Think you (and all) will find these interesting, especially the interview with Tariz Aziz...(there is a good deal more on all these links....
Sounds like the Socialists are really bent to the left....
From the Library of Congress....
The Baath (Resurrection) Party
Both the Syrian and Iraqi governments were, and in 1987 continued to be, run by rival wings of the pan-Arab socialist Baath Party, and each government supported a Lebanese branch. The pro- Iraqi branch was headed by Abd al Majid ar Rifai and fielded a militia of about 3,000 men. The pro-Syrian branch was headed by a Shia, Issam Qansuh, and had a militia of similar size. The two militias fought each other in proxy battles for their sponsors.
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From the Socialist Party....
wpiraq.org
>>>>>In this respect, Worker Communist Party of Iraq condemns the US warmongering, war, and militarism show and strives for refuting these policies, and their catastrophic effects on the lives and future of people of Iraq. In this concern Worker Communist Party of Iraq is struggling to incite and get an international line of freedom lovers, working class parties, left wingers, communists off the ground to oppose the threats and aggressive policy of the US and upsetting them.
The demand of toppling Baath fascist, nationalist regime and changing it to a government which secures freedom and equality is a just demand of all freedom lovers in and outside Iraq. Worker Communist Party of Iraq has always been in the vanguard of this struggle, and its achievement. But what is obvious is that the US according to its records and policy it follows and at the same time its reliance on the reactionary groups of the nationalists, Islamists, military generals, and its assistants in the INC, demonstrates clearly its animosity towards the Iraqi people’s favorite government which comes to power.<<<<<<
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Free Arab Voice - Oct 2002
freearabvoice.org
Tariq Aziz: First, I am a Baathist, and a Baathist is a socialist. The socialist inclines to the laboring classes and against the exploiting classes. A person is not a socialist unless he believes in that. But the real battle in the Arab homeland was and still is the battle for national liberation. In the battle for national liberation, the class struggle is not the basic aim. But if, in the course of the national liberation struggle against imperialism and against the Zionist entity, if in the midst of this struggle, if there appear groups or classes that are allied with imperialism, yes, we place them on our list of enemies. But, if there is a merchant or any wealthy person or a feudalist - even though there is no more feudalism in our homeland - who is not an enemy of the national movement, then we will not consider him an enemy just because he is wealthy.
I am not advocating Marxism here, in its absolute sense; I am advocating the Arab nationalist revolutionary socialist concept. Whoever stands with the anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist revolutionary national movement is an ally. |
