PARTISAN!

We have compiled for our readers a series of statements and communiques published by the revolutionary movement within Iran. In the face of state terror, and opposing both domestic reaction and imperialist conspiracies, the Iranian working class is engaged in a heroic battle. We publish these dispatches with the aim of elucidating the chaotic political situation on the ground, and spreading consciousness of the struggle of the Iranian working class.

– Edith Fischer, Editor

Statement by the Cooperation Council of Iranian Left and Communist Forces in solidarity with the struggles of the masses of the Iranian people!

31 December 2025

Long live the struggle against poverty, high prices and inflation! Forward to the revolution!

In recent days, a wave of mass protests has erupted in a number of Iranian cities. These protests, which began on Sunday, December 28, 2025, following an unprecedented rise in the value of the dollar and a sharp increase in prices, combined with a combination of protests by businessmen and people from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, spread to Jomhuri Street in the early hours and then to other areas of Tehran. The current new wave of protests, which is rooted in the general dissatisfaction of the masses, the people’s livelihood difficulties, the skyrocketing inflation, and the meager wages and rights of workers and laborers, continued on Monday and Tuesday and has taken on wider dimensions by spreading to cities such as Isfahan, Mashhad, Karaj, Hamedan, Qeshm, Kish, Mallard, Mamasani, and Kerman.

The rapid spread of popular protests from Tehran to other cities, along with slogans against Khamenei and the Islamic Republic, and the rapid support of students at Tehran and other universities in the country, reflects the pent-up anger and disgust of the working masses who are no longer willing to tolerate the crimes of the Islamic Republic. An authoritarian and reactionary regime that has suppressed the Iranian people for many years, imposed poverty and deprivation on them, and spent billions of dollars from the hard-earned money of workers and laborers on waging war, expanding its proxy forces, and nuclear facilities. A corrupt and oppressive regime that, despite all the poverty and misery it has imposed on the workers and laborers of Iran, has responded to society with unlimited repression and any protest movement with arrests, imprisonment, executions, and killings. As in the past two days, in order to disperse the protesting masses, it has thrown tear gas at them, surrounded universities, beaten protesters, and in some cases even shot them.

The growing protests of the Iranian masses in the past few days have clearly shown that not only have the killings, executions, imprisonments, and arrests of the past years not been able to stop the oppressed people from fighting to get rid of the poverty, misery, and discrimination imposed on them, but they have once again taken to the streets with slogans of “Death to the dictator,” “Death to the Islamic Republic,” and “Long live freedom,” turning the streets into their battlefield with the ruling reaction. More importantly, with the formation of a new wave of protests, the militant students of Tehran’s universities have also linked the university campuses to the street struggles of the people from the very first hours of the street protests by chanting slogans such as “no Pahlavi, no leader (supreme leader), democracy and equality,” “Women, Life, Freedom,” and “The student dies, but will not accept humiliation.”

Meanwhile, a few seemingly monarchist forces – perhaps security infiltrators – are trying to divide and disrupt the current protests of the Iranian people, as in 2022, by attending some of these gatherings and chanting slogans in favor of Reza Pahlavi. Therefore, it is necessary that women, youth, and progressive forces accelerate the current growing protests while rejecting and isolating these neo-fascist policies, along with exposing the fascist actions of Israel and the right-wing television channels such as “man-o-tou” and “Iran International” which spread deepfake videos by falsifying and dubbing videos of street protests. The masses of the Iranian people should also expand popular protests by joining the ranks of street struggles as much as possible, strengthen their struggle unity even more than before, and distance themselves from those who try to create division by infiltrating their struggle ranks.

More important than the street struggles of the working masses and the solidarity of the militant and freedom-loving students with their struggles in the past days is the formation and spread of labor strikes and their connection with the street struggles of the masses of the Iranian people. A rightful demand that the street movement and the student movement should demand from the Iranian working class in these decisive days. Undoubtedly, if the workers of Iran in these decisive days in factories and service institutions unify their scattered strikes, stop the wheel of production, and rise up united and unified to organize nationwide strikes, then surely this time it will be the workers, women, and the broad masses of the Iranian people who will celebrate the victory of the revolution on the ruins of the Islamic Republic.

Down with the Capitalist Regime of the Islamic Republic

Long Live Freedom, Long Live Socialism

In Support of the Iranian People’s Uprising!

January 2026

The following is the statement of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency in support of the latest uprising in Iran. These protests, started by merchants selling imported electrical goods in Tehran on December 28th, have now spread to many towns and cities across Iran. Following the 12-day war with US imperialism and Israel, the value of the Iranian rial has nose-dived, reaching new and unbelievable records – exacerbating the already dire economic situation. Although in December 2025 the official rate of inflation was 42 per cent, food inflation now stands at 72 per cent and the increase in the price of bread has reached 113 per cent.

The regime’s response has been, as ever, beatings, tear gas, water cannon, live rounds and arrests. By the ninth day of the protests (January 5th), the regime had murdered at least 29 protesters and arrested over 1200 people. Many of the detainees are teenagers.

Although the protests against this cost-of-living catastrophe have mobilised many thousands, so far, they have not included Iran’s workers as an organised class. Workers in many industries, including oil and gas, have been protesting and even striking on issues like low pay, job security, eliminating subcontractors, conditions and so on.

The outcome of the present protests, as with all previous movements against this regime, depends on the Iran’s workers intervening in all struggles as a class: both for their own victory and to pose a revolutionary leadership for all other exploited classes and oppressed layers. Only a revolutionary workers’ vanguard party – i.e., the party of the strike leaders and most militant and conscious workers – can organise and lead all classes and layers to overthrow capitalism. Revolutionary working-class leadership is, and always will be, the decisive factor in any mass movement in Iran. Only a genuine Leninist party can overcome both the current stalemate and the recurring defeats of the mass movements and strikes.

Last week’s protest by Tehran’s bazaar merchants against the excessive increase in the price of the dollar suddenly became an excuse to vent the pent-up anger of various segments of society. What the bazaaris saw as only a relative reduction in the huge profits they have made over the past years from within this poor and worn-out society, for the majority of the people meant increased poverty, emptier tables, and a deeper livelihood crisis. This increase, along with the high cost of petrol, increased taxes, and the unbridled rise in the prices of basic goods, has brought the lives of millions of people to an unbearable level.

Therefore, the society, which has been living from humiliation and poverty, which after the bloody suppression of the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising, has every day felt the increasing pressure of unemployment, economic insecurity, and hunger, was quickly attracted to the merchants’ protests and took to the streets, and the protest, which could be said to have been indirectly encouraged by President Pezeshkian in one of his recent speeches and was supposed to be used in the service of discrediting the fundamentalists and hardliners, suddenly became a spark in the gunpowder of the people’s accumulated anger; people who have been struggling for years amid inflation, repression, and a future without a future.

The scope of these protests quickly expanded to other segments of society, especially the youth, women, students, and workers who were on strike and protesting, and spread to different cities in the country. Reports show that in many large cities, people are expressing their dissatisfaction with the overall ruling order with greater boldness and are directing their anger at the regime’s symbols and military and law enforcement officers. In contrast, the government has tried to contain this wave of protests by intensifying repression, using official and unofficial forces, and making widespread arrests.

Today, we are witnessing a society in which rampant inflation has removed basic items such as bread, rice, beans, meat, and chicken from the food basket of a large portion of families, and goods such as fruit, sweets, and nuts have become luxury items. Unemployment, homelessness, the spread of addiction, various social harms, and the collapse of family ties are the naked reality of this economic-political order. It is clear that changing the head of the National Bank, or any other change in the regime’s personnel and factions, will not solve the structural crises of the capitalist system.

Faced with this situation, the class gap is deepening every day. A privileged minority has amassed fabulous wealth by exploiting the hardships of the majority and plundering public resources, while millions of people have taken up insecure and humiliating jobs to survive. As the children of the poor sell flowers and hawk other goods on the streets to help support their families, the children of those in power are enjoying luxury and pleasure abroad. The country’s capital, mineral resources, and natural resources have been plundered by those close to the government, the IRGC, the Supreme Leader’s Office, and various religious foundations and shrines, and sold at the lowest prices, and with the proceeds transferred to foreign banks for the day of reckoning.

The Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency, while fully and unconditionally supporting the people’s just struggles, emphasises the need to learn from the experience of the uprisings and protests of the past few decades. Historical experience has shown that without conscious, continuous, and deep-rooted organisation, even the most widespread protests will wither in the face of systematic repression. The government has always tried to exhaust movements that lack organisation and a clear horizon by eliminating known figures, creating fear, making temporary promises, and suppressing them later.

Therefore, the connection between street protests and workers’ struggles is of decisive importance. This connection can bring livelihood and class demands into the context of public protests and give continuity, coherence and perspective to the struggles. The experience of past uprisings has clearly shown that neither of these two arenas alone can reach any sustainable achievements, and only their synergy can change the balance of power in favour of the people.

In this situation, we would like to share a few suggestions with you:

The progressive youth in Iran should start preparing to confront the military and security thugs and the plainclothes goons. The creation of small clandestine “self-defence” committees is at the centre of these preparations. These committees, while strictly observing security issues, can organise underground militias consisting of trusted individuals, so that during protests or social uprisings, they can disarm the government thugs and goons with purposeful planning. From our perspective, these clandestine committees will also be responsible for co-ordinating and organising between different social movements. Gathering accurate and extensive information about the officials and all personnel of the repressive apparatuses, and the organisers of the institutions that perpetuate the capitalist dictatorship regime, will be an important matter for the continuation of the current struggles and preparation for the next waves of revolts and uprisings of the exploited and oppressed masses.

The slogan of arming the masses (which is heard these days), without forming youth and workers’ militias in advance, is not only incorrect but also imaginary utopian. Marxist activity differs fundamentally from anarchist, pseudo-anarchist and guerrilla methods. In our opinion, the struggle is not limited to one or two periods of street uprisings, but will continue until the complete victory of the workers’ councils. Consequently, the formation of clandestine committees and militias is also not limited to a specific period, and the goal is to continue their activities in future periods as well.

Obviously, self-defence is the legitimate right of combative workers and social activists, and they must be ready at all times to protect their own lives and those of others involved in the struggle. The complete arming of the masses will occur during the period of revolutionary upsurge, when the councils and the ruling regime take form as two competing forces, but this does not exclude legitimate and limited defence in conditions such as the present.

The ruling capitalist government has built its survival on intimidation, repression, and structural violence. The constant reliance on these tools is not a sign of authority, but rather a crisis of legitimacy and the rulers’ deep fear of a society that has nothing left to lose. In such circumstances, social solidarity, independent organisation, and organised resistance play a key role in maintaining our fighting spirit and continuing the protests.

We salute the brave youth, honourable workers, women, teachers, and pensioners who are fighting against the thugs and mercenaries of the regime all over Iran these days in the streets, factories, schools, and universities, and we declare our support for this courageous resistance. The lessons of this resistance will be recorded in the history of Iran.

Let us form a workers’ vanguard party and its military wing based on armed popular militias!

Let us prepare for the overthrow of the capitalist system and establishing a Soviet government in Iran.

Statement of the Kurdistan and Azerbaijan Worker Activists

January 2026

A thought-out move towards the revolutionary horizon, confronting Zionist regime-change projects and imperialist aggression in defence of the working class and the socialist future.

We stand at a historical juncture in which the structural contradictions of Iranian capitalism—intertwined with the global crisis of capital—have reached a breaking point. The Islamic Republic, as a capitalist state, was forged within a historical rupture with US imperialism. Yet this rupture does not signify liberation; rather, it reflects the contradictory position of capitalism within the US-led imperialist world order. Grasping the nature of this rupture, along with its internal and external transformations, is essential to any genuinely emancipatory political analysis.

The structural rift of the Islamic Republic of Iran with American imperialism has gone through four historical stages:

1. The reformist transformation (1997–2005): an attempt to return the Islamic Republic to the orbit of imperialism through liberal democracy and civil society.
2. Green Velvet Revolution (2009): a soft overthrow project centred on the urban middle class and Western media.
3. The headless riots of 2017 and 2019: an outburst of anger by the working classes, without class organisation, and with the opposition seeking to appropriate it.
4. The formation of the final phase of subversionism: a complete link between the project of subversion and aggression, Zionism, and liberal fantasies, with the aim of structural collapse of Iran and regional realignment.

We declare unequivocally:

Today’s subversionism is not a project for liberation, but the domestic arm of American imperialism and global Zionism. Relying on the warmongering media, rootless celebrity, and fantasies of liberal democracy, this project attempts to appropriate the legitimate protests of the subordinate masses and turn them into infantry attacks.

In the face of this project, the Islamic Republic is also reproducing capitalist relations with all its might. From the expropriation of the slogan of “justice” in 1979, to the privatisations of the 1990s, from Ahmadinejad’s subsidy-oriented policies to Raisi’s “productivity” campaigns, and from the repression of the workers’ council to the imposition of sanctions on the shoulders of the working class, the Islamic Republic has shown that it is not only not an alternative to imperialism, but is itself a form of capital.

In the meantime, the Iranian working class, despite its repression, dispersion, and disorganisation, has once again come to the fore. The strikes of contract workers in South Pars, the protests of mining, sugar cane, railroad, education, and healthcare workers, are all signs of the working class’s return to the political scene. These strikes are not merely union-related, but also political possibilities. Possibilities for breaking away from both poles of reaction.

We believe the present moment is a moment of clear demarcation:

• a clear line of demarcation against Zionism, monarchism, and imperialist regime-change projects;

• a clear line of demarcation against the Islamic Republic, as a repressive capitalist state;

• a clear line of demarcation against the illusions of liberal democracy and reformism;

• a clear line of demarcation against rootless, horizonless uprisings.

At the same time, it is a moment of connection:

• connecting fragmented working-class struggles to an organised class horizon;

• connecting livelihood-based protests to political consciousness;

• connecting rage to organisation, and organisation to the party.

We call on students, intellectuals, and the lower classes to get out of the dual game of the “axis of resistance” and “imperialism.” Neither of these two represent liberation. Liberation is possible only from the heart of the organisation of the working class, and from the heart of the socialist horizon.

We defend the legitimate protests of the oppressed masses, but we emphasize:

Political demarcation from Zionism, monarchy, and military aggression is more essential to the working class than bread itself.

As labour activists in Kurdistan, we believe that only by returning to revolutionary socialism, through party organisation, and by standing firmly at the site of the conflict between labour and capital, can we turn these moments of crisis into a new horizon for the working-class revolution.

Long live the workers’ strikes!

No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism.

Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution.

Worker activists of Sanandaj, Baneh, Marivan, Saqqez, Bukan, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, Mahabad.

Joint Statement of Independent Organisations in Support of the Legitimate Protests of the Masses

3 January 2026

The renewed explosion of anger and protests by various sectors of the people in many cities reflects the unimaginable and intolerable inequalities, widespread disorder, and the extremely critical conditions of the masses’ lives. As the Islamic Republic ages, the people—especially workers, teachers, toilers in cities and villages, women, youth, and oppressed nationalities—realise more and more that under this regime they will never see peace, comfort, or social welfare, and no bright future is conceivable for them.

Absolute poverty, soaring inflation, and runaway prices all stem from the crisis-ridden structure of capitalism, and the Islamic Republic neither intends nor is able to mitigate economic, political, or social crises. On one hand, the survival of this system depends on the foundation of capitalist exploitation and oppression; on the other hand, the policies of those in power and the actions of the regime are major factors that intensify and expand these crises. Moreover, any attempt at positive change in society threatens the very foundation of the regime and exposes it to serious risk. For this reason, the Islamic Republic violently opposes every economic, political, or social demand of workers and the oppressed masses, responding to even the most basic demands with repression and slaughter.

Repression may temporarily satisfy dictators with the hope of silencing every voice of freedom, but this hope is false. The voices of the masses will not be silenced, and class struggle will continue! As we have seen, even in the darkest years of repression, the regime has never been able to impose silence or submission upon society. We witnessed this in the protest movements of 2017, 2019, and 2021, and in the revolutionary “Women, Life, Freedom” movement of 2022. Today, we see it again in the recent protests, which have turned many Iranian cities into arenas of street struggle, with courageous and revolutionary youth confronting bullets and guns, risking life and death. Final victory depends on solidarity and cohesion in struggle, the strengthening of the ranks of fighters, progressive and freedom-loving forces, and the mutual support of workers and the oppressed.

Supporting these struggles is the duty of every oppressed person and every freedom-loving and justice-seeking individual. The signatories of this statement, along with independent and active labour and retirees’ organisations, support the struggles of the masses and consider themselves soldiers in the great army of workers and the oppressed.

However, the lesson taught to revolutionary forces by all successful movements must be learned and applied to our own struggles:

Without a correct and scientific understanding of society and its dynamics, without knowing our friends and enemies, without a strategy and approach grounded in that understanding, and without organised, conscious, and advanced workers and intellectuals fighting based on this knowledge, no revolutionary movement can succeed.

Let us unite, organise, and take control of our own destiny.

Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’ Union

Coordination Committee to Help Establish Independent Labour Organisations

Khuzestan Retired Workers

Retirees’ Union Group

Joint Statement of Workers’ Organisations, Pensioners, and Social Organisations in Solidarity with Popular Uprisings

3 January 2026

We stand at one of the most decisive moments in our contemporary history. What is happening today in the streets, in nationwide strikes and protests, is the continuation of the 1401 [2022 using the Western calendar] uprising; an uprising that began with the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” and lifted the curtain on institutionalised discrimination, systematic humiliation, naked oppression, and structural poverty. This uprising revealed that society is no longer willing to continue its imposed life under the burden of this unjust order.

The veiled bastion was conquered and we declared that we will not tolerate sexual and gender apartheid. We declared that we hate superstition and will not trade human dignity. When we were answered with bullets, prisons, and executions, we stood up and declared with a cry of unity against poverty and corruption that we will not rest until the victory of our unfinished revolution.

Today, in loyalty to this covenant and pact, we have come to the streets and shout: freedom, freedom, freedom.

Today, we have come to the streets not just for bread, but for life; not just for survival, but for human dignity and respect, and for a humane future.

Unbridled inflation has broken the backs of the majority of people. Wages and salaries that are below the poverty line and the livelihood basket, predatory privatisations, rent-seeking, the existence of numerous mafias, repression, imprisonment and execution, and war-mongering policies have brought people’s lives to the brink of collapse. Society has reached a boiling point, and nationwide protests are a direct reflection of this critical situation.

The marketers, as a thermometer of this collapsed economy, have come to the streets with their strike.

Today’s protest is a protest against a parasitic class of billionaires who have ruined people’s lives. The issue is not simply the astronomical price of the dollar or inflation. The problem is the entire structure that tramples on our human dignity every day. This is the situation that has brought everyone from Generation Z to the retiree who cries out every day that livelihood, dignity, and inalienable rights are ours, to the streets.

Today, we, workers, teachers, nurses, retirees, students, women, and all suffering people, are taking to the streets in city after city, shouting for freedom and equality.

How long will poverty last? How long will slavery last? How long will we be captives in the clutches of contractors and the water, electricity, and sanitation mafias that, in conjunction with the power gangs, are getting fatter every day while people’s lives are getting more ruined every day?

How long will prisons, executions, the hijab order, and repression patrols last?

We are not at war with the people of the world, nor do we need nuclear enrichment and proxy forces. These are the policies that have broken the backs of the people.

We, the organisations and signatories of this statement, consider ourselves an inseparable part of this nationwide uprising and, in unison with the slogan of “Women, Life, Freedom”, we declare our full support and solidarity with the ongoing struggles of the people for freedom, prosperity, justice and human dignity, and we emphasise the following points:

We stand together and united against the government’s repression and killings, with the families of the victims demanding justice. Protest is our right. We strive with all our might to release all those detained in popular protests and all political prisoners, and we demand an “Iran without executions.”

1. In support of the nationwide strikes, we, together with our families, will gather in city centers and make the line of street protests as strong as possible.
2. In the face of attempts to divide, we unite our ranks with slogans of unity, unity, against poverty and corruption, and death to the dictator, and we shout in unison with the people of Zahedan: now is the time for unity, now is the time for revolution.
3. The seven hundred thousand toman subsidy is not the answer to the poverty imposed with wages several times below the subsistence level. Do not talk about empty coffers. The astronomical budgets of the repressive forces, proxy forces, and ineffective religious institutions must be cut. The billion-dollar fortunes of the ayatollahs, aghazadehs [children of the elite], and government gangs must be returned to the people to be spent on people’s lives, reducing the cost of bread and gasoline, and…
4. We do not need any leadership and once again emphasise that our desire is to end a century of exploitation and tyranny and build a society in which a predatory minority does not decide the fate of the people from above.
5. The resolute continuation of the protests, the expansion of strikes, vigilance and unity are the guarantee of our progress and the realisation of our suppressed aspirations. We will continue the path we have chosen with strength and with our unity and solidarity we will end this slavery, poverty, humiliation and inequality.

Pensioners’ Union

Kermanshah Electricity and Metal Association

Dadkhahan

Council for Organising Protests of Contractual Oil Workers

Council for Organising Protests of Informal Oil Workers (Third Party)

Council for Coordination of Nurses’ Protests

Voice of Iranian Women

Statement of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran on the new round of the uprising of the people of Iran

5 January 2026

Protests that began on 28 December 2025 following the Tehran bazaar strike, in opposition to rising prices and the severe economic situation, have grown broader and more radical by the day. Chants of “death to the dictator” and calls for overthrow have shaken the streets of large and small cities alike, once again drawing global attention to the struggle of the Iranian people to free themselves from the Islamic Republic.

These protests are a continuation of previous struggles, and it is specifically the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution that has once again taken to the streets—this time under different conditions and with an even stronger emphasis on “life”. Attention is now focused on how this revolution, in its new phase, will chart its path forward, and on how the people of Iran, by defeating the Islamic Republic and taking control of every aspect of life themselves, will shape a new chapter of history.

The latest protests are unfolding amid a dramatic deterioration in living conditions. For many people, there is no longer any room for patience or compromise, and as a result ever wider sections of society are being compelled to enter the struggle and settle accounts with the ruling power. On the other side stands an Islamic Republic weaker and more crisis-ridden than ever, with no economic or political answers to offer, and still reliant on bullets, prisons, executions and the machinery of repression.

For the revolution to overcome the Islamic Republic, it must bring an ever broader social force into the field and make greater use of levers such as nationwide strikes and a general strike—measures that are extremely difficult for the state to confront. The widest possible sections of the population, in cities large and small and across neighbourhoods nationwide, must actively join the revolution, while simultaneously engaging in sustained and varied forms of protest: demonstrations, night-time chanting, neighbourhood control, and attacks on state forces and institutions. Workers in industrial centres, teachers, nurses, retirees, public-sector employees and students can—and must—play a far more decisive and central role.

Strike committees, neighbourhood control committees, mutual aid committees and revolutionary coordination networks must be formed wherever possible, preparing the ground for the mass expansion of the political movement and readiness to deliver decisive blows to the Islamic Republic.

But the revolution does not confront only the Islamic Republic and its repression. Another danger threatening its advance and victory lies in efforts to steer political developments in Iran through deals from above—preserving the foundations of repression, dictatorship, religious authority and the state apparatus—whether through media manipulation, public opinion engineering, or direct and indirect intervention by foreign governments, so that they remain limited to merely the passing of power from the hands of one capital owners to another. In the presence of a revolution of this scale, such efforts are often presented in the name of the revolution itself, even as its supposed outcome. In reality, they serve the interests of the ruling regime and work against the revolution.

A clear example of this danger can be seen in the activities of monarchist forces. Through deception and propaganda, issuing death threats, intimidating opponents, engaging in thuggery, abuse and misogyny—in short, by modelling themselves on Trump-style fascism—they seek to eliminate rival figures and leaders who enjoy popular support, aiming wishfully to claim uncontested leadership. This delusion works to the benefit of the Islamic Republic and to the detriment of the people’s revolution. As a result, the struggle to overthrow the Islamic Republic has today become inseparable from the struggle to neutralise and defeat this home-grown, Trump-style fascism.

The Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran must, even before its final victory, entrench its human principles—such as unconditional freedom of expression, organisation and political activity; the abolition of the death penalty; and the dismantling of all forms of misogyny—so deeply in Iran’s political culture that no one can cross these lines without being exposed and isolated. Confronting attempts to clip the wings of the revolution, impose top-down deals, or manufacture artificial leaders likewise depends on the mass participation of millions in advancing the revolution across the country.

Opposing all forms of attempts to cause divisions among the peoples living within Iran’s geography; reaffirming Woman, Life, Freedom as a unifying slogan; rejecting all forms of dictatorship and state power imposed above society; insisting on demands that uproot the machinery of repression and suffocation; enforcing a total ban on execution, torture and imprisonment; and defending unconditional freedom of expression—these are all essential to strengthening and deepening the revolution.

Under current revolutionary conditions, collective effort and direct action to confront livelihood issues—from strikes and struggles for wage increases to protests for public services, the formation of medical mutual aid groups, cooperative funds, child-support initiatives, environmental rescue groups and other forms of solidarity—also take on political significance. In these areas too, the revolutionary movement is compelled to exercise direct popular power, even before fully displacing the ruling political power, depending on the balance of forces.

The revolution does not manifest itself solely through street protests, neighbourhood control or strikes. It can also take shape through revolutionary actions by workers in water, electricity, hospitals, telecommunications and other institutions, aimed at alleviating or resolving people’s immediate problems. This points to a broader truth: for full and comprehensive victory over the Islamic Republic, the current revolution must not only undertake revolutionary economic and welfare measures, but also move towards socialism—towards placing social production and distribution under the control of direct popular institutions.

The new phase of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution has brought the prospect of victory over the Islamic Republic closer than ever before. At the same time, it makes clearer than ever that decisive victory can only come alongside the defeat of all reactionary, traditional and backward forces that promise the people a return to the past, to despotism, servitude and inequality.

Down with the Islamic Republic!

Victory to Woman, Life, Freedom!

Long live the Socialist Republic!

Worker-Communist Party of Iran