Iraq solidarity conference

Iraq Union Solidarity has joined together with Solidarité Irak (France), the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, to sponsor a conference to discuss and coordinate international activity in solidarity with the workers' and women's movements in Iraq. Please consider sending a delegate from your organisation. Details below and attached.

Iraq Union Solidarity
c/o David Broder (convenor), 4 Freelands Drive, Fleet, GU52 0TE.
Email: iraqunionsolidarity@yahoo.com.
Web www.iraqunionsolidarity.org.
Phone: (+44) 7798 754 927.
8 June 2006
Dear Friend,

Solidarity with the Iraqi workers’ and women’s movements
Conference 1 July 2006, London

Please come to the conference on "Solidarity with the Iraqi workers’ movement" on Saturday 1 July, 13:00 to 18:00 at the Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together groups from across Europe which are campaigning in support of the workers’ and women's movements in Iraq, fighting for an egalitarian and secular politics against both the US/UK occupation and the sectarian militias. It is open to all groups which share these basic priorities.

We can exchange information about our campaigning activities; discuss developments in Iraq and establish points of agreement and common understanding; and discuss possible international initiatives and campaigns.

The provisional agenda is:
1. Reports on the situation in Iraq, by activists recently returned from Iraq.
2. Reports on activity from campaigns represented at the meeting, including IUS and Solidarité Irak.
3. Presentation of and discussion on the Iraq Freedom Congress initiative.
4. Discussion on follow-up activities, including the possibility of a further, larger conference at a later date.
5. Exchange of views on the situation in Iran and activities in solidarity with the workers’ and women’s movements in Iran, against both the US war threat and the Islamic regime.

You may be interested to know that immediately following the conference and also in the Resource Centre, at 18:30, the well-known American writer Greg Palast will be speaking on his new book "Mad House", about big business and the Iraq war, as part of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty summer school going on in the Resource Centre that same weekend, 1-2 July.

Best wishes,

David Broder, for Iraq Union Solidarity
Nicolas Dessaux, for Solidarité Irak
Houzan Mahmoud, for the Abroad Organisation of Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Martin Thomas, for the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty