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Iraq

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REVIEW |  A Stranger in Your Own City – Travels in the Middle East’s Long War

April 23, 2024 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland)

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, born in Iraq in the 1970s, began writing for the London Guardian and the Washington Post after the US led invasion in 2003. A Stranger in Your Own City starkly, and often beautifully, […]

History & Anniversaries

ANNIVERSARY | The 1963 Iraq Coup

September 8, 2023 Joe Fathallah, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Rich in lessons for today One of the most important and tragic events in the history of Iraq took place on 8 February, 1963. The left-wing government led by Abd al-Karim Qasim was overthrown in […]

Iraq

20th anniversary of invasion of Iraq – a bloody war for US imperialist interests

March 17, 2023 Alistair Tice

20 years ago, in the Spring of 2003, the Iraq war began with the US-UK bombing and invasion of Iraq. Mass opposition to the war, including up to two million marching in London on 15 […]

Iraq

Iraq – Imperialism’s brutal legacy

March 21, 2022 Niall Mulholland and Judy Beishon, from the socialistworld.net archives

Today, 21 March 2022, marks the 19th anniversary of the bloody and ‘illegal’ invasion of Iraq by the US and its allies. Below are two articles on the Iraq catastrophe, written in 2020 and 2019, […]

Britain

War criminal Tony Blair knighted

January 15, 2022 Paul Heron, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and Socialist Party (England & Wales CWI)

On New Year’s Eve, Buckingham Palace announced that former Labour prime minister Tony Blair would be rewarded with the Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by the Queen. Should we be […]

Chile

9/11 and the ‘War on Terror’ -Socialist analysis

September 11, 2021 CWI

On the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York which took place on 11th September 2001 capitalist commentators are revisiting these historic events. The anniversary comes as US and […]

Britain

9/11 and the ‘War on Terror’ twenty years on

September 9, 2021 Alistair Tice, Socialist Party, England and Wales.

On 11 September 2001 the infamous 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on US soil prompted the then US president George W Bush and British PM Tony Blair to instigate a Western military invasion and occupation of […]

Iraq

Iraq – Imperialism’s brutal legacy

January 26, 2020 Niall Mulholland, CWI

The start of 2020 saw the assassination of the top Iranian general Qasem Suleimani by US forces, recklessly destabilising the Middle East region. In the immediate aftermath of Suleimani’s assassination, millions poured onto the streets […]

Iraq

Iraqi prime minister resigns after months of working-class resistance against poverty and corruption

December 5, 2019 Judy Beishon, CWI

Following two months of a sweeping revolt across the south of Iraq, and the capital, Baghdad, Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his resignation, after just over a year in office. His removal is seen by […]

Iraq

15 years since the invasion of Iraq: what we said

March 19, 2018 From the last issue of 'The Socialist' (paper of the Socialist Party in England & Wales)

Here we reproduce word-for-word the editorial from the issue of the Socialist printed on 28 March 2003, the issue of our weekly paper that came out directly after US and UK troops were sent into […]

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