WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! No 1340 Week commencing 6 May 2005 Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain 50p IRAQI RESISTANCE REACHES NEW HIGH by our Arab Affairs Correspondent Scottish Division and the entire Guards Division. The IRAQI partisans are stepping up the fight against army predicts that only Anglo-American imperialism with a crescendo of 1,400 recruits will join the attacks throughout the country that resistance infantry this year, a fall of sources say topped 200 a day this week. 35 per cent. Desertions have doubled and there are A new puppet govern- recruitment centre, killing now 500 soldiers absent ment was sworn in this and wounding hundreds in without leave. week, despite having failed Arbil, the “capital” of what The candid report to attract any prominent the imperialists once called which appeared in the Tory members of the Sunni the Kurdish “safe-haven” Sunday newspaper quoted Muslim community to its in northern Iraq. a senior officer saying: “We ranks. And ambushes, Rumours are flying are fighting an unpopular street battles and bombings about a meeting between war. A lot of young soldiers have sent the puppet re- US defence secretary have died and parents of 15, gime reeling and pushed Donald Rumsfeld and im- 16 and 17 year-olds are tell- the US-led army of occu- prisoned former Iraqi ing their children not to join pation back onto the defen- leader Saddam Hussein the army because of this. sive. when Rumsfeld visited The assumption is that the In Baghdad resistance Baghdad earlier in the year. parents of would-be re- fighters gunned down cruits don’t trust the Gov- guards at the US prison offered ernment and they are tell- holding former president • Most of the occupiers losses are American. ing their children not to join Saddam Hussein and inten- An Egyptian magazine pan is going to throw in the demonstrations at the time army are under strength, up.” sified their bombardment claims that Rumsfeld of- towel and join the others and their continued pres- the Sunday Telegraph re- • Eight-eight British ser- of the international airport, fered Saddam his freedom, like the Dutch and the ence in Iraq at America’s vealed last weekend in a vicemen have been killed forcing the only commer- together with “generous fi- Ukrainians who are scut- request has been a source report that stated that se- and some 800 more cial carriers that use the nancial assistance and se- tling out of Iraq this year. of bitter rancour in the nior officers fear that some wounded in the Iraq airport, Iraqi Airways and curity” for a life in exile if A Tokyo news agency, Japanese parliament ever regiments will be unable to campaign. According to Royal Jordanian, to cancel the Baathist leader agreed quoting unidentified since. take part in operations in the Pentagon a total of all flights in and out of the to publicly condemn “ter- sources, claims that Japan Iraq without significant re- 1,772 members of the Iraqi capital. rorism” on Iraqi television will withdraw its 550 troops plummeting inforcements from other US-led occupation army American high com- and order his supporters to currently on “non-combat” parts of the army. have been killed and over mand confirmed that two of “stop these acts”. Accord- operations in southern Iraq The war that sent Tony Thirty-eight of the 12,200 wounded since their warplanes went down ing to the alleged transcript by the end of the year. Blair’s personal popularity army’s 40 infantry battal- the war began in March on Monday in south-cen- of their conversation, The despatch of the plummeting to below zero ions are under strength in- 2003. Most of the US-led tral Iraq, officially put down Saddam dismissed troops, Japan’s largest levels is also taking its toll cluding all three battalions “coalition” losses are to a “collision” in bad Rumsfeld’s offer with the overseas military deploy- on army recruitment. of the Parachute Regi- American. weather. And a suicide contempt that it deserved. ment since the Second Some 90 per cent of the ment, all six infantry regi- bomber destroyed a police It also appears that Ja- World War, provoked mass fighting units of the British ments that make up the FUND It has been another poor Bereaved families may sue Blair week for the fund with just £157.58 coming in for the last week in April. This by Daphne Liddle laboration between Bush try that held weapons of the WMDs and I began to mother Rose Gentle, who brought the April total to and Blair in the year before mass destruction.” think about the legal implica- stood in East Kilbride against £2439.71 which is £560.29 RELATIVES of British sol- the attack on Iraq emerged, The letter pointed out that tions. Now I know that Tony the Armed Forces minister short of our monthly £3,000 diers killed in Iraq last week Blair has blustered and the recent publication of le- Blair lied. He sent my son to Adam Ingram. target. took the first steps towards claimed it was all down to his gal opinion on the war by the his death needlessly.” Paul Shiner, the solicitor We thank our regular suing him over the legality judgement. He claims he still attorney general on 7th March Sergeant Simon representing the families, north London pensioner of the war. thinks his course of action 2003 and the leaks of official Hamilton-Jewell was killed said the request for a public comrade for £27.40, our Ten families delivered a was correct as though he documents “threw into doubt near Basra in June 2003. His inquiry was straightforward. London Scot for £10, a letter to Downing Street last was not slavishly following the supposed justification brother Tony accused Blair of The families had lost their Woking comrade for Tuesday, warning that there Bush all the time. and rationale for the war”. “lying and lying again” and loved ones and were entitled £41.68, an East Anglia com- would be an immediate ap- Blair has been more and The letter continued: “A added: “The man is covering to know that the conflict had rade for £20 and a Vauxhall plication for judicial review more obviously a lame-duck reasonable suspicion arises up for himself and his gov- been legal. New Worker supporter for unless the Prime Minister leader and a liability to the that you committed the UK to ernment. He has to be ex- He said the position had £50. Literature sales have agreed to a full public inquiry Labour Party. war on the basis of regime posed. changed significantly after brought in another £8.50. within 14 days. change” – knowing that Lord “Mr Blair was right about the publication of the attorney By the time you read Blair at the time was on new group Goldsmith warned this was three letters, but it wasn’t general’s advice the Blair. It this, the election will be a whistle-stop tour of mar- an unlawful basis for war. WMD but O-I-L.” was now known that the over. Whatever the result, ginal constituencies. In The bereaved families The families say that one Prime Minister committed the struggle will go on. The Gloucester a Muslim voter have formed an umbrella soldier’s wife has already Blair’s fault himself to regime change af- working class will still be confronted Blair, demanding group, Military Families been told by an insurance ter he had been warned fighting an uphill battle for to know if he could still be Against the War, which has company that her husband Ann Toward lost her about the legality of the war. better wages and conditions trusted after taking Britain into also lodged papers with the was no longer covered while guardsman husband just A new law passed just and the ruling class will the illegal war. International Criminal Court serving in Iraq because the last week. She said: “It is Tony before the Government was still be ravaging the globe “Tony, can we trust you in The Hague over the British war could be illegal. Blair’s fault. He sent all these dissolved for the election for as much profit as it can after Iraq?” asked use of cluster bombs against Peter Brierly, who lost his troops out. If he hadn’t sent gives the Government make. Muhammad Jaffer. “We have Iraqis. son Shaun, said: “My son them out the Anthony would sweeping powers to limit and control all future inquiries. And this paper will be lost hundreds of lives, thou- The letter delivered by the went to war thinking he was still be alive.” in the thick of the struggle. sands of lives. We got the bereaved families said: going to make the world safe One of the signatories to But public anger over the Help us do our bit for the impression you were just fol- “Each of our clients’ loved from weapons of mass de- the letter was Reg Keys, workers’ of the world by lowing Bush.” ones were killed when they struction. I believed that ar- whose son died in Iraq. He war and Blair’s lies is grow- ing so much that the new sending whatever you can Throughout the election had been told by you that they gument made by the Prime stood against Blair in to the New Worker Fund, campaign, as one damaging were fighting a war that was Minister as well. Thursday’s election in his government may not have the nerve to use these new pow- PO Box 73, London SW11 secret after another about the fully justified in international “As time went by it was Sedgefield constituency.