Socialist Workers' Party of Iran

Socialist Workers’ Party of Iran
Founded 1979 (1979)
Ideology Communism
Political position Trotskyism
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Socialist Workers’ Party of Iran Archive

آرشیو حزب کارگران سوسیالیست ایران

Socialist Workers’ Party of Iran

A brief history of the “Socialist Worker’s Party of Iran” during 1979 -1983.

The founders of Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party (Hezb-e Kargaran-e Socialist - HKS), were Iranian students abroad, politically active against the Shah’s dictator regime, mainly in Europe and USA during the early 1970s. In opposition to the Stalinism, Maoism and the guerrilla tendencies, they were Trotskyites, and established a direct relation with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI or "USec"). Politically they based their activity on the Trotsky’s Transitional Programme and the first four congresses of the Comintern. During the 1970s from London, they produced a theoretical and political journal called Kand-o Kav (Analyse).

During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, there was a unity congress of the Iranian Trotskyites between the supporters of USFI in Europe and the supporters of the American Socialist Workers Party (United States) (SWP). In February 1979, the Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party (Hezb-e Kargaran-e Socialist - HKS) was launched. The orientation of the HKS was towards building a workers organisation in Iran. However, within a few months a faction supportive of the clerical policies of Khomeini emerged.

Very soon a split took place and this faction continued its pro-clerical activities under the name of the Revolutionary Workers Party (Hezb-e Kargaran-e Enghelabi - HKE) until they liquidated themselves a few years later.

In Iran during the years 1979-1983, the HKS produced weekly journals: Kargar (Workers), Kargar Socialist (Socialist Workers), Ch-e Bayad Kard (What to be done), Nazm-e Kargar (Workers’ order). It had a publishing house Tali-e (vanguard) which translated into Persian a dozen classical Marxist literatures.

In 1983, after repression of the left by the incumbent regime, that involved the wholesale imprisonment, execution or murder of HKS supporters, a few surviving HKS members were forced into exile and from Paris they continued producing a new political-theoretical organ called Socialism va Enghelab (Socialism and Revolution) until 1989.

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