On 1/21/2025, the Parliament in Iraq passed the vote on the amendment of the Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959, within some other laws, namely the General Amnesty Law and the Law of returning Real Estate to Its Owners, in a reactionary triangular deal between the dominant Islamic-sectarian and nationalist forces within Parliament, and as an expression of the ...
أكمل القراءة »Capitalism, Inequality, and “A Christmas Carol!
More than a century and a half ago, Charles Dickens published his famous novel "A Christmas Carol", which some interpret as a condemnation of the inequality in the distribution of wealth, economic injustice, and the power of the capitalist employer (Ebenezer Scrooge) over his employee (Bob Cratchit), in Victorian Britain in the nineteenth century, when poverty and hunger were severe, ...
أكمل القراءة »Let us stand together to thwart attempts to amend the Personal Status Law
On Sunday 4/8/2024, the Iraqi parliament completed it's first reading of the draft amendment to Personal Status Law No. 188 issued in 1959. Despite the many loopholes contained in this law and its representation of the approach and ideology of the ruling bourgeois powers and their military regime, it guarantees a minimum level of rights for women; as the custody ...
أكمل القراءة »Regarding the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings
Statement of the Organization of the Communist Alternative in Iraq Militants affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement-Hamas attacked at dawn on Saturday, October 7, 2023, in an operation that took by surprise cities in Israel by land, sea and air, especially the settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip, in a specific operation that led, up to the time of preparing ...
أكمل القراءة »Video & Audio- Statement of the Organisation of the Communist Alternative in Iraq,
Independent proletarian class politics is the key to the success of any future revolutionary uprising. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the October Uprising. The fourth anniversary of the uprising of October 1, 2019 is upon us, and the social, political and intellectual scene at the level of society in Iraq appears, on the surface, to ...
أكمل القراءة »Independent proletarian class politics is the key to the success of any future revolutionary uprising. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the October Uprising.
The fourth anniversary of the uprising of October 1, 2019 is upon us, and the social, political and intellectual scene at the level of society in Iraq appears, on the surface, to be devoid of any trace of the uprising, but this is merely a deceptive appearance, as history does not negate anything unless something new replaces it. The forces ...
أكمل القراءة »Witholding the wages of workers and employees of the Kurdistan Region is a shameful policy of the rulers against the masses
In continuation of their arbitrary approach, the Kurdistan Regional Government and its two ruling parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Party) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Yekiti), stopped, more than two months ago, the payment of salaries to workers and employees working in the ministries of the region, under various pretexts, especially the pretext of their problems with the central ...
أكمل القراءة »A year after the war on Ukraine A visit and a speech
Muayad Ahmed A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, tens of thousands of deaths and wounded victims, millions of inhabitants of Ukraine and surrounding countries displaced, many cities destroyed, and the ongoing massive human tragedies in Ukraine and Russia continue to unfold, the leaders of the two imperialist poles, Putin and Biden, remain intent as ever on ...
أكمل القراءة »The current nurses strike in Britain And its implications for working women and their rights in Britain and the world!
Sherine Abdullah 18.12.2022 On 15.12.2022, the Royal College of Nursing* RCN in the United Kingdom began, for the first time in its 106-year history, to organize the largest nationwide strikes of nursing staff, it is estimated that 100,000 of its members in England, Northern Ireland and Wales will participate in what is expected to be the first stage of strikes ...
أكمل القراءة »About the British Government’s decision to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
Shirin Abdallah 9.5.2021 As part of its anti-refugee policies, the Conservative government of Britain is seeking to pass a new law. In mid-April 2022, an agreement was reached with Rwanda that would give the latter responsibility for assessing asylum applications for those arriving in the UK. According to this agreement: in return to £120 million, Rwanda, more than 6,500 km ...
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