''Shursh'' ('Revolution') was an

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i Kurdish communist organization. It emerged in 1945, out of the Kurdish section of the erstwhile '' Wahdat an-Nidal'' group (the Arab section ''Wadhat an-Nidal'' had merged with the Iraqi Communist Party in 1945). The Kurdish section, continuing as ''Shursh'', had refused to merge into the Iraqi Communist Party.Ismael, Tareq Y.
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq
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/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. 30-31 ''Shursh'' played an important role in the formation of the Kurdish Freedom Party (also known as the 'Rizgari Kurd Party') in 1946. When the

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was founded in August 1946, the majority of the Kurdish Freedom Party and a sector of ''Shursh'' merged into it. Other elements of ''Shursh'' either disbanded or joined the Iraqi Communist Party. Amongst those who joined the Iraqi Communist Party were Jamal al-Haidari, Salih al-Haidari, Hamid Uthman and Nafi Yunus.

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