Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement ( ar, الفريق اللينيني في الحركة الشيوعية العراقية) was a grouping of

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i communist exiles, dissidents from the Iraqi Communist Party. The main leaders of the group were two university professors at the

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, Khalid Abdullah as-Salam and Khalil al-Jazairi. Towards the late 1980s, the group began issuing a broadsheet publication, ''Nashrah''.Ismael, Tareq Y. ''The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq''.

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/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p. 258 The group signed an appeal of leftist and democratic exiles in the Baathist newspaper '' at-Thawra'' in December 1991. In the wake of the

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, the Iraqi government issued a pardon for Iraqi exiles. As-Salam and al-Jazairi both returned to Iraq.

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Defunct communist parties in Iraq Iraqi Communist Party breakaway groups {{Iraq-party-stub