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WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq

Desert Slaughter

The Imperialist War Against Iraq
[Labor Publications, 1991, 523pp]

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Contained in this book is the only comprehensive analysis of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf crisis written from the standpoint of socialist opposition to the imperialist war against Iraq. It provides not only the definitive record of the political struggle against the gulf war, but a week-by-week chronicle of the unfolding crisis and an analysis of its historical background.

The seven years since its publication, especially the recent months of crisis, have added to the importance of Desert Slaughter and vindicated its central prognosis: that the end of the war would not mark a period of peace and stability, but would set the stage for further imperialist aggression, war and revolutionary convulsions.

Here we present the table of contents and preface to Desert Slaughter as well as two articles from the book, "Workers Must Oppose the Gulf War" (2 September 1990) and "There is No Peace" (8 March 1991).

We encourage you to order the book online via secure credit card transaction; or by mail (send check for $20.90 to Mehring Books, PO Box 48377, Oak Park, MI 48237, USA); or by telephone (248-967-2924 in the US).

Contents

Preface

1/ The Onset of the Gulf Crisis

The US Steps Up Mideast Threats
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, August 3, 1990

No to US Oil War!
Workers League Political Committee Statement, August 9, 1990

Stop the US Drive to War in the Middle East!
Workers League Political Committee Statement August 16, 1990

War in the Persian Gulf:
Perspectives and Tasks of the Fourth International
Speech by David North, August 30, 1990

Workers Must Oppose the Gulf War
Resolution of the Workers league Special National Congress, September 2, 1990

2/ Imperialism and the Gulf Crisis

The Historical Record
By Bill Vann

3/ From Deployment to War

Bush Plans a Bloodbath
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, September 14, 1990 103

The Cashiering of General Dugan
Bulletin Editorial, September 21, 1990

The Real Face of US Imperialism
Bulletin Editorial, September 28, 1990

Lineup at the United Nations
By Martin McLaughlin, September 28 1990

Bush Readies a US Attack
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, October 19, 1990

Imperialism Plans Mass Slaughter
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, November 9, 1990

Workers Must Lead the Fight against War
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, November 16, 1990

Demand a Referendum on the Gulf War!
Workers League Political Committee Statement, November 29, 1990

Growing Support for the Referendum Campaign
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, December 14, 1990

Stop the Gulf Bloodbath!
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, January 11, 1991

4/ The Gulf Bloodbath

Down with US Imperialism! Stop the War against Iraq!
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, January 18, 1991

Blood on the hands of Congress
By Martin McLaughlin, January 18, 1991

Demand a referendum on the Gulf War!
Workers League Political Committee Statement, January 24, 1991

The Persian Gulf War and the Attack on Democratic Rights
Bulletin Editorial, January 25, 1991

Media Lies - A Weapon of Imperialist War
Bulletin Editorial, February 1, 1991

Stop the Mass Murder of the Iraqi People!
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, February 8, 1991

Family of Slain Marine Speaks Out:
"Our children shouldn't be sacrificed in a war for oil"
February 8, 1991

US Targets Iraqi Civilians
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, February 15,1991

Bush Is Hell-Bent for Ground War
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, February 22, 1991

Stalinism and the War against Iraq
Bulletin Editorial, February 22,1991

From Hiroshima to Baghdad
By Martin McLaughlin, February 22, 1991

Bush Is Guilty of Mass Murder
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, March 1, 1991

5/ Two Speeches on the Gulf War

"One of the great crimes of the twentieth century"
Speech by David North, January 20, 1991

"A brutal war of imperialist plunder"
Speech by David North, February 17, 1991

6 I From the Gulf Crisis Notebook

7 / The Struggle for Revolutionary Leadership

Middle Class Protest and the Persian Gulf
By Martin McLaughlin, December 7, 1990

Labor and the Gulf Cnsis
By Martin McLaughlin, December 21, 1990

Middle Class Radicals Kowtow to Congress
By Martin McLaughlin, January 11, 1991

Union Bureaucrats Are Complicit in the Gulf War
By Barry Porster, January 11, 1991

A Strategy to Fight Imperialist War
Bulletin Editorial, January 18, 1991

Workers League/Young Socialists Rally at Solidarity House
Bulletin Report, January 18, 1991

Solidarity House Policemen for US Imperialism
By Barry Porster, February 1, 1991

Young Socialists Fights for Revolutionary Strategy
By Barry Porster, February 1, 1991

Prowar Union Bureaucracy Polices the Working Class
By Barry Porster, February 8, 1991

The Gulf War and the Petty-Bourgeois "Left"
By Martin McLaughlin, February 8, 1991

8 / The Working Class and Imperialist War

An Answer to the WRP Renegades
By Martin McLaughlin, February 8, 1991

9/ The Aftermath of the War There

There Is No Peace
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, March 8, 1991

Stop the Imperialist Carve-Up of the Middle East
By the Bulletin Editorial Board, March 15, 1991

Imperialists Arm for New Wars of Plunder
By Bill Vann, March 15,1991

Imperialism after the Gulf War
Speech by Dauid North, March 24,1991

Imperialism Inflicts New Tragedy upon the Kurdish People
Bulletin Editorial, April 5, 1991

The Tragedy of the Kurds: Lessons for the Working Class
Bulletin Editorial, April 12, 1991

Behind the Imperialist Occupation of Northern Iraq
Bulletin Editorial, April 19,1991

A Celebration of Genocide
Bulletin Comment, June 7, 1991

The US Bombing of Iraq:
Premeditated Mass Murder
Bulletin Editorial, June 28, 1991

The Gulf Crisis: One Year After
Bulletin Editorial, August 9, 1991

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