Rayat ash-Shaghilah
Rayat ash-Shaghilah راية الشغّيلة | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jamal al-Haidari Aziz Muhammad Abd us-Salam al-Nasiri Zaki Khairi |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Dissolved | June 1956 |
| Split from | Iraqi Communist Party |
| Merged into | Iraqi Communist Party |
| Ideology | Communism |
Rayat ash-Shaghilah (Arabic: راية الشغّيلة, 'Banner of the Toilers') was a communist organization in Iraq, named after its publication with the same name. Rayat ash-Shaghilah was founded in 1953 by a group that had been expelled from the Iraqi Communist Party. Its main spokesperson was Jamal al-Haidari. Rayat ash-Shaghilah was the largest communist splinter-group in Iraq at the time.