[1] When the Wihdat al-Qa'idah group had been expelled, they began to openly criticize the leadership of Mahmud.
The publication of Wihdat al-Qa'idah, but the group also began publishing their own version of Tariq ash-Sha'ab ('People's Path', the name of the main organ of the pre-split party).
It blamed the 'reformist' leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party for enabling the Baathists to seize and remain in power in Iraq.
The party also issued support for the Kurdish right of self-determination, and called for communists to lead popular armed struggle in Kurdistan.
[3] In 1978 and early 1979, sectors of the party began to adopt the Three Worlds Theory of Mao Zedong.
Both claimed to the legitimate heirs of the legacy of the party and both of them publishing their own version of Wihdat al-Qa'idah.