Kurdistan slaughter
stubbumess in bringing the war lo
These same ailics are now increasingly keen to mend theirrelations with Tran: already Saudi Arabia has opened diplomatic bridges: most important, the Great Satan itself, the USA. is on the point of renewing links with
In preparation for areshaping of their Guif policies, 1TS imperialists aro looking towards Iran rather thun Iray as the noxt theatre for superpower rivalry; and US chiefs are divided as to whether they need to maintain a costly foothold in
A Bill passed last week through both the Scate and the Blouse of Representatives called on the US president to enact military. cconomic and credit sanctions against Baghdad* checause of its genocide against the Kunds. This would reverse policies that have
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unionism: only evidence that the EETPU has renounced its union-busting, business-union strategy could open the doors for Its readmission.
• We call on unions and the labour movement to follow through the EETPU's expulsion by fighting to oust EETPU delegates from all trade union and Labour Party bodies, In cluding Trades Councils, GMCs and stewards' committees as well as any joint meetIngs between unions and management.
John Lister allocated 1.2 billion dollars: a year in loans to Iraq.
Husscin has been forced intohis present high risk course! the end of the war has opened a period of political challenge to his Baath
He knows that the working class will he waiting for major umprovements to reward their K-year sacrifices, which he can only hope to deliver if Iraq maintains and strengihens ils position in the
In this contest the attack on the Kurds serves several objectives: it punishes the KPD for supporting Iran and weakens the bargaining powers of the nationalists: it keeps the army busy and far away from internal polities: and it warns Hussein's paymasters - LIS. Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union -that they had heller not keep him out of arrangements for the Jack Goldherg