Huge generalized revolutionary mass uprising across the country against hunger, unemployment and misery.
The exploited from the north, south, east and west of the country shout:
"We are not Shiites, Sunnis or Kurds; we are the rebel Iraqi people"
Down with the Yankee protectorate regime
and its puppet Government!
Dissolution and disarmament of the Army, paramilitary forces, security guards of the imperialist oil companies!
Out Yankees from Iraq!
Weapons for the masses!
Open the road to the workers’ and poor peasants’ Committees!
Together with the uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt,
the resistance in Syria and Iran and the Palestinian people...
A single intifada!
We must expel imperialism from the Maghreb and Middle East!
Expropriation without compensation of all the Oil Companies, looters of the black gold of the region!
Since October 1st, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the country, in a generalized uprising with epicenter in Baghdad. Hard clashes with repression forces have taken place. They not only shut tear gas and stunning grenades, but also live ammunition against the rebel masses. There are already at least 104 dead and more than 6 thousand injured; figures are increasing every day as an evidence of hard repression hidden by the Government. Even so, the mobilizations go on day after day. This is why it is similar to the way Iranian masses opened the revolution in 1979 that overthrew Sha Reza Pahlevi, one of the bastions of imperialism in the Middle East. Today the Iraqi masses retake that fight facing other imperialism’s key mechanism of domination, in the Middle East: its protectorate in Iraq.
The exploited masses do not take a step back in this huge combat, since a week of mobilizations, which are becoming more frequent and classes’ clashes are more and more intense. On Sunday, October 6, there was a mass mobilization in the southern city of Nasiriyah that threw the paramilitary troops of the Shiite bourgeoisie out, a branch of Iranian Ayatollahs, Gurkhas of Yankee imperialism and security guards of their oil companies. In the city of Basra, also in southern Iraq, the masses set the Iranian consulate on fire. It is a huge masses' uprising against imperialism and its lackeys!
As well as the Shiite southern region, the exploited have also upraised in the Sunni Triangle and even in Kurdish cities such as Tikrit and Kirkuk. It is not a Shiite, Sunni or Kurd uprising... They are the exploited of the whole country unified in a fight against the exploiters, imperialism and their regime! The Iraqi uprising shows that the struggle is class against class! Their war cry is "We are not Shiites, Sunnis or Kurds, we are the Iraqi rebellious people"; it is the same as in Syria in 2011: "I am Druze, Alawi, Sunni, Ismaili, Christian, Jewish and Assyrian... I am a revolutionary Syrian and I am proud of it."
The Iraqi masses face the US protectorate regime established after the war and the occupation in 2003. They are hitting the American’s domination regime, the dominant imperialism that plunders the black gold of the region with its oil companies, as it did in 2008. Back then, the resistance of the Iraqi masses -along with the anti-war struggle of the US and European workers- forced imperialism to withdraw its occupation troops from Iraq and left a Ghurka army and paramilitary gangs to guard their oil companies. These are the repressive forces against which the masses collide today. It is a huge uprising against the regime of the oil companies, their security guards and their puppet Government in Baghdad, which has only followed the instructions their Washington’s bosses.
Like Maghreb and Middle East, the revolutionary struggle in Iraq today is for a decent life, facing the plundering of the imperialist oil companies and their protectorate
The huge uprising against Yankee’s protectorate regime in Iraq today is to end the imperialist plundering in order to solve basic issues, such as bread (which price has risen), electricity (power cuts are permanent and prolonged) or drinkable water (there is no drinking water services connected to the houses), jobs (unemployment exceeds 30%) and a decent life (more than a third of the population is below the poverty line). The protests in Iraq are taking place because in the world's third largest oil exporter, there is no energy capable of producing electricity for its inhabitants. In Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers through an irrigation system were the origin of the first agricultural civilizations of mankind, there is no drinking water. In Iraq where infrastructure, oil wells construction, pipelines and associated oil industry should be permanently done, unemployment is so great that there is no possibility of getting a job.
The exploited know although they are standing on a sea -in fact a great ocean- of black gold, while they live in the most abject misery and the reason is because this great wealth are looted by the imperialist oil companies. U.S. and its Transnationals, their local puppets the Iraqi government are responsible for this situation and the masses know it. That is why they are facing an enormous anti-imperialist and anti-colonial uprising, facing the Metropolis that has turned Iraq into its protectorate (see below); their war cry, like the one that ran through the entire chain of revolutions in the region since 2011, resonates again in Egypt, Lebanon, etc. It is "The people want the fall of the regime!"
The uprising of the Iraqi masses is a key link of the chain of revolutions throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East
The uprising of the Iraqi masses today is part of the same struggle of all Middle East, revolution and counterrevolution. The uprisings in Egypt and Lebanon, as in Algeria and Sudan before on one side and on the other the massacre in Yemen, the genocide, siege, surrender and invading troops in Syria, and the occupied Palestinian nation, their fighters in the dungeons of Zionism and a fenced and massacred Gaza.
The combat of the exploited in Iraq is a key link in the chain of revolutions throughout Maghreb and Middle East. As we said, it was in 2008 when together with the anti-war struggle in the imperialist countries, they imposed the withdrawal of all invading troops, weakening imperialism’s domination throughout Maghreb and Middle East. So it was in Iraq was the true beginning of the chain of revolutions that openly exploded in 2011 in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, etc. due to the excessive food prices increase. Today a central combat of the exploited of the region starts again, revolting against the regime of the Yankee protectorate. In Iraq, the masses are facing all their lackeys in the region... the Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish bourgeoisies... since all of them have put their armed guards to take care of US oil companies and all of them formed a coalition government to take care of US interests. Iraq hits the heart of the oil companies, imperialism and their servants!
Down with the regime of Yankee’s protectorate!
For a Federation of Socialist Workers Republics in the Maghreb and the Middle East
To get the bread and the decent life the masses crave, it is necessary to make the chant come true: “The people want the fall of the regime!” Out with the Yankee’s protectorate government! Out Yankees from Iraq! Dissolution of all their armed forces, real security guards of their oil companies! We must disarm all the paramilitary gangs of the Shiite, Sunni bourgeoisie, the Kurdish Peshmerga, and all the armed forces of the Iraqi State, they are only there to guarantee the looting of the oil companies and massacre the masses!
Weapons for the people!
We have to set up the armed committees of workers and peasants to face the regime of the oil companies and their security guards! Only expropriating all oil companies without compensation under workers' control, expropriating all banks, we will be able to recover black gold wealth for the exploited of the nation.
In Iraq, the exploited Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds against imperialism and all their lackeys in the region fight together. It is the same fight of the workers and the Iranian people against the Ayatollahs, with the masses of Lebanon who again have taken to the streets, with the uprisings in Algeria, Sudan and Egypt, with the Syrian resistance and the Palestinian people who resist against Zionist occupation. In all of Maghreb and the Middle East, the same Intifada!
Out with Assad! Down with the dictatorship of Al Sisi in Egypt! Let all the servant regimes of imperialism fall in Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan and throughout the region! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel! Out with the US military troops and bases in Afghanistan and Syria! Out all the invading troops of Syria! We must expropriate all the imperialist oil companies that plunder the black gold of the region!
For a Federation of Workers and Socialist Republics from the entire Maghreb and the Middle East!
The allies of the rebellious oppressed peoples of Middle East are in the imperialist countries, mainly in the US. Workers and exploited are the ones capable of hitting the imperialist beast inside its own country, paralyzing the war machine and the General Staff of the Iraqi protectorate. Let return the Million Men March, the pickets against the US Government, commander of the armed forces that plunders Iraq! May the working class return to paralyze the ports, factories and take to the streets in support of their Middle Eastern class brothers! The combat in Iraq and the entire region is against Yankee imperialism in the first place. We face the same enemy! A single class, a single fight!
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After the war and occupation in 2003, the US imposed in Iraq a fascist and brutal regime against the masses even worse than Saddam Hussein's
After the invasion war of Bush in 2003, the US occupied Iraq directly with its Army. The Governments since then were all their puppets. They left more than one million Iraqi dead and razed land in several cities. Buildings and infrastructure were destroyed and they were never re-built. The Yankees only went to loot the oil, at the cost of the blood and the misery of the masses. That is, Yankee occupation imposed on Iraq a regime a thousand times more fascist and brutal for the masses than the one of the dictator Saddam Hussein before.
Desde 2008, ante una resistencia iraquí que combatió ferozmente contra las tropas de ocupación imperialista y con la enorme lucha antiguerra de la clase obrera norteamericana y europea, EEUU se vio obligado a retirar sus tropas de Irak. Para custodiar a sus petroleras, además de sus mercenarios y guardias de seguridad privadas, dejó a 500 oficiales del Pentágono comandando a las fuerzas armadas iraquíes –una verdadera extensión del ejército yanqui-, reforzadas con milicias paramilitares que le puso la burguesía chiita, la sunnita y la Peshmerga kurda utilizada siempre como carne de cañón. Estas son las fuerzas armadas iraquíes hoy, solo guardias de seguridad de las petroleras imperialistas, cuyo rol es masacrar a las masas para garantizar el saqueo.
Since 2008, the Iraqi resistance fiercely fought against the imperialist occupation troops, together with the enormous anti-war struggle of the American and European working classes so US was forced to withdraw its troops from Iraq. To guard his oil companies, in addition to their mercenaries and private security guards, they left 500 Pentagon officers commanding the Iraqi Army –a true extension of Yankee’s Army- reinforced with paramilitary militias of the Shiite, the Sunni bourgeoisies and the Kurdish Peshmerga were always used as cannon fodder. These are the Iraqi Army today, only security guards of the imperialist oil companies, whose role is to slaughter the masses to ensure the looting of the nation.
That is to say, the United States put each armed gang of every bourgeois fraction in Iraq to guard its oil companies according to the area where each one is located... and put a government of "national unity" of all these fractions (the Shiite, Sunnite and Kurdish), which answers directly to the command of imperialism and the Pentagon Generals. Today the Prime Minister and chief executive is Mahdi, of the Shiite bourgeoisie, the president is from the Kurdish bourgeoisie and the president of parliament is from the Sunnite bourgeoisie... and they are all directly subordinated to Yankee’s Command.
Then Iraq is still a Yankee Protectorate. All Armed Forces are still being occupation guardian troops of the imperialist oil companies, integrated by Ghurkas. Mahdi is the circumstantial viceroy in an American colony ruled from Washington. This colony can only get to an end leading this current masses uprising and their revolution to the triumph. |
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