A free homeland and a happy people explained

"A free homeland and a happy people" (Arabic: وطن حر وشعب سعيد ) is an Arabic communist slogan. It was the slogan of the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party, first adopted at the first conference of the Political Committee of the party (which also put Khalid Bakdash at the helm of the party).^{[1] [2]} The slogan was adopted by the Iraqi Communist Party at its clandestine first national conference held in March 1944.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Artin Madeian. Jūrj Ḥāwī. حياة على المتراس: ذكريات ومشاهدات. 1986. دار الفارابي،.
2. Book: Johan Franzén. Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. 2011. Hurst Publishers. 978-1-84904-101-0. 41.
3. Book: Tareq Y. Ismael. The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. 2008. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-87394-9. 33.
4. Book: Elizabeth F. Thompson. Justice Interrupted. 15 April 2013. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-07609-9. 189.