Now is the time for Iraq

Abdullah Muhsin of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions has a letter in today's Grauniad (copied on Labour Friends of Iraq). Here's a taster:

We want the same things as British people do and are trying - through political pressure, as part of the democratic process being supervised by the UN, negotiations with employers and strike action, where necessary - to improve workers' pay and conditions, as part of a new civil society that is determined to build a united, federal, secular and democratic Iraq and end military and economic occupation.

We are the real democratic resistance, not those who seek to foment sectarian civil war and who target trade unionists for murder and intimidation. With solidarity from the British and international labour movement, our free unions can help isolate them and unite Iraqis for social justice in a sovereign Iraq.

This is a real view from Iraq as opposed to those of the indefatigable member for Bethnal Green and Bow.

That's the pseudo-left supported indefatigable member who supports those who "foment sectarian civil war and who target trade unionists for murder and intimidation" (see here).