One of the few independent journalists still reporting from Iraq, Dahr Jamail's work has been published across the world. He spoke to Socialist Worker.
Many of us in Respect have, like you, always voted Labour in previous general elections. Indeed many of us come from Labour families who have voted Labour for as long as there has been a Labour Party. Some of us have held office in the Labour Party or been Labour candidates.
The Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation) conference last week was an important and significant success for party leader, Fausto Bertinotti. This is the largest far left organisation in Europe — 130 foreign delegations were mixing with hundreds of Italian delegates in a snow-bound Venice.
When the results were announced the right wing prime minister complained in his resignation speech that it was not proper in a civilised country that "Trotskyists" should come within one percent of defeating the Christian Democrats.
THROUGHOUT THE world there are dictatorships and semi-dictatorships. In all of these you get various sections of the population who are resentful and want to fight back.
Wednesday 9 MarchVigil at parliament while the House of Lords debates conditions in Zimbabwe, 3pm-6pm. For details phone 07966 458 080 or 07960 126 028. Organised by Zimbabwe Community Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers.
THE G8 runs the global economy. They are its organising committee. The G8 are the eight most powerful nations in the world. They are not the largest — the G8 excludes China, India and Brazil.
According to one Scottish newspaper, the police are planning a clampdown on protests at the G8 in Scotland this summer. The measures revealed in the Sunday Herald include plans to turn a former RAF base in Edinburgh into a "holding facility" for protesters awaiting trial and to scrap all trials in Edinburgh’s sheriff court for the first two weeks in July.
The march called by the Make Poverty History campaign already looks set to be enormous, according to development charity Christian Aid.
‘The reservoir dogs of multinational capitalism are coming in July to lick each other’s arses… We must gather in our hundreds of thousands to push them into action on permanent debt relief, real fair trade and aid without conditions’ Tommy Sheridan Scottish socialist party MSP
Revelations reported in the Guardian last week show that the war on Iraq was less legal than the government argued in March 2003. Where does that leave the arguments for war?
In the final part of our series on National Liberation, Simon Basketter looks into the 21st century
