Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
THE war on Iraq was illegal, immoral and devastating. In the region of half a million people died. Many thousands more suffered from, and often died from, preventable diseases, from the impact of cluster bombs and from cancers caused by radiation poisoning from depleted uranium munitions.
That the British government took us into that war on the basis of a tissue of lies demonstrates the extraordinary moral bankruptcy of our political system.
President George W Bush attempted to use the tragedy of September 11 2001 to further US interests in the Middle East by imposing regime change on Iraq, and the craven Tony Blair backed him up, first with falsehoods, then with weapons and lives, telling us that Britain had to pay the “blood price” for our alliance with the US.
On Hiroshima Day, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary SOPHIE BOLT explains why the danger of nuclear conflict is growing daily
MIKE MARTIN surveys the regional opposition to US attempts to force the region into a military confrontation with China
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history



