Unity of the Iraqi people against US occupation is the only guarantee for solving the current political crisis
from Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation (www.idao.org)
26.2.06

The destruction of the Askariya Shrine, loved by Muslims of the Shiite and Sunni faiths alike was no sectarian action.

For 1200 years the Shrine was protected by the people of the historic city of Samurra, of the Sunni faith, and visited by millions of the Muslims of the Shia faith every year.

by Michael Keefer

George Galloway, the British parliamentarian who was drummed out of Tony Blair’s Labour Party in 2003 for his principled opposition to the American and British aggression against Iraq, and for his unrelenting willingness to publicly call prime-ministerial and presidential lies and war crimes by their proper names, has had copious experience of being libeled and slandered in return.

by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, courtesy of Z Magazine, from Colours of resistance, www.colours.mahost.org

Part I: Why "Anti-War" has to be "Anti-Racist" too

As a speaker at a San Francisco anti-war rally last fall, I tried to emphasize the importance of seeing the threatened war on Iraq in terms of this country's racism here and around the world. In that spirit, I ended my comments with a chant by some activists of color marching to the rally: "One, two, three, four/We don't want your racist war!"

Thursday, May 5

Meet 10am @ Metro Hall

55 John St. (outside St. Andrew Subway station)

On Thursday May 5th the shareholders of SNC-Lavalin, one of Canada's largest
corporations, will be meeting in Toronto.

NO PROFITEERING FROM WAR AND OCCUPATION!

A CALL TO ACTION AND INVITATION TO THE PEOPLES GLOBAL ACTION BLOC IN
TORONTO ON MARCH 19TH, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE WAR

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Those who cast their ballots voted for the end of the occupation but their hope will be frustrated soon pushing them towards the Resistance

Despite the massacres committed by the occupants, the US completely failed in setting up a reliable puppet regime with a significant domestic support base. Eventually they learned their lesson and understood that the growing popular resistance can not be subdued only by brute military force. Political steps are necessary to overcome the isolation of their puppet regime in Baghdad. As the last remaining remedy appeared the elections which Washington originally intended to avoid fearing the ascendancy of forces not under their full control.

====> NO PROFITEERING FROM WAR AND OCCUPATION!

====> An INTERNATIONAL CALL for PEOPLES' GLOBAL ACTION BLOCS on MARCH 19
and 20 to EXPOSE and TARGET WAR PROFITEERS

On March 19th and 20th 2005, people across the world will march to
commemorate the invasion of Iraq two years ago, and to oppose the ongoing
occupations of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Haiti. In Canada we will
also be marching to oppose the ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples
throughout the Americas, the normalization of torture camps, Ottawa's
recent shift towards deepening its diplomatic support for Israeli
apartheid at the UN, as well as the massive displacement of peoples by
capitalist development projects, including the demand for cheap and
flexible labor and its corollary: the criminalization of migrants and the
construction of Fortress North America and Fortress Europe.

From the Social Forum to an Anti-imperialist Forum

There is no doubt that the movement against globalisation has constituted for the last decade an opposition force to the mono-polar capitalist world which developed out of the bi-polar set-up of the Cold War period. However, faced with its incapacity to point out strategic parameters in order to turn into a force of resistance to concrete imperialism of Yankee domination, we find ourselves in front of two challenges. Firstly we have to explain both the factors which allowed the temporary success of the anti-globalisation movement in unifying very diverse forces and its political failure to develop into an anti-imperialist resistance force. Secondly we have to outline the possibilities of going beyond the anti-globalisation movement towards a movement prepared to resist the central pillar of world capitalism in the next period, Yankee imperialism.

ALL OUT ON JANUARY 20th !!!

4pm

U.S. Consulate

360 University Ave.

George W. Bush, a war criminal will be inaugurated on
January 20th and people around the world will protest!!

The COALITION AGAISNT WAR AND RACISM

Listen to a radio documentary, on the May 2004 street demonstrations in Guadalajara
Mexico against the 3rd Summit of the ALCUE, which gathered representatives
from 25 European countries, joined by 33 of their Latin American and Caribbean
counterparts. The closed-door negotiations of the ALCUE, regarding "free-trade"
economic policies effecting more than 1 billion people, were confronted by
thousands of demonstrators from throughout Mexico and the world.

CTV.ca News Staff

A mysterious group has claimed responsibility for an apparent bomb attack on a Hydro-Quebec tower.

In a message received by news media outlets on Monday, IRI -- in French, the Initiative de Resistance Internationaliste (IRI) -- denounced what it describes as the "pillaging" of Quebec's resources by the United States.

The Iraqi Patriotic Alliance is part of the resistance to US imperialism in Iraq. As you can read below, it also has some ties to the former Ba'ath Party, though the leaders of the IPA were persecuted under Saddam. Another anti-imperialist formation is www.idao.org, the site of the Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation, an organization that repudiates the collaborationist stance of the Iraqi Communist Party.

This Iraqi kidnapping has the mark of an undercover police operation
by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill; The Guardian; September 16, 2004

When Simona Torretta returned to Baghdad in March 2003, in the midst of the "shock and awe" aerial bombardment, her Iraqi friends greeted her by telling her she was nuts. "They were just so surprised to see me. They said, 'Why are you coming here? Go back to Italy. Are you crazy?'"

Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire

by Arundhati Roy

Published by www.alternatives.ca August 29th, 2004

I've been asked to speak about "Public Power in the Age of Empire. "I'm not used to doing as I'm told but by happy coincidence, it's exactly what I'd like to speak about tonight. When language has been butchered and bled of meaning, how do we understand "public power"? When freedom means occupation, when democracy means neo-liberal capitalism, when reform means repression, when words like "empowerment" and "peacekeeping" make your blood run cold - why, then, "public power" could mean whatever you want it to mean. A biceps building machine, or a Community Power Shower. So, I'll just have to define "public power" as I go along, in my own self-serving sort of way.

Mobilize Against Racism and War:

SEPTEMBER 28, 2004 (4th Anniversary of the Intifada)
International Day of Action against the Occupation of Iraq and Palestine

BAY STREET IS COVERED IN BAGHDAD'S BLOOD

Iraqi Olympic soccer team outraged at Bush campaign ad

by Jon Elmer (Newstandardnews.net)

Aug 20 - The Bush-Cheney election campaign has outraged Iraq's national soccer team by using Iraqi Olympians in a new television ad in which a narrator speaks of "freedom spreading throughout the world like a sunrise."

August 10, 2004 statement from www.idao.org, the Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation, followed by an August 10 report on the widespread uprising occurring in response to the US aggression in Najaf.

PULL OUT FILIPINO TROOPS IN IRAQ NOW!

As overseas Filipinos across Canada, we condemn the Philippine government's
ambiguous and contradictory actions in the withdrawal of Philippine troops
from

New Toronto coalition
organizes actions targeting Canadian war profiteers

**SEE BOTTOM FOR INFORMATION ON THE JUNE 30th FOLLOW-UP MEETING**

On June 30th, people in Toronto joined others across the world in a
coordinated day of action to expose the supposed "handover" of Iraq for
the sham that it is. People took to the streets, protesting the
continued occupation of Iraq, and the continued theft of Iraq's
resources by Western corporations. From morning to evening, hundreds of
people carried out a series of autonomous actions from banner drops to a street take over with a series of actions under the coordination of the June 30 Organizing Committee...

read Tarek's blog at www.tarek.2y.net/iraq

The News From Planet Falluja

by CHRISTIAN PARENTI

[posted online on July 5, 2004]

Tariq is an upper-middle-class Canadian medical student of Palestinian origin. He is a Muslim, fluent in Arabic and English, very smart, very young, brave and a bit naïve. He is an obsessive computer geek with a tendency toward pedantry on matters technological. Over the past two years he has spent several months in Palestine doing solidarity work.

from www.lefthook.org, an excellent "journal by and for American youth on the radical left"

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The 15th of February 2003: A Eulogy and Prelude

Keith Rosenthal

It's high time that the anti-war movement addresses the 500-pound gorilla standing in the middle of the room. That's right - I'm talking about the mass movement that collapsed roughly around the 20th of March 2003, in the wake of Bush's decision to go ahead with the invasion of Iraq.

Resistance attacks continue despite handover

by Al Jazeera

Tuesday 29 June 2004 6:23 GMT

Three US marines have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad in the first reported fatal attack on US occupation forces in Iraq since the formal handover of authority to an interim government.

NOTE: Dr. Allawi is the editor in chief of the Baghdad left wing weekly paper Al Ghad. Ibrahim was a left wing political activist for the past 55 years, he was in exile for the past 35 years from the Baath regime. He was sentenced to death in abscentia in the 70's by Saddam Regime. Al Ghad newspaper is the leading newspaper in Baghdad against the occupation, it used to be published as a quarterly in London from 1978. After the collapse of Saddam regime it started to be published in Baghdad as a weekly from the beginning of this year (2004).

Turks rally against Bush, NATO summit

by al jazeera

Sunday 27 June 2004 2:01 PM GMT

More than 40,000 demonstrators, some chanting "USA get out of the Middle East!" gathered in an Istanbul square to protest the visit of US President George Bush and an upcoming NATO summit.

ZNet | Iraq

The Robbery of Reconstruction

by Naomi Klein; June 26, 2004

Good news out of Baghdad: the Program Management Office, which oversees the $18.4bn in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. Sure, electricity is below pre-war levels, the streets are rivers of sewage and more Iraqis have been fired than hired. But now the PMO has contracted the British mercenary firm Aegis to protect its employees from "assassination, kidnapping, injury and" - get this - "embarrassment". I don't know if Aegis will succeed in protecting PMO employees from violent attack, but embarrassment? I'd say mission already accomplished. The people in charge of rebuilding Iraq can't be embarrassed, because, clearly, they have no shame.

Largest U.S. Union Calls for End to U.S. Occupation of Iraq and Withdrawal of U.S. Troops

Nearly 4000 delegates of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the U.S.'s largest union with 1.6 million members, voted unanimously at the union's national convention in San Francisco today to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and to bring U.S. troops stationed there home.

UUI Statement Regarding the Announcement of the New Iraqi Government

In one of US tragic play’s chapters, a placement of a new government was announced. This announcement considered as a US extension policy and its efforts to take over the region and the world. That’s after the military government try-out who was about to declare the Marshal Law during the months of April, May, and June last year 2003 under Jay Garner leadership which failed miserably, the formation of Civil Provisional Authorities known as (CPA) headed by Paul Bremer, which in turn formed The Interim Governing Council known as (IGC), through all these chapters the US administration failed to come back with proper solution for the society’s dilemmas – and because they didn’t plan for it at all- they didn’t gain the sufficient legitimacy to handle the situation in Iraq.

The “Iraqi Resistance” and Worker-communists

from www.wpiraq.org

May 18,2004

“The situation in Nasiriyiah today May 18th is
relatively calm. The Mahdi Army fled the fight against

1. Background on Camilo Mejia's Case

2. Petition to support Camilo Mejia

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1. 'They made us break law'

Suzanne Goldenberg in Fort Stewart, Georgia

Thursday May 20, 2004

By Bob Wing

War Times newspaper, http://www.war-times.org

A friend of mine was discussing Abu Ghraib with his Egyptian father, who
had originally supported the war. Referring to the photo of the female