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Iraqi electoral officials work to salvage ballot boxes as smoke rises from a fire that broke out at Baghdad's largest ballot box storage site, where ballots from Iraq's May parliamentary elections are stored, in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday
THE Iraqi Communist Party condemned “repressive methods” used against protesters amid growing unrest over a deepening economic crisis and shortages of electricity and water across the country.
Iraqis have taken to the streets and public squares in Basra, Baghdad, Babylon province, Maysan, Najaf, Nasiriyah, Kut and other areas to demonstrate against the central government’s failure to deal with shortages of essential goods.
But authorities have clamped down on dissent by shooting at the protesters with live bullets and arresting them.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
