As reported previously (see here and here) while the ravages of foreign invasion, wars and sectarian politics have led to the death and impoverishment of millions of Iraqis, working class struggles have continued. This week, on the back of a failure of the electricity grid throughout Iraq, millions of people took to the streets of Iraq to denounce corruption and sectarianism. Similar protests in the central provinces of Iraq in 2012 and 2013 were repressed by the military which then facilitated the growth of the Islamic State insurgency in those regions. These latest protests have produced some changes at the top of the Iraqi government, but the real problems are much deeper and systemic.
As reported previously (see here and here) while the ravages of foreign invasion, wars and sectarian politics have led to the death and impoverishment of millions of Iraqis, working class struggles have continued. This week, on the back of a failure of the electricity grid throughout Iraq, millions of people took to the streets of Iraq to denounce corruption and sectarianism. Similar protests in the central provinces of Iraq in 2012 and 2013 were repressed by the military which then facilitated the growth of the Islamic State insurgency in those regions. These latest protests have produced some changes at the top of the Iraqi government, but the real problems are much deeper and systemic.
