Iraqi Communists assassinated
Two leaders of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) — Shapoor Abdul-Kadir, a politburo member, and Kabil Adil, a member of the leadership committee of the party's Kurdistan organisation — were assassinated on April 18 at Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The two had been active in organising and leading textile and tobacco workers, and struggles for refugee, women's and democratic rights. The assassination occurred as a WCPI delegation was visiting the unemployed union's office.
A WCPI statement said, "the direct responsibility for [this] brutal attack ... lies with the ruling parties who run the city", and calls on all "supporters of political freedom and human rights to raise their voice to oppose this terrorism".