4 January 2007
Saddam Hussein: Barbaric hanging deepens divisions
Saddam's execution: THE HANGING of Saddam Hussein on 30 December had nothing to do with obtaining justice for his victims or the working people of Iraq and everything to do with satisfying the agenda of the elite Iraqi Shia-dominated government ...
7 December 2006
Bush and Blair still in denial
Iraq meltdown: AS IRAQ descends further into sectarian violence, ethnic cleansing, corruption and poverty, Western leaders Tony Blair and George Bush continue to be in a state of denial over the country's impending collapse...
7 December 2006
"The greatest strategic disaster in American history"
Review: FOR READERS who are familiar with Patrick Cockburn's incisive reports from Iraq in the Independent, they will appreciate his new book, The Occupation...
29 November 2006
Gemayel killing fuels political tensions
Lebanon: UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN assassinated Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's industry minister and leader of the reactionary right-wing Kataeb (Phalange) party on 22 November...
29 November 2006
Gaza: How long will the ceasefire last?
THE ISRAELI government began operating a ceasefire in the Gaza strip, along with Palestinian militias, on Sunday 26 November...
16 November 2006
Millions reject war and occupation
Bush & Blair's Iraq disaster: GEORGE BUSH'S Iraq policy received a massive thumbs down from disgruntled US voters in last week's elections....
16 November 2006
Iraq, corruption and wealth gap send Republicans into a tail-spin
But corporate Democrats offer no real alternative: THE REPUBLICANS and Bush have suffered a 'thumping' political defeat. Bush himself admitted it, adding, "I didn't see it coming. But what would I know?"...
16 November 2006
Palestine: "No excuse can justify this atrocity"
ISRAELI PM Ehud Olmert enraged Palestinians by describing the deaths of 18 civilians, killed by Israel tank shells in Gaza last Wednesday, as a "technical mistake"...
9 November 2006
Hanging Saddam won't end crisis in Iraq
THE DEATH sentence passed on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, for 'crimes against humanity', will do little to end sectarian violence in Iraq... By Dave Carr
9 November 2006
Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups in homophobic campaign
Israel: Gay Pride demo under serious threat: A GAY Pride demo will be held in Jerusalem, on 10 November, against a background of vicious incitement and homophobic propaganda by reactionary Jewish and Arab organisations... By Shahar Benhar, Maavak Sozialisti, CWI Israel
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