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Communiqué of
the Worker-communist Party of Iran
The Threat of War and the Rightism Race of
the Opposition
With
the increase in the probability of war, the intensification of war
propaganda, and the escalation of tension between the US and the Islamic
Republic the lines of bourgeois and non-worker opposition of the Islamic
regime have undergone change, that is, it has become clearer.
Among those
who oppose the war, some, with the pretext of defending the “motherland,”
have shamelessly and openly declared that they would stand by the Islamic
Republic! Some have already started to pack in order to return to the
country to ally with Ahmadinejad and Khamnei while maintaining their
“differences”. Some others bring the broken dreams of “reform” and the
“Second Islamic Republic” out of the closet, dust and shine them and get
ready more seriously than the Islamic Republic for the elections masquerade.
They hope to resell Khatemi or Rafsanjani to the people as their savers.
Those who
openly or covertly approve the war and are hoping a “regime change” despite
people are greasing their guns by the borders and dream of playing the role
of the Iranian “Chalabi,” “Karzae,” “Northern Alliance,” and “Jalal Talabani”.
Some of them write open letters to the Islamic regime to warn them not to
think that there would not be a ground operation! They ruthlessly and
audaciously declare that they are ready for any crime and brutality with the
support of the Cruise Missiles, jet fighters and by the side of the American
troops.
There is a
third, yet marginal group that differs from the two camps above. They had
formerly declared the defeat of the anti-regime movement and socialism;
nowadays they use the war atmosphere and the actual dangers and difficulties
that are caused by war to sell their hopelessness and defeatism. In fact
they are following the aforementioned two camps.
However, Iran
is neither Afghanistan nor Iraq. The actors of the political scene of Iran
are not only the Islamic Republic and its company or the bourgeois
opposition and the Iranian version of the “Northern Alliance” or “Chalabi”.
There is a strong, leftist, radical, and secular social camp in Iran that
stands against the Islamic Republic, the war, state terrorism, US lead
regime change and all kinds of bourgeois opposition. This is the camp of
humanity. This is the camp of libertarianism and egalitarianism. This is the
camp of worker-communism, the camp of workers, of women, of teachers, and of
the students.
The increase
of war threat does not turn the society into a madhouse in a blink of eye.
To the contrary, it intensifies the ongoing actual class struggle and class
polarization. This explains the aforementioned panic and the hysteric
Rightism of opposition forces. These groups do not oppose the war or the
threat of war and the actual difficulties that are caused by it. To the
contrary, they intend to resell their defeated and empty positions with the
pretext of opposing the war or the threat of war. To the extent that they
speak more openly the political polarization of the society is intensified.
To the same extent the society decides between the left and the right more
sharply notwithstanding the fact that in recent years left has had the
hegemony.
Against this
Rightism, the Worker-communist Party of Iran, representing the left pole of
the society, the workers, women, youth, and all libertarian and egalitarian
forces, declares that it will stand firmly against these right-wing
projects. The Party will not let continuation of the disaster that is called
the Islamic Republic or the imposition of another disaster on the people
with the pretext of the war. As we have announced in the resolution about
“The Threat of War and the Necessity of Revolutionary Overthrown of the
Islamic Republic” of the Sixth Congress, the only way to confront the war or
the war atmosphere is the advancement of the revolutionary, anti-regime
movement of the people, overthrown of the Islamic Republic, and constitution
of a socialist republic. This resolution has clearly outlined the position
and the tasks of our Party and our movement both in Iran and abroad in order
to prevent the war, and our duties to lessen the difficulties that are
caused by war and its immediate halt in the case the war happens. While
trying to unite the widest social and international forces around the this
resolution we declare that we firmly oppose all those “solutions” that aim
at continuation of the Islamic regime as it is or in a moderated form; we
oppose all those “solutions” that aim at resolving the political power issue
despite people; we oppose any nationalist, ethnicist, or chauvinist attempts
and we stand firm against any kind of indolence. The response to the
rightist race can only be the massive, extensive, leftist and revolutionary
movement against the war and against the Islamic Republic and in favour of
freedom, equality, and socialism.
The
worker-communist Party of Iran once again declares that the solution of the
workers and the libertarians in Iran and all over the world to prevent the
war and to confront its complications and to end it in favour of the camp of
freedom and equality is intensification of and supporting the opposition
movements and the overthrown of the Islamic Republic through the revolution
of the people.
No to
War! No to the Islamic Republic!
Long
Live Socialist Republic!
Worker-communist Party of Iran
November
08, 2007 |