Iraq
Iraq: The tragedy of Baghdad
The tragedy of Baghdad – with almost 1000 Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq’s bloodiest day on 31 August – competes with the catastrophe of New Orleans in a kind of “league of horrors”.
Middle East & North Africa
Israel / Palestine
Israel/Palestine: Gaza withdrawal – will Sharon’s pull-out bring ‘peace’?
The Israeli government has now demolished all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, with four more in the West Bank to follow. This is the first time that Israel has removed settlements in Palestinian […]
Iran
Iran: Governement executes gay teenagers
The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24 June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election campaign that […]
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Reactionary right whips up homophobia against Pride demonstration
Weeks of a vicious propaganda campaign against the proposal to hold a Pride Parade in Jerusalem resulted in demonstrators being stabbed by a reactionary ultra right-wing settler at the event on June 30.
Iran
Iran: Iranian elections
Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Campaign for democratic trade union rights
Yahya Al-Faifi has had to seek refuge in Swansea because the Saudi Arabian government has deemed that he is guilty of the ‘crime’ of trying to organize his fellow workers.
Iraq
Iraq: Deeper in the quagmire
No-one believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".
Iran
Iran: Election blow to pro-capitalist wing of ruling elite and imperialism
The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Hard Liners sweep the board in local council elections
Timid reforms will not solve deep political crisis
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Police attack left activists at Tel Aviv May Day rally
CWI members arrested for trying to go to Histadruth festival