Iraq
Last update: October 2, 2005
| PARTY | PERIODICALS | CONTACT | IDEOL. | INTERNAT. | ELECTION Parl. '05 |
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| Anti-Occupation Patriotic Forces | not existing | f. 2005, alliance of islamists, nationalists and leftists | |||||||
| Arab Revolutionary Workers' Party in Iraq | Hizb al-Ummal al-Thawri al-'Arabi fi al-'Iraq | marxist | link to same Syrian party | - | f. 2003 | ||||
| Arab Socialist Action Party | Hizb al-Amal al-Ishtiraki al-'Arabi | rad. left. Arab nat. | - | ||||||
| Arab Socialist Movement | Harakah al-Ishtirakiyah al-'Arabiyah | Al-Jareeda | left. soc. | - | f. 1969 as split from Arab Nationalist Movement, led by Abd al-Ilah al-Nasrawi | ||||
| Arab Socialist Movement | Harakah al-Ishtirakiyah al-'Arabiyah | ASM | rad. left. | - | led by Awni al-Qalamji, member of IPA | ||||
| Arab Socialist Movement (Patriotric Command) | rad. left. | - | member of Anti-Occupation Patriotic Forces | ||||||
| Assyrian Democratic Movement | Harakat al-Dimuqratiyah al-Ashuriyah | Zowaa | left. nat. | 0.43% for National Rifaidin List | f. 1979, led by Yonadim Khan | ||||
| Assyrian Progressive Nationalist Party | left. nat. | - | f. 1990, led by Ashur Beth-Shlimon | ||||||
| Assyrian Socialist Party | Gaba Shawtapaya Atouraya | ASP/GSA | left. nat. | - | f. 2002 | ||||
| Consortium of Democratic Forces | - | alliance f. 2004 by KDP, PUK, ICP, NDP, Regroupment of Independent Democrats and ASM[Nasrawi] | |||||||
| Democratic Construction Party | Hizb al-Bina' al-Dimuqrati | 0.017% | led by As'ad al-'Ibadi; close to Kurdish Democratic Solution Party | ||||||
| Democratic Kassim Current | Tayyar al-Qassimi al-Dimuqrati | left. nat. | - | f. 2004 | |||||
| Democratic Kassim Party | Hizb al-Qassimi al-Dimuqrati | - | |||||||
| Democratic Left Movement | Harakat al-Yasar al-Dimuqrati | - | |||||||
| Democratic National Bloc for Development | Kutla al-Wataniyah al-Dimoqratiyah lil Tanimiyah | - | alliance, f. 2004 by FDINP, Dem. Kassim Current and Movement for the Defense of the Iraqi People | ||||||
| Democratic National Regroupment in Iraq | Tajammu' al-Qawmi al-Dimuqrati fi al-Iraq | DNA | nasserite | - | |||||
| Federal Democratic Iraqi Nation Party | Hizb al-Umma al-Dimuqrati al-'Iraqi al-Federali | - | |||||||
| General Secretariat of the Unified National Action | Amanat al-A'ma lil Amal al-Qaumi al-Muwahad | left. nat. | - | f. 2004 by 5 parties | |||||
| Green Party of Iraq | Hizb al-Khudr al-'Iraqi | green | - | f. 1992, led by Akram Alhamdani | |||||
| Iraqi Communist Party | Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Iraqi | ICP | Tariq al-Sha'b, Risalat al-Iraq | com. | ex-CI, ex-WMR | 0.83% | f. 1934, led by Hamid Majeed Mousa | ||
| Iraqi Communist Party - Advanced Cadre | com. | - | split from ICP, led by Baqir Ibrahim al Mousawi | ||||||
| Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre | Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Iraqi - al-Kader | com. | - | split from ICP in 1985, led by Nouri Al-Muradi | |||||
| Iraqi Communist Party - Central Command unofficial | Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Iraqi - Al-Qiyadah al-Markaziyah | al-Moshtarak, al-Ghad | rad. left., ex-mao. | - | f. 1968 as split from ICP , led by Ibrahim Alawi | ||||
| Iraqi Democratic Grouping | Tajammu' al-Dimuqrati al-'Iraqi | al-Ghad al-Dimuqrati | - | f. 1979, split from ICP, led by Sultan Mulla Ali | |||||
| Iraqi Environment Party | Hizb al-Bi'ah al-'Iraqi | green | - | f. 2003 | |||||
| Iraqi Patriotic Alliance | Tahaluf al-Watani al-'Iraqi | IPA | - | f. 1992 by faction of Syrian Ba'th, ASM, Arab Labour Party, Socialist Unity Party | |||||
| Iraqi National Democratic Opposition Current | - | alliance f. 2002, led by Abd al-Amir al-Rikabi | |||||||
| Iraqi Revolutionary Marxist-Leninists Regroupment | Tajammu' al-Marksiyin al-Leniniyin al-Thawriyin al-Iraqiyin | MLR | mao. | close to RIM | - | ||||
| Leftist Worker Communist Party of Iraq | Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Ummali al-Yasari al-Iraqi | left. com. | close to WCP Iran | - | f. 2004 as split from Worker Communist Party, led by Issam Shukri | ||||
| Leftists and Progressives Common Work Committee of Iraq | Lajnat al-Amal al-Mushtarak li Yasariyin wa Taqaddumiyin al-Iraq | - | f. 2003 | ||||||
| Movement for the Defense of the Iraqi People | Harakat al-Defa' an al-Shaab al-Iraqi | - | |||||||
| Movement of Arab Democratic Nationalists | Harakat al-Qaumiyin al-Dimuqratiyin al-Arab | Arab nat. | - | f. 2003 | |||||
| Movement of the Arab Nationalist Current in Iraq | Harakat al-Tayyar al-Qaumi al-Arabi fi al-Iraq | Arab nat. | - | ||||||
| Nasserite Socialist Party | Hizb al-Ishtiraqi al-Nasiri | Arab nat. | - | f. 2003 by merger of Socialist, Socialist Unionist and Nasserite Socialist Vanguard parties | |||||
| Nasserite Unionist Assembly | Arab nat. | - | led by Nouri al-Bahrani | ||||||
| Nasserite Vanguard Party in Iraq | Hizb al-Tali'i al-Nasiri fi al-'Iraq | Arab nat. | - | ||||||
| National Democratic Communist Movement | Harakat al-Shuyu'iyah al-Dimuqratiyah al-Wataniyah | com. | - | f. 2001, split from ICP, in IPA, led by Khalid Salam and Ahmad Karim | |||||
| National Democratic Party | Hizb al-Watani al-Dimuqrati | Al-Ahali | soc. dem. | 0.018% | refounded in 2003 (f. 1946), led by Nasser al-Jadershi | ||||
| National Democratic Party | Hizb al-Watani al-Dimuqrati | soc. dem. | - | f. 2004 as split from other NDP, led by Hadeeb al-Haj Mahmoud | |||||
| National Democratic Progressive Rally | Tajammu' al-Taqaddumi al-Dimuqrati al-Watani | - | f. 2003 by former ICP members | ||||||
| Organization of Toilers' Struggle | - | ||||||||
| People's Struggle Movement | Harakat al-Kifah al-Sha'bi | Arab nat. | - | f. 2003 | |||||
| People's Union Movement | Harakah al-Ittihad al-Sha'b | - | f. 2004 by faction pof ICP, led by Sabah Ziadah Al-Musawi | ||||||
| People's Unity Party | Hizb al-Ittihad al-Sha'bi | com. | - | f. 1995 as pro-Ba'th Iraqi Communist Party, led by Youssif Hamdan | |||||
| Regroupment of Independent Democrats | Tajammu' al-Dimuqratiyin al-Mustaqillin | soc. dem. | 0.28% | led by Adnan Al-Pachachi | |||||
| Progressive National Democratic Party | Hizb al-Taqadummi al-Watani al-Dimuqrati | - | f. 2004, originally a split from the NDP in 1960s | ||||||
| Revolutionary Statement | Bayan al-Thawri | Al-Bayan al-Thawri | com. | - | |||||
| Socialist Arab Party | Hizb al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki | - | |||||||
| Socialist Arab Resurrection Party | Hizb al-Ba'th al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki | Al-Thawra | illegal | former ruling party | |||||
| Socialist Arab Resurrection Party - Iraq Command | Hizb al-Ba'th al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki - Iqlim al-'Iraq | Syrian Ba'th | - | split in two factions, one in IPA, led by Mahmud al-Shaykh Radhi and Mahmud Shamsa | |||||
| Unified Nasserite National Party | Hizb al-Qaumi al-Nasiri al-Muwahad | - | |||||||
| Union of Communists in Iraq | Ittihad al-Shuyu'iyin fi al-Iraq | Balagh al-Shuyu'iya, Payami Komonizm | rad. left. | - | f. 1998 as split from WCPI, formerly Emanation Movement of the WCPI | ||||
| Union of Communist Militants | Ittihad al-Munadilin al-Shuyu'iyin | rad. left. | - | f. 2003 | |||||
| Union of Iraqi Democrats | Ittihad al-Dimuqratiyin al-Iraqiyin | Al-'Iraq al-Dimuqrati | rad. left. Arab nat. | - | f. 1979, led by Muhammad al-Dhahir | ||||
| Union of Iraqi Democrats | Ittihad al-Dimuqratiyin al-'Iraqiyin | Al-'Iraq al-Dimuqrati | rad. left. Arab nat. | - | split from Union of Iraqi Democrats in 1990s, led by Abu Ayub and Abu Majid | ||||
| United Nasserite Party | - | led by Zaydan Khalaf | |||||||
| Worker-Communist Party of Iraq | Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Ummali al-'Iraqi | Ila al-Amam, Forward, Al-Shuyu'ia al Umaliya, October, Bo Peshawa | rad. left. | - | f. 1993 | ||||
| Kurdistan | |||||||||
| National '05 | Regional '05 | ||||||||
| Democratic Movement of the People of Kurdistan | Harakat al-Dimuqratiyah lil Sha'b al-Kurdistani | - | 0.62% | led by Khidr Qadir Khidr | |||||
| Kurdistan Alliance List | Laihat al-Tahaluf al-Kurdistaniya | 25.73% | - | electoral alliance for Iraqi Parliament around PUK and KDP | |||||
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Hizbi Komunisti Kurdistan / Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Kurdistani | KCP | Regay Kurdistan | com. | Kurdistan Alliance List | National Democratic Kurdish List | f. 1993 by Kurdish Section of ICP, led by Kamal Shakir Muhammad | ||
| Kurdistan Democratic Labour Party | Parti Kari Demokrati Kurdistan / Hizb al-'Amal al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani | PKDP | Nishtiman | Kurdistan Alliance List | 0.67% | f. 2002 by Kurdistan Independance Labour Party (PKSK), led by Yusuf Hanna Yusuf | |||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq | Parti Demokrati Kurdistan-Irak / Hizb al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani 'Iraq | PDK-I | Xebat, Birayeti, Kader, Kurdistan News | soc. dem. | Kurdistan Alliance List | National Democratic Kurdish List | f. 1946, led by Mas'ud Barzani | ||
| Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party | Partiya Çareseriya Demokratîka Kurdistan / Hizb al-Hal al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani | PÇDK | left. nat. | close to PKK | 0.062% | 0.52% | f. 2002, led by Fa’iq Muhammad Ahmad Kubi | ||
| Kurdistan Democrats Movement | Bizotnewey Demokratî Kurdistan / Harakat Dimuqrati Kurdistan | BDK | Al-Hazara, Sharstani | Kurdistan Alliance List | 0.38% | led by Baha'uddin Nuri | |||
| Kurdistan Liberation Party | Hizbî Rizgarî Kurdistan / Hizb al-Tahrir al-Kurdistani | RPK | Peshang | left. nat. | - | - | f. 1993 by faction of former Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PSK-I) | ||
| Kurdistan National Democratic Union | Yekitiya Netewayî Demokratî Kurdistan / Ittihad al-Qawmi al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani | YNDK | Midya | left. nat. | Kurdistan Alliance List | National Democratic Kurdish List | f. 1996, led by Ghafur Makhmuri | ||
| Kurdistan National Liberation Party | Hizb al-Tahrir al-Qawmi al-Kurdistani | - | - | ||||||
| Kurdistan Oppressed Association | Jama'at Muttahadin Kurdistan | Kurdistan Alliance List | - | ||||||
| Kurdistan Peasants and Oppressed Movement | Harakat al-Fallahin wa al-Muttahadin Kurdistan | Kurdistan Alliance List | - | led by Bayber Kama al-Sulaiman | |||||
| Kurdistan Popular Movement | Harakat al-Sha'biyah al-Kurdistaniyah | Dangi Millet | - | - | f. 1996, led by Abd al-Khaliq Zanganah | ||||
| Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party | Parti Sosyalisti Demokrati Kurdistan / Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani | KSDP | Rebazi Azadi, Nahj al-Huriye, Govari Socialist | Kurdistan Alliance List | National Democratic Kurdish List | f. 1993 by faction of former Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PSK-I), led by Mohammad Hadj Mahmoud | |||
| Kurdistan Toilers Party | Hizbi Zahmatkeshani Kurdistan / Partiya Zehmetkêsanê Kurdistan / Hizb al-Kadihin al-Kurdistani | ||||||||