The Tudeh party, the successors to the Communist Party of Persia – an Iranian socialist organisation that has suffered suppression and bloody purges since the 80s – recently made a press release declaring their support for the protest sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini and called for the overthrow of the Islamic republic.
Is this organisation in any way positioned to lead a revolutionary effort to replace the theocratic Islamic republic with a socialist republic, or does the recent upheaval constitute an unnecessary risk to Iran, which may instead fall victim to a US controlled colour revolution? Who are the contenders for state power in the event of this unrest galvanising into a civil war, and what are the chances of socialists/communists coming out on top under such circumstances?
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/386011 Some good convos relating to the protests have been going on especially as more information comes out.
My major takeaway is that Tudeh’s leadership mostly exists in exile across Europe after their party was banned. Their article showing support links to an NED front. This is not to imply that Tudeh is compromised or are feds or that they don’t know their own nation, but due to their circumstances of exile it would only make sense for them not to have a totally clear vision of what’s going on on the ground.
I think, like almost every mass movement of this kind, there are well-meaning revolutionaries and proletarians with genuine grievances taking the streets against the IRI, and there are instigators and pro-Western traitors being paid to kill and brutalize people in the mix. It seems like from a lot of the info coming out, these brutalizer types may be seizing control of most of the protests, and unfortunately the people’s justified anger is being steered in a direction that benefits empire and not themselves.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/387921
More important info.
Something suspicious I noticed while watching videos of the George Floyd protests where these loudmouths coming out with megaphones and steering crowds into chanting more benign, watered down stuff.
Had the same thing during the BLM solidarity marches here in the UK. We had those XR melts literally leading the entire protest around with a drum band like the pied piper. The crowd was poised to take over the main artery that’s basically the nexus of the entire city, before the drummers got drummer and they whisked the entire crowd away to a large field away from anything of any real importance.
