Iraq

Solidarity with Iraqi workers!

A Workers' Liberty/ Solidarity pamphlet, March 2005. Trade unionists or Islamists? Who represents Iraqi workers? The "reactionary anti-imperialists" Why socialists can not support the USA in Iraq (part 1) Why socialists can not support the USA in Iraq (part 2) Why socialists can not support the USA in Iraq (part 3) Self-determination and democracy in Iraq Is Iraq another Vietnam?

Teetering on the brink of wider war

The drone attack that killed three US troops in Jordan on 28 Jan has led to an escalated US response to Iranian-backed militias. The US says it has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in early February. Especially given how long it has taken the US to respond, this will have been far from a decisive blow against the militias and their arms caches. Since 7 October, there have been over 160 attacks on US troops in Syria and Iraq. 28 Jan was the first resulting in soldier deaths, which meant the US was almost certain to respond. The targets are the local militias, but the message it sends is to the...

Kurdistan teachers need your support!

About 170,000 primary and secondary teachers and university lecturers in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region who work on a permanent basis have stopped work for 75 days over non-payment of their salaries, suspension of promotions, and casualisation of their contracts.

"We should end this cycle of crime! (On the Israel-Palestine war)", statement from the Worker-communist Party - Hekmatist (Official Line)

This is a statement from the Worker-communist Party - Hekmatist (Official Line), also known as the Hekmatist Party. It is taken from their website, here . More statements on the war in Israel-Palestine here. We should end this cycle of crime! (On the Israel and Palestine war) The wide scale “Al-Aqsa storm” attack of Hamas on Israel on Saturday 7 October 2023 was the largest military attack since the “Arab and Israeli” war in 1973. The extent of this attack, the overcoming of Israeli military and recapturing of large, occupied land along Gaza, surprised not only the Israeli state but also...

Rojava: bombings, millions without electric and water

Turkey has stepped up its bombing campaign of both Iraq and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, more commonly known as Rojava. This is in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara carried out by the PKK on 1 October, which injured two police officers but killed no-one other than the attackers themselves. The attacks have targeted civilian infrastructure, and at least 48 civilians have been killed so far. Erdoğan’s recently appointed Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, claims that the PKK members came from Syria, and that Turkey would be counting “all infrastructure, superstructure...

Twenty years from the US invasion of Iraq

Twenty years from the US invasion of Iraq: a short selection of articles from Solidarity . • Questions and answers on Iraq (2002) • Iraqi socialist's eyewitness account of Iraq in 2003 after the US invasion • Who are the Iraqi "resistance"? (2003) • Pamphlet, 2005: Solidarity with Iraqi workers! • Debate, 2005: Barry Finger, "On anti-war slogans" ; response, Sean Matgamna, "The Iraqi labour movement comes first" • Iraq descends into civil war: Solidarity with Iraqi workers! (2006) and Iraq 2003-2006: a summary • US withdraws from Iraq (2011)

Iraq: ferment from 2019 still simmers

Iraqi democracy protest, 2019 Nadia Mahmood of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, in Baghdad, talked to Sacha Ismail from Solidarity about her perspectives for Iraqi politics. See also Nadia discussing corruption in Iraq in Solidarity 654 . Our slogan is that this government has to go, and the regime be changed. There is no solution to problems including corruption and looting while this government remains, or under any government elected within this framework. Problems including corruption have remained and worsened under different governments. So we do not raise slogans about particular...

Looter capitalism in Iraq

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, known for corruption - referred to below Nadia Mahmood, an activist of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq in Baghdad, spoke to Sacha Ismail from Solidarity . This latest scandal, about the plundering of money from Iraq’s tax commission, has not caused that much uproar here. It’s not a new issue. Ever since [the fall of Saddam Hussein in] 2003 there have been more and more revelations about theft of resources by officials connected to political parties, whether that’s Shia or Sunni Islamic parties or Kurdish ones. Only ten days ago someone was killed...

Support striking cleaning workers in Kurdistan!

We share below an appeal from comrades in the Worker-Communist Party of Kurdistan, who are supporting a strike of cleaning workers. Workers' Liberty sends our support and solidarity to the strike, and encourages activists to email the Kurdistan Regional Government expressing support for the strikers. The WCPK's appeal can also be downloaded as a PDF, here. Cleaning workers in the Kurdistan Region have been protesting for six days over a salary delay in Kakamand's area (in Sulaymaniyah), and despite the fact that they have been without wages for 65 days. Neither the Kurdistan Regional...

Protests against child marriage in Iraq

An Iraqi court has resumed hearing a case in which a judge was asked to formalise a religious wedding between a 12-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man. The court, located in Baghdad’s Kadhamiya district, adjourned the case last week amidst demonstrations. Demonstrators had been chanting “No to child marriage” and “Marrying children is a crime against children”. The case caught national attention when the girl’s mother — in a video on social media — called on authorities to save her daughter. She told local media her daughter had been raped and forced into a marriage to her stepfather’s brother...

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