[Marxism] On the murder of Hadi Salih

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 Jim Yarker wrote:

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/article.asp?id=070105b

Article 7 January 2005

Letter to The Independent January 7 2005

By Sami Ramadani, Iraqi exile and academic

Dear editor,

While strongly condemning the brutal murder of Mr Hadi Salih in Baghdad (A
Trade Unionist is Murdered, Johann Hari, 07 Jan), it is highly relevant to
inform your readers that Mr Salih was a leading cadre in the Iraqi Communist
Party (ICP). After the occupation of Iraq, the ICP changed its line of
opposing the US administration?s policy, and its secretary-general, Mr Hamid
Majid, joined the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC). Today the ICP
plays a vocal role in Mr Iyad Allawi's government.

Mr Salih?s murder, and that of another ICP leader few weeks ago, were widely
reported in Iraq and seen as part of a campaign against "collaborationists."
Hardly any in the Iraqi media, both pro and anti occupation, paid much
attention to his role as an organiser of the Iraqi Federation of Trade
Unions (IFTU). Mr Hari is misled into believing that the IFTU is a free,
strong trade union. In its present form, the IFTU was founded and controlled
by the ICP after the occupation. Within few months of its formation, the IGC
appointed the IFTU as the only officially-blessed federation in Iraq, thus
allowing it to ?legally? take over the assets and branches of the Saddam
regime's Federation of trade unions.

Yours,

Sami Ramadani
Department of Applied Social Sciences
London Metropolitan University




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