Iraq

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• Messenger or message? March 1 2007
  Peter Manson reports from the February 24 Stop the War Coalition demonstration in London
• Not a mistake but a state crime February 22 2007
  Four years after the invasion, Iraq continues to sink deeper into the morass. Mike Macnair analyses the current situation
• Death of a nationalist January 4 2007
  Mike Macnair looks at the death of Saddam Hussein
• Iraq exit strategy October 26 2006
  Iraq shows the limits of US power and underlines the fact that it is in relative decline, says Jack Conrad
• Ticked off and many headed April 6 2006
  Eddie Ford reviews The insurgency, BBC2 April 2 Sunday 9-10pm
• US ‘double or quits’ March 16 2006
  Three years after the invasion of Iraq, and with Iran now in US sights, ‘Out now!’ must still be our main demand, writes Mike Macnair
• Tipton trio’s tortuous trip March 16 2006
  Jim Gilbert reviews Michael Winterbottom's The road to Guantánamo (Channel 4, March 9)
• Up to the top of the hill … December 8 2005
  The Socialist Worker Party generals have failed the anti-war movement, says Eddie Ford, who looks forward to the December 10 Peace Conference in London
  • Troops out now! The main enemy is imperialism!
    Paul Greenaway outlines the principled communist stance on the Iraq war and occupation
  • Resolution adopted by CPGB membership aggregate, July 2004
• US-UK troops out now! Hands off Iran! September 15 2005
  Mike Macnair disccuses the likelihood of the US using nuclear weapons against Iran and the tasks for the anti-war movement in Britain and the US
• ‘Constitution’ unveiled by occupier allies September 1 2005
  Mike Macnair takes a detailed look at the proposed constitution for Iraq, which exposes as utterly false and self-deluding the ideas of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and the pro-war left that the occupiers are in the midst of creating democracy in the Middle East, or that the workers’ movement in Iraq is developing under the protection of the occupying troops
• Militant and uncompromising March 3 2005
  Falah Alwan is president of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq and a member of the Worker-communist Party. He spoke to Mark Fischer during a recent visit to London
• What do the elections mean? February 17 2005
  Mike Mcnair untangles the myths and spin surrounding the February 13th Iraqi elections
• Fight for US-UK defeat May 27 2004
  In this week's Party Notes, Marcus Ström argues that the main task facing US and UK workers is to force an end to the occupation, and get the troops out of Iraq: we should welcome their defeat even at the hands of al-Sadr. However, Iraqi communists should aim to ensure that the working class, armed with a democratic and secular programme, emerges as the leading political force.
• Win leadership of resistance July 29 2004
  The following resolution on Iraq was agreed by CPGB members, together with a shortened version of Mike Macnair's theses
• Assessing Iraq and mapping out our tasks April 29 2004
  Ian Donovan and Mike Macnair present rival theses on the situation in occupied Iraq, and the tasks facing communists.
• Bush, Blair - hands off Iraq! December 11 2003
  A campaign of solidarity with the democratic, progressive and secular forces fighting against the occupation is long overdue, argues Ian Mahoney
• Iraqi working class must lead resistance November 6 2003
  Recent set-backs for coalition forces in Iraq raise the question of who must take the fight to US-UK troops, argues Ian Donovan
• The war and the law September 25 2003
  Should the anti-war movement campaign for the US and UK to adhere to 'international law'? Mike Macnair sees danger in such demands
• Beyond the politics of stopping the next war September 25 2003
  Manny Neira believes socialists have a duty to offer united, open, political leadership to the Stop the War Coalition
• Iraq and the myths of oil determinism September 3 2003
  Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, argues that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is rooted in capitalism’s historic decline. Those on the left who explain every modern war and conflict with reference to oil are wrong
• Lies laid bare September 3 2003
  The Hutton enquiry exposes a gaping democratic deficit, argues Manny Neira
  • Rough guide to Hutton
• Paying the blood price July 24 2003
  The death of weapons scientist David Kelly has highlighted Blair's continuing crisis over Iraq, writes Manny Neira
• Pearl Harbour moment April 17 2003
  Dr Glen Rangwala is the Cambridge academic who discovered that the Blair dossier on Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ was drawn largely from a decade-old plargiarised source. He is also a member of Labour Against the War. Here he outlines his analysis of US motivations behind the conquering of Iraq
• Which side are you on? April 3 2003
  Leadership of the struggle for Iraqi self-determination must pass to the masses, writes Jack Conrad
• Conquerors, not liberators March 27 2003
  Despite the oppressive nature of the Iraqi regime, intervention by US and UK forces is not to be welcomed
• Youth in the vanguard of anti-war party March 27 2003
  Young people have taken the lead. Jack Conrad welcomes a new-found politicisation
  • Our programme
    The CPGB’s ‘Draft programme’ includes the following section on youth
  • School strikes and demos - a users guide
    Tips for the budding agitator
• Armchair generals, or Saddam's leftwing allies March 13 2003
  Jack Conrad castigates those on the left who fail to clearly state their opposition to the Regime in Baghdad
• After Saddam February 20 2003
  Though subject to severe repression under the Ba’ath regime, historically the Communist Party of Iraq has retained a mass base. Faced with the impending US-UK military onslaught, the party says it must fight on two fronts - against imperialism and against Saddam Hussein. Henning Böke spoke to Rashid Ghewielib, representative of the CPI in Germany, about the present situation and the prospects for the Iraqi opposition