Declaration
of the formation of
We, the undersigned, hereby announce the
formation of the Iraq Freedom Congress.
IFC is a broad organisation committed to establishing a free, secular and
non-ethnic government in Iraq – a
government based on direct sovereignty of people of Iraq, and
committed to guarantying their right to freely and consciously determine the
system of governance in Iraq.
IFC is independent, democratic, non-religious and non-ethnic.
IFC has been formed to encounter the civil abyss in Iraq.
Presently, the fabric of the civil society in Iraq has
been torn apart under the US
occupation and the domination of the Islamic, tribal and political gangsters.
People of Iraq have been caught between the two poles of world terrorism of our time-
the US state terrorism and the political Islam – forcing their mental and
physical well-being to the verge of destruction.
IFC strives to establish the sovereignty of people of Iraq. The
only way out of this abyss is to mobilise people to take the country, to
whatever extent possible, out of the sphere of control of both the US
occupiers and the Islamic currents, and establish their sovereignty.
IFC mobilises and organises people within its local and district
organisations to establish the control and sovereignty of the people at every
level and to any extent possible. IFC safeguards this sovereignty against any aggression. The sovereignty of
the people in this context is the implementation of the demands stated in the
manifesto of IFC as
legislations.
Individuals
as well as organisations (including political parties, trade unions, people’s
councils, associations and institutions) who share the aims and objectives of IFC may join IFC, as stated in the IFC’s constitution, provided
their programmes and policies do not breach that of IFC.
IFC’s operations and organisation are not restricted to Iraq. IFC endeavours to gain the support of all
free-minded individuals, progressive organisations and institutions worldwide, whom
share its aims.
IFC calls on all humanitarians to join its ranks.
18 March 2005.
Signatories:
Ali
Abas (Secretary of the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions of Basra), Professor
Amer Fayad (Political Science University of Baghdad), Amjad Ghafoor (Secretary
of the Congress for the Referendum for the Independence of Kurdistan), Arman Farakish
(Chair of Iranian Civil Rights Committee), Asai
Kenji (Chair of International Solidarity Committee of Movement for Democratic
Socialism – Japan), Aso Jabbar (Representative Abroad of Federation of Workers’
Councils and Unions of Iraq),Falah Alwan (Secretary of the Federation of
Workers’ Councils and Unions of Iraq), Faris Mahmood (Politburo Member of Worker-communist
Party of Iraq), Fateh Sheikh (Chair of Worker-communist
Party of Iran – Hekmatist Politburo), Hosein
Haref (Secretary of Visual Artists Centre of Iraq),Houzan Mahmoud (Women’s
Movement Activist – Iraq)Javad Aslani (Iranian Civil
Rights activist), Kazem Aniran (Chair of the
Democratic Al-Ahwar of Iraq), Koorosh Modarresi (Leader of
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist), Mazloom
Abas (Communist Activist), Professor Meqdam Abdul Jabbar (University of Basra),
Moayed Ahmad (Politburo Member of Worker-communist Party of Iraq), Mohamad
Hassan Saleh (Chair of Organization for Social Equality – Iraq) Nadia Mahmood (Founder
and Co-ordinator of Middle East Centre for Women’s Rights) Professor Namir
Al-Khayat (University of Basra), Nasrin Jalali (Iranian Civil
Right activist), Osama Ghaem (Literary Critique) Qasem
Hadi (General Secretary of Union of Unemployed in Iraq), Rebwar Ahmad (Leader
of Worker-communist Party of Iraq) Professor Riad Al-Asadi (Political Science
Basra University) Salam Mansoor (Playwright and Artist), Sami Hassan (Deputy Secretary
of Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions of Basra), Samir Adel (Chair of
the Executive Office of Worker-communist Party of Iraq) Sato Kazuyoshi
(President of Movement for Democratic Socialism – Japan), Shamal
Ali (Politburo Member of
Worker-communist Party of Iraq) Yanar Mohammad (Chair of Organisation of
Women’s Freedom in Iraq) Yasn Taha Yasen (Chair of Education Now Centre in
Iraq) Dr Yusam Shakir