Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 02:29.
At a mass May Day gathering in central Baghdad, Iraq Freedom Congress president Samir Adel broke the news of the dock workers strike on the US West Coast to a storm of applause. The march was attended by several hundred from such organizations as the Iraq Freedom Congress, the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, the Federation of Arab Workers, the Union of Independent Democrats, and the Worker-communist Party of Iraq. Hundreds of banners proclaimed slogans such as "No Shiite, No Sunni, Ours is a human identity," "No to occupation, No to sectarian gangs, Long live workers' rule," and "Long live May Day, We struggle for enactment of a libertarian Labor Law."
Before the end of the event, police informed march leaders of an explosive device that was placed in a bag set to attack the gathering and asked the participants to vacate the venue. The participants marched out chanting slogans denouncing the occupation and sectarian gangs. (IFC Update, May 12)
(Translations from the Arabic as provided by the IFC. Note that "libertarian" is being used here in the old sense, of "liberatory" or "non-authoritarian"—not in the contemporary ideological sense of the free-market right, obviously.)
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At a mass May Day gathering in central Baghdad, Iraq Freedom Congress president Samir Adel broke the news of the dock workers strike on the US West Coast to a storm of applause. The march was attended by several hundred from such organizations as the Iraq Freedom Congress, the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, the Federation of Arab Workers, the Union of Independent Democrats, and the Worker-communist Party of Iraq. Hundreds of banners proclaimed slogans such as "No Shiite, No Sunni, Ours is a human identity," "No to occupation, No to sectarian gangs, Long live workers' rule," and "Long live May Day, We struggle for enactment of a libertarian Labor Law."
Before the end of the event, police informed march leaders of an explosive device that was placed in a bag set to attack the gathering and asked the participants to vacate the venue. The participants marched out chanting slogans denouncing the occupation and sectarian gangs. (IFC Update, May 12)
(Translations from the Arabic as provided by the IFC. Note that "libertarian" is being used here in the old sense, of "liberatory" or "non-authoritarian"—not in the contemporary ideological sense of the free-market right, obviously.)