Statement by the Organisation of the Communist Alternative in Iraq regarding the life and struggle of the Communist leader Yanar Mohammed, a symbol of the emancipatory women’s struggle. A shining star has vanished from our skies, a monumental figure has disappeared from our ranks. The world has lost a towering revolutionary communist fighter- who stood defiant against the citadels ...
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A Celebration of Life Join us in commemorating our dear comrade Yanar Mohammed, an icon of the Women’s Emancipatory struggle and a courageous communist leader, who was assassinated at the hands of criminal terrorists at her home in Baghdad on the morning of March 2nd of this year. Date & time: Sunday 29th March 2026 From 3 pm to 7 ...
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Written by Muayad Ahmed on the 8th of March 2026 My dear comrade Yanar! My steadfast co-struggler through every trial and transformation of our tireless struggle for nearly three decades. We mourn you, our dear comrade Yanar—the unwavering leader, friend, and torchbearer for millions of women, the dispossessed, and the oppressed. The resonance of your final words remains etched in ...
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"The patriarchal disregard of this ruling regime for the bodies and destinies of women and their children will remain a powerful source of the escalating violence between half of society and the other half, preventing the working class from living in peace or addressing its crucial issues, its class identity, and the unified struggle it requires." - Yanar Mohammed. ...
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With profound sadness, grief, and immense pain, we announce the passing of our dear comrade Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Alternative Organization. At 9:00 AM Iraq time this morning, Monday, March 2, 2026, two terrorist criminals on a motorcycle opened fire on Comrade Yanar ...
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Statement issued by the Organisation of the Communist Alternative in Iraq On Friday, 13th June at dawn, Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes, targeting military sites and facilities linked to Iran's nuclear program in various cities across the country. These raids also targeted military commanders and senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC, killing several of them, ...
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detained by the Regional Authorities in Sulaymaniyah The Iraqi ruling authorities and their militias are waging an unprecedented campaign of repression against the protesting youth of Al-Nasiriyah. To date, dozens have been arrested, languishing in prisons & detention centres, and many more are being subjected to a fierce campaign of persecution and arrests based on coordinated & fabricated allegations. The ...
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Anyone who follows the status of women in Iraq from afar or closely cannot ignore the sharp decline in women’s rights and freedoms amid the dominance and hegemony of militia, sectarian and tribal forces over the past decades, and will find the paragraph on women in the recent joint statement between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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منظمة البديل الشيوعي في العراق تنظيم شيوعي عمالي منهجه الفكري والسياسي ماركسي مستنبط من “البيان الشيوعي”
