Iraqi revolutionary speaks

Submitted by martin on 7 December, 2003 - 10:17

About 80 people attended a meeting in London on 4 December to hear Muayad Ahmed, a leading member of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq report from Baghdad, where he has been active since the war.
Muayad spoke especially about the activity of the Union of the Unemployed of Iraq, which has campaigned for jobs or benefits for Iraq's unemployed and a say for the UUI in distributing aid, much of which at present goes astray through corruption.

The meeting was sponsored by the WCPI, the AWL, and several other groups.

The audience included a number of people not in any of the organisations, including some trade unionists and a group of school students.

In the discussion from the floor, Workers' Power called on the UUI and other Iraqi working-class organisations to lead the armed struggle against the occupation, and for British leftists to support the Islamist and Ba'thist "resistance".

AWL members argued instead for working-class solidarity with the Iraqi workers' movement. The WCPI also gave the arguments of Workers' Power pretty short shrift, saying that they were based on outdated theories of colonial imperialism.

Further discussions will take place on launching a campaign in solidarity with the UUI and other groups in Iraq.

Campaign for Solidarity with Workers in Iraq.

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