Re: Iraqi CP?

["Jay Moore" <pieinsky@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Jay,

First off, although this is the main ICP that is
referred to when people talk about an ICP there are
other 'splinters' one in fact that stayed in Baghdad
and stood with the regime.

This bunch has a flashy website that it shares with
the other members of the pro-American coalition -- the
only Arab CP to have a website by the way.

They have endorsed the embargo against Iraq insofar as
it's used to disarm the country.

In short, though in the past I was reluctant to speak
out, I consider them a bunch of traitors.

Aside from this, even their sympathisers complain that
they ran off to Kurdistan so long ago -- in the 80s or
before -- that they have really become a Kurdish party
with virtually no roots in the rest of Iraq, and when
they try to act down there, it has usually been to
foment sectarian violence using the Shiite-Sunni split
against the regime, which contrary to popular reports
is not hated by all Shiites by any means.  Lots of
Shiites find Arab Nationalism their key to full
acceptance and participation as Arabs and Iraqis when
sectarian identification with Shiism tends to link
them to Iran and therefore as people of suspect
loyalty and puts them at the disposal of Iranian
mullas.

There's another CP splinter that had been in
opposition but joined "the other" opposition congress
The Iraqi Patriotic Congress that a few months ago
sent a delegation to Baghdad and was working with the
regime for more oppenness, democracy and
multiparisanship, but on the shared basis of
resistance to imperialism.

That congress was discussed in a Free Arab Voice
interview with one of its leaders, Abd al-Jabbar
al-Kubaysi, a dissident Baathi, and it mentions that
group of Communists as part of that congress:

http://www.freearabvoice.org/interviews/alKubbaysi.htm

Alas, I haven't heard from them or from the ones
who've been in Baghdad all along since the US
aggression.

No, I've heard no more about the National Front for
Iraqi Liberation.  I believe that things are very far
from being over, over there.  But we must be patient.
A very great deal has been covered up too.

Don't forget Iraq's 150-plane airforce is missing,
150,000 men of the Iraqi army plus their tanks and
equipment are missing, as well as the Republican
Guard, Jerusalem Army, etc.  And the Americans haven't
found their POWs yet, either, not to mention any of
the leaders of the Baath Party regime.

Best!

Muhammad