Saturday, November 13, 2004
Iraqi Workers' Solidarity with Fallujah. posted by Richard Seymour
From Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation :Iraqi Railway workers boycott supplies to US troops or forces belonging to US-appointed Allawi government. Employees of the National Iraqi Railways Company also declared that they will only agree to carry food supplies to the Iraqi people as part of the UN for food programme, and threatened national strike if forced to do otherwise. The Allawi government reacted by accusing the railway works of carrying civil disobedience. Meanwhile more than 40 Muslim clerics of the Shia and Sunni faiths have urged Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani to publically declare his opposition for Iraqi troops taking part in the attack on the people of Falluja.
Given the recent torrents of bile emerging from certain pro-war blogs and their own stoutly declared support for the Iraqi working class, can we now expect them to denounce the assault on Fallujah and stand firm with their Iraqi brothers and sisters?
Nah.