Daud as-Sayegh was an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

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politician. As-Sayegh was a

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lawyer from

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

. He joined and left the

Iraqi Communist Party The Iraqi Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي العراقي '; ku, Partiya Komunista Iraqê حزبی شیوعی عێراق) is a communist party and the oldest active party in Iraq. Since its foundation in 1934, it has dominated the ...

several times during the 1940s and 1950s.Gabbay, Rony.
Communism and agrarian reform in Iraq
'. p. 97 As-Sayegh had sided with Iraqi Communist Party leader Fahd in the 1942 split in the party. However, in February 1944 as-Sayegh broke away from the party and formed the League of Iraqi Communists. As-Sayegh denounced Fahd's leadership in the Iraqi Communist Party, accusing him of adventurism and undemocratic practices. As-Sayegh was readmitted to the Iraqi Communist Party in 1957. In early 1958 as-Sayegh, then a

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member of the Iraqi Communist Party, was expelled from the party after disagreements with Salam Adil and Amir Abdullah. In 1959 as-Sayegh founded his own newspaper ''

al-Mabda' ''Al-Mabda ( ar, المبدأ, 'The Principle') was a communist Arabic-language daily newspaper published from Baghdad, Iraq. The paper was founded by the dissident communist politician Daud as-Sayegh (who had just broken away from the original I ...

''. As-Sayegh organized his own Iraqi Communist Party, with a tiny fraction of the membership of the original party. As-Sayegh's party applied for registration as the 'Iraqi Communist Party' in January 1960 as did the original Iraqi Communist Party. As-Sayegh's party was accorded recognition whilst the original party was denied registration.
Middle East Record 1960
'. London: published for the Israel Oriental Society, the Reuven Shiloah Research Center. p. 239 As-Sayegh was a personal friend of Abd al-Karim Qasim and his party received support from the government. As-Sayegh became the subject of virulent attacks in the Iraqi and foreign communist press. The (original) Iraqi Communist Party press stated that as-Sayegh did not represent the

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and that he suffered from megalomania. They stated that as-Sayegh had become a tool of the government in order to weaken the Iraqi Communist Party. As-Sayegh on his part rebuffed these accusations, stating that he represented the original party leadership formed in 1934. Soon after its foundation, as-Sayegh's party whithered away.Ismael, Tareq Y.
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq
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: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p. 101

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