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IRAN’S Tudeh Party marked its 80th anniversary this weekend, vowing to continue the struggle for peace, justice and a popular people’s government.
The party warned that the current clerical regime was the main obstacle to progress in Iran and that workers and the oppressed must unite and challenge the absolute rule of the Supreme Leader, fighting for democracy as “a transitional phase for our homeland.”
It said that this struggle was part of the broader movement against imperialist influence which leads to the oppression and exploitation of ordinary people in its pursuit of profit.
The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran