The International Peace Conference held in London last Saturday was a huge success. With the main hall packed and standing room only, an overflow and many people turned away in the previous few days because of lack of space, it was a focus for anti-war opinion across the world.
The central aim of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress is to unite the anti-occupation organisations in Iraq. Iraq has just emerged from dictatorship, only to find itself under occuption by foreign powers. We need a voice to combat an occupation that actively tries to further fragment the Iraqi people.
The war in Iraq is a complete and utter disaster. For the people of Iraq there is more suffering today than under the previous government. You have unlimited torture, the use of chemical weapons, limitless killing of civilians by the occupation forces in Iraq.
Sanna Hafez, a founder member of the Hands of Syria group in Britain, spoke to Socialist Worker
One of the most inspiring parts of the conference was the session on the campaigns by military families against the war in the US and Britain.
I was part of a delegation of British trade unionists who joined the 100,000 people marching in Dublin on Friday of last week. We were there to support workers occupying two Irish Ferries ships in Welsh ports.
In an awesome display of trade union power, up to 170,000 people left work and took part in marches and rallies in support of Irish Ferries staff and migrant workers on the streets of Ireland on Friday of last week.
The US was desperate to hold up last week’s parliamentary elections in Egypt as evidence of the democratic change it is promoting across the Middle East.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong last Sunday to show their disgust at the WTO.
The first round of Bolivia’s presidential election, set to take place this Sunday, comes at a crucial moment.
For as long as the Palestinians have endured occupation and oppression—first under the British in the 1920-30s, then by the Israeli state after 1948—they have produced writers and poets who have articulated not only humiliation and despair, but also resistance and the hope of liberation.
Tenants in Waverley in Surrey have voted against the Conservative council’s plans to transfer housing stock in the area, with 52 percent voting against the transfer, with a turnout of 68 percent.
