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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. This in addition to
ongoing support and cooperation from the
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
United States Labour Against War (USLAW) and
many liberationist forces in the Philippines
and South Korea. A large number of political
and labour organizations worldwide supported
the Iraq Freedom Congress along its
difficult journey. The IFC was a political
project which aimed to face up to the
occupation, fight the then heated sectarian
conflict, to defend the political, civil and
individual rights of the Iraqi citizens, the
rights of women in full equality with men
and to provide security and safety for
citizens especially in Baghdad and
surrounding districts.
Today as the occupation, which has been the
cause of suffering and tragedy for the Iraqi
people and their society, comes to an end
the head of the IFC has decided, during a
meeting of the Central Council of IFC held
on 2nd December 2011, to dissolve
the organisation and bring all of its
activities to an end.
We, in the Politburo and Central Committee
of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq,
support the step taken by the leadership of
the Iraq Freedom Congress. We appreciate the
efforts that the leaders, comrades, members
and activists of the IFC have exerted during
the past six years in order to defend the
struggles against the occupation in order to
realize the rights of the Iraqi citizens
We take this opportunity to stress that
Worker-Communist party of Iraq keeps its
doors open to all those who had high hopes
for the IFC. In particular the youth, men
and women who accompanied the IFC on its
laborious journey, as stressed by the head
of the IFC Samir Adil, in an open letter to
the supporters, members and friends of the
organisation. We stress on this issue
because we aim to mobilize, organize and
direct all energies toward overthrowing the
capitalist class ruling through its
representatives from islamists and
ethnocentrists of all kinds. This task is
the task of the revolutionaries who have no
doubt that all the current hardships,
calamities, wars, poverty, hunger,
deprivation and absence if political, civil
and individual freedoms, absence of the
right of equal citizenship and absence of
services are caused by capitalists and its
rule in Baghdad. We stress that whoever
seeks to establish secularism and separate
religion from the state and education in
Iraq should be a member of the
Worker-communist Party of Iraq. Whoever is
passionate about achieving equality amongst
men and women, whoever struggles to achieve
the rights of workers and is against
sectarian and ethnocentric federalism and
believes in a secular and non-ethnocentric
state should be a member the
Worker-communist Party of Iraq.
We would like to express the appreciation
and gratitude of our party and its
leadership to all the above-mentioned
organizations and parties that participated
in building the IFC and all those who
supported the IFC along its journey. We call
on them to continue their support on a
regular and systematic basis to build a
strong solidarity force on an international
scale to struggle against the dangers and
challenges which face workers’ movements and
freedom loving and progressive movements.
Saman
Karim
Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Worker-communist Party of Iraq.
9th December 2011
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