Public meeting with USLAW, 7 July

The attack on labour rights today:
Iraqi, US and UK union solidarity against war, occupation and enforced privatisation

A meeting with Gene Bruskin Co-Convenor of the over 3 million strong trade union anti-war organisation US Labor Against War (USLAW), Iraqi oil expert, economist and writer Kamil Mahdi, plus a British trade unionist, TBA. Film excerpts from 'The Real Cost of Occupation' by USLAW and 'Winter Soldier' testimony from Iraq Veterans Against War will also be shown.

Monday July 7th
6.30-8.30pm, Chair: Prof Martha Mundy
Room D202 Clement House
London School of Economics
Aldwych, London WC2

Contact Sabah Jawad Naftana, UK Support Committee for the IFOU, 07985 336 886 or Martha Mundy, LSE Staff Against War, tel 020 7955 6242

All welcome

In occupied Iraq, Saddamist dictatorship law is still being used to outlaw trade unions. An Oil Law, drafted in secret and in consultation with International Oil Companies and the US and UK governments, is on the verge of being passed.

The Law will allow for the privatisation of Iraqi oil for up to 30 years and permit regions to pass their own laws andsign their own contracts with oil companies. Trade unionists and Iraqi oil experts say this risks breaking up the country and will pit regions and peoples against one another in a race to the bottom. This meeting discusses building solidarity on common ground: to defend Iraqi trade unionists from attack; and the Iraqi peoples' assets and services from privatisation; and to work for an end to occupation.

See the following for more details: www.basraoilunion.org and www.uslaboragainstwar.org