Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق | |
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| Leader | Kawa Mahmud |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Split from | Iraqi Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Erbil, Kurdistan Region |
| Women's wing | Kurdistan Women's League |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Kurdish nationalism |
| National affiliation | Kurdistan List (Before 2013) |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colors | Red |
| Council of Representatives of Iraq | 0 / 329 |
| Kurdistan Region Parliament | 1 / 111 |
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| Website | |
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The Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq (Kurdish: حزبی شیوعی كوردستان - عیراق, romanized: Hizbî Şiyuî Kurdistan – Îraq, alternatively written as Partiya Komunîst a Kurdistanê, Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الكردستاني – العراق) is a Kurdish political party, formed in October 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kawa Mahmud.
In both the January and December 2005 Iraqi legislative elections the party was part of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan. The party has a women's wing, the Kurdistan Women's League, whose leader Nahla Hussain al-Shaly was murdered in Kirkuk in 2008. It also has an Assyrian wing called the Kaldo-Ashur Communist Party based in Ankawa.
Kawa Mahmud became the party's secretary general, after his predecessor, Kemal Şakir, stepped down on 27 October 2017.