PARTISAN!

With the movement of the USS Abraham Lincoln into the Arab Gulf and increasingly bellicose sputterings from the President, it seems an attack on Iran by the imperialists is imminent. The American imperialists, in their desperation to keep the peoples of the world bent beneath their boot, want to take advantage of the crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to impose an American backed puppet regime on the Iranian people – and if that proves impossible, then drive the country into civil war. It is the duty of all communists, anti-imperialists, and proletarian internationalists to stand resolutely behind the workers and peasants of Iran in the struggle against the imperialists.

Defend Iran, down with the imperialists! Workers of the World, Unite!

The current crisis in Iran, which is driven by the oligarchic ruling class of Iran’s response to crippling sanctions imposed by the imperialists, has divided the country between supporters of the reactionary Islamic Republic and the petty bourgeois opposition, which is largely supported by the imperialist powers. The working class of Iran, who have seen their historic leadership crushed under the boot of the reactionary IRI regime, have proven their ability to heroically strike out on their own, but remain disparate and isolated in a broadly reactionary political climate.

There are some who extend opposition to imperialism to political support for the Islamic Republic and its leadership. We repudiate this popular frontist delusion. The ruling class of Iran have shown their inability to effectively resist the imperialists, or to stabilise the domestic situation on terms favourable to the working class. In the struggle against the imperialists, these reactionary priests and generals have shown that they will always prioritise their own positions within the capitalist world system. They must be swept aside – but this can only be achieved on the basis of an international anti-imperialist movement led by the proletariat.

We call on all socialists, communists, and internationalists in Australia to unite to defend the Iranian masses from imperialism, to support the struggle of the Iranian working class, and to organise to break the connection between Australian and American imperialism. We must fight for a principled, proletarian internationalist solidarity movement with the workers and peasants of Iran and the entirety of West Asia.

Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation

The people of Paris will never accept this misery and this shame. It knows that there is still time, that decisive measures will permit the workers to live, and all to fight…

A general requisitioning, free rationing, a mass attack…

The policies, the strategy, the administration of September 4, continuing that of the Empire, have been judged…

Make way for the people, make way for the commune!

-Declaration of the Paris Commune, 1871