Solidarity 081, 6 October 2005

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...

Writing on the wall

THEIR DISASTER RELIEF, AND OURS The gross neglect and incompetence with which the US government responded to the New Orleans disaster is now well known. It is equally notorious that this has more than a little to do with the population of New Orleans being 67% black and 40% illiterate, with more than 30 % living below the poverty line; and even more to do with the Bush regime’s laissez-faire capitalist dogma, which can no more cope with natural crises than it can with market crises. It seems, though, that Bush and Co. have shut eyes and ears to reality and are planning to rebuild New Orleans...

Industrial News

DWP jobs strike: why more delay? By a PCS Socialist Caucus member in London On 21 September, members of the PCS civil service union in the Department of Work and Pensions in London voted by a three-to-one margin for strike action against the Government's plans for job cuts. A one day strike is the absolute minimum we should be demanding in the fight to defend jobs. We need repeated strike action, including long-term selective action in processing centres and other key workplaces. A one day strike without follow up decided in advance will simply not be sufficient. This is particularly urgent...

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