Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq

Communist Party of Kurdistan
Communist Party of Kurdistan; حزبي شيوعى كوردستان / عيراق
Leader	Kamal Shakir
Founded	1993
Split from	Iraqi Communist Party
Headquarters	Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
Women's wing	Kurdistan Women's League
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism; Kurdish Nationalism; Nonsectarianism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Kurdistan List
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Colors	Red
Council of Representatives of Iraq:	0 / 328
Kurdistan Parliament:	1 / 111
Website
	www.regaykurdistan.com
	Politics of Iraq; Political parties; Elections

The Kurdistan Communist Party/Iraq (Kurdish: حزبي شيوعى كوردستان / عيراق‎‎, Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني / العراق‎‎) is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kamal Shakir.

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, the leader of which Nahla Hussain al-Shaly was murdered in Kirkuk in 2008.^[1]