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Let's Raise the Banners of Freedom, Well-Being, and the Formation of A Secular Non-Ethnic Government
Statement of Iraq
Freedom Congress on International Workers Day The first of May is a day when the world's workers join in protest to voice their objection to the fact that the great majority of human society that produces all sorts of goods -- enjoys little of it. Many workers seek only to survive.
The First of May comes this year as the global economic crisis is shaking the pillars of the world. The corporations and their affiliated regimes seek to overcome their deep crisis by making wars or by taking away rights that workers have earned through years of struggle by reducing wages, making massive lay-offs, extending working hours, reducing health benefits, canceling childcare subsidies and reducing unemployment insurance. According to reports issued by the United Nations and other international organizations, the economic crisis will increase the scope of world poverty and it threatens to kill millions of people through hunger and destitution.
In Iraq, workers are exposed to physical “liquidation” in the largest operation ever conducted by the occupation-backed sectarian forces. These forces transferred the conflict to the ranks of workers and lit a devastating civil war to serve the hellish regional countries’ agenda. Workplaces have become the scenes of kidnapping and suicide bombings. The latest was on April 6 when more than 10 workers were killed and dozens were injured in the Baghdad Aljadida district. In addition to this tragedy, millions have been unemployed for years. Plans have been underway to keep state enterprises in a non-functioning state in order to privatize them. The civil and social services that every human being is entitled to receive have long been lacking. While Iraq sits on some of the greatest wealth in the world, 20% of its population lives under the poverty line while a handful of vermin installed by the occupation forces enjoy this wealth.
On this occasion the Iraq Freedom Congress renews its appeal to the workers of Iraq to join its ranks. The workers of Iraq should be mindful that the sectarian and ethnic forces that are globalizing conflicts, particularly among workers, have a larger strategy to confront the workers who formed a political resistance to these forces. This workers’ power emerged in the demonstrations and strikes organized by the workers in 2008 who stood against the draft oil and gas law as well.
The workers reacted to the current situation by holding the International Labor Conference in March 2009 in the town of Erbil, and stated that they were able to intervene to change the political equation in the interests of humanity in Iraq and declare their unity.
The resolutions issued by the Conference against the occupation’s sectarian and ethnic agenda prove once again the workers’ ability to face the enemies of humanity and to provide political alternatives to rid the community of the tragedy and the spiral of violence and terrorism which have been taking place during six years of occupation.
End of April 2009
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Samir Adil President of Iraq Freedom Congress
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