May 1st, the international working class’s day of solidarity is approaching. On this day the working class worldwide will unite and extend its struggle, demands and goals in a revolutionary class bond in the face of capitalism and its rule of all shapes and titles. It is a day for the working class around the world as an international class sharing the same class future to stand up to the ruling bourgeoisie..................Reade more

Iraqi Women’s Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"

An open letter to the disgruntled masses of Iraq and to all friend organisations on the dissolve of Iraq Freedom Congress

The Iraq Freedom Congress project was the project of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq. The WP Iraq along with many other figures, parties and organisations inside Iraq and abroad, established the IFC in 2005. The Worker-communist Party of Iran-Hekamtist, the Movement for Democratic Socialism, Japan (MDS), National Assembly for Peace and Democracy in Japan (ZENKO) and a large number of political, academic and intellectual figures in Japan participated in establishing IFC..................Reade more

Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq on:

Mahmoud Abbas’s request for full membership of Palestinian to the United Nation.

On 25th September 2011 Palestinian president, Mr Mahmoud Abbas, requested that Palestinians be granted full membership to the united nation through a speech to the UN General Assembly. He formally handed the application to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations. The Palestinian people have an undeniable right to an independent and viable state. No conditions dictated by the Israeli occupation, the so-called international community, quartet on the Middle East or the Security Council are acceptable. The masses in Palestine have suffered oppression and discrimination for six decades because of the interests of the regional and world powers.................Reade more

Ref: Condemnation of your action against workers

Dear Sirs/Madams,

We have been informed by the (Solidarity Campaign with the Worker’s Movement in Egypt) and (the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services in Egypt) that your administration had prevented Mahmud Abdul-Nasir the leader of the Independent Syndicate of the Company and Mohammed Hassan a member of the Union’s Executive Committee to enter the factory..........Reade more

Statement

We are an essential part of this endeavour!

In support of the Campaign in solidarity with Labour Movement in Egypt

The Working class and its remarkable rise is one of the most important and brightest events in, not only the Egyptian revolutions but also in, the last few years of Egyptian history. The historical feats the working class achieved by overthrowing the oppressive capitalist regime of Hosni Mubarak is a reality admitted by local and international bourgeoisie and its hireling media.....................Reade more

Announcement

Committee in Defense of the rights of workers of oil sector in Iraq

As previously announced, the Oil sector in Rumeila field closed the gates of all production, injection, compression and isolation stations in face of the engineers and experts of BP (British Petroleum) to prevent them from entering until the company meets the demands of the workers.....................Reade more

Appeal to the Labour Organization and worker’s and human rights defenders

Condemn the oppressive measures of the Egyptian Authority against the labour leaders and activists!

In a statement by the Egyptian Federation of the Independent unions issued 13th September 2011, the recent measures taken against union leaders and activists, who are calling and struggling for the basic rights of workers, has greatly escalated. .....................Reade more

Political assassination is a futile weapon!

Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq on the assassination of Hadi Almahdi

Today, Hadi Almahdi was assassinated in cold blood outside his Baghdad home. Hadi Almahdi was an activist in the protest movement, which has been on going since 25th February 2011. The movement has been demanding freedom, unemployment benefit and services, fights against corruption, sectarianism and absences of basic rights......................Reade more

gathering in front of Embassy of Iraq in London

On the 9^th Sep 2011

In support of the mass protests in Iraq

These are measures to thwart Egyptian revolution. Stop them!

Friday 29th July 2011 demonstrated the possibility of a serious regression in the progress of the Egyptian revolution. On that day two bourgeois counter-revolutionary groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, took to the streets in an effort to show their force. This was followed by an attack on people who had been staging a sit-in in Altahrir Square for the past three weeks by the oppressive forces of the Military Council on 1 August 2011. .........................Reade more

Malki’s thugs attack demonstrations in Altahrir Square

In a well prepared plan, the Malki’s security forces attacked the demonstrators at Altahrir Square on 10th June 2011. The so called “Tribal Support Councils”, the thugs and mercenaries of Malki were unleashed to attack peaceful demonstration with knives and daggers injuring a large number of people............................Reade more

A mass sit-in in Basra

A massive sit-in was organized in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on 10th June 2011. The sit-in came to mark the end of the 100 days asked by Malki in order for his government to deliver services to the masses in Iraq. ...........................Reade more

Raiding office of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq is violation of freedom of expression and freedom of press.

On 13th June 2011, the sixth intelligence squad raided the office of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. This raid came when a media press conference was about to take place to explain the dimension of the sexual assault on the female activists who participated in the demonstrations of 10th June 2011 by the militiamen and tribal thugs pushed by the Malki government............................Reade more

Physical attacks and sexual harassment against women is a Reactionary and Shameless Act by the Sectarian and Ethnocentric Government!

The Iraqi government mobilized its thugs and mercenaries from the reactionary tribal sheiks and sent them to Altahrir Square on 10th June 2011 to counter the revolutionary movement. Several women activists were attacked by batons and knives among them were Jannat Basim, wafaa Albaghdadi, Aaya, Shymaa from the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq in addition to the journalist Sahar Almosawi and the activist Sanaa............................Reade more

The Working Class is Called Upon to End the Sectarian Terrorism

Displacement of section of the Iraqi population on sectarian basis has begun once again although it has never completely stopped. Guns are pointed against the families categorized as Sunni in Alhuria and Dolaai neighbourhoods in Baghdad to terrorise them and force them to migrate. This terrorism exceeds all other forms of terrorism including killing people through car bombs and explosive vests...........................Reade more

The Movement to Turn Iraq to a Sectarian and Ethnic Federalism Must be Faced with Mass and Workers’ protests

The slogan or demand of “federalism” put forward in Basra and in Anbar, which is presented these days as a “Sunni” state of the Iraqi federalism, regardless of the title attached to it is a surgical political process to amputate an organ of the body of the Iraqi society............................Reade more

Terrorism of all forms is the product of the Capitalist system!

The world, particularly Europe, was left in shock after the horrific terrorist operation carried out in the Norwegian capital Oslo and the Island of Utoeya by the 32-year Old Norwegian, Anders Behring Breivik. This terrorist operation, with neo-Nazis inclination, confirms again that terrorism at large is one of the results of the dominance of the decaying capitalist system and its rule at the global level where wars, destruction, poverty, unemployment, religious & national bigotry, hypocrisy & deception, the production & reproduction of outdated and backward ideas, traditions and ethics prevail............................Reade more

See the link below for the joint meeting at the University of London on Saturday, May 7 between Alan Woods of the International Marxist Tendency, and Muayad Ahmed of the Worker- Communist Party of Iraq: Where is the Revolution in the Arab World Going?

Listen to the joint meeting at the University of London on Saturday, May 7 between Alan Woods of the International Marxist Tendency, and Muayad Ahmed of the Worker- Communist Party of Iraq: Where is the Revolution in the Arab World Going?

The platform of the politburo of the WCP Iraq

on the current revolutionary situation in Iraq

Urgent Demands of the masses in Iraq

Safety Bread Freedom

International Marxist Tendency & Worker-Communist Party of Iraq joint meeting: Where is the Revolution in the Arab world going?

The concluding statement of the 24th plenum of the Central Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq

The Central Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq-WCPIraq held its 24th exceptional plenum on 28th March 2011. In attendance was the majority of its members and a delegate from the leadership of the Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan- WCPKurditan formed of Othman Alhaj Marif, the secretary of the party and Khisro Saya, the member of Politburo...............................Reade more

May 1 is the day the working class comes to the fore to enrich and empower the revolutionary movements!

The working class is preparing to commemorate its class day for 2011 amid great revolutionary circumstances and gigantic revolutionary movements in the Arab World and the region, which is a significant portion of the world working class. It is passing through an important turning point which impose upon it enormous tasks proportional to the current revolutionary situation. .............Reade more

Condemn raids on protesters’ homes and arresting injured protesters at Hospitals by the government forces.

A day after the great uprising of the Iraqi masses on 25th February 2011, the oppressive forces of the Bagdad Command launched extensive raids across Baghdad to terrorise protesters. The campaign included hospitals were injured people from 25th February were arrested. Malki’s government which constantly claims that it stands by the peaceful mass demonstrations and their just demands heavily punishes its critiques and cracks down on peaceful demonstrations asking for an end to corruption,.............Reade more

Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq/Salahadin

Following the February 2005 demonstrations, a mass council has been formed in the city of Samarra to follow on and maintain the mass demonstrations and place pressure on the government to carry out its promises to the masses. .............Reade more

List of names of the people who lost their lives in the bread and freedom uprising in Iraq and the whereabouts of their killing

Iraqis in Vancouver demonstrate in support of the revolution in Iraq

On 26^th February 2011 a group of Iraqis living in Vancouver-Canada gathered in front of the Central library in the centre of the city. They raised the demands of the protesting masses In Iraq including end the corruption, job opportunities, secure public service and electricity and bring killers to justice..............Reade more

Protests of 25^th February recorded a historical revolutionary day in the contemporary history of Iraq

On 25th February 2011, 50,000 protesters gathered in Altahrir Square, despite all attempts by the government and ruling parties and groups to stop demonstrators from participating in the demonstrations and abort the protest movement, through spreading lies, rumours and deploying massive security and military .... ..........Reade more

Iraqi Uprising Dairy

The Oppressive Regimes and Their Backers are Responsible for the Christmas Island Refugee Boat Crash Tragedy

A boat carrying about 100 asylum seekers from Iraq and Iran in its way from Indonesia to Australia in pursuit of a better and safer life smashed against the Christmas Island coastline yesterday morning. Dozens of people onboard, including children and women have died. The bodies of 30 asylum seekers were recovered. 42 people have survived the accident.............Reade more

IT IS AN OPPRESSIVE MEASURE TO CREATE CHEAP & SUBMISSIVE LABOUR

On the Iraqi governments decree: the transference of Iraqi port labour Leaders to Mosul & the dismissal of 340 workers.

The Ministry of Transportation issued another arbitrary and despotic decree to transfer four leaders of the Port Workers Union from the city of Basra in the south to the city of Mosul in the north. Those leaders are president of the Port Workers Union Ali Khither, deputy president Hirman Said Kathim, Secretary of the union Abdul Kathim Karim Wadi, and member of the Committee of Stores Union in the ports Raid Abdul Hussein. This decree was in response to workers protesting against the dismissal of 340 workers from various sections of the General Company of the Iraqi Ports on 26th of May 2010............Reade more

To: Mr Andrew Fergson .NSW CFMEU Secretary

Dear Mr Ferguson

We have recieved information through our party committe in Australia that the CFMEU state office was malciously attacked by capitalists. We in the Worker Communist Party of Iraq strongly condemn this attack altogether. We also stand beside you in your class struggle to achieve the rights of workers in all aspects...........Reade more

May 1st is the Day the Working Class Unites its Ranks to Overthrow the Capitalist System

May 1st is the day the working class internationally protests against capitalism and its reactionary system. It is the day workers reclaim their will and their human nature. It is the day workers build their self -confidence and conviction in the revolutionary movement to overthrow the capitalist system to build a free social and political system that abolishes classes and eliminates oppression and discrimination. On May........ Reade more

Statement of Worker-Communist Party of Iraq on March 8, International Women’s Day

Gender discrimination and oppression against women and treating them as second-class citizens are hallmarks of the capitalist system and its reactionary Islamic and ethnocentric parties in Iraq.....................Reade more

Protect children from the gory and violent religious ceremonies!!

The inhumane religious practices during the Ashura religious festival in the Iraqi southern cities have reached such a level this year that action has to be taken. Hundreds of children were forced to beat their bodies with chains and gash themselves with swords. Many children died and others collpased as a result of serious injuries. Emergency depratments in many southern Iraqi cities have been packed with injured children........... Reade more

Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq

on the Parliament’s Endorsement of the Election Law

After more than ten marathon sessions and repetitive failures to endorse an election law, the fierce strife among the sectarian and ethnocentric forces ended in passing a sectarian and ethnocentric election law. This law is a continuation of the ongoing political process, which started with the occupation of Iraq.........Reade more

In first of May

Ranks of working class and its combative movement unite to bring about socialism!

First of May, international solidarity day of the working class is around the corner. It is the workers’ international protest day against capitaliusm as a political and social system. It’s the day in which the workers unite in the whole world. Those (waves of ) workers that sweep away all ethnic, religious, sectarian, national and racial identities to declare and chant in one voice ’ No to the capitalist system, No to wage- labour ............Reade more

Verily it’s a disgusting world, it must be changed immediately
(Statement on March 8th, International Women's Day)

March 8th, International Women's Day, is just around the corner. Verily it is a day in which women, all freedom lovers, and egalitarians confirm that the world which women live in is an unjust world beyond measure. It’s the day in which we will raise the banner of full equality and freedom for women. It’s the day of persistence of this struggle and insistence ..............Reade more

On May 1

A better Life for People in Iraq Relies on the Intervention of the Working Class!

May 1, the day of international working class solidarity is approaching. On this day, the workers and toilers chant: “no to oppression and exploitation!”; “no to capitalist wars!”; “no to wage labor slavery” and “a better world is both possible and obtainable!” ........Read more

Founding Declaration of the Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan

Through this communiqué, we declare the founding of the Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan.

The Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan is the instrument of the working class, for liberation from the oppression of capitalism .........Read more

International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan

Condemn the brutal stoning to death of Doa - a young girl whose only crime was to fall in love

Please sign our petition online: http://www.petitiononline.com/kurdish/petition-sign.html

Left Progressive is the ideal alternative to the situation deteriorating in Iraq by Raed Salim

Recently started from different political parties governing forces in Iraq subtracting fronts to depose the government of Maliki or impair a greater share, and trying to help these parties and the regional States, a front for some new Iraqi political forces, including the Baathists to be able to topple the government of Nuri al-Maliki........Read more