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“ The same can be said about Baathists and Communists. But now we are called upon to proceed on the basis of facts which lead us to interaction and which place new facts before us. Predominant among these is the recognition of the Revolution as our major truth, which does not preclude our principle independence but functions rather as a roof under which we conduct our debates in a non-antagonistic way. ”

“ Also, our relationships to the Revolution, as well as to each other, should be characterised by an interaction of ideas. Secondly, ideological independence does not preclude interaction whose purpose is to place ideology in a new context whose new aspects will be the adaptation to and interaction with the facts and developing objective conditions of the society which will open new paths for political, ideological and social action. Such an orientation will enable us to form a Front with plenty of common ground, always improving the interactions of our convictions. ”

“ Why do we need the Front at a time when the main positive aspects of the Communist Party are simply its support for our revolutionary measures? measures on which the entire population agree with us, such as nationalization of the oil industry, the giant strides along the path toward socialism, the defense of Iraq’s future against the suspicions reactionary offensive spearheaded by the renegade faction in the north... ”

“ Such an incorrect notion of independence, if it continues, does nothing to aid the Front in reaching its strategic horizon.
I say this with full responsibility and concern for all patriotic tendencies. The basis for interaction, comrades, is the presence of a spirit and a desire for interaction. Desire alone, however, without a firm base, is insufficient. Hence we should create the psychological atmosphere, which makes interaction a necessary and essential process. In any case, interaction is not incompatible with ideological independence. ”

“ The same holds for our Communist comrades, who also discuss these questions in their meetings, asking: Why do we need the Front if we do not really share power? It also holds, albeit to a lesser extent, for our comrades in the other patriotic political groups. We, then, ask the following question: Are not the joint efforts to build a new society with greater zeal, which reinforce Baathist efforts with those of the KDP, the independents, the Communist Party, the KDP and the Progressive Kurds already enough of an advantage for the ABSP? ”

“ This affinity to the Revolution, however, should not preclude ideological independence, but, so long as the affinity of some among you to the Revolution is not clearly established, Baathists are bound to harbor some reservation toward them.
Communist comrades, there have been many experiments in the world where Communist parties have acted with great flexibility in response to the national situations in their respective countries. In Cuba, for example, the Communist Party cooperated with Castro’s revolution to the point where Castro became the leader of the Communist Party there. ”

“ At the same time, however, the errors of the administrative apparatus should be neither a means nor a justification for pursuing Party interests. The basic justification for these should be our ideology as we expound it in cooperation with the masses. ”

“ The Communists believe in a line ideologically different from that of the Baath Party. The same is true of the KDP and the others. They believe in pursuing their interests independently, since any other way would be hound to lead to contradictions among the various patriotic forces. It might even lead to deviation if it came into contact with the revolutionary process. Suppose we Baathists reversed the case and started attacking the Communists in our speeches and through our media, saying that they were attacking our regime and principles. ”

“ An objective and all-embracing outlook, an outlook of interaction and serious joint efforts to build a new society devoid of syndicalist concepts of gain, such an outlook would be to the advantage of the ABSP and all other parties. ”