the following attachment,containing the press release from the WPRM, provides a detailed examination of the circumstances surrounding the the invitation of the leader of IFTU, Sobhi Al-Mashadani -an Iraqi colloborator and an appologist for the US/UK occupation- to the ESF. It details the way in which he was chased out of the Forum, and comments about his relationship with some of the largest trade unions in Britain, including the TUC and UNISON, The article also criticises the formalistic handling of the question of 'free speech' during the 'End the occupation of Iraq' plenary at the ESF by characterising it as a process of "exercising dictatorship, in the name of democracy.