Grassroots Iraq: The role of the IFTU in Iraq’s new civil society

The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) invites you to a special reception, with speeches, at the Labour Party conference.

Kindly sponsored by The Observer, The Fabian Society, Unison, LabourStart and War on Want .

6-8pm, Wednesday 29 September

Samphire Restaurant, Hilton Metropole Hotel

Refreshments

Chair: Harry Barnes MP

Speakers:

Abdullah Muhsin, IFTU Foreign Representative

Bill Rammell MP (Foreign Office Minister)

Rt Hon Ann Clwyd MP (Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Iraq on Human Rights)

Owen Tudor (TUC International Secretary)

Keith Sonnet (Deputy General Secretary of Unison)

Please note all participants require a conference pass

By invitation only: requests and RSVPs to abdullahmuhsin@iraqitradeunions.org or 07 931
416344

Photo gallery

Hadi Saleh, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), assassinated 4th January 2005.







Harry Barnes MP addressing a fringe meeting on the subject of 'Grassroots Iraq' at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, September 2004. Other speakers included Abdullah Muhsin, IFTU Foreign Representative; Bill Rammell MP (Foreign Office Minister); Rt Hon Ann Clwyd MP (Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Iraq on Human Rights); Owen Tudor (TUC International Secretary); and Keith Sonnet (Deputy General Secretary of Unison).







Nozad Ismail (centre) with Brian Joyce of the Fire Brigades Union and the IFTU's Abdullah Muhsin in Kirkuk. Nozad has been targetted for assassination by the "resistance".