Iraq war Follow

The anti-war movement, in all its power and dynamism, is set to converge on Manchester for a national demonstration on 23 September.

Saadi Youssef is one of Iraq’s best known poets. His work is renowned throughout the Middle East and beyond. He has translated numerous writers into Arabic, including George Orwell, Federico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman. Saadi fled Iraq in 1979 after Saddam Hussein tightened his hold on power. He now lives just outside London.

I am being shown around what is left of the Liban Lait plant by Deeb Mounzer, a mechanical engineer and one of the union reps at the factory.

‘We really kicked off our preparations with our own demonstration in Preston a couple of weeks ago.

We want the Labour Party conference, taking place in Manchester next month, to have at its heart the question of the war.

Maysoon Pachachi interview with Anne Ashford

Debates about the Iraq conflict have focused on political, military, moral and legal arguments to the neglect of economic aspects. But wars are costly and the Iraq conflict is no exception.

The self-styled "defenders of the West" should look a little closer to home before decrying Islam.

After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Kurdish region was held up as a democratic model for the country. But today it is ribboned with anger and disillusion.

Blair's government is in terminal decline. The war in Iraq is the prime cause, argues Alex Callinicos.

A United Nations (UN) report has revealed that the carnage tearing Iraq apart is being fuelled by the US, Britain and their allies.

One of the great myths of the occupation of Iraq is that, despite the problems in the rest of the country, the situation in the south around Basra has been improving because it is under the so called 'softly-softly' approach of British forces.