Tag: Iraq
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Defend Protests in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon
Farsi, Arabic and French translations below. Nationwide protests in Iran against a 50% fuel price hike over the last few days has seen widespread suppression by the Islamic regime of Iran’s security forces leaving at least 200 dead, hundreds injured and over a thousand arrested. The use of overwhelming force by security forces has been…
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Mass protests in Iraq: ‘Neither Shia nor Sunni, but secularism’
The protests, which started in several cities in southern Iraq last week, quickly spread to the rest of Iraq, reaching their peak on 7 August. Around half a million people came out in Baghdad alone, chanting slogans against the corrupt and reactionary rulers. Hundreds of thousands of others have demonstrated in Samawah, Al Diwaniyah, Basra,…
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ISIS is the fascism of our times
داعش فاشىسم اين دوره در دفاع از مردم کردستان عراق و سينجار ISIS is fascism of our time In support of people of Sinjar 8 August 2014
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The lives of thousands of people in Iraqi Kurdistan are in danger
Statement by the Worker-communist Party of Iran Following the atrocities of the barbaric Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Iraq, thousands of people have fled to the mountains from fear of this group, and are in danger of dying. In the past five days, areas to the east of Mosul, including the town of Shangal, have…
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We are all anti-ISIS
ISIS is the banner of this era’s fascism. We are all anti-Fascists; we are all anti-ISIS. #UniteforSinjar
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Iraqi Labour Unions Protest
Press release: by the Iraqi Labor Unions regarding the Interventions and Violations Carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Violations to the freedoms of organization of unions is continuing and have been repeated in many procedures and practices of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, which inhibits the right of freedom…
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Appeal to the authorities of Kurdistan to reverse the death penalty for Kouistane Sediq
Kouistane Sediq is at danger of being hanged in Iraq after being sentenced to death by the court of Kalar for murdering her husband. She is imprisoned in the jail of Salam in Sulaymaniyah and shares a cell with six other women also sentenced to death. Kouistane, a mother of four, has not been allowed…