Iraq war Follow

Earlier this year Nir Rosen of Asia Times visited the resistance-held city of Fallujah. This is an edited version of his travelogue, which can be read in full at www.atimes.com.

Manoeuvres at Labour Party conference showed contempt for democracy here and in Iraq.

Andrew Stone questions the claims of some dubious representatives of the Iraqi working class.

From Baghdad to Basra, secular to religious, Shia to Sunni, the resistance is growing, reports Simon Assaf

Rose Gentle made this statement on 19 August, the day she and her daughter Maxine delivered a letter to Downing Street protesting the decision to send her son, Gordon, to war.

In a recent speech delivered in Porto Alegre, Chris Harman explains why the US is staking its imperial future on Iraq.

GORDON WAS a beautiful young man of 19 years of age.

Tony Blair’ß decision to invite Iraq’s stooge prime minister, Iyad Allawi, to the Labour Party conference is a calculated insult.

‘I think anger is a good word to describe how we feel. He’d gone there thinking it was not a war zone.

Even a hardened cynic like me has been amazed by the blatant propaganda operation orchestrated by the US and British governments over Iraq.

First came the letters to local papers from grieving relatives. Then, in ones and twos, young deserters began to slip across the border to Canada.

Will the Iraqis humble the mighty US empire? Alex Callinicos investigates.