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Iraq

History

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

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Iraq

Book review: Iraq, IS and the failing war on terror

August 28, 2016 Manny Thain, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), from the September edition of Socialism Today

Published earlier this year before the Chilcot report was finally released, Blood Year by counter-insurgency strategist David Kilcullen is a damning indictment of the so-called war on terror unleased by US imperialism in 2001, with […]

Iraq

Middle East: ISIS under pressure on several fronts

June 15, 2016 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Working classes, through bitterest of experiences, will take to road of mass struggle again

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