Delegation to Iraq

Labour Friends of Iraq together with trade unions UNISON, the NASUWT and the NUJ organised a fact-finding trip to Iraqi Kurdistan.

We have just returned and will be posting reports soon on our whirlwind of meetings with Iraqi Kurdistan and Iraqi unions and others.

The delegation were guests of the Kurdistan Workers’ Federation and stayed in Erbil and Sulamani.

Its members were:

Labour MP Dave Anderson who chairs LFIQ and is a past President of UNISON;

Sue Rogers who is Treasurer of the NASUWT, sits on the TUC General Council and chairs the TUC’s Iraq Solidarity Committee;

Harry Barnes, Labour MP for 18 years and joint President of Labour Friends of Iraq (LFIQ);

Norma Stephenson who chairs UNISON’s International Development Fund and sits on the Labour Party’s national executive committee;

Councillor Clive Furness who was a founder member of the campaign against repression and for democratic rights in Iraq (Cardri) and visited Iraqi Kurdistan several timers in the 90s;

Tim Lezard, a past President of the National Union of Journalists;

Gary Kent, Director of LFIQ

Abdullah Muhsin, Iraqi Workers’ Federation (IWF) International Representative accompanied the delegation.