''Ila al-Amam'' ( ar, إلى الأمام, 'Forward') was a

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

group in

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 ...

, known by the publication it issued under that name. The group publishing ''Ila al-Amam'' had been expelled from 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 ...

in August 1942, after which they founded ''Ila al-Amam''. The main leaders of the group were Thunun Ayub ('Qadir') and Yaqub Cohen ('Fadil'). Inside the Communist Party, Ayub had been a

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

member but had developed personal differences with the Communist Party general secretary Fahd. The ''Ila al-Amam'' suffered heavily from state repression. In September 1944 the ''Ila al-Amam'' group merged with the '' Shararah'' group, forming the '' Wahdat an-Nidal''.Ismael, Tareq Y.
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq
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: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p. 30

References

{{Reflist Defunct communist parties in Iraq Iraqi Communist Party breakaway groups