The Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist is an opposition
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian
political party
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in exile. Its current secretary of central committee is
Jamal Kamangar and its current Chair of the
Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states.
Names
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is
Siavash Daneshvar.
History
The WPI-Hekmatist was formed in 2004 after a major split from the
Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI). More than half of the WPI's Central Committee and almost all of its Kurdistan Committee joined the WPI-Hekmatist. The leadership of
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq also supported this move and it is now the sister party of the WPI-Hekmatist. The other split was in 2012 under the same name Worker-Communist Party-Hekmatist.
The group claims to hold more closely to the line of
Mansoor Hekmat
Mansoor Hekmat ( fa, منصور حکمت, born Zhoobin Razani fa, ژوبین رازانی; June 4, 1951 - July 4, 2002) was an Iranian Marxist theorist, revolutionary and leader of the Worker-communist movement. He opposed the Shah and, after the ...
, the WPI's founder, but this claim has been denied by the WPI leadership and the dispute between the two parties is still ongoing.
WPI-H denounce the WPI leadership as enacting a "retreat to the traditional Left" and the WPI leadership call the WPI-H "a
right-wing
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split" and sometimes in sarcasm "Anti-Hekmatist" or more recently "UnHekmatist".
The Hekmatist party has declared it to be their goal to establish a modern Communist mass party in Iran and organize a Socialist revolution as Marx had formulated it. They distinguish themselves from other "traditional Left" groups by emphasizing their organization's focus on an immediate task (to the vanguard of the social movement for a Socialist revolution), rather than merely being an "intellectually-enlightning sectarian organization".
External links
WPI - Hekmatist Official websiteMansour Hekmat Official websiteMarx-Hekmat Society Official websiteWorker-communist Party of Iraq Official WebsiteWPI-H Kurdistan Committee Official websiteBikhodayan (Atheists Society) websiteThe Organisation for Emancipation of Woman Official website
The International Organization of Iranian Refugees Official Website
Children First Official website
Communist militant groups
Communist parties in Iran
Political parties established in 2004
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Banned communist parties
Banned political parties in Iran
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