The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of

This is the first comprehensive work to examine the complex transformation of the Iraqi Communist Party from vanguard actor under Iraq's conservative monarchy to rearguard lackey under U.S. occupation. The Communist Party of Iraq was initially fostered by Iraq's embryonic intelligentsia as an approach to national liberation during the period of British domination. By 1963, the conservative Baath party had quashed the Communist Party, killing its members or sending them into exile. Dependent on the Soviet Communist Party, the Iraqi Communist Party floundered until the U.S. government took it under its wing in the 2003 occupation.

Preface	p. ix
The Communist Party of Iraq: Origins and Foundations	p. 1
Iraq Before the First World War	p. 1
Foreign Influences	p. 4
British Ascendancy	p. 7
Al-Rahhal and the First Challenge	p. 17
Early Communist Organization	p. 20
The Importance of al-Ahal?	p. 24
The Party in the 1940s	p. 25
The Party in the 1950s	p. 40
NasserÆs Pan-Arabist Challenge	p. 58
Rebuilding the Party	p. 59
Ascent of the ICP in Iraqi Politics	p. 71
Politicization of the Army and the Qdsim Coup	p. 74
The Communists After the 14 July 1958 Revolution	p. 79
The Fall of the Clique of Four	p. 102
The Fall of Qdsim	p. 106
The Rashid Putsch and the Death Train	p. 109
Party Rift: The Emergence of the Central Leadership	p. 114
Grassroots Reaction to the August Line	p. 125
Party Leadership Responds to Internal Tensions	p. 137
The Formation of the ICP-CL	p. 154
The Factions Face the BaÆth	p. 159
Alliance with the Bacth	p. 166
The Third National Congress	p. 177
The BaÆth Turn on the ICP-CC	p. 181
The Public Dimension - Issues and Pronouncements	p. 188
The Rebirth of the Central Leadership in the 1970s	p. 204
The Basic Ideology of the ICP-CL	p. 207
MahmudÆs Grounding of ICP-CL Thought	p. 212
The Plenary Session of the Central Committee (July 1959)	p. 214
The Moscow Meeting (November i96o)	p. 217
The Failures of the National Democratic Movement	p. 219
Portrait of a Torture Victim from the ICP-CL	p. 225
The Third Party Conference (January 1974}	p. 226
Wihdat al-Qacidah and the Splintering of the ICP-CL	p. 236
The Theory of al-Mushtarak	p. 241
The Interpretations of al-Muqaydah	p. 247
The Iraqi Progressive Opposition After the First Gulf War	p. 258
The ICP-CL Responds to the American Empire (xyyo-Present)	p. 261
Crisis: Disintegration or Renewal?	p. 264
The Iraqi Communist Party and Kurdistan	p. 268
The Iraqi Communist Party and Perestroika	p. 269
Preparations for the Fifth Congress	p. 272
The International Situation	p. 279
The Arab Front	p. 280
The Local Level	p. 281
An Examination of the By-laws and Their Relationshipto the Party Programme	p. 283
The Concept of Democratic Centralism	p. 285
The Fifth National Congress	p. 286
The Kurdish Connection	p. 289
The Sixth Congress	p. 291
The ICR and the US Occupation	p. 296
The ICP Before Occupation	p. 297
The Governing Council	p. 301
Whither Socialism?	p. 303
The Iraqi Communist Party Cadre	p. 304
Conclusion: From Vanguard Activism to Rearguard
Opportunism	p. 311
Vanguard Activism	p. 311
Rearguard Opportunism	p. 316
JourneyÆs End?	p. 318
Index	p. 323
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