The revolutionary process that began with the uprising of Dey 1396 (December 2017) is moving towards rolling up the scroll of Islamic rule. In these conditions, having a clear picture of the overthrow of the Islamic Republic system and the characteristics of the system that must replace it is absolutely essential for the advance and victory of the revolution. The overwhelming majority of the people of Iran want a modern, civilised, humane society and government, free of all forms of discrimination and inequality, including religious, ethnic, national, gender, and class discrimination. Only a system can guarantee welfare, freedom, and equality for all whose centre and axis of values, policies, and laws is the human being and humanity, and universal human values — not Islamism, nationalism, “Iranianism”, nor religious–ethnic–national–patriotic taboos, sanctities, and prejudices.
The formation of such a system depends on the realisation of the following four pillars:
A — The Islamic Republic system, with all its factions, institutions, and laws, must be overthrown, and the existing state machinery must be completely smashed.
B — The government that emerges from the revolution against the existing system must immediately take measures to realise the immediate slogans and demands of the masses, and to guarantee and consolidate the people’s victory.
C — All citizens must organise themselves in councils, and the free, conscious, and direct intervention of the people in governance must be guaranteed.
D — The wage-slavery system must be abolished. The axis of the economic policy of the future system must be the provision of welfare and the needs of all people, not profitability and wealth accumulation for a capitalist minority.
A: The meaning of overthrowing the Islamic government
1 — The dispossession of the current rulers from power, including the Supreme Leader, the President, and all state officials.
2 — The immediate arrest and public trial of the leaders and all officials of the Islamic Republic who, throughout the entire rule of this regime, have been responsible for, ordered, or carried out massacre and crimes against the people. International prosecution of fugitive criminal officials of the regime.
3 — The immediate dissolution of the Ministry of Intelligence and all security, repressive, and armed institutions and forces of the government.
4 — The dissolution of the government, parliament, judiciary, courts, foundations, and all other political, executive, and ideological institutions of the regime.
5 — The abolition of the Constitution, the Islamic Penal Code, the Qisas law, the Labour Law, anti-woman laws, and all other anti-human laws of the Islamic Republic.
B: Immediate measures of the government emerging from the revolution
The government that emerges from the revolution, in order to realise the immediate demands of the people; to prevent the return and restoration of reactionary power in other forms; to block any conspiracy and attack by other reactionary states against the people’s revolution; and to create conditions in which the people can consciously, freely, and in secure circumstances choose the future system of governance, must immediately implement the following aims:
1 — The immediate and unconditional release of all political and ideological prisoners.
2 — The abolition of the death penalty.
3 — The abolition of compulsory hijab and gender segregation. The immediate abolition of all discriminatory laws against women.
4 — Complete separation of religion from the state, from the judicial system, and from education. Full freedom of religion and non-religion as a belief and a private matter of individuals.
5 — Declaration and guarantee of unconditional freedom of belief, expression, assembly, press, demonstration, strike, organisation, and party formation.
6 — Unconditional recognition of equal rights for all citizens of the country, regardless of religion, language, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and citizenship.
7 — Financial auditing of all government officials and their affiliates, as well as all religious, economic, and military institutions and foundations of the Islamic Republic. Confiscation of property seized by these officials and institutions through theft and plunder of people’s assets; return of the stolen wealth and assets of the country taken abroad by leaders and officials of the regime, and their use in the service of the welfare of all members of society.
8 — Immediate provision of the most urgent welfare needs of society. Immediate increases in wages and salaries in proportion to living costs and in line with the latest standards of living today. Immediate free healthcare and education.
C: Direct intervention of the people in governance and the administration of society
With the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, the masses must not leave the political arena. The organisation of the people in councils and the exercise of their will in politics and governance is a necessary condition for the liberation of society from all forms of oppression, discrimination, and lack of rights. The future government must be a council-based government.
D: Eradication of the wage-slavery system
Profit accumulation, exploitation, and wage slavery are incompatible with the welfare, freedom, and happiness of the overwhelming majority of people in Iran and everywhere. The welfare of the masses is not possible with the preservation of the capitalist system, which in Iran and all countries brings nothing for the people except austerity, inflation, and unemployment. Politically and socially as well, lack of rights and lack of control by the masses are structural features of the capitalist system in all countries. Specifically in Iran, the poverty, deprivation, dictatorship, and brutality that have crucified society over the past four decades are requirements for the preservation of capitalist domination. This situation must not be allowed to continue this time under another banner — for example, nationalism in place of Islamism. Humanity, modernity, the latest achievements of human civilisation, and the freedom, equality, and welfare of all citizens must be placed at the centre of Iran’s political and economic system — and this means that the future system must be a socialist system.
The Worker-communist Party fights to gain political power and to realise the above pillars. Our aim is the establishment of a Socialist Republic in Iran. The Socialist Republic we envisage is a system with the highest level of public welfare, the greatest political, social, and civil freedoms, free of any form of discrimination and inequality; with open borders to the world and de-escalation and a peaceful policy towards all countries in the region and the world; and based on the latest scientific, cultural, social, philosophical, and artistic achievements of human society, which today are represented in the West. The foundation of the economy, politics, and culture in the Socialist Republic is humanity and universal human values. These policies are advanced through the direct and organised intervention of all citizens in politics and the administration of society. In terms of governmental structure, the Socialist Republic is based on people’s councils.
We seek the smashing of the Islamic Republic and all forms of government standing above the people, the direct and continuous intervention of all citizens in governance, and the eradication of the wage-slavery system, and we call on all left and revolutionary forces, freedom-seeking and overthrow-seeking people, and all activists of equality-seeking and anti-discrimination movements to struggle for the realisation of the provisions of this Charter and to join the ranks of the Party.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
20 June 2018
(Adopted by the Political Bureau, unanimously)
AI-assisted translation, from the original Farsi
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