Organization of Iraqi Revolutionary Communists
Iraqi Revolutionary Communists (Arabic: تنظيم الشيوعيين الثوريين العراقيين) was the name of an Iraqi political organization, founded in 1973.[1] The group was formed as a split from the Revolutionary Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party led by Salim al-Fakhri.[1][2][3] The group was led by Tahsin Ali Ash-Shaikhli (alias 'Yahia al-Iraqi').[2][3]
Ash-Shaikhli had been a student activist and joined the Revolutionary Committee in 1964.[1] He was jailed in 1969.[1] Following his release in 1970 he escaped to Jordan but left for Beirut following Black September.[1] In Beirut Ash-Shaikhli maintained contacts with revolutionary leaders such as Abdullah Öcalan.[1] The Organization of Iraqi Revolutionary Communists called for complete rejection of Baathist rule and appealed for armed struggle against the regime.[4] Moreover, it questioned why the Iraqi Communist Party had entered into an alliance with the Baathists, and issued criticism against perceived lack of internal democracy in the Communist Party.[4] The organization published a periodical called al-Asas from Beirut.[4][2][3][5] Ash-Shaikhli was assassinated in Beirut on March 24, 1980, allegedly by agents of the Iraqi regime.[1] Another key cadre of the group, Ali, was killed in Kurdistan.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 pukmedia.com. عادل مراد: الشهيد تحسين الشيخلي رمز من رموز الحركة الشيوعية العراقية
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 خرسان، صلاح (2001). صفحات من تاريخ العراق السياسي الحديث "الحركات الماركسية" 1920-1990. مؤسسة العارف للمطبوعات.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 زبيدي، حسن لطيف كاظم (2007). موسوعة الأحزاب العراقية: الأحزاب والجمعيات والحركات السياسية والقومية والدينية في العراق. مؤسسة العارف للمطبوعات،.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ismael, Tareq Y. The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. 189-190
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Near East/South Asia Report (84160 ed.). Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1984. p. 36.
