WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! No 1457 Week commencing 12 October 2007 Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain 50p IRAQ: US TROOPS ON THE DEFENSIVE by our Arab Affairs Correspondent ian Shia Muslim leaders who now dominate the pup- US TROOPS IN IRAQ are on the defensive dur- pet administrations in cen- ing Ramadan while the long expected resistance tral and southern Iraq – while the threat of a Turk- offensive during the Muslim holy month of fasting ish incursion into Iraqi and prayer is concentrating on attacks on collabo- Kurdistan could propel the rators and quislings. The underground Baathist re- feudal Kurdish chieftains sistance has launched a new united resistance front who currently support the and American plans to partition Iraq into three sec- US occupation into the tarian statelets are floundering. arms of Iran. The Turks have been Twenty-two Iraqi resis- mate representative of the bombarding the border ar- tance movements have Iraqi people and announce eas which they claim, with combined to form a national an immediate or rapid- some justification, are sanc- liberation front under the staged unconditional with- tuaries for the Kurdish leadership of the Arab So- drawal from the country; Workers’ Party (PKK) mi- cialist Renaissance Party then that all US offensive litia that has resumed its (Baath). At a unity con- actions are halted and all guerrilla campaign in south- gress held in a liberated prisoners freed without ex- ern Turkey. The Americans area of Baghdad last ception and with compen- are calling for restraint but month, partisan leaders sation; that the Iraqi army the Turkish government pledged to fight for the to- and national security forces has warned that if the tal liberation of Iraq how- are restored and all laws Americans and their Iraqi ever long it takes and es- and decrees issued during Kurdish allies don’t crack tablished a Supreme Com- the occupation are can- • Monday’s anti war rally in London. down on the PKK they’ll mand headed by Baathist celled. blown up on Sunday. been evacuated to the Abdel Aziz al Hakim and do it themselves. The Iraqi leader Izzat Ibrahim al “If the enemy wants to The puppet mayor of al- “Green Zone” following Muqtada al Sadr have Kurds know well what this Duri. withdraw in a face-saving Iskandariyah was assassi- four bomb attacks on their agreed to set up a joint com- means. The last time the The new Jihad and Lib- manner,” the Supreme nated last week when his legation on Monday. Last mittee to end the bloodshed Turks went in, in the late eration Front then elected Command declared “they motorcade was bombed on week the Polish Ambassa- between the Badr Bri- 1990s, their troops used in- a Supreme Command, should sit down and speak his way to work and the dor was wounded when his gades, which support the discriminate violence and staffed by a number of directly with the resistance leader of the Salah ad Din motorcade was bombed. Shia-led puppet govern- terror against the civilian generals from the old Iraqi to discuss the implementa- province collaborationist Poland, a satellite of US ment, and the Mahdi Army. population. army along with religious tion of these sacred prin- militia has died from imperialism, sent 2,500 The British base at Basra and community leaders, ciples. Otherwise, their wounds sustained in an ear- troops in support of the International Airport was and declared that there only alternative is collapse lier bomb attack. Anglo-American occupa- rocketed Friday night. would be no negotiations and flight.” tion in 2003. There are 900 Three British soldiers were FUND with the “American en- In the northern city of narrow escape left at “Camp Echo”, some injured and several airport emy” except on the basis Mosul the puppet deputy 180 km south of Baghdad, buildings were set ablaze by Our fund has of the “sacred principles” police chief of Nineveh Back in Baghdad the which was subjected to a the Katyushas. This Tues- brought us a modest of the front. province was wounded in puppet “governor” nar- barrage of Katyusha rock- day the director of Basra £333, bringing our Oc- The preconditions for a drive-by shooting and at rowly escaped with his life ets Sunday night. airport was kidnapped by tober total so far to when his motorcade was In the south the leaders unknown gunmen. £690.40 and leaving negotiations with the occu- least seven people were £2,309.60 to raise to pying forces are firstly: that killed and 19 others were ambushed Saturday night. of the two major Shia mili- America’s divide and meet our £3,000 monthly the Americans officially wounded when the head- Several guards were tias have reached an rule tactics are back-firing target. recognise the patriotic re- quarters of the Kurdish wounded in the gun-battle. agreement to end the turf- big-time – the only takers We thank a Woking sistance as the sole legiti- Democratic Party was The Polish embassy has war in Basra province. are the pro-Iranian sectar- comrade for £5, a friend from Derry for a total of £20.50, a veteran com- rade from Hitchin for £30, a Blackpool reader for £20 and our London Scot for £20. We have Darling of the super-rich had two other donations of £5 each, one for £7.50 by Daphne Liddle all to inherit their unearned The Tories’ policy to tax workers are taxed). Darling is Brown has backed off and a New Worker stall fortunes. the “non-doms” was to going to cut capital gains tax, from calling an election and raised £20. CHANCELLOR Alistair Dar- He copied both policies charge them £25,000 a year bringing it down from a maxi- no one is surprised. But he Bankers’ orders ling has been well taught by from those revealed by the and estimated there were mum 40 per cent (for gains clearly believes the way to win have supplied all the rest Gordon Brown in the art of Tories at their annual confer- 150,000 such wealthy for- above £9,200 in a year) to a the next election is to steal and we thank those who delivering budgets that have ence two weeks ago in eigners who would be liable flat rate of 18 per cent. support from potential Tory have given in this way. an opposite effect to what Blackpool in a blatant move to pay the tax – yielding £3.5 This is a true gift to sec- supporters – taking Labour The postal strike has they appear to do. to try to steal their electoral billion a year. Darling’s tax on ond home owners and those supporters for granted. obviously delayed our Darling delivered his first support. the non-doms would charge super rich families who will Where else can Labour post and we suspect and pre-Budget Report and Com- The Tories had revealed them £30,000 a year but only be getting round the inherit- supporters go? There are no hope that there are more prehensive Spending Review these policies in the belief after they had been resident ance tax by shuffling bits of realistic alternatives. Many, donations on the way. last Tuesday with claims that that a snap general election here for seven years – mak- property around the family on too many, will simply not vote We hope the Royal he was “targeting the super was more than likely and – ing it a lot easier for their ac- a regular basis. at all. Some will see absten- Mail management come rich” and clamping down on with the aid of a lot of spin countants to switch their offi- But it will sting those who tionism as a protest; the Gov- to their senses quickly private equity bosses, who and media backing – im- cial country of residence ac- get more modest capital ernment will interpret it as a and the dispute is re- avoid paying tax on the bil- proved their ratings in the cordingly less often. gains – in particular those combination of apathy and solved but there is no lions they make in Britain by opinion polls. workers who are part of contentment. guarantee. The disrup- claiming to reside elsewhere This only served to show just 15,000 share schemes and who Only the ruling class can tion could continue. So in the world – referred to as how volatile and unreliable used to pay at a lower rate. win if the working class allows we ask you to send every- the “non-domiciled resi- the opinion polls are now and Darling reckoned there Darling also came up itself to be driven out of politi- thing you can manage – dents” or “non-doms”. that millions of people can be would be just 15,000 people with promises of more cal activity. This is why we it will get to us eventu- Darling also promised to fooled into thinking that inher- liable for such a tax yielding money for the NHS. But com- must continue to fight, not just ally and will be very wel- raise the threshold for inher- itance tax – which, even now just £650 million a year. bined with the Government’s around elections but on all come – to the New itance tax to £700,000 – a with inflated house prices, But what he takes with other ongoing plans for the political fronts and in particu- health service, most of this lar inside the labour move- Worker Fund, PO Box move that will leave only the still only affects the very rich- one hand, Darling gives back 73, London SW11 2PQ.