Call for Driving the Baath Regime Representatives out of the Conference of ILO!

Workers Communist Party of Iraq, [mid-year, 2002]

In accordance with International Labor Organisation (ILO)'s appeal, the fascist Baath

In accordance with International Labor Organisation (ILO)'s appeal, the fascist Baath regime has been given the right to take part in the Annual Meeting of this organization representing the Iraqi workers under the name of General Trade Unions of Iraqi Workers. The admittance and summoning the representatives of the Baath regime by the ILO is a step taken against workers of Iraq and the recognition of suppression that is being conducted and run by this brutal and rabid capitalist regime.

The Baath regime is apparently an anti-workers government which constantly resorted to all means of terror, assassination, imprisonment, execution of workers activists, military aggression, bloodletting response to workers protest and strikes, militarizing the work's conditions, the threat of being dismissed, and deduction of workers wages, to crush the workers and their struggle. All these are Baath regime's known characters that have been pursued against workers.

Under the rule of Baath regime, workers do not enjoy any kind of labour law that recognize the minimum rights and demands of the workers. The right to organize and the right to strike are prohibited and to elect the workers' representatives to sort out problems between the workers and employers is considered as political crime against the regime. This regime has wiped off the working class in Iraq due to a decree converted all workers to state servants and by this the regime has repudiated the state sector's workers identity and turned them, as state servants, to be captive of the government's servants law. Accordingly, a basic protest is considered as disobedience.

General trade unions of Iraqi workers, in the view of the workers, has no legitimacy and does not represent Iraqi workers, but it is rather a spying apparatus of Baath regime on workers and a suppressive and clashing tool against workers struggle.

TRADE UNIONS AND WORKERS ORGANISATIONS!

WORKERS SUPPORTERS ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES!

Stand up to those realities and facts, support Iraqi workers, protest in any way viable and

Stand up to those realities and facts, support Iraqi workers, protest in any way viable and feasible and call for:

1- The Baath regime not to be allowed to take part in the Annual Meeting of ILO. This regime has no legitimacy and has no right of representing workers of Iraq by no means.

2- The International Labour Organisation to condemn the violations of the Baath regime pertaining to the right and guilds freedom of working class in Iraq.

Sending your protest letters and putting forward your demands to the offices of ILO and the representatives participating in the Annual meeting is a support to the struggle and the future of Iraqi workers for a human life.