Mass Protests in Iraq
July 17—Mass protests continue to rock Iraq after US-backed Iraqi militias killed over a dozen workers. Striking oil workers blockaded the oil port of Basra in the populous southern regions. Others tried to block oilfields and refineries. Workers and youth suffer degrading poverty and mass unemployment even though they produce most of the Iraqi bosses’ wealth. As we go to press, a general strike is possible. The upsurge of the Iraqi masses, led by industrial workers, must raise the goal of communist workers’ power—the only way forward. Is this possible? 300,000 people marched with the Iraqi Communist Party on May Day in 1959, including Shias, Sunnis, Christians and Jews. The task today is to spread Red Flag everywhere.
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posted online 7/20/18