An appeal to Fraternal and Friendly Communist Parties from the Iraqi
Communist Party (Cadre).
Before everything else we wish to congratulate ourselves and
congratulate you on the activity of the heroic Iraqi national resistance,
and to convey the news of an operation carried out Sunday morning in the
city of an-Nakhilah in the area of Karbala where 19 occupation troops and
officers were killed and no fewer than 40 wounded. We also want to bring
you the news of the heroic battle waged by the resistance fighters on
Thursday afternoon in the governorate of Dayala where no fewer than 70
American officers and men were killed. Four Iraqis were martyred in that
operation, their pure souls ascending like flames to their Creator
pleasing and well pleased, to take their places with Him in the gardens of
paradise.
The Americans have been deceived by their own power. They madly rampage
about attacking, threatening, and laying down conditions that contravene
international political law. They have scoffed at and obliterated both
divine and positivist legality and have set their soldiers as individuals
standing above laws and customs to ravage and wreck with nothing to
restrain them and no one to bring them to judgment before local or
international justice.
But the cradle of civilization, legislation, and morality - the pure
Land of the Two Rivers - has today risen anew to fulfill the role that its
glorious Creator intended for it, and that is to make the occupiers taste
woe, to cause them to wail like the sands blowing through the Baghdad
streets. The Land of the Two Rivers will without fail send them back to
their homes in coffins or with their defeated tails between their legs. It
will thereby announce to the world the beginning of the end of American
arrogance. It will proclaim America's retreat - humbled, humiliated, and
covered with wounds - so that it may never return to its haughtiness
again.
If our noble Iraqi people appear to harbor feelings of hatred for
America, this is not a hatred of the great American people, but only for
American militarism and the band of tyrants who carry out the orders of
the Anglo-Zionist right-wing lobby which has even begun to curtail the
freedom of the American people themselves. For today it is sending them to
die in defense of its monopolist interests and in defense of its rabid
policeman - Israel.
Comrades!
In the midst of the deepening struggle of humanity against oppression,
indeed as the oppression of the peoples by world monopoly intensifies, and
on the basis of the human dream of achieving justice and equality among
people, our Communist movement arose as one of those breakthrough torrents
that history has a way of coming up with in times when oppression and
enslavement are mounting and when there is no hope except for total,
radical change.
Although it was preceded in this struggle for justice, peace, and
freedom by Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Mandaeanism, and the
doctrines of Mt. Sinai, the Communist Movement has its own specific
character. That is, it arose on the basis of the great legacy of human
development, as has been most clearly seen in the prodigious upsurge in
science; the acceleration of communications; the emergence of country and
national borders between states; the prodigal concentration of capital
with its rampant expansion for profit and its complete alignment with
religion and on the side of monopoly against the people who are oppressed.
Our philosophy became aware of the bases and reasons for exploitation and
aligned itself totally with the oppressed, taking into account the fact
that if those oppressed people came to power, that event would end the age
of exploitation and replace it with fraternity, peace, and justice among
the peoples. Based on this consideration, our movement has been one of the
fiercest and most vehement opponents of the occupation of other people's
territory and of colonialism, whether those took place peacefully or by
means of war: for occupation is the most intense form of national, ethnic,
and class oppression all together.
It would not be superfluous to mention that the world Communist
Movement has made great contributions to the liberation struggle of the
peoples. The experience of Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, and Viet Nam bear witness
to this. The experience of the Lebanese Communist Party during the Zionist
rape of their country also bears witness to this, as the Communists raised
the mighty slogan "To arms!" and fell as martyrs and in martyrdom bombings
just as did their comrades in Hizb Allah and the rest of the Lebanese
Patriotic Movement. If at times the Communist Movement has suffered
reversals, these can serve as lessons for us on how to deal with mistakes
and review our practice.
Neither is it superfluous to mention that the Iraqi Patriotic Movement,
and within that our Iraqi Communist Party, have given martyrs to the cause
of liberation.
Our slogan, as Iraqi Communists, is "A free homeland and a happy
people." Based on that, our position regarding the freedom, sovereignty,
and independence of the homeland is of the utmost sensitivity and
importance - so much so that even our philosophical convictions themselves
must give up pride of place to them. This outlook was what led our Party's
founder, our Comrade forever, Fahd, to say, "I am a patriot before I am a
Communist." In accordance with this, the defense of national sovereignty
is a principle that demands and compels us by our very nature to fight the
occupier wherever he might come from. We must use every means to fight the
occupier, and we must fight in alliance with patriotic Iraqi forces,
whatever way of thinking they follow. Also in accordance with this
principle, in times when our country falls under occupation or attack by
an enemy, there is no room for what are called "tactics" or "accepting the
status quo" or "reckoning with the facts of power and weakness" if these
are not aimed at the basic goal of defense of the homeland. During the
1967 Zionist war of aggression, Iraqi Communists set aside their hostility
to 'Abd ar-Rahman 'Arif and made an appeal from their prison cells - where
some were on death row, while others were serving out long-term or life
sentences. Those Communists set aside such matters and appealed to be
released to take part in the fighting against the Zionist enemy, either on
the front lines as regular soldiers or in guerrilla resistance outfits.
They pledged to return voluntarily to prison after the enemy was driven
off, and they offered the Iraqi government the right to chose whatever
guarantees it wanted, including letting some of their members serve as
hostages.
But today, oblivious to the time and to the consciousness of free
people, the Communist Movement in Iraq has been deceived. It has suffered
a reversal more intensely painful and more violent in its effects than the
acceptance of the resolution to partition Palestine at the end of the
1940s.
The reversal today is the result of two full decades of retreats and
backtracking led by the former Secretary Mr. Aziz Muhammad, accompanied by
the financial and propaganda officer of the Party at that time, Mr. Fakhri
Karim.
At the end of the 1970s Fakhri was subjected to a Party tribunal after
it was disclosed that he had a relationship with agencies of the regime.
His Party membership was suspended. But on the basis of an individual
order from Aziz Muhammad, Fakhri was elevated to membership in the
Political Bureau and put in charge of the Party's finance, propaganda, and
security apparatus. That is to say, in practice he was given keys to all
decision-making in the Party. Since that time and on the pretext of the
military situation in which the Party found itself, the democratic part of
the principle of "democratic centralism" has been canceled. This has meant
the mechanical implementation of orders, particularly since Fakhri held
control of the comrades' livelihood in his hands. The best of the Party
militants were sent into exile, as were the oldest Party members and
thinkers. The Party Congress held in 1984 politically undermined the
Party. The Party's top concern then became the finding of an ally that
would fight on its behalf. The ideological undermining of the party
resulted in its becoming a mouthpiece for the chauvinist tendency within
the Kurdish movement, while organizationally the undermined Party became
an army of informers serving Fakhri, who spied on his comrades, searching
out ways to bring them down should they try to expose him. A whole new
discipline outside the bounds of normal organizational behavior emerged,
namely the discipline of bringing people down. Fakhri used this,
naturally, to divert attention from his own degeneration. In addition he
usurped control over the Party's supplies and over its propaganda
institutions. He registered them as his personal property and he entered
the world of wheeling and dealing. The inevitable result of all this was
that he would ally himself with America, that he would find in America the
best possible protector of his commercial interests. He therefore visited
Washington in 1991 and gave them a down payment in the form of a statement
he made on Voice of America in which he demanded that Bush intensify the
embargo against the Iraqi people. By enticement and threat he attracted a
group of Iraqi Communist Party writers and journalists to cooperate with
the American Central Intelligence Agency to put out a newspaper called
"Sawt al-Kuwayt ad-Dawli" or "The International Voice of Kuwait".
This newspaper, edited by Communists, was one of the most important
clarions calling for the mobilization of the 30-nation aggression against
Iraq. Specifically, it was the first to publish the theatrical report
about the young girl Nuwayra under the headline "Iraqis steal infant
incubators from Kuwait". As the battles raged, this newspaper, which was
edited by Iraqi Communists, printed stories under giant masochistic
headlines like "Coalition forces demolish Baghdad" and "Allied aircraft
exterminate Iraqi military formation near Basra." Even the Kuwaiti
government with all its systematic hostility to Iraq could not bear the
extreme vulgarity of such a paper. It came to regard the money allocated
to it as a waste of public funds and finally shut it down. Thus in 1993
its editors began directly to work for the Central Intelligence Agency,
becoming experts at bringing down people within the Party and the Iraqi
and Arab patriotic movements. They set about publicizing the plan to
occupy the country under the slogan "liberation of Iraq." America
announced some of their names, and an Iraqi lawyer living in exile lauded
them. The writings of those editors are archived and available for
reference to anyone seeking proof of their vociferous revolt against their
own identities and customs.
By agreement with Fakhri, the renegade Hamid Majid ascended to the
leadership of the Party, which plunged headlong into open activity with
America against the Iraqi people. The Party newspaper "Tariq ash-Sha'b"
published an article in July 2002 that reported that the Deputy Consul in
the American Embassy in Damascus visited the offices of the Iraqi
Communist Party in Syria and discussed recent developments with Party
representatives. The Party's internal publication, "Munadil al-Hizb"
reported on a special meeting of the Party Central Committee to study how
the Party would take part in the coming events, which some Party spokesmen
termed "the liberation of Iraq." During the invasion battles, the Party
openly acknowledged that it had fighters on the front lines together with
the "Coalition Forces." In the last decade, the Party took upon itself the
task of preparatory propaganda for what the Anglo-Zionists termed
preventive air strikes on military targets during the period of the
embargo. Hamid Majid himself entered Iraq via Kuwait together with the
American Army. Last but not least, he has joined the Council of
Opportunists which was declared and whose members were appointed by the
American Military Governor of Iraq. The first decree of this Council was
to declare the date of Baghdad's occupation to be a national holiday. In
addition, in order to secure his admission to this Council of
Opportunists, Hamid Majid agreed to the conditions imposed on him by the
Military Governor, among the most important of which are:
The February 1963 coup was not its only bloody act. The American
Central Intelligence Agency planned the murder of a million martyrs in
Indonesia and of more than a million in Viet Nam in open genocide or in
the course of what even enemies of the Left have called a "dirty war."
This is to say nothing about the massacres in Chile, Nicaragua,
Afghanistan, and the 30-nation aggression against Iraq, the depleted
uranium. And now our country is under occupation in contravention of
international legal resolutions.
Comrades!
Our heroic Iraqi people and their courageous resistance fighters are up
to the task of expelling the occupation. But we appeal to you for your
solidarity with and support for the Iraqi people, not simply because our
cause is just, nor merely as a matter of principle, but so that you may
take part in this great event - the fall of America, enemy of the peoples
- the initiation of which has been laid upon the Iraqi people who yearn
for your support.
The crime that the renegade Hamid Majid has committed against the Party
and Iraq is unpardonable. It inflicts damage on the entire Communist
movement in Iraq and the Arab Homeland, and on you as well. Neither
self-criticism nor apology will do any good in this case. The Party Rules
have rejected this behavior in legitimate organizational ways, yet he and
his gang have persisted in their behavior in spite of the Party's internal
system. Therefore we, the mass members of the Iraqi Communist Party and
its base, declare as follows:
Shame and disgrace upon those who incited the invaders to attack his
homeland!
Glory to the heroic Iraqi people!
Eternal glory to the July Revolution and its great leader 'Abd al-Karim
Qasim!
No to the government of "prize horses"! No to the Council of
Opportunists! No to any international forces on the soil of Iraq!
May the hands of the courageous fighters be protected!
The Iraqi Communist Party (Cadre)
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