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Iraqi Unions and Their American Labor Allies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2010

Michael Zweig
Michael Zweig
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook
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Since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, images of suicide bombings, religious violence, and general chaos have come to mind when most Americans have thought about Iraq. Counterposed are thoughts of US military efforts to separate the combatants and restore order. Whether one has supported or opposed the US actions in Iraq, the actual Iraqi people, almost all of them ordinary working people, remain remote and unknown.

Type
Reports from the Field
Information
International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 78 , Issue 1 , Fall 2010 , pp. 132 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2010

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NOTES

1. For information on US Labor Against the War, and additional background on the Iraqi labor movement and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, go to USLAW's website at http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org.

2. This tour is documented in the twenty-seven-minute film Meeting Face to Face: The Iraq-US Labor Solidarity Tour, written and produced by Michael Zweig, edited by Jonathan Levin (Stony Brook: Center for Study of Working Class Life, 2006), http://meetingfacetoface.org. The final document adopted jointly by the Iraqis and USLAW can be found on the USLAW website.

3. A report from the Erbil conference appears on the USLAW website.

4. A report of the veterans' experiences can be found at http://www.IVAW.org.

5. The petition and report from the meeting at the State Department are on the USLAW website.

6. Documents from the December 2009 National Assembly setting this course are available on the USLAW Website. See also the DVD Why Are We in Afghanistan? written and directed by Michael Zweig, illustrated by Mike Konopacki, edited by Trish Dalton: http://www.WhyAreWeInAfghanistan.org.