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?
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9051 [1]
IRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAK
Their Fight for Workers and Against the Occupation
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7883 [2]
IRAQ'S CIVIL RESISTANCE
The Secular Left Opposition Stands Up
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/4896 [3]
FROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
Japanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/1660 [4]
Iraqi Secular Forces Struggle Against US and Religious Fundamentalists
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7183 [5]
See our recent posts on Iraq's civil resistance:
Baghdad: three killed in Green Zone protests
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/14828 [6]
Iraq: protesters camp out in Green Zone
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/14792 [7]
Iraq: protesters demand new government
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/14765 [8]
Mass protests shake Baghdad regime
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/14231 [9]
Resistance to ISIS mounts in Syria, Iraq
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/13401 [10]
Charges dropped against Iraq oil union leader
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/12767 [11]
Iraq: civil resistance leader assassinated
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/12733 [12]
Iraq: workers protest "apartheid-like" conditions at oil fields
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/10451 [13]
Iraq drafts harsh anti-protest law as Baghdad gets Tahrir Square movement
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/10124 [14]
Iraq: thousands of protesters defy curfew
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9585 [15]
Iraq: UN concerned over repression of protesters
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9562 [16]
Iraq gets a Tahrir Square
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9528 [17]
Iraq: deadly sreeet clashes in Kurdistan
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9505 [18]
Protests spread to Iraq —but not Syria (yet)
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/9428 [19]
Iraq: police raid electricity unions
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/8874 [20]
Iraq: protests mount to "recolonization" of Rumaila oil field
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7943 [21]
Iraq: Basra oil pipeline workers score labor victory
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7299 [22]
Iraq: labor conference pledges to fight for workers' rights, against privatization
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7118 [23]
Iraqi unions announce new confederation at international labor conference
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7036 [24]
Iraqi civil resistance statement on International Women's Day
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6993 [25]
Iraqi workers march against Gaza aggression
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6653#comment-315923 [26]
Iraq unions call for international labor conference in Irbil
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6624 [27]
Iraq: civil resistance leader injured in Kirkuk terror blast
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6516 [28]
Campaign to stop polygamy in Iraqi Kurdistan
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6391 [29]
Iraq's civil resistance to Obama: end the occupation
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6299 [30]
Iraq: Basra workers march against austerity
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6225 [31]
Iraq: workers protest IMF policies
http://classic.countervortex.org/node/6210 [32]
Interviews:
Samir Adil, president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress [33], June 2006
Houzan Mahmoud of the Iraqi Women's Rights Coalition [34], June 2006
Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq [35], August 2004
Khayal Ibrahim of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq and Samir Noory of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq [36], May 2004
Interview with Issam Shukri of the Union of Unemployed in Iraq [37], May 2004
