Iraqi Revolutionary Communists was the name of a political organization in Iraq. The group was formed after a split from the Iraqi Communist Party in the wake of the break between the Communist Party and the Baath-led National Progressive Front in 1979. The Iraqi Revolutionary Communists called for complete rejection of Baathist rule and armed struggle against the regime. Moreover it questioned why the Communist Party had entered into an alliance with the Baathists in the first place, and issued criticism against perceived lack of internal democracy in the Communist Party. The Iraqi Revolutionary Communists published a periodical called al-Asas.
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