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25 August 2005
Iraq 'Constitution' is no exit route for Bush and Blair
THE TRAGEDY of Baghdad - with almost 1,000 Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq's bloodiest day on 31 August - competes with the catastrophe of New Orleans in a kind of "league of horrors"...
21 July 2005
Iraq: War and occupation bring growing misery
WHILE PEOPLE in Britain and Europe stood silent in respect of the victims of the London bombings, the families of the 27 Iraqis, including 18 children, blown up in a suicide car bombing in Baghdad buried their...
14 July 2005
THERE IS a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings...
30 June 2005
Iraq sinks deeper into the quagmire
Iraq: NO-ONE believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes"...
2 June 2005
Iraq: coalition plans floundering
SEVERAL WEEKS ago the US and British governments were talking up in the media how Iraq's security situation was improving...
6 May 2005
THIS JULY, the G8 - the bosses' club - will meet in Scotland, under the presidency of the British government...
19 March 2005
Iraq: occupation and the resistance
TWO YEARS ago, the US regime promised a short war to 'liberate' Iraq - 'operation shock and awe'...
12 March 2005
The real cost of war and occupation
GEORGE BUSH and Tony Blair say the cost of war in Iraq is a price worth paying. But who is paying it?...
26 February 2005
Israeli/Palestinian conflict: A road to peace or to further conflict?
WITH ISRAELI cabinet agreement to remove Jewish settlers from Gaza by August 2005 and the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners, hopes of an end to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict have been rekindled...
19 February 2005
Iraq: end this bloody occupation
GEORGE BUSH congratulated Iraqi voters for "setting their country on the path of democracy and freedom." 38 years earlier his presidential predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, proclaimed elections in South...
12 February 2005
Iraq - mobilise to withdraw the troops
THEY ARE counting the votes in Iraq but the body count is still rising. As we go to press, early results of the partial Iraqi election are beginning...
5 February 2005
'THE FIRST free vote for fifty years.' That's how the media described the Iraqi elections. But how can a vote be 'free' when the whole country is under military occupation by foreign imperialist powers? This so-called free vote involved circumventing barbed wire, road blocks, tanks and armed soldiers, and risking death, in many cases to end up voting for anonymous candidates.
5 February 2005
Nothing resolved by Iraqi elections
BUSH AND Blair have been quick to hail the elections in Iraq as a "victory for democracy" and a vindication of their brutal occupation of Iraq, but this was largely for public consumption...
29 January 2005
Iraq: Elections won't end crisis
WITH THE sham Iraqi elections just days away American commanders are preparing "public opinion in Iraq and abroad for one of the bloodiest chapters in the war so far", according to John F Burns of the New York...
22 January 2005
Iraq: end the war and occupation
AS THE Iraqi elections near, violence is escalating, even in previously 'safe' areas. These elections, designed to put a gloss of democracy on the reality of occupation, are only increasing the violence. General Casey, the most senior commander in Iraq, has been forced to admit that violence will be widespread on election day.
11 December 2004
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4 December 2004
Seventeen political groups, mostly Sunni, have called for the postponement of elections in Iraq, scheduled for 30 January. They include the party of the stooge interim prime minister Iyad Alawi and former foreign minister Adnan Pachachi...
4 December 2004
Committee for a Workers' International: Building the forces of socialism worldwide
Committee for a Workers' International: THE INTERNATIONAL Executive Committee (IEC, the elected leadership of the Committee for a Workers' International - CWI) recently met to discuss the impending crisis in the world economy, the effect of Bush's re-election and the continuing bloody occupation of Iraq and Europe...
27 November 2004
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27 November 2004
ISR / Socialist Students conference: Fighting to change the world
THE THIRD conference of International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students took place on 20 November against a background of the escalating conflict in Iraq, a growing anger against the occupation and further attacks on the public sector at home...
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