Statement by the Worker-c
The present state of the world, the dangers ahead, and the position of the working class and communism
Approved by the 43rd Plenum of the Central Committee of the Worker-communist party of Iran – Hekmatist, October2021
The world is currently going through tremendouschanges unprecedented even compared with the few decades prior. The extreme exploitative functioning of capitalism has exacerbated, on the one hand, the poverty, hunger, discrimination, inequality and deprivation of billions of people from the most basic necessities of life on a daily basis, andhas resulted, on the other hand, in the politico-economic conflicts of interest that have, in turn, often entailed military actions, both direct and proxy, on the part of the big capitalist powers. The devastating global, regional and local consequences of capitalistpractice and its resulting conflicts, the spread of state and non-state terrorism and the resulting proxy wars, intensified by the decline of the US economic and political position in the world, has brought the humanityface to face with a perilous presentas well as future. The world is going through another round of hardshipand suffering caused by the ruling topsy-turvy capitalist order.
The current fierce rivalry is precisely a reflection of this situation which, at a deeper level,is itself a reflection of the growing competition between capitalist economic giants over greater shares of the surplus-value, that is, the profitproduced by the working class. The intensification of competition and conflictsoverachieving higherlevels of productivity through rapid growth of the digital technology, the unprecedented use of highly advanced robots and computer systems in production as well as distribution,andthe existence of such phenomena as competition in the field of space tourism, are telltales of the intensifying struggle for greater shares of the world’s wealth as a result of the greedy profiteeringof powerful capitalistsassisted by their subordinate governments. These developments are transpiring in a world that has never been so intertwined before. The complete internationalization, i.e., the globalization, of capitalismaccompanied with theastonishing progress in communication and transportation has, indeed, turned our world into asmall globalvillage.
We are witnessing the results of the bourgeoisie’s incessant, destructive struggle for ever more accumulation and concentration of capital in the form of enormous dimensions of hardship and sufferinginflicted on the working class and other low-income strataof the population in the midst ofthe present unprecedentedabundance in human history. The poverty suffered by billions of people, on the one hand, and the astounding accumulation of capital and social wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer capitalists—supported by the state and its repression apparatus, and propped up by innumerable tools of brain wash—on the other, depict the totality of the upside-down capitalist world. The profound contradiction between the capitalist mode of production and the needs of billions of people to enjoy a decent standard of living is becoming more and more apparent. This is the most fundamentalproblem in the world today.
The working class has no other path to liberating itself but to unite and overthrow the foundations of the present inverted order, that is, to abolish wage labor wherever possible, i.e., in the weakest links of the bourgeois world, and thereby liberate itself together with the rest of society from the daily destruction caused by the prevailing capitalist mode of production. Otherwise, i.e., as long as the means of social production, and therefore the social production itself, are in possession of the bourgeoisie for profit, this situationwill last, and only deteriorate.
The only way to end these conditions is, therefore, to abolish wage labor, abolish private property, abolish classes, abolish all forms of discrimination and end human alienation by overthrowing the rule of capital and the capitalist class and to establish a workersstate, anew socialist order.
The end of a “multi-polar world” and the decline of the United States
The decline of US economic and political position following the end of the East-West bipolar world, the failure of the strategy of US military hegemony over the world and the demise of the “new world order” that secured the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East,in general, has brought to the fore new and expanding economic, political and military treaties and alliances with the other poles that, together with the United States, used to form the Western Bloc. The devastating consequences of a not-firmly-established multi-polar world—just like the catastrophic fall outs of the firmly established defunct bipolar world—are being felt through joint military maneuvers by the US Western allies, as well asthrough their wheeling and dealing with reactionary allies in different regions of the world. The inevitable consequentarms races have not remained limited to those between the US and its rivals such as China and Russia, but have also involved the Western bourgeois camp, that is,they have fueled the arms racesbetween the bourgeois states of European Union, the NATO members, and the United States.
China, Russia, the EU, Japan, India, and their allies at the global, regional, and local levels are all advancing this scenario against the whole humanity. China is the rising 21st century bourgeois imperialist pole. It isa tyrannical policestate ruling a completely closed society,relying on the super- cheap labor of the working class that has entered the arena made of the said web of competitions and rivalries, especially on the economic front, and aspires to become the world’s strongest economic power. China, benefitting both from the cheap labor of the less developed countriesand the forcibly cheap labor of the hundreds of millions of native Chinese workers, imposes low wages and reduced standards of living on the working classes of other countries, especially the Western countries. It has thereby re-enforced the interests of the bourgeois classes against those of the working classes within those countries.
Russia under Putin’s rule is incapable of effective global economic competition, and relies heavily on aggressivemilitary might,is China’sally. These two states overtly support the cruel authoritarian bourgeois states against the workers, against the communists and against the democratic movements under the guise of competing with the United States and other Western powers. The bourgeois-imperialist powers of the West have set the world on a path of retrogression.
the world’s hotbeds of conflict
The rivalries between economic/political powers have had, and still have, direct repercussions on theworld’s hotbeds of conflict. The descending position of the United States and the ascending politico-economic influence of Chinahaveseverely impacted global equations. The consequences of the conflictsbetween the great politico-economic poles of the world are palpable in the main hotbeds ofconflict, that is, in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other tension-stricken regions such as Latin America and Africa, as well as in the Western world itself.
Middle East: The main focus of old and new problems
The tension-strickenMiddle East, burdened with significantgeo-political and economic interestsof the bourgeois poles of the world, as well as the age-oldunresolved Palestinian problem, the spread of political Islam,or Islamism, the conflict between the state terrorism andthe Islamist terrorism, and the terrorism of the gangsterregime ruling in Iran which has expanded over the region and beyond, is still the world’s most criticalconflicthotbed. Despite the smokescreenput up by the big bourgeois powers and their media, the most fundamental contradiction, the “eternal”crisis, as it were, in the Middle Eastremains to be the ever-widening gap between the poor and the rich, and the resultingexponentially growing dissatisfaction with the status quo. The latter has, in turn, remained unresolveddue to the absence of radical horizons and leadership, in general, and, due to having been smothered by old and new ethnic and religious conflicts and wars, in particular.
Notwithstanding the trends, equations and plans of the reactionary bourgeois powers to shape a new order in the Middle East, where China and Russian militarism too have now got involved—thanks to the failures of the US government and its consequent retreat—as long as there exists the concurrent existence of abject poverty of hundreds of millions of people and the brutal tyranny and terrorism of super reactionary governments ruling them, on the one side, andthe existence of state terrorism of the big powers and their allies,on the other side, that region will remain the unique focus of crisis of our times. it is the fundamental problem of the Middle East rooted in the vested interests ofall ofthe big capitalist powers as well as the reactionary ethnicand religious dictatorships directly ruling in the countries of the regions.
Resolving the Palestinian issuethroughthe establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state on a par with theexisting Israeli statewill bean immediate, radical solution that will put an end to the problem of Islamist terrorism versus the Israeli state terrorism. For it will finally exhaust the source that has fueled the conflicts of those two, as well as the world-wide expansion of Islamist terrorism,that have dragged out for decades at the cost of the humane interests of the people in Palestine, in Israel, and in the world at large. All of the said developments are partly contingent, of course, on the cessation of the on-going unlimited and unconditional support of the US and its allies for the Israeli coercion against the Palestinian people.
The expectation was that in the absence of extremists’activities the two sides would resolve the issue. However, the return of state terrorism of the religious-ethnic extremists to power in Israel under Sharon and then Netanyahu, and, at the same time,disruptive activities by terrorist groups in Gaza (Hamas and Islamic Jihad) against the Oslo Accordsmade the project of two-state solution null and void.
Now the coercive big powers and the reactionary governments of the region deliberately highlight the unity and harmony between Arabs and Israelis as supposedly reflected in the Abraham Accords, under the pretext of terrorism of the Islamic Republic. In this equation the age old issue of “rights of the Palestinian people” has been sacrificed, that is,marginalized again, which will only lead to preserving the Palestinian issue as a bone of contention as well as a source serving the continuation of Islamist terrorism,
Southeast Asia
Here is yet another focus of crisis that has provided, and will increasingly provide, the field for a tug of war between the US and China as well as their regional allies. The US effort to make up for its declining position with the military showdown against China in the region together with its allies, specifically the recent AUKUS military pact between the US, Britain and Australia,reflects the Sino-US economic and political conflict elsewhere. It is going to turn this region into another high-risk hub of crisis.Among all Southeast Asian conflicts, Taiwan and its future is another outstanding hotspot of this era. China and Western countries are persistent in their claiming it, and are quite aware of its cost.
Volatile societiesand their forgotten plights
Africa
The deep economic problems of the daily lives of millions of people, the deep and painful social and human crises are at play on the African continent more than anywhere else in the world, and are being deliberately marginalized. Behind all the wars and the resulting poverty and displacement and starvation of the people of this continent lie the crushing interests of the governments and various sections of the bourgeoisie of these countries. Theyalso benefit from all existing religious and tribal conflicts. The suffering, the displacement and the gradual death of countless people on the African continent, which are occasionally reflected in the media, are another disgrace to the insatiable money-grubbing capitalist world order and all its agents.
Latin America
Here is yet another forsaken region stricken with turmoil, oppression and exploitation. American supported corrupt, murderous military dictatorshipswere forced upon the people of the sub-continent especially in post-world-war- two era. The bourgeois socialist regimes that came to power on “anti-imperialist” platforms in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and some other countries, despite efforts to implement some sporadicreforms, not only failed—fundamentally due to the bourgeois content of their platforms and in part under US economic sanctions—to bring about viable permanent improvements in the people’s lives but their rulehas been accompanied withincreasing poverty of the masses.The existing authoritarian governments, instead of improving the living conditions of the working class and other disadvantaged strata of theirpopulation, have spent most of their income on suppressing and silencing the protests of the vast majority of the people, thereby supporting the bourgeoisie classes. Daily mass migrationsin search of means of day-to-day survival is the product of the anti-labor policies of these bourgeois governments.
Capitalism and mass human catastrophes
Covid pandemic disaster
The spread of the Covid 19 has had devastating effects onthe health and livelihood of billions of people across the world. The pandemic has revealed the supremacy of capitalist greed over the sanctity of human life. It has also brought to lightthe unpreparedness and the inability of large and small capitalist governments in coping with it. Thepandemic has turned the critical issues of health, livelihood and employmentinto daily life-and-death issuesfor especially the poor. In the absence of medical and health facilities as well as delays in the delivery of vaccines, the human quarantine method has certainly played a positive role in slowing the spread of the virus, but the sluggish response or total unresponsiveness of many governments in providing health and basic necessities of life,even in developed countries, accompanied withthe unbearable isolation of people andextensive disruption of social relations have had devastating effects on the people’s physical and emotional well-being across the world.
The production of vaccine was a positive and promising step. However, the competition between vaccine manufacturers and their sponsoring governments has caused irreparable human damage, instead of cooperating for faster and more efficient action to combat the virus. The result has been mass, irreparable damage to humanity. In a nutshell, the insatiable hunger of capital for profit and its adverse impact on human health is yet another characteristic of the inverted capitalist order as the chief adversary of human well-being.
Contrary to bourgeois false propaganda torrent, those whohave hitherto suffered the most from the pandemicare neither the capitalists’ companies nor the capitalist governments, but the world working class and the vast majority ofordinary citizens. The giant, superrich corporations and their affiliates have made billions in profits on a daily basis in this same period. There is no doubt that the planks of the platforms designed by the architects of this exploitative order are designed to overcome the consequences of the pandemicin such a wayto secure the astronomical profitsthroughhigher productivity as well as intensity of labor, the result of which will be higher degrees poverty, hunger, unemployment and degradation for the wage earners and deprived masses.
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The environment
The destruction of the environment and the current catastrophes resulting from it are additional serious perilsfacing humanity. The issue of the environment is yet another case that brings to light the hypocrisy and demagoguery of all bourgeois states and capitalist classes. From the Paris Agreement and the final applause of the participants for themselves and the following showboats, to the26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) that was held in Glasgow late last year, to the empty promises made to the people of the world about “preserving” the environment, are all glaring manifestations of the bourgeois hypocrisy.The environmental dilemma is the result of the process of capitalist production aimed solely at making profit, a process that has and continues to have devastating effects on the environment and all aspects of life on the planet. As long as this process exists, the destruction of the environment will continue.
There has always existed a harmonious relationship between man and nature. Ever since humans began to produce their livelihood and necessities of daily life, and changed the materials of the earth for this purposewith their tools and industry, they have expressed this harmony and unity with nature. Capitalism has severed this relationship for profit. Concrete, tangible nature has no obligation to humans. It is humans who are committed to nature and its preservation in order to produce their livelihood and material conditions of life. Expecting the preservation of the environment from the capitalist classes and their states is an absurd, illusory expectation. Preservation of the environment and humans’ commitment to it are deeply tied to the economic, social and cultural well-being of the members of an equitable society. In Scandinavian countries where people have enjoyed a certain degree of such moral and physical welfare, protection of the environment has also become to some extent an established social tradition.
As long asthe means and the process of production are in possession of a small minority for the purpose of profit making, and not for the purpose of meeting the needs of the people, the promises and pretentions of that minority will, necessarily, be empty and hypocritical. In this respect, like other respects of social life, any effort to alleviate environmental calamitiesis contingent onthe efforts of rights-and freedom movements. In recent times repelling the barbarism of capital against nature as well as life in general, has been particularly tied to grass-root mobilizationsby the youth.There is, however, definitely no definitive course that can lead to saving the environment as long as capitalism prevails. Securing a healthy environment depends, like other aspects of life discussed above, on the final blow to the prevailing inverted capitalist order. “Green capitalism” is an illusion; here too one must choose, either to put an end to capitalism or to expect more environmental catastrophes.
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Conflictsof the Right and Left factions of the world bourgeoisie
a: the condition of the Right faction
The destiny of humanity is presently in the handsof the Right of the world bourgeoisie. Itis not a new phenomenon, though. It began in the early 80s with the rise of Thatcherism, followed byits adoption by Reagan in the States, and soon positioned itself in command of the global economy and politics.Incessant attacks on the standards of living of the working classaimed at reducing it to a bare minimum, all-round attacks on the nationalized health systems wherever they existed, forcing increasingly lower levels of income on the wage earning classes at large, and the adoption of numerous similar brutal politico-economic measures during the past four decades, they have all been put into practice by the bourgeoisie’s Right faction that has been at the helm. Such widespread economic attacks have been politically accompaniedwith allowing the Right, especially the farRight, currents and organizations free rein in all developed countries. Not only in countries ruled by overt dictatorial regimes securing super-cheap labor for making super-profits by multi-national corporations, but also in the developed, so-called democratic countries, the ensuing deepening gap between the haves and the have-nots, i.e., increasingly widening class differences, have been at the root ofinciting ethnic, religious, racial conflicts. The latter phenomena have, in turn, been the root cause of further divisions within the working class and have thereby paved the way for the growth of overtly fascist tendencies in countriesacross the world.
The danger of the far Right and the rise of fascism must be taken seriously. This trend acts in Western countries generally as a “safety valve” at the service of Right that is already in power. People are forced to vote for the non-farRight out of fear of the far Right. But as the far right-wing policies of the bourgeoisie in all countries have got the upper and their consequences continued to prevail, the far Right has gained more ground. The rise of the far Right and fascism is the product of bourgeois politics, first and foremost in the United States and Europe as advanced industrial countriesmost influential in the contemporary world that are governed through “parliamentary democratic” apparatus. We have seen the effects of this phenomenon in the last four decades on the tendency of the policies of the most right-wing bourgeois factions to gain increasing powerthrough the seemingly “popular” parliamentary and “electoral” processes in the Western countries.
The four-year term of the Trump racist administration has imposed serious setbacks on American society and the international community. Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election as well as the inability and incompetence of the bourgeois Right in European countries to curb the Covid 19 pandemic and its high casualties, and the recent massive flood casualties, especially in Germany, have caused widespread dissatisfaction among citizens. As a result, this have both called into question the bourgeois Right andslowed down the growth of the fascist currents. But the risk of far-right having the upper hand in the United States and, consequently, around the world, has not diminished. The working class and other freedom-loving people must take the perilvery seriously.
b:the bourgeois Left has become sterile as a result of the deadlockit has reached in regards to theworld economy and politics
At the heels of the rise of the far Right we are witnessing the decline of the role of the left-wing of the bourgeoisie in global economy and politics. Its sterility is rooted in its putting up with and accommodating the economic policies of the Right, to the extent that it has now no worthy non-right platforms for the betterment of the condition neither of the working classes or the lower middle classes, for that matter, nor does it have any claims to the contrary.
The shifting of the left wing of the bourgeoisie to the right could only mean, in practice,complicityin the advancement of right-wing economic policies of the Right faction of bourgeoisie. Tony Blair,former Labor Party leader,became the first to pave the way for other Social Democrat parties in Europe, including the Scandinavian Social Democrats, to move along that path. Tony Blair’s economic policy of “free market and little government intervention”, which was later adopted by World Economic Forum in Davos, provided a theoretical justification for the bourgeois Left’s co-operationin the implementation of right-wing policies. Privatization of the National Health Service by the Labor Party continued under Blair. We have been witnessing this shift in Labor Party in Britain as well as Social Democrat parties on the continent, e.g., in Germany, France and Scandinavian countries. As a result of that pronounced process even Scandinavian countries as former Social Democratic counties have now become unrecognizable, compared even to two decades prior, due to their astounding high unemployment, the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, declining health services in quantity as well as quality, and so on.
The continuation of the right-wing economic policies,by the British Labor Party as well as continental Social Democratic parties,and their destructive results on the life of the working class and other low-income stratahave left virtually no room for any “reforms”, to the extent that the post-war achievements of the working class that culminated in creation of so-called “welfare states” have been drastically wiped out in the Scandinavian countries as welfare states par excellence. The bourgeois Left has long pursued the policy of staying motionless in opposition to the Right, hopingfor a window of opportunity. It has repeatedly shown that it comes to the aid of the bourgeois Right in times of economic recession and general crisis. Recent examples are the left parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain. The Left wing of the bourgeoisie is currently justifying its lacking in effective plans to resolve urgent livelihood issues of the working class and other low-income strata by its supposedly co-operation with the bourgeois Right in defeating the Covid 19 pandemic.
Ongoing trends and prospects of economic and political developments
The first trend: tremendous changes in capitalism
It is the trend of the growth of labor productivity that will continue in the next few years and beyond. These developmentsare already manifested in the automobile industry’ shift to producing electrical vehicles, the rapid growth of digital technology, the use of highly advanced technologies in medicine, from production of vaccines (over a period of ten years to a year) to the production of devices for quickly diagnosing diseases accelerated by the corona pandemic. These developments will radically changethe world. They directly affect the work and livelihood of the working class and will thereby bring aboutcritical social, political and economic developmentsacross the world.
The second trend: the spread of poverty and discrimination and the intensification of the antagonism between the capitalist mode of production and provision of necessary means for decent standards of living for citizens
Today aparasitic minority controlsthe means of social production for the sole purpose of profit making. As a result the increasingprogress in efficacy of the means of production through higher and higher degrees of laborproductivity necessarily translates into the replacement of living labor with dead labor, i.e., machinery. Such progress, therefore, instead of freeing more time to be utilized in all-round development of citizens, that is, the producers, results in wider unemployment, i.e., in creation and the expansion of a reserved army of unemployed. That is the root cause ofincreasing accumulation and concentration of capital as well as means of enjoying life in the hands of a small minority, at one pole, and accumulation of all-round deprivation at the other.
In today’s world prosperity has been replaced by austerity for the real producers of capital and social wealth; war, displacement and starvation have increasingly become commonplace phenomena in the lives of larger and larger portions of the world’s population; the global working class is being more and more oppressed physically,emotionally and spiritually at the hands of bourgeoisdictatorial states in order solely to repress its aspirations and thereby lower its wages; exploiting child labor as well ascovert slave labor is widely practiced unexceptionally across the capitalist world. It is, therefore, only natural that the scientific and technological advances are appropriated by the bourgeoisie as the means forintensifying the exploitation of the working class. Similarly, advances in the medical and pharmaceutical fields, instead of leading to free health, free medical care and free medicines, have become means of competition overgreater profitsby the bourgeois states and the capitalist classes. On the other hand, millions of people die every year due to lack of free access to these services. It is now clear that the staggering and all-encompassing advancement of science and technology at the possession of the capitalist class is being exploited for the most partas if against the well-being of humanityand not at the service of humanity. Today’s world condition can, therefore, be designated only as bourgeois barbarism.
The third trend: intensifying competition between the world capitalist powers
The rivalriesbetweencapitalist powers, especially in regions known as American spheres of influence,aimed at increasing their global economic and political powerand gaining greater share of profits, which has intensified with the economic and political decline of the United States, havebeen elevated to higher and higher levels of fierce competition as well as militarism. This can only mean greater peril to human as well as natural life. It will lead to more exploitation which will, in turn, translate into more poverty, misery, war and displacement for humans and sheer havoc for nature. Another immediate intended byproduct is thecreation ofan atmosphere of insecurity and terror in the world and keeping at bay theintensification of workers’struggles, any Left grass root mobilization and, ultimately, the rise of communism.
The fourth trend: class and social polarization; the political image ofcountriesacross the world and the struggles within them
The destiny of humanity cannot and should not be as described and predicted above. The fate of humanity and the future image of the world shall not be determined by the United States, European Union, China and Russia, and now by the intensifying rivalry between the economic and political capitalist poles, in the same way as the war between two terrorist camps, i.e., US state terrorism and political Islam terrorism, could not determine it. Society is the field where confrontation of socio-class tendencies and movements is materialized. This confrontation has existed forever.It is, has been, and will be the driving force of the history of all societies. It determines the future of allcountries, and thereby the world. The new situation, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East, and now the intensification of the rivalry between the economic and political poles claiming power, they all transpire and make sense only within this socio-historical context.
Class and social polarizationswere highlighted against the backdrop of the global economic crisis of 2008 and duringthe three following years thanks to labor protests in France and other countries over declining wages, rising unemployment, raising the retirement age, and standing up to economic austerity policies. A wave of protests against poverty, discrimination and inequality in the United States, Europe and Latin America led to the formation of particular protests against capitalismthat came to be known as “occupation movement”. This movement, although partly reflected the protest of the petty bourgeoisie against big, monopoly capitalism, was nevertheless a movement against the status quo and directly blamed capitalism for the current freakish condition of the working classes as well as the world at large. Shortly after the events of 2011 in the Arab and North African countries—later entitled “the Arab Spring”—protests by workers and other social strata intensified. It highlighted the militant presence of the working class in the economic and socio-politicalarenas.It led to the set back ofpessimism and despair previously created by unbridled brutality of Islamist terrorism against the working class, the society at large,as well as the Left and communist movement that after September 11, 2001 (the starting point of war between the two terrorist camps), and especially through the US military invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq,that had hit a large part of Islamic countries beyond. All of those developments, despite their final demise due to beingdevoid of any truly effective socialist leadership or aspiration,have constituted a new, truly significant reality. That new reality consists in the serious challenges of capitalism as the source of all misery and inequality made by the deprived masses of working people during the past two decades aimed at radically changing the status quo.
Despite the current situation, struggles and protests have continued giventhe deadly effects of the pandemic. The intense anger of the protestsover the most basic social demandsmanifests the deep hatred and disgust of the working masses, especially their younger generations, for the status quo and the bourgeoisie governments as its guardian.
The catastrophes and calamities that have inundated capitalism have not remained hidden to the capitalists, theirideologues, researchers and the reformers. As amatter of fact they admit them and the admission has led them to talking about the necessity of bringing about “fundamental changes” in the capitalist order of the world. At the same time, in order to acquit capitalism as a whole, the reformersblame the current situation on “neo-liberal policies” so that the protestsmay not ultimately lead to political crises and workers’ revolutions.
So much is clear that social polarizationsand consequent conflictsbetween various classes and antagonistic social tendencies will continue to grow, and each of them will raiseits salvation platform. The humanity is now at a crossroads. On the one hand we have the continued existence ofslavish bourgeois platformssuggested by its main poles and, on the other hand, the rise of the radical workers’ and communist solution written on the banner of the necessity for a socialist transformation of society. There is no shortcut. The two chief Left and Right perspectives of the future political and social developments of the contemporary world, and their resulting clash, are just inevitable.
The position and mission of the working class and communism in the fateful developments of the contemporary world
The working class now occupies a stronger position in production and social change than it did a few decades ago. New developments not only do not weaken its social position and, therefore, its power of struggle, but promotes its decisive role in the future political developments. Scratch the surface of any protest against exploitation and tyranny, and you will see the desire for freedom, welfare and social justice. Undoubtedly, had there beenno Covid pandemic, we would have witnessed widespread protests and struggles of the working class during this period. Bourgeois governments in developed as well as less developed countries are now utilizing the pandemicas a cover to covertly pass stricter laws restricting political liberties and protest freedoms in order toprepare themselves for the futureinevitable class confrontations.
The social weight and power of struggle of the working class across the world is, unfortunately, not proportional to the presence of representatives, leaders and organizations of Worker-communism, i.e., true, working class communism. This is what is lacking in the leadership of the working class in future protests and political developments.Appreciatingand filling that gapis the work of the Worker-communist movement. It is very hard work, but it is a job for us Worker-communists who represent the interests of the working class as a whole and at all times. It is clear that being successful in doing the responsibilities necessitated by that historical mission is conditioned by being able to shoulder macro practical-and theoretical challenges, and not being content with getting involved and waste time on petty preoccupations that bring about only minute, insignificant results.
We do not accept the intolerable discrimination and the povertyprevailing the world today. As Worker-communist activists we do not intend to accept the new round of militarism and competition of the bourgeois poles who have confronted the world withfatally serious perils. We do not want walls and fortifications around Europe and America and other capitalist countries. We do not accept social, occupational, sexual, religious, racial and ethnic discriminations. We do not intend to tolerate either Islamismor Islamist governments in the Middle East. We do not intend to leave Afghanistan in the hands of the murderous Taliban. We do not intend to consent to the statelessness of the Palestinian people and their daily repression by the Israeli government.Our policy is overthrowing bourgeois, Islamist, authoritarian and police states. We consider the rise of a new generation of working-class revolutionary communist parties as one of the vital needs of this important erain human history. We call on the working class and the free-thinking, freedom-loving people of the world to adopt the socialist standpoint as the only way to save humanity.
Now, in the Iranian societythe prospect of great,radical changes conditioned by the extensive and decisive presence of the working class at the center of economic and socio-political developments, the influence andpopularity of the working-class movement as the standard bearer of anti-regime protests and rights movements across the board and theaccompanying communist ideologythat has become increasingly identified as the working-class ideology, the existence of organized communism, in general, and the active presence of our partyin the midst of all developments, these are all favorable factors that have paved the way in Iran, more than any other country in the world today, for the advent of an alternative, communist solution as well as a genuine communist leadership needed to materialize it. Iran is on the verge of fateful changes. We are quite conscious of the present unique opportunity that has been provided for the working class and its communist movement to play their role in shaping the future of the country. The occurrence of such a revolutionary and the subsequent radical changesit will causewill have deep regional as well as global impacts. This is the most direct and promisingpath open to us as activists of organized Worker-communist movement in Iran to effect a total socialist transformation. It is equally clear, however, that the completion of such a critical transformation depends on the provision of a communist leadership,which will, in turn, be contingent onthe practical activities of radical socialist workers belonging in theWorker-communist movement, in general, and the activists organized in the Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist, in particular.
October 2021
