The Woman, Life, Freedom revolution is a modern and progressive revolution — left-wing, freedom-seeking, and profound. A revolution against everything the Islamic Republic has imposed on the people over the past 44 years through repression, executions, imprisonment, and torture. A revolution that has taken shape in the radical climate of society, on the shoulders of two immense mass uprisings in 2017 and 2019, and by relying on the rich experiences of struggle of workers, women, and students and young people; teachers; pensioners; writers and artists; justice-seeking families; lawyers and healthcare staff; political activists; and activists of different freedom-seeking and popular movements — and it is moving to roll up the scroll of this reactionary Islamic rule.
This is a historic revolution to cut the hand of religion — and the religion industry — from people’s lives; to put an end to the lack of rights, oppression, and discrimination against women; to end repression and dictatorship, exploitation, poverty, inequality, and all the historic deprivations of the great majority of society. A revolution against governments that stand above the people, and against the powerlessness and lack of rights of the great majority of society. A revolution against that entire machinery of crime and repression which the ruling classes, generation after generation, have imposed on society with blades and acid and prisons and executions.
In terms of its aspirations, values, and ideals, the present revolution is incompatible not only with Islam and political Islam, but also with the nationalist movement and the “national–patriotic” ideology and value system. The ideal and aspiration of the present revolution is the liberation of the human being and humanity — not backward-looking worship of the past, ancestors’ history, sanctities and taboos, and religious–ethnic–national–patriotic prejudices that have always been instruments of domination and justifications for the interests of the ruling classes.
The Woman, Life, Freedom revolution is at the same time a revolution against the entire political Islam movement, and for the liberation of women and the peoples of the region from this anti-human and anti-life movement. A revolution whose victory will pave the way for the victory of civilisation and freedom-seeking over political Islam and reactionary governments in the region.
For the advance and victory of the revolution, 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. 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 realise these historic aspirations of the great majority of the people whose centre and محور of values, policies, and laws is the human being and humanity, and universal human values.
The immediate aim of the revolution is the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the smashing of its machinery of repression and its organs, institutions, and laws. The overthrow of the government must be so comprehensive and deep-rooted that it prevents the return and restoration of reactionary power in other forms, and does not lead to dictatorship in any other guise or قالب. The final victory of the revolution depends on the realisation of the people’s freedom-seeking, equality-seeking, and welfare demands and goals. The slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” is the symbol and expression of these goals and demands.
The Worker-communist Party declares that the victory of the revolution — meaning the complete overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the realisation of the revolution’s ideals — requires the implementation of the following demands and aims:
1 — The dissolution of the government, parliament, judiciary, courts, foundations, and all other political, executive, and ideological institutions of the regime.
2 — The immediate dissolution of all spying, security, armed and paramilitary repressive institutions and forces of the government.
3 — The abolition of the Constitution, the Islamic Penal Code, the Qisas law, the Labour Law, anti-woman laws, and all anti-human laws of the Islamic Republic.
4 — The immediate arrest and public trial of the leaders and all officials of the Islamic Republic who, in the ongoing revolution and 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 officials of the regime.
5 — 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 that these officials and institutions have seized through theft and plunder of people’s assets; return of the stolen assets and wealth of the country that have been taken abroad by the leaders and officials of the regime, and their use in the service of the welfare of all members of society.
6 — The prohibition of the death penalty. Execution is deliberate state murder and must absolutely not be applied under any circumstances, under any pretext, and for any جرم whatsoever.
7 — The immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. Ending the phenomenon of political and ideological prisoners. Any form of torture, intimidation, humiliation, and the exertion of intellectual and psychological pressure on detainees, the accused, and convicts — including forced confession — is absolutely prohibited.
8 — The abolition of hijab and all forms of compulsory religious clothing. Prohibition of any segregation of women and men in institutions, gatherings, assemblies, public spaces, and public transport. Prohibition of any segregation and deprivation of individuals from the social environment and the possibility of associating with others. Mixed education at all levels.
9 — Full and unconditional equality of women and men in all social, civil, and individual rights and spheres, and the immediate abolition of all laws and regulations that violate this principle.
10 — Complete separation of religion from the state, from the judicial system, and from education. Prohibition of teaching religious lessons, religious rulings, or religious “interpretations” of subjects in schools and educational institutions.
11 — Abolition of an official religion. Complete freedom of religion and non-religion as a belief and a private matter of individuals.
12 — Prohibition of any financial, material, or moral strengthening of religion, and of religious activities, institutions, and sects by the state and state bodies.
13 — Declaration and guarantee of unconditional freedom of expression and thought, strike, protest, assembly, organisation, and party formation. Freedom of the media; freedom to use social media.
14 — Unconditional recognition of the right to form professional and civil organisations, unions, and councils independent of the state for workers, teachers, students and school students, civil servants, and in general all people.
15 — Securing the welfare, dignity, and happiness of children. Immunity of children and those under sixteen from any material or moral interference by religions and religious institutions. Prohibition of hijab for children. Prohibition of child marriage. Prohibition of drawing those under sixteen into religious sects, ceremonies, and religious places. Guaranteeing every child’s right to a happy, safe, and creative life. Guaranteeing the welfare and سعادت of every child, independent of family circumstances and family income level.
16 — Abolition of national, ethnic, and ethnically-based discrimination and oppression. Recognition of equal rights for all citizens in all regions and provinces of the country.
17 — Recognition of the right to education and literary, artistic, and media activity in one’s mother tongue, and creation of the necessary facilities for this.
18 — Abolition of all religious, gender, legal, economic, social, and cultural discrimination and inequalities. All people, as human beings, must enjoy completely equal rights, status, and economic-social opportunities.
19 — Confronting pollution and the destruction of the environment. It is the right of all citizens and future generations to enjoy clean and healthy air, clean water, healthy food, and living in a healthy and safe nature.
20 — Free access for all to education and free healthcare and medical treatment.
21 — Immediate provision of the most urgent welfare needs of society. Setting a minimum wage and increasing wages with the direct involvement of representatives of workers’ organisations at a nationwide level. Automatic increase of the minimum wage in proportion to inflation. Securing the livelihood of all individuals who lack sufficient income.
22 — Ending all discrimination against rainbow people (the LGBTQ+ community). People of any sexual orientation can have a shared life. Rainbow marriages must be recognised.
23 — Freedom of all citizens in personal and private relations. Recognition of civil marriage and “white marriage”. All adults — women and men, of any sexual orientation — are fully free in deciding about marriage and divorce and living together, and in their sexual relations with other adults. Voluntary sexual relations between adults are their private matter, and no one and no authority has the right to pry into or interfere in it, or to publicly announce it.
24 — Removing any religious colouring from marriage in official state documents and authorities. The performance or non-performance of any specific ceremony, whether religious or customary, has no role in its legal recognition and its standing before the law.
The Worker-communist Party fights persistently and actively for the realisation of the above aims. The Party declares that the victory of the revolution and the full realisation of the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” is possible only through the direct rule of citizens, the abolition of any government standing above the people, and through the eradication of exploitation and wage slavery.
The Party fights for the establishment of a Socialist Republic — that is, a system based on the direct and continuous exercise of the will and intervention of the people organised in councils in politics and governance, and the political and economic dispossession of the billionaire ayatollahs and the entire ruling exploiting class.
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 governments 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.
We call on all freedom-seeking and overthrow-seeking people, and all activists and revolutionary forces who have raised the banner of “Woman, Life, Freedom”, to struggle for the above aims.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
16 January 2023
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