IRAQ - Jun 7th, 2016
Fallujah, a bastion of the anti-imperialist and revolutionary masses in Iraq
and the whole Maghreb and Middle East
In 2004, when the US troops invaded Iraq, Fallujah stood up and resisted, preventing the invading army from entering it during months. It was the core of the resistance against the US occupation since then. In 2008, the hard combat of the Iraqi resistance and above all because the US working class that fought against the war, USA was obliged to withdraw his troops from Iraq. He began the plan of withdrawal but for that he agreed a pact with the Shia bourgeoisie so that this bourgeoisie and his armed guards occupy Iraqi territory as ghurka forces. The Kurdish bourgeoisie also took part in the agreement. Thus, In Iraq it was settled a regime of US protectorate with Shia and Kurdish puppets in the government and armed forces, an extension of the US army.
It was against this regime that masses in Fallujah stood up in early 2014. After Fallujah, a chain of insurrection in the sunni triangle of Iraq broke out months later. The Iraqi-US armed forces got disintegrated whenever the masses advanced and reached to Bagdad gates. By fighting in the Capital the unity could have been achieved, that is, the unity among sunni exploited rebelled in the Iraqi north and Shia ones suffering the imperialist plunder and the protectorate government in the south. Thus, both were suffering the same iniquity and enemy: the US oil companies and his domestic agents. It was at hand a revolution to tear down the protectorate regime side by side the combat in Syria against Bashar, the dog, and all the masses in the Maghreb and Middle East.
ISIS was not the head of those combats but they came later, putting themselves at head of masses when they already defeated the US protectorate forces. ISIS appeared to content masses and prevented masses from taking Bagdad under the excuse that this “is not a sunni zone”. ISIS appeared to keep sunni and shia masses divided by fabricating a supposed “holly sunni war” against all the shia ones. They did attacks against mosques, markets and places where exploited of shia belief got gathered. This was in favour of the shia bourgeoisie for them to content masses in the south of Iraq under the excuse they were under terrorist attack and thus, it was necessary to support the shia government and paramilitary militias “against the terrorism”.
In that way, they divided masses and prevented them from taking Bagdad. The consequences of these events are paid by exploited masses, either shia or sunni. They are paying the costs with the skyrocketing unemployment, lack of electricity and drinkable water, and the current invasion to Fallujah and repression on the protests and upheavals initiated by the shia exploited.
In Yemen things were different. There, at the end of 2014 and early 2015 it was possible to do what was prevented in Iraq by ISIS, the shia and Kurdish bourgeoisie and Yankees. For that reason, it was launched on Yemen a brutal and bloody invasion by Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab governments under the US orbit. Despite the invasion, massacre and destruction, they couldn’t make masses give up.
That the events that happened in Yemen can take place in Iraq is a nightmare scenario for the imperialist oil companies since they see their assets in danger in the third country exporter of oil in the OPEP. That is, the unity of the oppressed, either shia or sunni, that they can take the capital, destroy the armed forces, pull down the government and the entire US protectorate regime. And in fact, this is the way out of the situation of the exploited masses: it is a need to take Bagdad, to take the imperialist oil companies; for the unity of the shia and sunni oppressed masses.