Iraqi Communist Party
The Iraqi Communist Party ( Arabic الحزب الشيوعي العراقي, DMG al-Ḥizb al-Shuyūʿī al-ʿIrāqī ; Abbreviation IKP ) was founded on March 31, 1934 and is today one of the largest communist parties in the Arab world. It is also the oldest political party in Iraq .
history
The party played a major role in the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958, but was banned after the overthrow of Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Baʿthists came to power.
In 1973 the General Secretary Aziz Muhammad and the Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr decided to establish a National Progressive Front between the Ba'ath Party and the ICP; the communists Mukarram Talabani and Amir Abdullah were accepted into the Iraqi government. This coalition allowed the CP to operate legally in Iraq for the first time since it was founded. But this was also fraught with elements of oppression, and by the fall of 1974 the party sought to increase its security through a secret underground movement. In 1978, a law passed by then Vice-President Saddam Hussein banning all parties, with the exception of the Baʿth party, led to renewed repression against the party. After Hussein officially came to power in 1979, the IKP officially broke with the government, but a splinter group remained in the National Front. In 1993 the Kurdish part of the IKP split off under Kamal Shakir and founded the Kurdish Communist Party .
In the elections to the Iraqi National Assembly on January 30, 2005, she entered the list of the People's Union (see Iraqi Government 2005 ).
Web links
- Iraqi Communist Party ( Memento from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (German)
- Iraqi Communist Party (AR)