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What's Left?
Platypus

international journal of critical letters and emancipatory politics

The Platypus Affiliated Society presents a workshop on:

publications

What is a platypus? On surviving the Left

(June, 2006) What's Left in Iraq?
Introducing Platypus
AREA Chicago magazine #3, Summer/Fall 2006 Problems of internationalism
(September, 2006)
and anti-imperialism on the Left
forthcoming
Students for a Democratic Society
Platypus pre-issue manifesto: Conference on Iraq Occupation
What's Left?
(projected June, 2007) Chicago, February 24, 2007

Platypus journal issue number 1

(projected November, 2007)
 The Platypus Affiliated Society presents a workshop on:
What’s Left in Iraq?
Problems of internationalism and anti-imperialism on the Left
In discussion of the Iraq invasion and occupation, seldom mention is made
of organizations for progressive politics in Iraq. What potential allies and
colleagues exist in Iraq for the American and international Left? What have
been the prospects for a Left in Iraq under the occupation, and beyond?
How are the prospects for social progress affected by the spiraling
violence that is taking place there, the nature of the Iraqi
insurgency/resistance, and calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and other
international forces? We will present and discuss various groups, political
parties and labor unions, etc., that have fought for progressive social
politics in Iraq, and their relation to the occupation and the political process
that has issued in the present Iraqi government and state.
"However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital
might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be
recovered and reformulated. . . . None of the massive demonstrations
against the war featured oppositional progressive Iraqis who could
provide a more nuanced and critical perspective on the Middle East, a
telling political failure on the part of the Left." (Moishe Postone 2006)
"We have to note, with regret, that the Iraqi democratic forces have not
received, in their difficult struggle, effective solidarity and support from
international forces of the Left." (Iraqi Communist Party 2006)
Some information on the Iraqi Left and the anti-war movement
Theoretical
Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and
Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism" (Public Culture 18:1, 2006)
Iraqi Leftist parties and organizations
Iraqi Communist Party
http://www.iraqcp.org/ -or- http://www.iraqcp.org/framse1/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Communist_Party
"Letter to Fraternal and Friendly Parties About the Situation in Iraq and
the Position of the Iraqi Communist Party" (Jan. 2006)
http://www.iraqcp.org/members3/0060125icpr.htm
"Iraqi CP at International Meeting Workers Parties in Lisbon" (Nov. 2006)
http://www.iraqcp.org/members4/0061119wzaaqw2.htm
"Challenges ahead facing Iraq at crucial crossroad point: interview with
Iraqi Communist Party Central Committee member Salam Ali" (Dec. 2006)
http://www.iraqcp.org/members4/0070104wa21.htm
Workers Communist Party of Iraq / Iraqi Freedom Congress
http://www.wpiraq.net/ -or- http://www.wpiraq.net/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker-Communist_Party_of_Iraq
http://www.ifcongress.com
http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Iraqi_Freedom_Congress
http://www.answers.com/topic/iraqi-freedom-congress
Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
http://equalityiniraq.com
A "third pole" in Iraqi politics | Workers' Liberty
http://www.workersliberty.org/node/4160
US Labor Against the War: Issued by the Iraqi Freedom Congress
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=10248
Iraqi Union Calls for a "Freedom Congress" and U.N. intervention
http://www.uuiraq.org/english/168.htm
From Baghdad to Tokyo | World War 4 Report
http://ww4report.com/node/1660
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(member of Socialist International; party of Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq)
http://www.puk.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan
International solidarity and journalism
US Labor Against the War Iraq: Iraqi labor Tour 2005
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=78
"Iraqi Labor Tour in U.S. Stirs Controversy" (Jul. 2005)
http://www.indypressny.org/article.php3?ArticleID=2200
"Worker Unions in Iraq: an interview with Amjad Aljawhary" (Aug. 2005)
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8595
"Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization" (Oct. 2005)
http://progressive.org/node/2459/print
"Disunity Threatens Iraqi Labor's Resistance to Occupation" (Nov. 2005)
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/36/15350/printer
David Bacon (journalist) home page:
http://dbacon.igc.org/Iraq/IRAQ.HTM
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