At this time of crisis in Iraq, the Communist Party USA, meeting at its 30th National Convention in Chicago, stands in solidarity with the Iraqi people, democratic forces and Communists in their struggle against terrorism and sectarianism, and for national unity, peace, democracy and social progress.
The U.S. government, with its disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq, bears a heavy responsibility for destroying Iraq’s economic, social and political infrastructure and creating a political system founded on religious and ethnic sectarianism and strife, with a government incapable even of defending itself against terrorism.
The U.S. therefore has a responsibility to help the Iraqi people in their struggle to defeat the terrorism that is ravaging their country and to preserve and rebuild their nation, but any aid must in no way bolster authoritarianism and sectarianism.
We call on our government to help the Iraqi people restore democracy and national unity by empowering the well-recognized democratic forces of Iraq’s civil society, its trade unions and other civil society organizations that the U.S. earlier ignored and sidelined, including Iraq’s widely respected Communist Party.
And we extend a special hand of solidarity to the heroic Iraqi Communists in their difficult struggle for a peaceful, democratic, united Iraq with social justice for all its citizens.
Adopted unanimously by the 30th National Convention
Communist Party USA
June 14, 2014, Chicago, Illinois
PHOTO: By Christiaan Briggs (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Communist Party USA is a working class organization founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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