More on the Cairo conference
Further reports on the Cairo conference of 18-19 December 2002 cast doubt on the claims by the Socialist Workers' Party and Stop The War Coalition that the conference's "Cairo declaration" is a good manifesto around which to group democrats and socialists worldwide against the US war drive. We already knew that Saad K. Hammoundy, Iraq's ambassador to the Arab League, was a keynote speaker. The Cairo Times (26 December) reports that conference organisers replied to "allegations that Iraq helped fund the conference" by maintaining "that much of the funding came from Egyptians doing business with...