The 1968 revolution in Iraq : experience and prospects

Foreword                     7

Introduction                            9

Book I: 17 July 1968 January 1974

Part 1: The Party and the Question of Taking Power

Chapter 1: The State of the Party before the Revolution of 17 July 1968        15

Chapter 2: The Question of Taking Power                 20

Part 2: The Revolution of 17 July 1968

Chapter 1: Means and Alliances                     23

Chapter 2: From 3 am to 3 pm                       27

Chapter 3: Why the White Revolution                       30

Part 3: The Party and the Revolution the First Stage

Chapter 1: The Party's Special Experience                33

Chapter 2: Two Views of the Experiment of 8 February 1963                         36

Chapter 3: The Party's Leadership of the Revolution and its Government

its Stand against Imperialist and Reactionary Conspiracy                             39

Part 4: National and Democratic Tasks

Chapter 1: Political Independence                              45

Chapter 2: Economic Independence                           49

Chapter 3: The Kurdish Question                               61

Chapter 4: The Progressive Front                               65

Chapter 5: Democratic Transformations                    70

Part 5: The Tasks of Socialist Transformation

Chapter 1: Theoretical Problems and Objective Conditions             75

Chapter 2:  Transformations along the Road to Socialism                 83

Part 6: The Armed Forces

Chapter 1: The Armed Forces                        101

Part 7: Cultural and Social Transformations

Chapter 1: Heritage from the Past and Needs of the Future               109

Chapter 2: The Progress of Change                112

Part 8: Pan Arab Tasks

Chapter 1: Tasks in the Country and in the Arab Homeland             121

Chapter 2: The Palestinian Question              125

Chapter 3: The Arabian Gulf the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea           130

Chapter 4: Inter Arab Relations                      134

Part 9: International Policy

Chapter 1: International Policy 135

Book II The Tasks of the Next Phase 1974 9

Introduction 147

Chapter 1 The Party's Leadership of the Revolution and its Government its Stand against Imperialist and Reactionary Conspiracy 153

Chapter 2 National and Democratic Tasks 155

Chapter 3 Tasks of Socialist Transformation 161

Chapter 4 The Armed Forces 167

Chapter 5 Social and Cultural Transformations 169

Conclusion                  176