Iran: For a Revolutionary Party

Submitted by Anonymous on 29 June 2009 - 12:52am
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The tragedy of the 1979 revolution showed that Iran was ripe for revolution but lacked a revolutionary leadership. The failure of the socialist revolution can be clearly blamed on the role of the Stalinist Tudeh and the adventurist Maoists and Guevaraists who had illusions in the Islamic leadership which then turned on the workers vanguard and destroyed it as happened in China in 1927.

Today we have a split in that Islamic leadership between two factions of the bourgeoisie who are squabbling over the best role for Iran to play in order to benefit the Irani bourgeoisie. One of those factions, that of Khamenei/Ahmadinejad is a rightwing populist faction that bases itself on the rural poor. It mobilises the poor around an Islamic nationalism against imperialism. The other, around Rafsanjani/Mousavi is based on the urban middle class and some sectors of workers and favors a modern Islamic state that can do deals with ‘democratic’ imperialism.

What position should revolutionaries take in this fight?


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http://redrave.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-for-revolutionary-party.html