Bush in Babylon : the recolonisation of Iraq by Ali Tariq

Author:Ali, Tariq
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Iraq War, 2003-, Iraq War, 2003-, Golfoorlog (2003), Imperialisme
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso
Published: 2003-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

BUSH IN BABYLON

General AliDiad Hasan al-Bakr (left), President of Iraq and Secretary-General of the Iraqi lU'atli from 1968 to 1979, with Michel Aflaq, founder of the Ba'ath Party.

Iraqi Communist Party decided it wanted to revenge the past and the only way forward lay through launching an armed struggle against the dictatorship. It argued for a complete break with the past practices of the party, including its over-reliance on Moscow and subordination to its needs. It was argued that if the communists did not take the initiative now, they would be outmanoeuvred and outflanked by the Ba'ath as they were in 1963. What was being proposed was also the best possible means of self-ciefence against what lay ahead. The argument was far from foolish, but it was premature. But they were heady days and the party became split. The Central Command faction began to make immediate preparations for an exemplary armed struggle on the Cuban model and was expelled from the party at a special conference in 1967.

The Central Command plan was to launch a resistance movement in the southern marshes, where the party did have considerable support, and create a liberated zone. From here they would move northwards and, later, armed Kurdish communists and nationalists would move southwards; both columns would meet in Baghdad, which would be virtually liberated by then by an uprising of the poor. It was all planned with the purest of motives, but it assumed a rising level of mass consciousness that, alas, did

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