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DURING SEPTEMBER, THE conflict in Iraq reached a new level
of intensity. The countrywide insurgency, a national resistance made up of many
different forces, grew stronger and became more extensive. It is clear that the
US, British and other imperialist forces have lost control of most of the cities
of the Sunni triangle (north and west of Baghdad), as well as large areas of the
Shia south. The puppet government of Iyad Allawi, which rests on US-British
military forces, has only very limited control even of Baghdad itself.
Tony Blair tried to use soothing words at
the Trades Union Congress to silence his critics. But his government’s planned
assault on the main civil service union, PCS, and its general neo-liberal
offensive, resulted in the most hostile reception ever received at the TUC by a
Labour Party leader. PETER TAAFFE looks at the widening gulf between New Labour
and the unions, and on the need for a militant fightback against public-sector
attacks.
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