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Rayat ash-Shaghilah (Arabic: راية الشغّيلة ‘Toilers Banner’) was a communist organization in Iraq named after its publication with the same name. Rayat ash-Shaghilah was founded in 1953 by a group that had been expelled from the Iraqi Communist Party. Its main spokesperson was Jamal al-Haidari. Rayat ash-Shaghilah was the largest communist splinter-group in Iraq at the time.