Reasons for holding the congress

Between the third and fourth congresses of the Kurdistan Students Union (KSU), which lasted three years, several major changes occurred in the Iraqi political arena and the internal situation of the PKK, which had a direct impact on the KSU.

On February 8, 1963, the Ba'athists took power in a military coup. The September Revolution The coup, which had been going on for nearly two years, entered a new phase. Initially, attempts were made to negotiate a ceasefire between the government and the revolutionary leadership (at that time members of the Kurdistan Students Union formed a significant part of the revolutionary force and were actively fighting with the revolutionary members and Peshmergas). The Peshmerga resumed the revolution. What had the greatest impact on the party and the revolution at this stage was the inclination of some members of the PKK Political Bureau to join the Ba'ath Party and their agreement with Iran, which resulted in their later withdrawal from the revolution.

On November 18, 1963, the Ba'ath Party was overthrown by the army, Abdul Salam Arif took power, and negotiations with the revolution resumed. The group of the Political Bureau, which intended to secede, approached the revolutionary leadership and participated together in government negotiations, the success of which led to the peace agreement of February 10, This division of the party had a great impact on the revolution and organizational work of the party and its effects were fully reflected in the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union.

Conducting a congress

In the shadow of the ceasefire and the agreement of February 10, 1964, in order to reorganize their internal situation, strengthen their ranks and evaluate the changes and developments, the Kurdistan Students Union decided to hold its fourth congress in 1964. After the preparations, the congress was held from February 14 to 18, 1946 in Chokhmakhi village of Sulaimani province, which was one of the liberated areas under the control of the revolution.

The congress began with the slogan of “Victory to our revolution and autonomy for Kurdistan within a democratic Iraq”. It is interesting that the members of the Students Union in Badinan were not invited to the congress. This was seen as an attempt by the Political Bureau group to take complete control of the organization by marginalizing the members of Badinan.

However, the congress elected a new leadership for the organization, mostly from Sulaimani, with Fuad Mullah Mahmood as president and Nusrewan Mustafa as secretary.

1- Omar Tofiq - Supervisor of Sulaimani Province

2- Fuad Ibrahim - Supervisor of Baghdad and its surroundings

3- Comrade (Salah) - Supervisor of Erbil Province.

The most important decisions of the congress were:

Creating a front of the Kurdistan Students Union, Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, Kurdistan Women's Union and Kurdistan Teachers Union. Prohibition of the activities of any mass organization for students except the Kurdistan Students Union. 5. Emphasizing support for the revolution.

The leadership elected at the congress failed to perform their duties properly, so after only six months the organization decided to hold its second conference

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2. Ibid., p.

3- Sasan Auni, Kurdistan Students Union: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Erbil, Ministry of Education Printing House, 1998), p. 23; Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congress and Conferences of the Kurdistan Students Union, 1st Edition, (Erbil-Rojhelat Printing House-2012), p. 37; Majid Hassan Ali, The Kurdish Student Movement in Iraq (1926-1970), Master's Thesis/Salah al-Din University in Erbil, 2008, Spirez Publishing House, (Erbil-Haji Hashim Printing House), p. 147; Abdulkarim Fandi, Kurdistan Students Union, Organizational and Apparent Strength of the Kurdish Revolution, Gulan Arabic Magazine, Gulan Media Foundation, No. 22, Erbil, 25 March 1998, p.

4. Irfan Aziz Aziz, ibid., p.

5. Ibid., pp. 37-3

6- Shazin Hersh, Democratic and Professional Organizations in Several Historical Documents 1958-1968, Second Edition, (Sulaimani, Raz Printing House, 2001), pp. 56-57; Irfan Aziz Aziz, ibid., p.

7- Sasan Auni, previous source, pp. 23-2