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Norman Geras blogs about the enthusiasm among Iraqis living in Manchester for the January 30 Poll and transcribes part of an interview with an Iraqi Kurd (HA) on Radio 5 Live.

Eric Lee pays tribute to Hadi Saleh . The torture and murder of Hadi Saleh marks a turning point for trade unions around the world. The question is now posed — to quote the famous American trade union song, “Which side are you on?” Let me explain.

Eric Lee pays tribute to Hadi Saleh . The torture and murder of Hadi Saleh marks a turning point for trade unions around the world. The question is now posed — to quote the famous American trade union song, “Which side are you on?” Let me explain.

In 1944 Heinrich Himmler formed the Nazi Werewolf guerilla movement. It fought the Allied armies inside Germany until 1947. It would be wrong to suggest a direct parallel to the Ba’athist component of the ‘Iraqi ‘resistance’ planned by Saddam. But these extracts from an article on the Werewolves in History Today October 2000 by Perry Biddiscombe (author of The Last Nazis), suggests many points of comparison.

The brutal torture and murder of Hadi Salih, who impressed all with his basic decency and dignity after decades of oppression and exile when he briefed MPs last year, is rightly damned by Johann Hari (Opinion, 7 January). It is also a watershed moment when progressives who have shown a “sneaking regard” for the so-called resistance should shed such lethal illusions. What worries Labour Friends of Iraq is that Hadi’s murder is part of a strategy to eliminate the leadership of the emerging Iraqi labour movement. Nozad Ismail, the president of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions in Kirkuk, has … Continue reading They shall not pass, Harry Barnes letter in Independent