Declaration

 

Raising the White Flag, and the Surrender of Ribwar Ahmad and the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, is incapable of Taming the Protesting Movement of the People of Kurdistan!!

 

 

On October 20th 2005, Ribwar Ahmed, the leader of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq – WCPI published “an open letter to the public” about the ending of political conflict between the WCPI and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - PUK and declared one-sidedly "the ending of convulsing atmospheres and political conflicts". According to his letter this is to "purify the political atmospheres of the society in Kurdistan”.

 

Ribwar Ahmed and the Worker Communist Party of Iraq’s declaration was made while Kurdish nationalism, a part of the dark scenario and one of the main allies of the US in Iraq, had managed to reinforce its positions in power, not only in Kurdistan but in the whole of Iraq. That party and in order to pass its rightist policies aiming at reaching to power through diplomacy and other political from-the-top bargaining, is in need to improve the atmospheres and to strike an agreement with that nationalist force. For that reason, Ribwar Ahmed's declaration to the public is akin to a congratulatory message to the PUK for the victory of the Kurdish nationalism and Jalal Al-Talabani. Through this declaration they have cut the last thread tying them to the leftist and the communist movement. 

 

1.      The political conflict between worker communism and the Kurdish nationalism springs from the conflict between social and political movements and between two different alternatives to the society. This conflict has been continuing since worker communism has put its feet in the political arena during the councilor movement of March 1991 up to this day. Since, the enmity to nationalism has been a significant aspect that identifies our movement, that party has therefore thrown a history of 15 years of struggle behind its back. If an individual or a party wanted an end to a conflict, he is free to do so, but it also means that he has said farewell to worker communism and chosen another position and worn a different outfit.

2.      “The presence of WCPI has ended in Kurdistan", therefore they can not appoint themselves owners of the protest of the people in Kurdistan, hence, bringing this issue as a bouquet of flowers to the negotiations table. The immediate demanding movement of the people of Kurdistan in the face of Kurdish nationalism has crystallized, in spite of Ribwar Ahmed and the WCPI’s will. In addition, they are unable to displace this movement from the political confrontations.

3.      The repressive policy of the Kurdish nationalism is part and parcel of the Kurdish nationalist parties’ identity, shooting, genocide against demonstrators and mass protests, have nothing to do with Ribwar Ahmed and the WCPI, so that Ribwar Ahmed would go to the negotiations table with such claims and carries out “the purification of atmosphere”. An agreement like this can not end the repressive policy of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and is incapable of taming mass protests in the face of these parties and its authority.

4.      Ribwar Ahmad and the WCPI are not in a state of war and there is no erupting war between them so that they declare a one-sided seize-fire. What they call “an end to convulsion and confrontations” means, in reality, nothing but the putting down of the protests of workers, women, and youth as well as the general protests by the people, as these protests have developed outside the will of WCPI which is also incapable of curtailing them. The only thing they could do is to strengthen the lever of the nationalist movement for a short period of time.

5.       This letter of “the partner of sorrow”* for Ribwar Ahmad has been sent to the PUK at the time where the people’s objections in Kurdistan against the rotten and suppressive authorities of the nationalist prevailing powers are widely spreading.  The people of Kurdistan has boycotted elections and turned their backs to the ballot boxes, therefore, these authorities are in need of a power which until recently was positioning itself in the people’s trenches, in order to deceive the people to return under the wing of the Kurdish nationalism. Ribwar Ahmad has vowed himself to do this task and alludes that he is capable of delivering it and to purify the atmospheres off “the convulsions and political confrontations”.

 

Freedom-loving people of Kurdistan!

Communists!

Activists of the Councilor Movement, and Leaders of the Labor Movement, Youth, and Women!

 

 The message of Ribwar Ahmed and the WCPI is a message of bargaining with one of the powers that has always suppressed you; the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. At the same time it is a political trading in your destinies and struggles that continued for two decades. This policy is rightist and hostile to worker communism. Do not allow this method which seeks to cut deals with the bourgeoisie in order to be in power at any cost, to materialize at your name.

 

Our party, the Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq has lifted the real flag of worker communism and is at the fore front of your struggles and protests. It exposes this bargain, and works for leading the daily people’s struggles, and to link these struggles with the establishment of a better, socialist world, and calls upon you to join and making it the instrument of your struggle.

 

 

Long Live Socialism!

Long Live Worker Communism!

 

 

The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq – LWPI

27-11-2005