Stopping the Iraq War 2001-3, from race war to 9/11: How the press was done By Anna Chen 13 February 2023. Wednesday 15 February marks the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented million-strong anti-Iraq War demonstration in London. 2001 was a busy year for presswork even before the September 11 attacks in the USA. In March, […]
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The Chilcot report on the Iraq War has finally been published and all eyes are on Tony Blair. It’s taken seven years and 2.6 million words to confirm what anti-war voices were saying from September 2001 — do not invade Iraq on a flimsy pretext, because the results will be dire for the Iraqis and
I’d left the SWP and had been “asked to leave” the anti-war movement by the time of the Parliamentary vote on the Iraq war on 18th March 2003, so I missed this crucial decision. An interesting revelation from ElaneH about the lead up to the vote for war in Parliament, and an example of how
“Just imagine, the whole place being upset by one little Chinese girl in the scullery.” (Anna May Wong in the scullery in Piccadilly, 1929) I’m reposting my article, A Bad Case of the Trots, which was published in Tribune magazine, September 2003 following my time establishing and running the Socialist Alliance (SA) and Stop The
Perhaps it’s unconscious and far from deliberate but there’s a set of prejudices in the Left that they just won’t confront. You can be a woman, non-white or working class but not all three at once or you get the INVISIBILITY BOMB exploded all over you. Feminist Camilla Power wrote to me earlier this month
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Read Anna Chen’s collection of poetry, Reaching for My Gnu, now an eBook. It’s International Women’s weekend, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are having their special crisis conference tomorrow and more allegations of the crummy way the SWP treats their women members are coming to light. I’m reposting an updated version of my SWP Sex
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