Last week’s attack by the Israeli
army on the prison in Jericho highlights the growing impasse in
Israeli/Palestinian politics. Olmert, the interim leader of Sharon’s
Kadima party is using the attack to boost his fortunes in the
upcoming Israeli elections. At the same time Abu Mazen, the “friend”
of the West is being exposed.
We received this brief report by the Workers' Action Committee (Iran) on a recent strike at the Iran Khodro car plant in Tehran. The production line in most halls came to a
halt and, with the slogan "Going on strike is the only way to act", the
strike took over the whole plant.
Sectarian violence has plagued Iraq since the February 22 destruction of the sacred Shia al-Askariya shrine in As Samarra, pushing the country dangerously close to civil war. As the US army in Iraq faces the prospect of being dragged into such a war, opinion polls in the United States show that support for the Bush administration is at an all time low. The conditions are being laid for an all out explosion both in Iraq and in the United States.