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Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Iran

On The Current Protests In the Iranian Cities

Workers, Liberated People of Iran!

The regime of the Islamic Republic is facing one of its most extensive political and economic crises in its past 30 years. The extent and dimensions of this crisis has clearly manifested itself in inflation and unbearable high costs, unemployment in millions, successive bankruptcies of production centers and industrial firms, international isolation, growth of social movements and mass protests and intensive differences amongst the different strata of the ruling class.

The dominant faction of the Islamic regime wants to get over this crisis by strengthening the position of the Guards Corps within the state and through a harsh military dictatorship, and thus guaranteeing the survival of Islamic Republic. In pursuit of this goal, the regime once again pulled out Ahmadinejad from the ballot boxes by utilizing and organizing military-security forces, by playing a behind-the-scene role in the election scenario. At the moment, the dominant faction is going through the last scene of the election scenario and with the aid of Martial Law and various government sectors, public television and radio as well as other publications and media outlets, it is turning the presence of those very social strata it drew to the ballot boxes to a reserve for their own suppression.

Now, different social strata and groups disillusioned and regretful over participating in the elections shoulder to shoulder with the people who have always been disgusted by the regime’s existence in its totality are turning the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities into a space for protest against the electoral coup d’etat by the Guardians Corps. The Security forces are brutally attacking the protesting, angry masses. Universities, streets and various squares in Tehran and other Iranian cities have turned into the field of an unequal clash between empty handed masses and the regime’s security forces armed to teeth.

The people who went to ballot boxes influenced by demagogy and deceitful campaign commercials by the regimes leaders, government reformers, Western press and that section of bourgeois opposition supporting the regime, should not repeat their historical mistake in another form by following Mousavi, Karoubi or Khatami. These top officials of the regime have always been a constant pillar of 30 years of rule by the Islamic Republic, and have participated in every crime committed by the regime against the people. Now that Mir Hossain Mousavi advises people to chant “Allah o Akbar” at night from their rooftops, people should know that for 30 years bat-wielding thugs of Hezbollah groups have been attacking protesting workers, women, students, and the revolutionary movement in Kurdistan while chanting “Allah o Akbar,” under the guidance of these very same gentlemen. The chant of “Allah o Akbar” is a symbol of theocratic state and as such a manifestation of utter lack of most basic human rights for Iranian people.

Government reformers have never had the inclination, credentials or the ability to lead Iranian people’s just struggles and they never will. The Iranian masses should not turn into a reserve force for settling the accounts by the candidates that lost to Ahmadinejad. They should not follow their reactionary slogans.

It is important for the people to participate in the struggle with their own slogans and demands; demands which stem from their real everyday lives and needs. They should choose such slogans and demands, which, if implemented, will jolt pillars of the state and function as a genuine prospect in people’s lives.

The people should turn the demands for the separation of religion from state, unconditional political freedom, freedom for all political prisoners, guaranteeing of complete equality between women and men in every single aspect of social life, abolition of forced veils for women, freedom of self-organization, salary increase proportionate to the inflation rate, securing the individual liberties, end to national oppression, abolition of death penalty… into slogans for their struggles and protests.

Labor movement and other vanguard social movements should organize their ranks through struggles for attainment of these demands. Overthrowing the Islamic Republic and realization of social revolution goes through this path. Party activists and socialist vanguards in the social movements are required to actively engage in the current situation and take these orientations into the midst of people’s protests.

Down with the Islamic Republic!

Long Live Freedom, Equality and the Workers’ State!

Long Live Socialism!

15 June 2009

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Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Iran
On The Continuation of People’s Protests

It is now five days since people’s mass protests in Tehran and some other Iranian cities against the electoral coup of Khamenei-Ahmadinejad faction took place. A coup to put aside government reformers, and humiliate the people who had gone to ballot boxes based on illusions and wishful thinking.

Regime’s repressive apparatuses have not spared people’s peaceful protests from barbarism and homicide. Up to now 8 people have lost their lives in the Monday protests after the attacks on protestors. There have been also fatal casualties and a high number of people have been wounded and imprisoned following the attacks on the universities and on the demonstrators.

Looking at the news and the protesters’ demands and central slogans and the prevention of any other slogan that could express people’s true demands, all point to fact that the reformers in the government have complete control and guidance over these protests.

This bitter reality is the primary weakness and Achilles’ heel of people’s mass protests. So far reformers have used people, -whose participation in the elections was based on their pent up fury against the regime and all the suffering and afflictions of the past 30 years-, as cannon fodder for settling accounts with the Guardians Corps and Khamenei’s faction.

Reformers aim to narrow down people’s fury, protests and demands which stem from people’s real life, into a limited demand for “Annulment of Elections.” Mousavi has recommended protesters to not chant “Death to Dictator”. Karoubi has called the black-dressed protestors on Friday to end their march at the Friday’s mass prayer, which is led by Khamenei, to once again demonstrate his loyalty to him.

The nature of reformers’ goals and the demands that they have set for people during their protests and the reformers’ past experience show the reformers’ incompetency and inability to lead the people’s struggle. These reformers themselves are a part of the Islamic Republic’s establishment, and to protect this establishment they would make compromise over their even limited demands with other faction at any moment.

In such a context and regardless of how a compromise is reached, suppression and putting an end to people’s protests will make one central component of this compromise. The Iranian people and the masses who have poured on the streets should not allow any of these factions to use them as tools for settling their factional accounts and get slaughtered because of such a compromise.

In these circumstances where the political crisis is escalating and where the Regime’s political record has been exposed to the society, all socialist activists and progressive and vanguard individuals are to optimally utilize this provided opportunity. In addition to enlightening on the sensitive situation at hand, activists should also promote the necessity of forming a revolutionary alternative and building their independent movements far away from any factional fight inside the ruling class. Activists should intensify their efforts to create labor councils and other forms of workers organizations as well as help other vanguard social movements to organize themselves.

It is vital for the existing worker organizations, left and socialist women and students to inform the public of their evaluations of the current situation.

The struggle to fulfill people’s tangible demands, - based on the living conditions of the suppressed majority of population-, and the primacy of this task should be implemented within people’s movement. Separation of religion from state, unconditional political freedom, freedom for all political prisoners, guaranteeing the equality between women and men in all fields of social life, abolition of forced veils for women, freedom of self-organization, salary increase proportionate to the inflation rate, securing the individual liberties, end to national oppression, abolition of death penalty, etc must become the demands of people’s protests and struggles.

Down with the Islamic Republic!

Long Live Freedom, Equality and the Workers’ State!

Long Live Socialism!

18 June 2009