Iraq descends into civil war: Solidarity with Iraqi workers!
By Colin Foster The USA's Iraq Study Group, led by Republican old-stager James Baker, is due to present its ideas on 6 December. In the run-up, another leading Washington think-tank has put out a report on Options for Iraq (29 November). The New York Times has published two leaked top-level memos: one (29 November) written on 8 November by new US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley on ideas for a "major adjustment" of US Iraq policy; the other (3 December) written by Donald Rumsfeld on 6 November, shortly before he was pushed out as Defense Secretary. No-one outside the White House, and...