‘Labour Against the War’: silent on the murder of Hadi Saleh

On 7 January, three days after the murder of Hadi Saleh, the pressure group ‘Labour Against the War’, (LAW) led by Jeremy Corbyn MP and Alan Simpson MP, released a statement noting that ‘the Iraq insurgency has moved up a gear’.

LAW mentions the ‘sophistication’ of the ‘insurgency’ but is silent about its targets - election workers, Shia, Kurd and trade unionists. LAW is silent about the torture and murder on January 4, of Hadi Saleh, the International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. The LAW website carries no mention (let alone a condemnation) of the recent wave of terrorist attacks on the IFTU. The kind of ‘left’ represented by Labour Against the War is now a pro-tyrant left. We need to build a decent left. (AJ)