Re: Iraqi CP appeal

["Jay Moore" <pieinsky@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Muhammad -- What's your take on the Iraqi CP (see statement below)?  I'm
also wondering if you have found out anything more on the Iraqi National
Liberation Front?  Spring finally showed up yesterday in Vermont, and the
snow is melting.  I'm tired of winter -- it's been a long, cold one this
year -- about as much as I'm tired of imperialism. Well, maybe not quite as
much. :-)

best regards,
jay


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pip, Peter & Zoe" <ppz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Marxism List" <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 12:36 AM
Subject: Iraqi CP appeal


> I am still fishing for comments on the call for UN intervention in Iraq.
>
> Peter Boyle
>
> Got this from the CP of Iraq website:
>
> Letter sent to
>
> To:
> Mr Kufi Annan, UN Secretary General
> Members of the UN Security Council
> European Union presidency
> Mr Amro Mousa, Arab League Secretary General
> Islamic Conference presidency
> International Human Rights Organisations
> All Parties, Organisations and World Public Opinion
>
> In this extremely grave situation, we call upon you to:
>
> *  Press for a halt to the war, ending US unilateralism in dealing with
> the Iraqi issue, and returning to international legitimacy and the UN,
> acting within the framework of its responsibilities for preserving
> security and peace in the world.
>
> *  Act urgently to ensure that food, medicine and other basic needs are
> provided to the Iraqi people, and to work for lifting the economic
> blockade.
>
> *  Ensure the implementation of the Geneva conventions, the protection
> of Iraqi civilians and infrastructure, and respecting human rights of
> Iraqi people in accordance with relevant international agreements and
> treaties.
>
> *  Send UN human rights monitors to Iraq, with the task of preventing
> violations against Iraqi civilians, as well as urgently investigating
> the fate of thousands of political prisoners and detainees, with the aim
> of saving their lives from physical liquidation by Saddam's regime under
> the cover of war.
>
> *  Reject the invasion, occupation and US military rule of Iraq, and to
> ensure that our Iraqi people exercise their right to decide their
> destiny, choosing the form of their future government with their own
> free will, without foreign interference or patronage from any quarter.
>
> *  Support convening an International Conference on the Iraqi Issue,
> under UN auspices, with the participation of representatives of Iraqi
> democratic and patriotic forces, in order to tackle all aspects of the
> Iraqi crisis, put an end to war and its tragedies, and to open up
> prospects for resolving the issue on the basis of international
> legitimacy, so as to ensure genuine democratic change in our country.
>
> *  Protect Iraq's national wealth and resources, especially oil, as they
> belong the Iraqi people who alone have the right of disposal over these
> resources through democratically elected constitutional bodies, as well
> as protecting Iraq's unity and sovereignty.
>
> * Support Iraqi people's aspiration to establish a transitional
> broadly-based coalition patriotic government which would ensure
> democratic freedoms, and prepare conditions and prerequisites for free
> elections under UN supervision, as an essential step along the path of
> building a constitutional democratic Iraq.
>
>
>
> As enormous grave dangers threaten our people, who are caught up between
> the war and the disastrous policies of the dictatorial regime, we look
> forward to your active solidarity and support for our Iraqi people in
> their just struggle to stop the war, get rid of the dictatorial regime
> and build an Iraq of peace, freedom and dignity: a unified democratic
> federal Iraq.
>
>
>
> The Central Committee - Iraqi Communist Party
> Shaqlawa, Iraqi Kurdistan
>
> 23 March 2003