Ranjbaran Party of Iran

In the past issues of Ranjbar, we have talked about the intensification of the ideological struggles within the Left movement and some deviations of the right, left and centrist factions in their approach to communist theory and practice, as well as the class source of these deviations. Here, we criticize a view which in defense of proletarian theoretical principle strives to critique the above-referenced deviations.  But in the observation of these situations, and the analysis of specific conditions, and by the adoption of necessary political and organizational policies which support the struggle against deviations in creating a single vanguard Continue reading »

Interview mit dem Vorsitzender MLPD, Stefan Engel vom 16. September 2008, veröffentlicht in der ROTEN FAHNE vom 19.9. 2008)

Rote Fahne: Soeben haben wir erfahren, dass die MLPD ihren VIII. Parteitag durchgeführt hat. Kannst du kurz darstellen, was seine wichtigsten Aufgaben und Ergebnisse waren?

Stefan Engel: Der VIII. Parteitag konnte auf die erfolgreichste Leitungsperiode eines Zentralkomitees seit der Parteigründung zurückblicken. Es gelang uns wie nie zuvor, die relative Isolierung der Partei nachhaltig zu durchbrechen und zu einer gesamtgesellschaftlich bedeutenden Kraft zu reifen. Das musste gründlich Continue reading »

Adding to the persistent struggles of the Tehran metro area United Transit Workers, the ongoing struggles of the Haft Tappeh sugar refinery workers, and the defiance of the national oil company workers in Oslooye region, the workers at Iran Khodro (the largest automobile factory in Iran) went on strike on June 27, 2008.

Starvation wages, the complete disregard of workers’ basic rights, and efforts to intimidate workers into silence: due to the reign of the capitalist lackey Islamic Regime, these exist not only in small workshops which operate under “the law of the jungle”, but also, due to the reign of the Islamic regime, have been Continue reading »

The six day movement of July 8th through the 13th, in 1999, after nearly 19 years of Islamic repression and strangulation of free speech at universities, has become the wellspring for the independent student struggle against Iran’s Islamic Republic regime.

The Islamic regime apparently advocating for the “deprived persons”, “all together ” , opponent of “the great Satan” and defender of “independency”, had been able to attract the support of a considerable section of the Continue reading »

Dear comrades

Your eighth Party Congress is an opportunity to sum up your party’s activities during the past four years; This will enable you to consolidate and to expand your victories in the current class struggles in Germany, as well as to eliminate your shortcomings and mistakes in all areas of ideological- political, organizational and practice.  This will enable you to resolutely march forward to serve the growth of the workers and democratic movement.

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tIt has been more than two weeks since the sugar-cane workers at the firm of Haft Tappeh went on strike again to achieve their basic rights, and gathered in front of the governor’s office in the city of Shoosh. Their demands are easily understood, even by a child, and any reasonable person would support them. But, the Islamic Republic regime, a lackey to the capitalists and to rapacious, greedy businessmen, has deaf ears. Armed with guns, batons and bayonets, suppressive forces from Ahvaz and Khorram Abad and Dezfool were ordered to Shoosh to confront the protest of the hungry workers – a clear indication of how frightened the regime has become. Time is running out for those who are trying “to accumulate 100 years of wealth overnight”: by importing sugar rather than producing it domestically, they have profited by millions of dollars while causing misery and hunger Continue reading »

The assault of the impudent neo-liberal imperialists against the rights of workers, laborers and all nations of the world, namely in the capital’s metropolitan countries, which has continued over the past two decades – along with the simultaneous wanton aggression of the capitalist Islamic Republic against the economic, political, social and individual rights of workers, toilers, women, youth, students, teachers, writers, journalists, artists, and the oppressed nationalities and religious minorities in Iran - has the material root of the intensified theoretical conflict over this question : How is it possible to be liberated from exploitation and oppression in the metropolitan and peripheral countries of the world?
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