Workers' localism of the Iraqi communist: No to the systematic destruction of the national industry

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[size=52]Workers' localism of the Iraqi communist: No to the systematic destruction of the national industry[/size]

[size=45]No to the systematic destruction of the national industry[/size]
[size=45]At a time when the Ministry of Industry raises the slogan “Our national industry is our pride,” the workers of the Textile and Leather Company organized a protest stand inside their company to demand that the ministry’s procedures to privatize the company and turn it into malls and commercial centers be used, and to use its location, which is in the middle of the Karrada area in Baghdad, for purely commercial purposes.[/size]
[size=45]The procedures of the Ministry of Industry were not limited to the privatization of companies, but rather the situation reached the abandonment of the labor force and emptying the companies and laboratories of competencies by transferring their services to other service ministries, and the Minister of Industry described the deportees as “superfluous.”[/size]
[size=45]The destruction of the national industry, despite the availability of all the elements to improve its reality and make the country among the industrially developed countries, is nothing but a political one whose aim is to make the country under the control of imports from neighboring countries and others, and thus consider it a strategic market for the disposal of imported goods, which invade the markets Domestic without quality control.[/size]
[size=45]The approach adopted by the Ministry of Industry to privatize factories and abandon the workforce is not limited to the harm of imported goods at the expense of the national product of public sector companies, but has also extended to private sector companies. Thus, the systematic destruction of the Iraqi industry continues in all its sectors and locations, in addition to the continuous large losses, since the overthrow of the dictatorship until today.[/size]
[size=45]It is not possible to talk about a stable country and a strong diversified economy without a productive and organized national industry. It has become necessary to bypass the methods of closing, dismantling and selling public sector factories under illogical pretexts.[/size]
[size=45]The alternative solution remains to revitalize the industrial sector, in both its public and private parts, and to find a vital mechanism for coordination between them according to the basic needs of citizens and the necessities of modern life, accompanied by providing the best social guarantees for workers and enhancing their sense of safety and stability, instead of the policy of dismantling factories in favor of institutions that encourage a culture of flattening and consumption.[/size]
[size=45]Our country is in dire need to restore life to the national industry, especially since it is one of the most important pillars on which it is relied upon to improve the reality of the Iraqi economy and its development, which requires finding job opportunities for thousands of workers who have been suffering from unemployment and neglect for decades in a row.[/size]
[size=45]We would like to remind you that the program of our Iraqi Communist Party issued by its eleventh national congress referred, among other things, to: “Rehabilitation of industrial facilities and factories belonging to the state,[/size]
[size=45]And reforming it administratively and economically, and supporting and advancing it in order to contribute effectively to the development of the national economy, and to confront forces and projects that try to bet on its liquidation by selling or privatizing it.[/size]
[size=45]All support and solidarity for the protesting workers in defense and protection of their legitimate rights.[/size]
[size=45]local workers[/size]
[size=45]of the Iraqi Communist Party[/size]
[size=45]Baghdad, April 13, 2023[/size]
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