Editing Left-Wing Nationalism (section)

===[[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] Iraq [[File:Abd al-Karim.png]]===

*[[File:Abd al-Karim.png]] '''Qasimism''' - Abd al-Karim Qasim was an Iraqi military man and prime minister after the overthrow of the monarchy and King Faisal II during the 14th of July revolution. He had a strong role in the February 14 revolution, in which he led military brigades that took the capital, killing the king, then killing and maiming the crown prince and prime minister, having a parade in the streets with both bodies, surviving only Princess Hiyam. After that, he took power in 1958 with Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i as president.

As prime minister, he instituted nationalism, instituted some liberal laws, such as women's rights, marriage and divorce, inheritance (interestingly) among others. He also instituted agrarian reform, ending the feudal structure and bringing about a distribution of land, also increasing spending on education. There was construction of houses for the poorest population, an attempt to balance the communist left and the nationalist right, with secularism and civic nationalism. Even with some improvements, he still used the military to violently suppress rebellions and sentenced those who participated in the Mosul rebellion in 1959 to death, in addition to some more fervent opponents accusing him of corruption. Iraq's relations with Iran and the West deteriorated, it refused to enter Nasser's United Arab Republic and strengthened ties with the Soviet Union. After not granting autonomy to the Kurds, generating the first Kurdish-Iraqi war, in which the Iraqi offensive against it ended up failing, having to make negotiations for Kurdish autonomy. Even though he had good relations with the Communists, he ended up purging them in 1960 after the Kirkuk massacre. He was overthrown after a Baath Party military coup in 1963, then being executed and his body exposed on television.