A minority voted
for the new Iraqi constitution. Fighting has now erupted on the
Iraqi-Syrian border. The resistance is being strengthened, not
weakened. And now we have the revelations about the use of chemical
weapons by the US army. The Pax Americana is wallowing in
blood. This article was originally published in the Italian Marxist
journal, FalceMartello.
Last week the leader of the Histadrut, Amir Peretz ousted Shimon Peres from the leadership of the Israeli Labour Party. It was like a small earthquake in the political system of Israel, as Peretz has been promising to undo many of the cuts in the welfare state and has threatened to pull the Labour Party out of the coalition with the Likud.
The UN, under US pressure, has passed a resolution on Syria. The implications are that Syrian officials were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Premier, Rafiq Hariri. But Syria has gained nothing from his assassination. And there are clear indications that much of the so-called evidence may have been fabricated, in order to pressurise the Syrian regime.