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Prescott – Blair's Achilles' Heel WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! No 1392 Week commencing 2 June 2006 Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain 50p IRAQ: CALLS FOR PULL OUT MOUNT by our Arab Affairs Correspondent president failed in 1982 are, in fact, still alive. CALLS FOR the immediate and unconditional The anonymous witness withdrawal of all imperialist troops in Iraq are from the same village said mounting following the revelations about the mas- the case against Saddam sacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha and the increas- was built on bribes. “The ing cost in military lives as the resistance grows prosecutor said they were across the country. executed but I am telling British and American casu- take” and warned the Iraqi you I ate with them some alties are climbing and with people “not to be taken in time ago” he swore. the deaths of two CBS TV by the plans of the occu- “Many of them have be- crew members in a bomb pation to sell out or to de- come rich and occupy pow- attack in Baghdad, the part from their true aim, erful positions,” he said, as number of journalists who which is liberation.” he testified from behind a have died in hostile inci- The Americans are curtain, going on to write dents in Iraq has risen to pouring reinforcements down names for the judge. 71 — the same number into Iraq’s western prov- “If it is true and these killed or presumed dead ince of Al Anbar, calling in people are still alive, this during the Vietnam War. repeated air-strikes on the whole case should be re- Partisans downed an- resistance stronghold of considered from the begin- other US helicopter gunship Ramadi, where the Ma- ning,” one of the Saddam in western Iraq last Satur- rines are holed-up in the defence team argued. day and launched attacks town hall in the centre of First it was the “coali- on imperialist and quisling the city while British forces tion of the willing” that forces across Baghdad and are now facing partisan at- soon became “unwilling” as throughout occupied Iraq. tacks on a scale never seen many of the minnows dra- And the puppet regime has before in the south. • Anti-war protest in LA. gooned into sending troops called for “dialogue” with A state of emergency killed in action this month 1,000 of them are still miss- in support of the Anglo- British garrison.British American occupation the resistance – a call that has been proclaimed in and pushing total British ing, according to Ministry troops are penned in their was contemptuously dis- Basra, the provincial capi- deaths since the war began of Defence figures. bottled out. Now it’s camps most of the time dubbed the “coalition of the missed by the partisans. tal in the heart of the Brit- three years ago to 113. Puppet premier Nouri while the Americans pre- Five major Iraqi resis- ish zone of occupied Iraq, Resistance attacks on Maliki toured Basra this dwindling”. Italy and south fer to come out and fight Korea are pulling their tance movements rejected now seething with anti-im- British occupation forces in week vowing to use an at night with night-vision an offer of talks from the perialist anger. southern Iraq rose from 36 “iron fist” to end the vio- troops out by the end of the equipment that’s in short year. Token forces from new American puppet re- in January to 103 in April, lence but given that his au- supply to the resistance. gime in Baghdad in a two killed firing the desertion rate that thority barely stretches be- other countries like Japan It also helps their troops are expected to follow. The communiqué released this now totals nearly a 1,000 yond the fortified US avoid the searing heat, week. They repeated their Two British soldiers since the Iraq war began “Green Zone” compound sooner Britain follows the more so now in the sum- better. stand which is not “not to were killed and two others in 2003. in Baghdad there is little he mer when temperatures recognise the legitimacy of wounded in a roadside Nearly 3,000 British sol- can do, apart to appeal to soar to over 40C in day- any government under the bomb attack in Basra on diers have gone Awol ev- the mainly Shia resistance light. shade of the occupation, Sunday, bringing to nine the ery year since the start of movements in the south to But the heat is the FUND whatever form it might number of British troops the Iraq war, and nearly a end their harassment of the friend of the partisans born to the climate of the Two Our fund this week Rivers and knowing this is came to £517.90, bringing the best time to step up their our total for May to £2,365.21, which is own war for oil – the £634.79 short of our Prescott – Blair’s Achilles’ heel struggle to stop the imperi- monthly target. We really alists plundering the vast oil must try to do better in by Daphne Liddle A proper election process to Bush and leading Britain sible further scandals to reserves that they coveted into the illegal invasion of Iraq come. Some unlikely figures June. within the Labour Party would when they invaded Iraq in We thank our veteran PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair leave the whole New Labour on the basis of lies and de- have come to Prescott’s de- is fighting desperately not ceit for the benefit of Ameri- fence, including Glenda Jack- 2003. north London paper seller project very vulnerable to a for his usual £27.40 and only to save his own posi- challenge by the increasingly can oil companies. son and Ken Livingstone. Four major attacks on tion but also to keep John disaffected backbenchers The oil companies have They say he is very hard work- pipelines in May and con- we thank our London Scot Prescott’s position in the So although Prescott has not benefited because of the ing and is being mocked be- tinuous raids on fuel tank- for £20. We also thank an Cabinet because Prescott’s lost his most of his powers continuing resistance. But the cause he is working class. ers on the roads have also east Anglian comrade for fall could also sweep away as Deputy Prime Minister fol- United States and Britain But illicit affairs, owning crippled electricity and £20 and another friend for Blair. lowing recent scandals, both have become increasingly two Jags, having a grace- £4.50. All the rest comes water supplies, which rely from bankers’ orders and Prescott is deputy leader Blair and Brown are fighting isolated in the world, both and-favour home and work- on oil-fuelled generators, in of the Parliamentary Labour calls for him to be evicted politically and economically ing class ways are not we thank all the comrades Party but if he leaves the from his Dorney Wood grace- and British and American Prescott’s chief crimes. His Baghdad. Running water is who give regularly in this Cabinet, under current party and-favour home, to lose his capitalists have suffered be- chief crimes are betraying the only available for an hour way. rules, he must forfeit the £133,000 salary and numer- cause of this. working class, supporting the a day, between 1 and 2 am This is the season in deputy leadership. ous other perks that went New Labour hi-jack of the and electricity is down to which political activity This would force an elec- with his former ministerial want him out Labour Party, supporting Blair one hour in five in many grows until on any given tion within the party – and office. in privatising public services, parts of the capital. Saturday or Sunday you Blair cannot control the out- Blair is reported to have It’s not only genuine so- in going to war in Iraq. There Iraq’s jailed feel you should be in at come of such an election. He told Prescott recently that they cialists who want Blair out as And in his own right he leader, Saddam Hussein, least six places at once, also knows that if the posi- were “linked” and they will go fast as possible; powerful has supervised the attending different meet- tion of deputy leader be- together when Blair decides capitalists also want him out. privatisation of thousands of continued to defy his ac- ings and events. It is also a comes vacant, many mem- to quit. Outside the Labour And so large sections of council homes and the re- cusers in the kangaroo season that gives unlim- bers will want an election for Party, that section of the rul- the press, seeing Prescott as structuring of local authori- court set up by the Ameri- ited opportunities for sell- party leader at the same time ing class that favours alle- Blair’s Achilles’ heel, are tar- ties, making them less ac- cans to try him for the ing the paper and asking – probably at the party con- giance with Europe rather geting Prescott. His affair countable. deaths of Dujail villagers supporters for a bite of ex- ference this autumn. than Washington is evermore with secretary Tracey Temple during his rule. tra cash. Be bold and col- Gordon Brown also does frustrated at Blair’s refusal to was a genuine scandal. Play- He is no bumbling inno- One defence witness lect whatever you can and not want an open election for budge from office despite an ing croquet at Dorney Wood cent.
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