 The publication of "Widhat 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).In September 1976 the "Widhat al-Qa'idah" group held a party conference, comparable to a party congress.At the conference most of the more important members of pre-split the Iraqi Communist Party (Central Command) participated, as well as some independent Iraqi Marxists.