From the message below, it looks like Hassan Juma's oil workers' union has joined the Iraqi Freedom Congress, a campaign set up by the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq. There is no confirmation from the GUOE's website yet. If true, it represents a huge move forward towards working class unity in Iraq.
Letter from Samir Adil to the Leaders of the Southern Oil Trade Unions On the Occasion of Their Affiliation to Iraq Freedom Congress and Being Elected to Its Central Council
Brother Hassan Juma, president of Southern oil trade union
Brother Falih Abood, Secretary General of Southern oil trade union
Brother Abdullah Al-Maliki, Secretary of Basra trade union
Greetings,
On behalf of IFC central council and myself, I would like to express our great feeling of having you joined our organization IFC; also I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate ourselves for electing you to the central council to join the leadership standing.
Dear brothers;
The occupation has destroyed the entire country and converted it into a global battlefield. Moreover it continues the efforts to deliver the deathblow to the rest of the life basic factors. Here it is imposing the International Monetary Fund conditions on people, abolishing rations subsidy at this critical time when the unemployment in its highest rate ever, and opening fire on mass protests at every given opportunity as it did in Kirkuk last January killing 2 people, and the same took place in Samawa and Nassirya earlier.
Iraq Freedom Congress seeks to be a framework of the libertarian movement in the society where the labor movement considered its avant-garde. The modern history of Iraq is always mentioning proudly the great role of the oil workers strike of Gawerbaghi that brought down the pro-British government and convulsed the monarchy in 1946. The workers in Iraq, especially the oil workers may have a great role in the struggle to end the occupation, extirpation of terrorism and building a society where peace and prosperity become prevalent.
Dearest brothers,
We consider your joining IFC as an enormous step and tremendous accomplishment to our movement. Progressive figures and radical leaders taking charge in the central council empower us to secure the achievement of our goals. As the IFC is proud of having leaders like yourselves among its ranks, your choice of joining IFC is also your pride provided that you have chosen to be leaders of the first progressive movement for liberating Iraq and human together.
Long Live Oil Workers
Long Iraq Freedom Congress
Samir Adil
President of
Iraq Freedom Congress
March 36, 2006
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