4,370 CONFIRMED DEADOrder Prevails in Tehran - eddieshin
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Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.
Recent reports from the streets by Worker-Communist Party of Iran (Hekmatist) translated from Farsi (Jan. 7-13)
>The Iranian people do not need a military attack by American bombers, nor do they need international criminals to intensify sanctions and attack their livelihoods for freedom, prosperity, and equality, to be free from the clutches of the Islamic Republic. Lifting sanctions, preventing a military attack on Iran, and cutting off the hands of international criminals from their lives and struggles is the demand of tens of millions of people in Iran and the demand of their freedom-seeking movement.
>After two weeks of protests in Iran and their spread to various cities, the Islamic Republic has taken extensive measures against the protesting people under the pretext and relying on Mossad’s claims of its interference. The Internet shutdown in Iran, the arrival of the army to confront the protesting people and the loss of a large number of protesters and deprived people, threats to government leaders from the Supreme Leader’s Office to the judiciary and widespread arrests, attacks on hospitals and house-to-house raids, and all-out propaganda by the state media and attributing the protests to the people’s rights to Mossad, introducing every protester as a Mossad spy and their agents, have created serious dangers.
>The Islamic Republic has in common with the fascist governments of Israel and America and their pawns in the opposition, pushing back this movement and blinding its radical and freedom-loving horizon. One is by ordering an “uprising” and turning the protests into street fighting and terrorizing it, and the other is by suppressing them under the pretext of Mossad’s interference and confronting it!
>To Communists: come to the streets to prevent the protests from turning into bloodshed and to ensure their progress!
>Marginal forces whose efforts to ride the wave of protests have failed and do not have the social power to divert mass protests have officially today set the policy of bloodletting in the protests to their agenda by launching mercenary and armed gangs against their opponents, declaring an armed uprising, and prematurely bringing weapons to the field in the protests. These forces, along with the apparatus of repression and the internal gangs of the Islamic Republic, are the ones who are responsible for bloodletting in the protests and the lives of the people.
>The Rajavi sect has issued an order for an armed uprising and the capture of military bases. It is as if the "rebel centers" of the Mujahideen are going to "liberate the cities and then hand them over to the local councils"!
>There is no doubt that this heavily armed regime will ultimately be overthrown in an armed uprising. There is no doubt that the people who rise up and protest have the right to use any means and weapons to defend themselves and defeat the enemy. But sending young people to war prematurely is deliberately taking them to the slaughterhouse and mass protests.
>The movement and uprising of the hungry is going its own way and, independent of the small and large insects of reaction, with vigilance and open eyes, it is organizing, uniting and nationwide its protest and struggle, protecting its activists and leaders, and building its own future. Ensuring this is the work of us communists, the work of radical and freedom-loving activists.Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils! (Jan. 12)
>“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.”
>For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following:
>Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing Company, AzarAb, and Wagon Pars factories will be in the hands of workers’ councils elected by the workers themselves. We no longer recognize managers appointed by the state or the regime’s puppet unions.https://cpiran.org/statement-of-the-workers-councils-of-arak-all-power-to-the-councils/Joint statement of Worker-Communist Parties of Iraq and Kurdistan (Jan. 7)
>The protests come amidst profound political transformations in the region and a clear decline in Iranian influence, which had expanded in recent years through militias and their allies, relying on funds looted from the working class and the welfare of the lranian masses. In the same vein, American imperialism, known for its bullying and unwavering support for fascist regimes, foremost among them the state of lsrael, is attempting to market itself as a defender of human rights and a supporter of the demands of the lranian masses, by brandishing the threat of blatant intervention, as recently occurred in Venezuela the two Communist Workers' Parties in Iraq and Kurdistan, while declaring their full solidarity and support for the just demands of the lranian working class and the masses yearning for freedom and dignity simultaneously warn against relying on American policies or allowing its intervention which plays a role in providing the lranian regime with pretexts to escalate its repression of the protesters.
>Any real change, any tangible improvement, and any victory for the protests in lran depends on maintaining their independence, separating their ranks from American imperialist policies, and preserving their class and popular unity.>Long live the working class of Iran>Long live the just demands of the Iranian people for freedom and equalityhttps://wp-iraq.com/الى-الامام-273Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.
NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR 540 posts and 100 image replies omitted.>>2654468No anon, you are just stupid
arak soviet arming themselves as we speak
The internationalist voice (Iranian leftcoms) just dropped a trvke big enough to mind break both pro and anti Islamists ITT
>Leftists and the Mujahedin claim that monarchists are attempting to influence the protests in favour of “Reza Pahlavi”[7] by adding audio to video clips, or that this role is being played by the Islamic bourgeoisie itself, which is confident in the harmlessness of the monarchist opposition. In other words, they argue that the promotion of monarchist demands within the protests is either meaningless or marginal. This claim is partly correct, but it does not capture the full reality.
>First and foremost, it should be emphasised that the nature of a movement determines the extent to which it can be exploited or redirected. In an independent workers’ movement, this possibility is considerably low; however, in an “all-together” movement, the scope for reactionary forces to intervene is much greater. Within this framework, a serious question arises: can the statement issued by students at Isfahan University, in which it was asserted that “the 1979 revolution was a historical mistake,” be regarded merely as the result of external manipulation and interference?
>For leftists who, through demagoguery, consider students to be “working-class students,” it is as if students necessarily advance the demands of the working class in every protest. In reality, however, students are not inherently revolutionary; at times, they can play a counter-revolutionary role, and at other times, depending on objective conditions and their connection to the class struggle, they can assume a revolutionary role. To clarify this issue, two specific examples can be cited.
>The student protests of July 1999 arose in response to the closure of the reformist[8] newspaper Salam. These protests served the interests of the reformist faction of the Islamic bourgeoisie, and students became instruments in intra-governmental struggles. Nevertheless, the movement exacted a heavy toll, leaving many dead and injured, and profoundly altered the fate of some of the students.
>In contrast, in autumn 2018, following the widespread workers’ protests, students openly expressed solidarity with the workers’ struggles and placed class demands at the centre of their slogans. By chanting slogans such as “We are the children of workers; we stand with them,” they effectively became integrated into a segment of the workers’ class movement and played a role distinct from that of previous periods.
>When the working class emerges as an independent social class in the course of societal developments, the scope for manoeuvre of not only the right- and left-wing tendencies of capital but also ultra-reactionary bourgeois forces and adventurist elements is sharply reduced. This is because the independent presence of the proletariat exposes the real contradictions of capitalism and prevents protests from being redefined and co-opted within bourgeois, pro-democracy, or imperialist frameworks.
>A clear example of this situation can be seen in the workers’ protests of autumn 2018, a period during which media outlets such as the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Israel, and other bourgeois propaganda instruments were effectively sidelined and lost the ability to influence the protests. Under such conditions, bourgeois tendencies—particularly the hypocritical and liberal tendencies of the Western bourgeoisie—were compelled to be silenced, as the language, perspective, and demands of these protests could not serve their class interests.
The shameful Islamic bourgeoisie has plunged into one of the deepest crises in its disgraceful history, and consolidating itself is not so easy. To demonstrate its power and to pretend it has a social base, the Islamic bourgeoisie issued a call for marches in all cities on 11 January. This call was an overt attempt to stir public sentiment and to draw people into a government-organised demonstration.
>On 11 January 2026, the state broadcaster aired a report from the Kahrizak forensic centre showing scenes of corpses in a large warehouse. The Islamic bourgeoisie claimed that these bodies belonged to individuals who had been harmed by “rioters” during the protests, but the main purpose was to stir public sentiment and garner support for the government. The report displayed photographs of the corpses and the names of the deceased on a screen, while grieving families were mourning and identifying their loved ones. Interestingly, these same images are circulated by Western media as victims of the Islamic bourgeoisie’s crimes. The state broadcaster also aired footage of government-supporting demonstrations, particularly in the cities of Ilam and Hamedan—areas where protests against the regime had been more widespread than elsewhere.
>The war between Iran and Israel is not the result of decisions made by warmongering leaders but it is the expression of the capitalist system today. Regardless of the political façade a state adopts—be it democratic or dictatorial, peace-seeking or openly militaristic—they all share one fundamental trait: sacrificing the working class as cannon fodder in imperialist wars. Without exception, they are all war criminals.
>>2655126So, uh, le interimperialist conflict? This is le interimperialist conflict, yes?
>>2655126>To demonstrate its power and to pretend it has a social base, the Islamic bourgeoisie issued a call for marches in all cities on 11 January. This call was an overt attempt to stir public sentiment and to draw people into a government-organised demonstration.And they succeeded, while supposedly real Iranians, despite having weapons and supposedly a support of everyone in the country, couldn't do a thing but hope for American humanitarian bombs
>>2655135Putting le before stating a fact doesn't diminish it ye know
>>2655268You seem illiterate, mentally disabled, witless opportunist or a combination of those.
>>2655276>I cant accept reality and must screechlol. Fact is, the islamists still have a strong base of popular support, and they demonstrate it.
>>2655327That must be why it suffers bi annual protests with hundreds of deaths and weeks of blackout that continues to date
Imagine having washed up shahcucks and cold war Islamosocdems as your political opponents and still fumbling this hard
>>2655917Imagine being so mentally challenged to think this libslop trash found in some Instagram Zoo is worth posting
stopped reading at resistance btw fell from the chair laughing xd
>only fans secular Iran
Liberals rather have underground state managed prostitution and sex tourism as long as women remain veiled in public.
This is really the root of all left retardation, aesthetics over substance. The same anti western degeneracy onlyfans incels will fight tooth and nail to maintain the community of women, prostitution and commodity production for a another 1000 years.
>>2655327>the islamists still have a strong base of popular supportthey obviously fucking don't
>>2655276This is an interimperialist conflict. Better?
>>2656644cunt they're having protests so bad they've cut off communications and are begging for iraqi militias to help them noone believes your cope retard
Arak soviet status as we speak?
>>2656668Retards said the same shit about kazakhstan a couple years ago
>>2657264kazakhstan literally needed russia to send in death squad to save their fucking oil baron republic
>>2657264And there were right lol
>>2655917Cringe and bourgeois pilled.
>muh """"anti-imperialist"""" government
which is crumbling under its own inherent contradictions because while it isn't western and yurocucked, it is still very reactionary and ill-equipped for contemporary demands.
>Want autonomy
>Form an anti-imperial government
>Literally any government will do, as long as it isn't West-cucked
>Choose Islamist one because fuck it, we're Muslim and it's easy I guess
>Surely we can sublate this later
>Admittedly the most advanced of the 3 Abrahamic religions when it comes to management of The State as a concept,
<(Muhammad was a literal king, who really did exist and there are specific instructions for how to run a society at scale, which is why the islamic golden age slapped back in the day)
<(thank you for the Mathematics, Medicine, Astronomy, literally the concept of the university, fucking NUMERALS…)
>anyways…
>two thousand year-old ideology is literally PRE capitalist, so the contradictions are extra fucked
>effectively make yourself the pure anti-thesis of the "west" because you're butthurt, for better but mostly for worse
>call it a revolution, but its incredibly backwards because you're using a value system that is purely anachronistic, so you're actually just retvrning instead of progressing
>the masses of your republic have access to international media through smartphones
>said masses leapfrog your own state-ideology, wishing to secularize like everyone else
>get sanctioned by everyone you stuck a middle finger to, even if it was deserved
>economy eats shit because duh
>state-apparatus ill-equipped and sluggish to adapt as needed because of everything I just said
>masses refuse to support NEITHER the west NOR the islamists, they want something entirely different
Leftypol poster who is a Duginist but for Iran for some reason:
>"Anyone critical of the Islamist Government is a western shill"
>>2657271Was a by the book color rev, "the will of tbe people" had nothing to do with it
"Protesters" without a clear organizing body can't coordinate to take over airports and govt buildings in multiple cities at once.
Theres no such thing as spontaneity, people have to be organized to do shit, the only question is who's organizing them
>>2657310No one read this btw but your liberalism is funny
I wonder where the private property fatwa, CIA-backed communist genocide, Israeli arms deals, free market reforms, union busting, war on terror support fit into your infantile classless narrative
>In pointing out that their mode of exploitation was different to that of the bourgeoisie, the feudalists forget that they exploited under circumstances and conditions that were quite different and that are now antiquated. In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.
>In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian.
Uh… bros? I thought it was possible turn the wheel of history 1400 years back but apparently our Islamist comrades are just liberals whose purpose is to kill commies and save capital :|
>>2657310>>2657775You're being silly. Islamists (especially of the kind who rule in Iran) don't want to literally recreate the 7th century caliphate. The only ones who ever seriously considered something like this are ISIS. They typically just want a modern bourgeois state with Islam as a state religion and Islamic principles informing their constitution.
>>2657780Cuckmenini was a third postionist, read his interviews, his letter to the USSR, etc. He claimed he escaped bourgeois politics because he put "the people's™" as a prefix for bourgeois institutions. Ironically he made Iran closer to the laissez faire dream than the Shah did.
>>2657782We're Marxists Anon, we know that there is no third position. Iran is a bourgeois republic and there is nothing remarkable about it in this regard. The fact that it's an Islamic Republic is really only of relevance on cultural issues like hijabs and gay people and such. Maybe you could say that the position of Khomeinei is unique but as I sad before, the role of Supreme Leader is roughly somewhere between a constitutional monarch and a supreme court judge.
Arak?
Soviet?
Status?
walls: graffitti'd
statement: made
revolution: failed
yep it's arak soviet time
>>2657969>soyjaks>you know what… le palis are bourgeois, hamas is bourgeoise, IDF is ze proletariat.ultraleft raider posting mossad bait
>>2657983comparing the armed wing of a settler warlord society to iranian proles is massive cope
>>2657969>Gaza genocide is le interimperialist war>But zionist sponsored regime change is wholesome soviet revolution Ultras try not to be ziorats challenge: Impossible
>>2657983How is Hamas not a bourgeoisie?
>>2657983>>2657987FYI one of the Iranian communist parties calling for workers to organize and lead the protests today created a regional united front for the defence of Palestine last year and had Palestinian unions join in
picrel was one of their statements
keep coping by calling people who have done infinitely more than you for Palestinian workers, le mossad
>>2657349>Was a by the book color revthe price of gas doubled overnight retard
> Theres no such thing as spontaneitywhat the fuck do you think riots are?
you people are lower than tadpoles
>>2657349>Theres no such thing as spontaneitysee>>2651592
>>2658005It was still cheap, was mostly petty bourg oil/gas industry workers getting uppity.
It's the only industry here that actually has unions lol.
There were riots, but those were mostly tech stores and ATMs getting robbed.
There was also an organized, coordinated body that was clearly acting according to a plan, while using the chaos as cover.
Again, can you identify an org or leadership of the riots in kazakhstan? Did anyone come out and represent the rioters and make concrete demands? No.
It was rival, west-aligned bourgs using protests as cover for a regime change op.
>>2658007Ok, where are the communists among the rioters? The average iranian doesn't even know that they have a communist party.
>>2658022>It was still cheapyou are not a serious person
>>2658031It was a pretty flimsy pretext, we've also had demonstrations over "perfidious chinese buying up our land", local bourgs afraid of competition
We have 11% inflation rate and prices have quadrupled since then, but no riots.
If a movement is not explicitly communist, then it's inter-bourgeois ops.
I'm glad they didn't succeed, being ruled by nazarbayevs wahhabist failnephews would have been worse
>>2657998i am not attacking or criticizing iranian communists or being a campist, i am attacking (you) as a person and (you) as a individual, ultroid ziorat!
>>2658036>It was a pretty flimsy pretexti guess it seem that way to someone whos biggest expenses are probably fast food video games and porn
>>2658040hey remember when you stole a tweet and posted it here word for word and then deleted it f@ggot
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