Iraq slides towards civil war
(This is a longer version of this article than in the printed paper) . According to the sober, mainstream International Crisis Group, reporting on 26 September, "the situation [in Iraq] appears to be heading towards de facto partition and full-scale civil war". The much-battered Iraqi labour movement, for all its weaknesses, is the only big movement in the country which reaches across Sunni-Shia and Kurdish-Arab sectarian lines, and which can be a motor force for a free, democratic, and secular Iraq. Practical solidarity with it, against the Transitional Government, against the occupying...