Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage in Iraq, there is an active civil resistance in the country that opposes the occupation, the regime it protects, and the jihadist and Baathist "resistance" alike. This besieged opposition—under threat of repression and assassination—is fighting to keep alive elementary freedoms for women, leading labor struggles against Halliburton and other U.S. contractors, opposing privatization of the country's oil and resources, and demanding a secular future for Iraq. They note that what they call "political Islam" dominates both sides in the Iraq war—the collaborationist regime and the armed "resistance."
See our full reports:
IS THE U.S. PULLING THE PLUG ON IRAQI OIL WORKERS?
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IRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAK
Their Fight for Workers and Against the Occupation
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IRAQ'S CIVIL RESISTANCE
The Secular Left Opposition Stands Up
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FROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
Japanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance
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Iraqi Secular Forces Struggle Against US and Religious Fundamentalists
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See our recent posts on Iraq's civil resistance:
Baghdad: three killed in Green Zone protests
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Iraq: protesters camp out in Green Zone
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Iraq: protesters demand new government
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Mass protests shake Baghdad regime
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Resistance to ISIS mounts in Syria, Iraq
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Charges dropped against Iraq oil union leader
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Iraq: civil resistance leader assassinated
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Iraq: workers protest "apartheid-like" conditions at oil fields
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Iraq drafts harsh anti-protest law as Baghdad gets Tahrir Square movement
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Iraq: thousands of protesters defy curfew
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Iraq: UN concerned over repression of protesters
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Iraq gets a Tahrir Square
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Iraq: deadly sreeet clashes in Kurdistan
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Protests spread to Iraq —but not Syria (yet)
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Iraq: police raid electricity unions
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Iraq: protests mount to "recolonization" of Rumaila oil field
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Iraq: Basra oil pipeline workers score labor victory
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Iraq: labor conference pledges to fight for workers' rights, against privatization
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Iraqi unions announce new confederation at international labor conference
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Iraqi civil resistance statement on International Women's Day
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Iraqi workers march against Gaza aggression
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Iraq unions call for international labor conference in Irbil
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Iraq: civil resistance leader injured in Kirkuk terror blast
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Campaign to stop polygamy in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Iraq's civil resistance to Obama: end the occupation
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Iraq: Basra workers march against austerity
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Iraq: workers protest IMF policies
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Interviews:
Samir Adil, president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress, June 2006
Houzan Mahmoud of the Iraqi Women's Rights Coalition, June 2006
Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, August 2004
Khayal Ibrahim of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq and Samir Noory of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, May 2004
Interview with Issam Shukri of the Union of Unemployed in Iraq, May 2004
