Rayat ash-Shaghilah

Rayat ash-Shaghilah
راية الشغّيلة
FounderJamal al-Haidari
Aziz Muhammad
Abd us-Salam al-Nasiri
Zaki Khairi
Founded1952 (1952)
DissolvedJune 1956 (1956-06)
Split fromIraqi Communist Party
Merged intoIraqi Communist Party
IdeologyCommunism

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.