July 14, 2010Demonstration on the occasion of July 14 celebrations in Baghdad, demanding better services and government formation
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Hundreds of Iraqis, mostly followers of the Communist Party, Wednesday, in Firdaus Square in central Baghdad on the anniversary of the revolution 14 July and the first Iraqi republic, calling for better services and accelerate the formation of the Iraqi government, the operation of the unemployed.
Minister of Science and Technology Raid Fahmi, one of the leaders in the Iraqi Communist Party, which participated in the demonstration in an interview with "Alsumaria News", "The revolution of July 14 is a turning point in the history of modern Iraq, regardless of whether it carries different views," adding "the presence of consensus that Iraq is before 14 July was the other was after the revolution of July 14 to his campaign this revolution of social mobility and achievements of the service, many big. "
Fahmi added that "Iraq entered into a Msssal of blood following the ouster of the revolution until today, Iraq is still suffering from," noting that "the July 14 achieved a lot in the side of service and social, as we live today in Iraq, political democracy to some extent available, but the social-democratic non- available, there is poverty and lack of services. "
For his part, said the demonstrator, and a leader of the Communist Party Jassim Hilfi in an interview with "Alsumaria News", "The purpose of the commemoration is to remind the people and government of the achievements of the revolution led by Abdul Karim Kassem pros service and achieve national unity and solve the Kurdish problem and political relations with neighboring countries and other of other achievements. "
He added that "the current government after more than seven years from the end of the dictatorship has been able to provide something simple for the Iraqi people, including the basic services of water, electricity, and has managed revolution of July 14 be provided within three years".
For his part, said trade union leader Hadi Hussein Ali said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "On this day we call upon the government to accomplish half of what the revolution accomplished by July 14, including the distribution of land and eliminate the problem of unemployment which has become rampant in the present time."
Hadi said that "the working class are still vulnerable to neglect and marginalization, in spite of many promises, launched by the government to raise the burden of the working class", noting that "the retired workers still receive low pensions are not sufficient to meet family needs."
Hadi demanded the government "Bzerorp to look at this class, which has suffered previously and continue to suffer and to their inclusion increases pensions, grants and advances the case for retirees from state employees."
Coincidentally, today the anniversary of the revolution 14 July that toppled the monarchy in Iraq in 1958, where he was Faisal II, king of Iraq, the leader General Abdul Karim Qasim is one of the officers who participated in the bombing of the revolution and that the track was the overthrow of the monarchy in Iraq, which lasted 37 years.
Mention that Abdel-Karim Kassem (1914-1963) was born in the city of Essaouira in Wasit, and participated in a number of battles fought by the Iraqi army in Palestine in 1948, then became the first governor in the Republican era, and continued his term of four years and six months and 15 days, and executed at the hands of the leaders of the 1963 coup on the ninth of February, after a brief trial in the radio building in Baghdad.
