While the ‘Northern Ireland model’ is increasingly cited as applicable to other conflicts, perhaps especially in the Middle East, the truth about the ending of the Northern Ireland Troubles is misunderstood, not least because a myth has been established by …
In the last two years I have been lucky enough to participate in three fact-finding delegations to Iraq. We travelled twice to the Kurdistan Region (each time for a week), first as a guest of its trade union movement and …
Editor’s Note: Gary Kent sends this Letter from Iraq. Gary joined a delegation of trade unionists and British members of parliament in April 2004. The group included Dave Anderson (Labour MP, chair of Labour Friends of Iraq, and past President …
