The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions wishes to make our position on the current bloody chaos in parts of Iraq absolutely clear. Firstly, the IFTU opposes the use of military force against civilian areas, such as the city of Falluja.
The IFTU believes that a far greater effort needs to be made to negotiate as far as possible, a peaceful ending to the lawlessness, violence and imposition of illegitimate and extreme fundamentalist and totalitarian rule by armed groups in few Iraqi cities.
We ask the international labour movement to join us in committing ourselves to a just and peaceful future for an Iraq, free from the occupation and from terrorism.
We opposed the war, the invasion and the occupation of our country because we knew the deadly consequences, which would follow. Those who suffer are as always, the unarmed civilian population.
Iraq once had the strongest labour movement in the Middle East and some million people joined the May Day march in Baghdad in 1959. All that may seem far off now as our country is turn apart by the extreme use of military force by the occupying forces, the fanatics, fundamentalists and terrorists. But the IFTU must remain steadfast in its course and to continue to build the forces of civil society, to support democracy, progress and a peaceful future for the Iraqi people.
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