Iraq's Communist party

[ZeroPain]

Any one know any thing about iraq's Communist Party i havent seen a post on this,anyone know anything about em?

[cormacobear]

That's because they probably don't have one. Those who have such notions probably don't shout it to loud with a U.S. tank on ecery corner, and those who did are probably now among the million missing.

The U.S. is only willing to allow a democracy that elects their party. They do this by giving the people three choices, be tortured then killed, or vote for one of two identicle parties with different names.

[redstar2000]

Actually, they have two groups (at least) that call themselves "communist". One is pretty conservative (social democratic) and actually has a member in the Coalition-appointed quisling government. The other (probably smaller) group is part of the resistance.

:redstar2000:

The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas

[h&s]

They hardly exist as when Saddam briefly took control of Iraq in 1963 the CIA handed him a list of all Iraqi communists and their whereabouts.
It is estimated that up to 35,000 were murdered.

[apathy maybe]

There is an Iraqi Communist Party in Australia. They are part of the Socialist Alliance. I don't know much about them though (so no asking questions of me about what they are doing here).

(do some 'research' and found this)

They are in fact the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Australian section) <http://www.wpiraq.org/>. The other group seems to have a website here <www.iraqcp.org/>. Do a search in Google <http://www.google.com/search?q=iraqi+communist+party> or <http://www.google.com/search?q=iraqi+workers-communist+party> for more info.

[Ian]

Telling graffiti in Baghdad on the Iraqi Communist Party [ICP]: ICP=Iraqi Collaborators Party

[chebol]

It is indeed the WORKERS Communist Party of Iraq that are a (fairly inactive) part of the Australian Socialist Alliance (and their position on the occupation has been vacillating- usually ending up in favour of it, and of criticising "self-righteous" western leftists who are out to "ruin" their "revolution" for the sake of anti-imperialism). The Communist Party of Iraq also has a presence here, both groups no doubt as refugees initially. The CPI is indeed collaborating with the Occuppiers.
There is another party, the Communist Party of Iraq- Cadre, who I am not familiar with, but suspect to be very small, and possibly Maoist. They oppose the occupation.

Saddam didn&#39;t really need the CIA to destroy the leading cadre of the CPI- a combination of Stalinist idiocy and treacherous idiocy did that for him. The CPI was in a pre-revolutionary Iraq, where they were the most popular party in Iraq (although still a minority). Following Moscow&#39;s rotten carrot, however, they refused to take power, allowing the Ba&#39;ath Party to steal their momentum, most of their policies, force them into a governing alliance, and then, when a leading member went yellow, slaughtered thousands of them thanks to the list he sent them as a parting gift.
This is not to say that the CIA or MI6 were not involved- they just weren&#39;t really needed.

If you get a chance, read Tariq Ali- "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq".

Oh, and as to the CPI not announcing their presence on street corners due to US tanks.... WRONG&#33;&#33;&#33; When Saddam was captured, the ONLY flags I could see (well, almost) on street corners in Baghdad were blood red.