Weather it is significant that Communist youth are
gaining in numbers, I'm reporting it. There is no doubt that Islamic
revolutionaries are the dominant anti-imperialist fighters in the Middle east
today. For the left it has been a disappointing and depressing two decades into
the new 21st Century. But things can change and this may be a sign that things
will change. A left presents in Iraq is welcome news. - សតិវ អតុ
From Informed
Comment:
- Mustafa Habib
Last week’s kidnapping of
seven activists in Baghdad could be another sign of increasing tensions between
secular parties in Iraq and the country’s ruling religious groups. Is history
repeating?
Last week, an unidentified
armed group kidnapped a number of younger civil society activists from their
small apartment in the Sadoun area of central Baghdad. After three days it was
announced that the young men had been freed, after intervention by Iraq’s
Minister of the Interior, Qassim al-Araji.
In announcing the release
though, the Ministry made no mention of who might have been responsible for the
kidnapping even though many locals blamed members of one or other of the Shiite
Muslim militias, who run security in certain parts of the city and who have
been controversial in the recent past.
Some of the young activists
who were abducted also happened to be members of the Iraqi Communist Party. The
Communists have been firm supporters of recent demonstrations in Baghdad during
which protestors called for an end to corruption and demanded political reform.
The Iraqi Communist party is just one of a number of civil society and
political groups uniting to take part in, and organize, the protests.
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