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
State in Revolutionary Periods
Mansoor Hekmat The present article, with some additions and improvements, is the text of a discussion put forth by the author in an inner-party seminar. It was first published, in Farsi, in issue no.2 – […]
Islam, Political Islam, and the Islamic Republic: The Political Economy of Allah
Read full text (PDF) Abstract: This article argues that the Islamic Republic was the only alternative available to the international bourgeoisie in the face of the revolutionary crisis of 1979 in Iran during the Cold […]
On the Fight against Religion
Interview with Radio International Azar Majedi: In a recent interview with Porsesh magazine you said, “secularism is a set of minimum conditions”, and that [you] “do not want just secularism, but a conscious fight […]
June 20, 1981: One of the Greatest Crimes of the 20th Century
Interview with Mansoor Hekmat Radio International: The common perception is that the Islamic Republic is a result of the 1979 revolution. You have stated, however, that like most revolutions, the 1979 Iranian revolution was ultimately defeated by […]
Islam and De-Islamisation
Interview with Negah publication, January 1999 Negah: The existence and conduct of Islamic groups and governments in the Middle East and North Africa in recent years have instigated disagreements over how to deal with […]
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.