Iran Protests

 Abbas Goya - April 17, 2026 If the Achilles’ heel of the 1979 revolution was the absence of an independent socialist party—free from the influence of the Soviet Union or China—then the revolutionary uprisings of the past decade in Iran have been suffocated by the complete absence of such a party. The uprisings of 2017, 2019, and 2022 came and went without even a single genuine step toward forming a working-class party. The result? Nothing. Absolute zero. Even worse, these uprisings failed not only to attract a new generation of workers to socialism, but even existing organizations have weakened, lost momentum, and retreated. This is not merely an objective setback—it is a political dead end. Why? The answer is clear: two reactionary Tudehist tendencies have weighed down every communist effort like lead. The first is a direct continuation of the anti-worker tradition of the Tudeh Party and its offshoots; the second is a so-called “new” variant, no less degenerate: a worker-averse t...

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Our interests are in conflict both with the interests of the Islamic Republic and with the anti-human policies of the U.S.–Israel. Trump, with threats and language of elimination and destruction against us, and the IRGC, with its indifference toward threats that concern our very survival—both, by devaluing our lives, demonstrate the alignment of their interests. The only remaining way to defend ourselves against these two sides of the same coin of ruin—Trump and the IRGC—is self-defense: all out protecting vital elements of survival, power plants, water … with the slogan: Down with the Islamic Republic / Yankee go home!