Worker-communist Party of Iraq

Worker-communist Party of Iraq الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي
Chairperson	Rebwar Ahmed
Founded	1993
Ideology	Workerist Communism
Website
[www.wpiraq.net WPIraq.net]

Iraq

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The Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي; Transliteration: Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Ummali al-'Iraqi) is a Marxist political party in Iraq and amongst Iraqi exiles. Rebwar Ahmed is the current leader of this party. It was Established in July 1993 through a merger of communist groups.

They opposed both Saddam Hussein and the American-led new administration. Under the Ba'athist regime, the group was persecuted, and so operated primarily in the Kurdistan region, and overseas in the United Kingdom and Australia (where they were among the founders of the Socialist Alliance).

They are involved in the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq and the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq. They have produced a newsletter called Iraq Weekly.

It is a sister party of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist. In March 2005, members of the WCPI, along with members of other groups and other individuals, formed the Iraq Freedom Congress with the purpose of forming a secular and democratic Iraq.

Published works

• Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and New Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, London, al-Saqi Books. 1978, republished, 2004. ISBN 0-86356-520-4
• Salucci, Ilario. A People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements and the Left 1923-2004. Haymarket Books (2005) ISBN 1-931859-14-0

See also

• Iraqi Communist Party

External links

• Worker-communist Party of Iraq (main page)
• Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (in English)
• Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (old website)
• Worker-communist Party of Iraq (in Kurdish)
• Worker-communist Party of Iraq (in Arabic)
• The Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq
• Iraq Freedom Congress
• Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in Iraq and the Union of the Unemployed of Iraq)