{"id":2291,"date":"2019-11-06T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedaian-minority.org\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:54:04","slug":"characteristic-features-of-the-current-moment-regarding-the-political-situation-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedaian-minority.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/characteristic-features-of-the-current-moment-regarding-the-political-situation-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristic features of the Current moment regarding the political situation in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Characteristic features of the Current moment regarding the political situation in Iran<\/h2>
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\"\"Social and political protests in recent weeks, months, and\u00a0changes which occurred among the political\u00a0alignments of Iranian society,\u00a0caused a new step in emerging a different balance\u00a0of political and class forces: those against the dominant, and those who guard it.<\/p>\n

The general dissatisfaction with the status quo is not a new phenomenon\u00a0in Iran.\u00a0The discontent and\u00a0protest,\u00a0for many years have been there and in their various forms risen up. But despite all the struggles of the working\u00a0class,\u00a0teachers and scattered mass movements here and there, what made political progress of the revolutionary movement of the masses of workers and toilers be slow and\u00a0delayed, had to do with the sort of the political balance\u00a0that the dominated counter-revolution of Iran tried\u00a0to give it shape through winning the support of the petty bourgeoisie,\u00a0especially\u00a0the petty bourgeoisie range of the modern strata.<\/p>\n

Due to the aforementioned balance, the struggles of the working class and the working people did not go beyond certain limits over the past few years.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, over the past few months, two important things have been the reasons of the beginning of breaking this balance and changing it to the benefit of\u00a0the revolutionary class.<\/p>\n

First, as the consequence of the\u00a0growth and promotion of social awareness, solidarity and the working class organizing in the queues of them, the struggle of this class has reached a new stage of quantitative and qualitative growth.<\/p>\n

Sequentially in the mid of 2011 decade, being Preceded the struggle of the workers their triumphs\u00a0marched further beyond\u00a0a factory, towards series of common struggle of workers from one productive and\u00a0services sector to other parts that the outstanding patterns\u00a0of them were, including\u00a0joint and harmonious struggles of workers in the\u00a0petrochemical factories, labor\u00a0coalmines,\u00a0and overall\u00a0electricity and telecommunications\u00a0workers.\u00a0However, since a few the working class have interred into is a new stage that its political character is\u00a0clearly\u00a0highlighted by the struggle of \u00a0\u201cHepco\u201d and\u00a0\u201cAzar\u201d\u00a0workers. The workers of these factories\u00a0continued not only for a\u00a0long time striking\u00a0on the purpose to settle their demands,\u00a0but they also turned the streets of Arak into a class battle field as well. Along\u00a0with radical slogans and speeches, they directly\u00a0targeted\u00a0high-level government officials while condemning them for corruption within the state\u00a0apparatus,\u00a0lashed out at\u00a0domestic and foreign policies of the regime\u00a0while expressing\u00a0their disgust\u00a0with the current ruling\u00a0capitalist order. Such a struggle causes ashift in the balance between classes and political forces. Meanwhile,\u00a0coupled\u00a0with the growing radicalization of workers, the retirees\u2019 movement\u00a0has converted\u00a0into one of active\u00a0movements among opposition.\u00a0 During recent\u00a0months, the last movement has held a\u00a0series of rallies,\u00a0rounds,\u00a0and demonstrations with politically radical slogans against the regime\u00a0and its officials.<\/p>\n

Other\u00a0active\u00a0movements have occurred in a number of cities against\u00a0unemployment and\u00a0environmental\u00a0pollution. These Movements had political characteristics\u00a0and\u00a0Anti-regime trend within which the\u00a0slogans\u00a0against Regime\u00a0were apparently being\u00a0chanted.<\/p>\n

Another important factor, which played a role to lead the changes in the balance of political power were that the modern\u00a0layers of the petty bourgeoisie turning away from Islamic\u00a0Republic.<\/p>\n

They [these above groupings] were once part of a force affiliated with\u00a0the so-called reformist faction, who have now separated from this faction.\u00a0This separation\u00a0left an end to the fascination of\u00a0 parts\u00a0of the\u00a0modern petty bourgeoisie\u00a0toward “reforms” during past elections.\u00a0Their\u00a0rejection of reformists\u201d\u00a0 means separating from the whole of the state [rulers]. Reformists, regarding\u00a0their role in maintaining the political balance in the favor of\u00a0the\u00a0regime,\u00a0were\u00a0virtually and literally \u00a0bulwark against the revolutionary movement and\u00a0at the same time considered\u00a0an obstacle in the way of \u00a0overthrowing the\u00a0regime. At the present time,\u00a0even if the foresaid social layers are not supporters in favor of overthrowing and revolution, the neutrality position of them toward revolutionary movement\u00a0of the working\u00a0class.<\/p>\n

All what\u00a0noted above, as a whole all reflects the\u00a0future\u00a0changes,\u00a0which in its turn, in the balance of political power has happened and acted in the favor of\u00a0the revolution\u00a0and overthrow\u00a0the Islamic Republic and against \u00a0the interests of the Iran\u2019s regime and ruling class.<\/p>\n

Iranian society is\u00a0sooner\u00a0than ever at a stage that has been subjected to a revolutionary crisis.<\/p>\n

It is no surprise that the ruling class is facing bankruptcy and revealing its inadequacies for all to see. Despite all the ostensible promises of Hassan\u00a0Rouhani\u2019s, the economic crisis of stagnation persists and\u00a0no prospects would be\u00a0imagined\u00a0 for the improvement\u00a0and reduction of incrementional poverty, unemployment and financial pressures and multiple hard livelihood on the yoke of the\u00a0working\u00a0masses.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the current\u00a0Budget bill, the Cabinet\u00a0has once attempted to impose the burden of the its bankruptcy on the shoulders of the masses. They have eliminated subsidies for bread, removed cash subsidies for millions of people, and raised prices including gas and other\u00a0energy sources,\u00a0the increase in indirect taxation and adding up the variety of duties and\u00a0taxes.<\/p>\n

The consequences\u00a0of Neo-Liberal\u00a0economic programs and policies up to\u00a0date have led to more than ten million unemployed period. The vast majority of the society is below poverty levels, increasing addiction, prostitution,\u00a0begging, street children, hunger for tens of millions of people. The crime rate has also risen, thereby causing more than 200,000\u00a0peoples imprisonments, \u00a0increased daily executions, and increased overall widespread corruption in all official organs\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0State.\u00a0The Islamic Republic\u00a0is not able to solve any of the problems of society.<\/p>\n

The same is true concerning the political and democratic demands of the Iranian people. It is not essentially\u00a0in the nature of the government\u00a0to recognize\u00a0these\u00a0demands.\u00a0So hereupon, the antagonism between the masses of the Iranian people with the autocratic regime is escalating either.\u00a0The intensification of these contradictions means intensifying the struggle<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic does not own\u00a0any other tool to deal with\u00a0this\u00a0conflict, except for intensifying\u00a0crackdown. However,\u00a0when\u00a0this crisis would break out, all\u00a0the real evidences\u00a0in the fields including socio – economic and political phenomena ascertain its occurrence as though, thereafter, even all\u00a0the armed forces of\u00a0Iranian\u00a0regime, would be too inefficient to confront\u00a0 the social combat of the people; especially the most militant,\u00a0most radical and uncompromising class of history.<\/p>\n

(Kaar-No.756; Jan. 26, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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