Communist Party Splits and Blocs in Iraq (1934-1963)
Abstract
The research aims to shed light on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party and its activities in Iraq and the roles that the development of Marxist thought has gone through and to study the most prominent splits that occurred in the entity of the Iraqi Communist Party and how it handled those partitions by reviewing and benefiting from the experiences. The importance of the research lies in following up and analyzing the developments that happened to the Iraqi Communist Party and its political activity and tracking the many splits that occurred in its entity, which were led by the leaders of this party, according to the evolution of political trends and leftist currents on the political scene in the country. The research included three main topics, the first of which involved a look at the communist party blocs in Iraq during the period (1934-1946). The second covered the development of the path of the communist party blocs after the adoption of the Parties Law in 1946, while the third tackled the communist party blocs during the period (1958-1963).