Glimpses of the history of the student movement in Iraq 1929-1930
The student sector in the third world and in all lagging countries is distinguished from the rest of the popular sectors in that it plays a leadership and pioneering role in the process of changing society and moving it from a state of backwardness to the reality of civilization and human progress....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Arabic |
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University of Mosul, College of Arts
1978-09-01
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| Series: | آداب الرافدين |
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| Online Access: | https://radab.mosuljournals.com/article_166220_e38c41a71f19aedacd9e6b013710a84c.pdf |
| Summary: | The student sector in the third world and in all lagging countries is distinguished from the rest of the popular sectors in that it plays a leadership and pioneering role in the process of changing society and moving it from a state of backwardness to the reality of civilization and human progress.
The student movement has actually dropped those traditional views that were controlling the nature of its work and that stand in the way of its leadership contribution to serving the people, so it took another printer from the work through which it made major changes in the structure of society itself. The movement no longer adopts professional motivation, as a division of work and a determinant of its path, but exceeded the limits of that work to participate seriously in the construction process, as it set all its own motives for the sake of the people and the nation, and the student movement in Iraq played an honorable role in all the battles that the people fought against the occupation, thus making great sacrifices It contributed to educating the masses and consolidating their ranks in those patriotic battles and the popular ground grants to them. At a time when we used to find certain forces moving in a mechanical movement by virtue of their consciousness, we find students participating despite the pressures and leading demonstrations and strikes on every occasion as an expression of the people's discontent with the military dictatorship. And they were constantly personifying the deadly contradictions in the reality of that authority, and their movement was a vital and natural extension between the forces of revolution, and as a result of it, the fall of martyr after martyr. The student movement joined forces with other struggling sectors of the people and waged side by side with them the struggle for liberation, democracy and progress. So that movement went through many stages and went through different experiences that earned it revolutionary awareness and maturity and gave it a nationalistic view that transcends it from narrow regionalism. Hence, the slogan of the unity of the student movement found wide resonance with all students in Iraq. And the student movements that we will review from 18-1970 are nothing but a vivid example of that solid student unit that was characterized by political awareness and enthusiasm for work and was among the most active groups of society, and in the absence of parties directing their activities, they were doing their own way to participate in national demonstrations and strikes, they were contributing in the field of publishing Limited and in newspapers and magazines and the issuance of leaflets and pamphlets. |
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| ISSN: | 0378-2867 2664-2506 |