Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
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Why are Iraq’s fake WMD claims suddenly being revived in the press?
Back in 2009, SOLOMON HUGHES debunked the media's misinterpretation that an FBI agent’s long-withheld notes showed that Saddam ‘bluffed’ about having germ and nuclear weapons. But now the media is running this fake news once again
In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
From Palestine, to racism, to fiscal rules and migrant rights, DIANE ABBOTT surveys some of the main themes of Labour conference this week
We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY
On the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, DAVID ROSENBERG reflects on his encounters with those who were there that day in 1936 – and suggests two urgent tasks for the anti-fascists of today
THREE British newspapers decided to commemorate the 2003 Iraq war, when the allies used fake stories about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to justify their invasion, by printing new fake stories about Iraq’s non-existent WMD.
The Daily Mail’s story, published this month to fit in with the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, had a headline claiming Saddam Hussein “admitted he BLUFFED about having WMDs to deter Iran from invading Iraq, FBI interrogator reveals.”
In 2004, a year after the Iraq invasion began, Saddam was captured by US forces and interrogated by an FBI agent, George Piro, before he was handed over to the Iraqi “interim” occupation government and hanged.
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