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American and Iraqi armed forces raided the Baghdad office of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) on February 23 and 25. In the first raid, soldiers destroyed furniture, confiscated computers, and arrested a GFIW employee, who has since been released. The second unprovoked raid caused further damage to GFIW headquarters.

These attacks are part of a larger pattern. Over the past several months, GFIW offices and leadership have been subject to multiple raids and attacks by the Iraqi government, the American occupation forces, and other militant groups.

In response, the GFIW has asserted its belief that a free and independent trade union movement is of vital importance to the struggle for a more democratic Iraq. As the GFIW Executive Committee expressed in a February 3statement: “The annihilation of trade unionists, the destruction and occupation of trade union offices, the freezing of the trade union movement’s assets, and the putting of obstacles in our way will only increase our resolve to build an independent, democratic trade union movement.”

The GFIW has called for union members throughout the world to protest the treatment of Iraqi trade unionists and to demonstrate their solidarity with the labor movement in Iraq. Send letters of support and solidarity to the following email address:

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Expiration Date:
Mon, 04/30/2007 - 11:59pm