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Today,Tadween and War Resisters League present Ali Issa's Against All Odds: voices of popular struggle in Iraq. When the tide seems to run between the ISIS expansion and the al-Abadi government in Baghdad, what is often forgotten is the upsurge during the US Occupation, sharply in 2011, to forge a new Iraqi sensibility and foundation for politics. Ali collects the voices of important political actors from across Iraq - people such as Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi (Electrical Utility Workers Union of Iraq) and Yanar Mohammed (Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq), Nadia al-Baghdadi (Save the Tigris and Marshes Campaign) and Akram Nadir (Kurdish Construction Workers' Organisation). These are brave people in brave organisations who fought hard to create a new kind of Iraq, and who continue to work hard to define the future of their country. Disclaimer: I wrote the foreword to the book. The book is available here: http://tadweenpublishing.com/collections/books/products/pre-order-against-all-odds-voices-of-popular-struggle-in-iraq. Alongside the book, I strongly recommend a long essay (in two parts) at Jadaliyya by Sara Pursley that provides the intellectual defense for the kind of work that these brave Iraqis pursue. They do not believe that Iraq is a false idea, a creature of Sykes-Picot. Matters are more complex, as this important intervention shows: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21759/lines-drawn-on-an-empty-map_iraq%E2%80%99s-borders-and-the. Essential reading. Warmly, Vijay. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
