The working-class history of the Republic of Iraq

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Financially Support the Campaign to Save Iraqi Women Prostitutes: By Mina Ahadi, the Worker-communist Party of Iran and the International Campaign in Defence of Women's Rights in Iran, 5 December 2000. In the past two months, tens of Iraqi sex workers have been beheaded in public and as feared, the attacks have widened in scope to include all dissenting women.
Statement by the politburo of the Worker Communist Party Statement regarding the recent bombarding of the Iraqi masses by the US: Workers Communist Party of Iraq, 16 February 2001. To assert its dominance in the world, the US has excused its bombing and starving the Iraqi masses during the last 10 years: to liberate Kuwait and protect the Gulf sheiks, to get rid of the dictatorial regime in Iraq, to protect human rights or to build a democratic regime in the American style in Iraq! Their excuses are lies which cannot be taken seriously.
Support the struggle to achieve the demands of the workers of Tobacco Company in Suleimanyia-Iraq: By Sadiq Aziz, 2 March 2001. The working-class in Iraqi Kurdistan has suffered badly from poverty and deprivation under the rule of Kurdish nationalist and Islamic parties for the last 10 years. The tobacco factory management laid off 1500 workers and cut wages as part of wider measures by the PUK oo slash concessions and rewards, and deny any responsibility for rights and demands of the workers.
Let's Shatter the American Siege on Iraqis: Worker Communist Party of Iraq/Abroad Organization, 30 June 2001. The UN, in accord with American and Western policies, continues its bombardment and starvation of the Iraqis. And the eventual outcome is the annihilation of more than a million Iraqis so far. The capitalist Baath regime has been taking advantage of the economic sanctions as an excuse to justify unemployment, oppression, and absence of civil and social laws of the people in Iraq.
Why did we withdraw?: A statement by Moayed Ahmad and Dashti Jamal, previous members of StWC Interim Steering Committee, 28 October 2001. At the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) conference held in London on 28 October 2001, we presented our alternative views, but lost the vote. So the old Stop the War Coalition platform persisted, with its lack of political principle.
Long live Mayday, the day of international workers' solidarity!: Worker Communist Party of Iraq, 20 April 2002. For all of humanity the dignity of individuals in society and the rights, social security and liberties they deserve are linked to the strength and unity of the workers. The degree and access to human rights are directly linked to the status of workers in society and the development of the working class.
Call for Driving the Baath Regime Representatives out of the Conference of ILO!: Workers Communist Party of Iraq, [mid-year, 2002]. The fascist Baath regime has been given the General Trade Unions of Iraqi Workers the right to take part in the ILO's annual meeting as the representatsive of the Iraqi workers. This is is a step taken against workers of Iraq and a legitimation of the suppression that is being conducted and run by this brutal and rabid capitalist regime.