#Iraq20: Exploring Socialist perspectives on Iraq

In the article Communism and the Iraqi Revolution, Benjamin Curry of the UK based Socialist Appeal (British section of the International Marxist Tendency) goes to the roots of the revolutionary history of the Iraqi people. 

According to Benjamin Curry, the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq and the liquidation of the Ba’athist state, “opened a Pandora’s Box in Iraq” but “for a time in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, Iraq became the key theatre of struggle in one of the most significant dramas in modern history.” 

Estimates suggest more than a million people were killed in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and as Benjamin Curry argues: “The conditions in Iraq today cry out for the socialist reorganisation of society. The contradictions will permit no other solution.”