For 100 years, Maki has been the leading force for Jewish-Palestinian equality in Israeli politics, yet it has failed to unite Arab and Jewish workers into a viable movement. Was it doomed from the start?
Aufheben analyse the long-term geopolitical aims of the US in the Middle East, following the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran in July 2005.
"A People's History of Iraq", by Ilario Salucci. Haymarket Books 2005 This book is an odd patchwork, and misleadingly titled (it is not at all a general history of Iraq), but contains some useful stuff. The core of it is 100 pages, first published in Italian in 2003, of a fairly breathless narrative history of the Iraqi Communist Party up to 2002 by Salucci. Added to that in the English edition are:
Today, Saturday 17 January 2004, two protests were held outside the French Embassy in London. The Muslim Association of Britain (British offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab world's largest Islamic-fundamentalist movement) demonstrated against the French governnment's proposed legislation to ban the Islamic headscarf in state schools. They mobilised about 300 people, supported by small contingents from the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Weekly Worker).