Tweet The facts, no longer seriously in dispute, are stark. The US went to war over Iraq because of oil and to assure themselves of a platform for control of the Middle East region, as set out in the Project for the New American Century document published for the Bush election team in September 2000. As [...]
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The Spirit of ’43
May 14th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football explores a year when the tide turned against Fascism Ken Loach’s recent film Spirit of ’45 brilliantly celebrates the triumphant mood that delivered a Labour Landslide election victory at the end of World War Two and the establishment of both the Welfare State and nationalised public utilities. What is [...]
Trident: Labour needs your views
Apr 26th, 2013 by George McManus.Tweet George McManus is a member of the National Policy Forum (NPF) from Yorkshire and the Humber region, and sits on it’s Global Role Commission. Here he explains why you need to tell your NPF reps your own views on Trident replacement which will discuss Trident before Annual Conference. In recent weeks, senior Labour figures have [...]
North Korea and the drums of war
Apr 5th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Tweet There are two sides to every crisis, and the dangerous situation developing on the Korean Peninsula is no different. Unfortunately, the commentary coming out of the BBC sets the tone for the British press. It’s the idea that the collective senility that grips the North Korean regime (and what we all like to have a laugh [...]
10 years on from Iraq: a violent country and a secretive state
Mar 18th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet At the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, it is said that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. But did the US win the war? At a cost of £1.1 trillion and a death toll of 4,500 US troops, 32,000 wounded and with [...]
Will we adapt to a multipolar world, or face endless war?
Feb 22nd, 2013 by Jenny Clegg.Tweet Ten years ago this week, 100,000 American troops were assembled in Kuwait as the US and UK were poised to strike, the neocons driving them on to “seize the unipolar moment”; the UN Security Council was split; and at London’s biggest demonstration ever, the crowds had heard Tony Benn’s call: “Another world is possible”. [...]
Iraq: Ten years on
Feb 15th, 2013 by Kate Hudson.Tweet As The Guardian editorial says today, ‘The judgment of those who took to the streets against the rush to war only looks wiser.’ Of course there is no joy in being right when the outcome was a desperate tragedy for so many people – and continues to this day. But one would like to think that [...]
Why Stalingrad still matters 70 years on
Feb 1st, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Seventy years ago, 2 February 1943 is the date of the Red Army victory at Stalingrad. From the moment of near-certain defeat the previous year the siege of the city, Hitler’s gateway to success on the Eastern Front, had been turned into an encirclement of the German forces and their eventual, and humiliating surrender. [...]
Cut Trident, not jobs, homes, and health
Jan 17th, 2013 by Jeremy Corbyn.Tweet This afternoon, the House of Commons debates Britain’s nuclear deterrent: Jeremy Corbyn puts the case against the replacement of Trident in the context of austerity. An incoming Labour government will be faced with massive expectations and demands of jobs for young people, increased health expenditure, huge demands on the benefits budget, student fees, and [...]
Labour must talk about Trident, Commons meeting told
Dec 6th, 2012 by Newsdesk.Tweet A report from Labour CND Our ‘Cutting Trident’ public meeting at the House of Commons on 4th December saw the overwhelming case made for Labour to pledge its opposition to replacing the Trident nuclear weapon system at the next General Election, and urged the party to open up to the debate in the coming [...]
