Plans for Solidarity with Iraqi workers
The new Iraqi Workers' Solidarity Group made a number of plans at our meeting on 25 May. We will be organising a fund-raising benefit comedy night for Iraq's new trade unions. We'll be selling a t-shirt with the same aim. At the Glastonbury festival on the weekend of 26-27 June, we hope to secure agreement on further fund-raising. Around 30 June, the date of the supposed "handover" in Iraq, we will - with others, we hope - organise a protest tour of the central London offices of the big corporations involved in the forced privatisation of Iraq's economy and the reconstruction boondoggle. On 9...