Inspired by Gramsci’s seminal work on the subaltern – taken back to its class dimension- and based on recent and forthcoming fieldwork with Iraqi activists, this paper is looking at the emergence of independent workers as socio-political actors in the different waves of the Iraqi Uprising, from October 2019 onwards. My main argument is that, as ‘street politics’ and ‘spontaneous aggregation’ played a pivotal role in the protest movements, the role played by new form of social and political resistance needs further and deeper investigation. So far, readings and analyses of the ‘October Revolution’ in Iraq have stressed the importance of well-established political groups, including armed militias, resorting mainly to the lens of sectarianism to explain the revolt and its supposed weakness. Without negating the importance of such groups on the Iraqi scenario, this paper aims at shedding light on newly established groupings, created by the Uprising itself, which are trying to challenge the political and social order as a whole. In particular, I will focus on the Workers against Sectarianism (‘Ummal didda al-ta’ifiyya) leftist group, established in Tahrir Square in October 2019, and active ever since. Gramsci’s writings -especially the ‘Southern Question’- can help illuminate the potential of such groups in both offering a radical political alternative, and in bridging the gap with social classes they claim to represent.