Daily Politics
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This is the response of the people of Iran. The question is: What is the response of the world? How do the world’s governments and international organisations respond to these crimes, and where do they stand? […]
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Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and UK barrister Haydee Dijkstal have filed a request to the International Criminal Court to open an examination into the Islamic regime of Iran’s role in war crimes in Syria. [...]
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Mushtaq Ahmed, 41, was lynched by a mob on Saturday 12/2/22 in Punjab province, Pakistan, for having allegedly burnt pages of the Quran. The police had already arrived but the 300-strong mob stoned the man [...]
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The UK is banning virginity tests and surgery to recreate a woman’s hymen, criminalising these procedures or bringing women abroad to have them. A necessary step to end some of the endless ways in which [...]
Statements
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We call on the people of the world, while supporting the Ukrainian people and their resistance against the invading Russian army, to take action to put an end to the savagery that the world’s top one percent have created by raising the following demands: […]
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PDF file (print) Letter of protest to the Government of Nicaragua on the attendance of mass murderer Mohsen Rezaee at Daniel Ortega’s inauguration ceremony Mr Denis Moncada Minister of Foreign Affairs Government of Nicaragua 14 [...]
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The 12th Congress of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) was held online from December 3rd to December 5th, 2021. The Congress began with the playing of the Internationale and by observing a minute’s silence [...]
Literature
The Experience of Workers’ Revolution in the Soviet Union
Outline of a Socialist Critique Mansoor Hekmat 1. The Key Issues in the Soviet Experience I will begin by making some general remarks on the subject I am to present today. The viewpoint whose outline […]
The World After September 11, Part Two: Where is the ‘Civilised World?’
by Mansoor Hekmat Barbarity is not Inevitable The war of terrorists can be the beginning of one of the bloodiest eras of contemporary history. Already, hundreds of millions of people are bracing themselves. But this […]
The Myth of the National and Progressive Bourgeoisie
” … Unless we fully and clearly realise what classes are capable, in the light of objective economic conditions, of making the Russian bourgeois revolution victorious, all our words about seeking to make that revolution will […]
The Rise and Fall of Political Islam
A Discussion with “Porsesh” Question: What is your interpretation of concepts such as Islamic fundamentalism and political Islam? What is the difference between the two? Mansoor Hekmat: I do not use the expression […]
Islamic Terrorism
Mansoor Hekmat A wave of Islamic murders has engulfed the Middle East and North Africa. The victims of this wave are the most ordinary of ordinary people. In Egypt and Algeria, they shoot at and […]
When Political Power is in Our Hands
We will declare the end of any religious state forever. We will put an end to the interference of religion in the lives of the people, in the education system and in the judiciary. We will abolish official religion and declare religious belief or non-belief a private affair. We will end any kind of state or religious intrusion in people’s personal beliefs and private lives. The next state in Iran will be a secular, free and equal one.
Our stand on nuclear issue:
The nuclear installations will be dismantled and all weapons of mass destruction will be destroyed. Relations with Western societies will be promoted; science and progressive culture and civilisation will be welcome, and along with the humanitarian people of the world, progressive political, social and cultural values and the rightful demands of the people will be defended against reactionary states and movements.