Iraq war

Fewer black people want to join the US Army, 2005

Prol-Position in 2005 on the rapidly declining number of young black men enlisting to served in the United States Army.

Muqtada al-Sadr

Al-Sadr and the Mahdi army: Sectarianism and resistance in Iraq

Aufheben's excellent analysis and history of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in Iraq.

Crisis of war and limits of capitalism - Wildcat

The impending bombardment of a small country of 23 million inhabitants has become a stress test of the international state system, in which framework the world has developed for the past sixty years. In the debates over the pros and cons, and the reasons for the bombs on Baghdad, it's no longer just about the Middle East. It's about the question of how the world should be ruled and controlled in the future. Whose…

Film Fictions of the Iraq War

Tom Jennings examines television and cinema stories about the US/UK ‘war on terror’ in terms of the notion that ‘war is the health of the state’.

Reduction of fire hazard: in the event of firefighter strike or war against Iraq - No War But The Class War

A public-service announcement from Her Majesty's No War But The Class War Office on…

What's Going On - Iraq: Two Years after the 'End' of the War - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes article written 2 years into the invasion of Iraq, looking at what was then…

Iraq: Oil, Blood and Class - International Bureau for a Revolutionary Party

Article written by the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party on the 2003 invasion of Iraq…

Don't talk about the danger of war - unless you are prepared to speak about capitalism! - Internationalist Perspective

Article by Internationalist Perspective on the inevitably capitalist aspects of the…

The Gulf War of 2003 - Internationalist Perspective

Article by Internationalist Perspective on the 2003 Gulf War.

The Vietnam syndrome revisited - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes article looking at the situation in Iraq as the US becomes bogged down in a long term conflict, and comparing it to previous…

Resistance in Iraq - The Difficult Peace - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes article on the occupation of Iraq and the resistance to this.

Iraq - free market Jihad - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes article on the imperialist aims of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.