Imperialism
Emergency Iraq War protest outisde Parliament on Tuesday 31 October
28 October 2006On Tuesday 31 October, Parliament will debate and vote on the Iraq war for the first time since March 18 2003. Alex Salmond, one of the MPs who initiated the debate, says: "This is the first time since the invasion of Iraq that the government can be held to account over this illegal and unwanted war."
You’ve lost in Iraq, Blair: get the troops out now
28 October 2006"There are only bad options for the coalition from now on," said Sir Jeremy Greenstock this week. He was the deputy ruler of Iraq for much of the occupation and has defended British policy down the line.
The bitter choices for Bush in Iraq
28 October 2006Even George Bush now acknowledges there may be a similarity between the present situation in Iraq and the Tet offensive mounted by Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam in early 1968.
John Pilger: ‘This is Bush’s Vietnam’
28 October 2006The Anglo-American adventure in Iraq is heading for a disaster for Washington as great as the defeat in Vietnam.
People in occupied Iraq slide into poverty
28 October 2006Once it boasted the most advanced health service in the Middle East, an education system that turned out generations of skilled workers and a population that consumed the most books in the Arab world.
People’s Assembly will challenge Islamophobia
28 October 2006The Stop the War Coalition has called a People’s Assembly on Islamophobia and the "war on terror" on Saturday 18 November. The Muslim community is facing a racist onslaught from politicians and the media.
US plans a series of military ‘superbases’ in Iraq
28 October 2006As Iraq sinks into chaos, the US military is planning to pull up the drawbridge behind a string of "superbases".
655,000 reasons to get out of Iraq now
21 October 2006The death toll of the war on Iraq is much higher than even the most gloomy estimates. That is the conclusion of the most extensive study made of the country to date.
Coalition troops are also paying the price for George Bush’s war
21 October 2006The occupation in Iraq hit another bloody landmark earlier this week with the number of dead coalition troops rising to 3,000. This includes 119 British soldiers.
Anger grows as Turkish parliament prepares for vote on troops for Lebanon
09 September 2006As Socialist Worker went to press on Tuesday of this week, the Turkish parliament was set to vote on sending troops to Lebanon as part of the United Nations (UN) force.
Come to Manchester demonstration and help drive out Blair
02 September 2006The anti-war movement, in all its power and dynamism, is set to converge on Manchester for a national demonstration on 23 September.
Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef on 'bullet censorship'
26 August 2006Saadi 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.
Was Liban Lait milk factory destroyed for profit?
26 August 2006I 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.
Time To Go demonstration gathers momentum
26 August 2006‘We really kicked off our preparations with our own demonstration in Preston a couple of weeks ago.
Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq - their blood is on Blair's hands
19 August 2006We want the Labour Party conference, taking place in Manchester next month, to have at its heart the question of the war.
‘Soft dictatorship’ is US’s vision for Iraq
14 January 2006After 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.
Occupation fuels Iraq’s civil war
08 October 2005A United Nations (UN) report has revealed that the carnage tearing Iraq apart is being fuelled by the US, Britain and their allies.
Sorrow and fury as the dead are buried in Fallujah
19 February 2005The respected cameraman and producer Michael Burke co-operated with Dr Salam Ismael to produce powerful material that was due to be shown on Channel 4 News this week. It included film taken of mass burials near Saqlawiya, on the outskirts of Fallujah. The bodies that were interred there were collected mainly from the Jolan district in the city. Socialist Worker’s Simon Assaf saw the unedited footage and describes its graphic content.
Fallujah: the truth at last
19 February 2005Doctor Salam Ismael took aid to Fallujah last month. This is his story of how the US murdered a city
Eyewitness in Fallujah
19 February 2005Dr Salam Ismael, now 28 years old, was head of junior doctors in Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq. He was in Fallujah in April 2004 where he treated casualties of the assault on the city.
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