The masses begin a new wave of mobilizations
A great revolution continues
Despite the repression, fascist gangs trying to evict them and the deception of "new governments" puppets of the Yankees, the political crisis is deepening and imperialism seeks to recycle the CP to impose a new diversion
Huge mass marches are still taking place in almost every city in Iraq, including Nasiriya, Basra, Najaf, Babylon, Kirkuk and Baghdad. In the latter, the capital, the masses continue to occupy Tahrir Square, surrounding the "green zone" where government buildings and embassies are located. It has been five months of a great revolution where the masses have not left the streets.
The revolution was launched in October 2019, as part of a new revolutionary wave that shook the Middle East once again. In the face of the lack of basic services such as water and electricity, the enormous unemployment and the already unsustainable misery, the masses won the streets in a generalized way all over Iraq. All the exploited, unifying Shiites and Sunnis, attacked the government of all bourgeois factions, the U.S. protectorate regime, and all the occupying forces, such as the Iranian paramilitary bands or the U.S. army.
The Iraqi revolution blew up the mechanisms of control, oppression and repression exercised by the Shiite and Sunni bourgeoisies over their own sector. These were independent actions by the masses that caused each bourgeois sector (whether Shiite or Sunni) to almost completely lose its influence and control over the masses they controlled.
During these months, the masses set fire to the Iranian consulate (demonstrating their discontent with the theocracy of that country that supported the paramilitary bands that were the guarantors of "order" in the protectorate Government), occupied oil wells, blocked oil transport by cutting off the access to cities and oil areas... But above all, with their actions the masses overthrew the Government. Prime Minister Abd el Mahdi fell at the end of November, leaving the entire leadership of the government in check and disintegrating the U.S. protectorate regime. That is a power vacuum had been opened.
The Prime Minister who had just fallen and resigned continued to make statements as "interim", appearing as little as possible, since the masses in their actions did not allow another government to be imposed on them to continue the previous one.
The deception of the alleged confrontation between the Iranian ayatollahs and the US
Both are counter-revolutionary forces seeking to crush the revolution in Iraq
Faced with this great revolution, Iran decided to invade directly. Its Islamic Guard and paramilitary brigades began last year to directly massacre the mobilizations of the masses, as they have been doing for years in Syria. The head of the Islamic Guard himself, Qasim Suleiman, was in Baghdad organizing the attack on the Iraqi revolution at the end of 2019, when he was killed by a high-precision attack by US drones. The US could not allow Iran to invade and rebuild the state on the basis of its armed forces, because it meant that a huge portion of the business within the protectorate would have been left behind. It was a blitzkrieg to discipline the ayatollahs, which it managed to do in less than 24 hours, as was already demonstrated by the alleged "response" of the Iranian missiles thrown into the void and with Iran's submission to the US and UN designs for Iraq's in the future.
During these months, the masses came to set fire to the Iranian consulate (demonstrating their discontent with the theocracy of that country that supported the paramilitary bands that were the guarantors of "order" in the protectorate government), occupied oil wells, blocked oil transport by cutting off access to cities and oil areas... But above all, with their actions the masses overthrew the government. Prime Minister Abd el Mahdi fell at the end of November, leaving the entire leadership of the government in check and disintegrating the U.S. protectorate regime. The Prime Minister who had just fallen and resigned continued to make statements as an "interim", appearing as little as possible, since the masses in their actions did not allow another government to be imposed on them to continue the previous one.
At that time, the entire left claimed that there was a confrontation between the ayatollahs and the Yankees. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was only imperialism disciplining its agent when both were seeking to crush the huge ongoing revolution. All the parties of the so-called New Left, with this position, lined up behind the ayatollahs and hid the Iraqi revolution. These parties were left hanging on the coattails of one of the counter-revolutionary cudgels of imperialism in the Middle East, the Iranian theocracy. This last one believed that being gendarmes of the Yankees, the imperialist master would ingratiate themself, but they were quickly put in their place. In this way the left once again placed itself in the opposite trench to that of the revolution, leaving aside even the very same Iranian masses who had just led a great uprising in November, repressed in blood and fire by the Iranian government and Qassem Suleimani himself, with hundreds and thousands of prisoners and even sentenced to death!
With the Soleimani bombing, the U.S. also sought to drive a wedge between the Iraqi masses. They wanted to put in check those who were mobilizing to choose between a new, ultra-patriotic Iraqi government without Iranian interference (a lackey of the U.S.) or a pro-Iranian government (which they wanted to portray as anti-imperialist after the attacks). But the masses were not fooled. They said, "Everybody out!" "We agree with the U.S. withdrawal, but the marches to the U.S. embassy do not represent us because they are for Iran and we are against Iran and even against our Iraqi government". They blew up not only the division they wanted to impose on them, but the very plan of the U.S. to impose a new government and abort the revolution.
The masses remain in the streets
Neither Moqtada, nor al Sadr with his fascist gangs nor the brutal repression has been able to demobilize them
That is why in late January Moqtada Al Sadr, a Shiite cleric from the southern Iraqi bourgeoisie who always appeared as an "opposition" figure. With his movement and even his military guard he marched to Baghdad to take over Tahrir Square. Once there, he sent his fascist gangs to evict Tahrir Square by beating the people out of it. He managed to erect the tents, meeting points, places taken by the masses as centers of protest (like the "Turkish restaurant") and cleared the streets.
Seeing this situation, the government rushed to appoint a "new" prime minister already decided by the UN. This is Mohammed Allawy, cousin of the Prime Minister put in place by the U.S. in 2004 after Saddam Hussein.Mohammed Allawy had been a minister twice in previous governments. Against this government clearly continuity of the starving regime, the masses took to the streets again in their hundreds of thousands all over the country and are not abandoning them until now. Every day we see huge mobilizations of all sectors... women, students, workers and especially the unemployed... The situation of misery is no longer tolerable, while under the feet of the exploited flows a huge ocean of "black gold"!
This prime minister was never able to take over his government with a parliamentary vote. For a month, the sessions for this were postponed, since the masses with their struggle did not let him take over. Finally, on March 2, Mohammed Allawy was forced to resign. Imperialism cannot close the revolutionary crisis opened by the masses in its protectorate. The revolution is still on its feet.
The new plan of deception is underway
The revolution must triumph!
Since the political representatives of the Shiite and Sunni bourgeoisie are totally discredited and not even their armed guards can stop the masses, imperialism is rehearsing another plan. The CP returns to try to play a fundamental role in that breach that left open the revolutionary struggle of the masses.
Parties like the Iraqi CP and also the Iraqi Communist Workers Party (ICP) have turned to the process of struggle.
Both are fighting for peaceful marches to press for the establishment of a government of a bourgeoisie that appears progressive or democratic, that can give democratic reforms and improve a little the living standards of the masses... as if this were possible in a country that is under the aegis of imperialism and the UN that plunders the oil, the wealth of Iraq. The hunger, misery, lack of jobs and lack of basic services and resources is called the plunder of the seven sisters, imposed in blood and fire by the U.S. invasions and massacres. The struggle to conquer even the smallest of demands is a huge and great anti-imperialist struggle of the masses and only by defeating imperialism can it succeed.
Therefore, it is unthinkable that the proposal of the CPs can be realized as a real solution for the exploited. It is only an attempt to divert the great revolution of the Iraqi masses; since no bourgeois government can put all the wealth of Iraq for the Iraqi people... they are all partners and agents of imperialism in its plunder.
No wonder the CP is pushing it. It is part of the same international made up of 80 CPs of the world, who learned from what they already imposed in Sudan, where in the face of the fall of the Omar al Bashir dictatorship and to stop the enormous revolution that had been put up there, they made a transitional government that was more democratic. In this way they aborted a huge revolution in a government that did not resolve any of the demands of the masses.
This is the plan of imperialism, and it is not by chance that it uses the CP, which has already served it at other times in the history of Iraq as a supporter of governments, such as the one it integrated in 2004 with the puppet that the Yankees put in place after Saddam Hussein, while its invading troops massacred in Fallujah.
The only solution is to bring the revolution to victory. Only the working class leading all the oppressed sections of the nation can defeat imperialism and its servants. The struggles that are being carried out to expropriate the oil companies, those who have the black gold and command all the governments, politicians and their various forms of security guards such as murderous paramilitary bands, police, etc., must be intensified. All the oil wells, refineries, etc., must be taken and the 7 sisters expelled! To do this, it is necessary to set up and strengthen the self-defense committees to defend themselves from the brutal and bloody repression of their fascist guards.
The people want the fall of the regime! Remove all vestiges of government! Remove all invading troops! Remove the UN! Long live the Iraqi revolution!
Only under a workers and peasants government can these tasks be carried out to guarantee the fulfillment of all demands, including the right to self-determination for the Kurdish people (whose bourgeoisie gave up in exchange for "autonomy," i.e., a share of the business), on the way to conquering the United Socialist States of the Maghreb and the Middle East.In a unified struggle with the American workers, who can strike at the imperialist metropolis from within, we will be in the best position to triumph not only in Iraq, but in the entire region.
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