The history of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during the Kuwait Gulf War.
Crushed by Saddam Hussein's regime, the article covers the roles of the Allied forces and the Kurdish nationalist parties.
Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations
Security Council immediately condemned Iraq and imposed severe sanctions on
it. Why was the UN response so prompt and so unprecedently firm? The US government-media
alliance had a standard answer.
An account of the worldwide movement of resistance to the 1990-91 Gulf War. The resistance mainly took the form of strikes, marches, base blockades and refusals to fight.
History of the widespread desertion and mutiny in the Iraqi military which saw the rapid end of the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War of 1990-1 with the US and its allies.
Over 14 million people could find themselves in fuel poverty in the near future, if new figures from gas giant Centrica predicting a 70% rise in gas prices prove accurate - nearly a quarter of the population.
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.