Workers protest all across Iraq, demand back pay, jobs

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021
Workers block road leading to oil complex in Basra Dec. 23. Fight against unpaid wages, for jobs, services, cuts across divisions among toilers in Iraq and Kurdistan, and Sunni and Shiite.

Following days of protests across Iraqi Kurdistan by public sector workers demanding back pay, jobs, public services and an end to corruption, thousands more working people took to the streets of Basra and Baghdad to demand a halt to Iraqi…