In the darkness of the dominance of strategies, solutions, approaches, and alternative ideas, talking about the historical test of the working class, especially in the hell of Iranian capitalism, may astound everyone. But the ideas of the guardians of exploitation, the existence of classes, the state above the head, the exclusion of humans from determining the fate of their own production, work, and life, and the world of calamities born of this situation must be rejected. The realities must be seen, recognized, and the work of change must be done. A war was fought in this direction, a war that is a covenant of freedom, dignity, liberation, and escape from that fall into a valley full of stench. 75% of Iran’s population is made up of workers. They burn to varying degrees in the flames of hunger, poverty, homelessness, gender apartheid, environmental pollution, humiliation, torture, imprisonment, execution, deprivation of medicine, treatment, education, freedom, and basic human rights. Everyone, from children to the elderly, sees all the miseries and disasters as the direct result of the Islamic regime’s rule. Each one is a bomb of hatred exploding against this octopus. There is no question about the legitimacy and sanctity of this hatred. Despite all this, a fateful reality should not be forgotten. All the regimes in the world, with every model, ideology, economic and political planning, international affiliations, are machines of order and the exercise of capital’s rule. They have differences, but these differences do not question their identity or existential relevance. It does not arise from the ideological foundations or the character of their statesmen. If in some places they talk about “free elections” and accept a low level of living and welfare, it is because: they have seen the sword of the anti-capitalist campaign of the working class out of hand. They have also found that the capitalist share of the international surplus value of that country is the answer to some retreat in front of the labour movement. In other places where this is not the case, they have resorted to the worst dictatorships. Regimes with any name, ideology, or flag claim that they need capital, and the Islamic Republic is one of them. If it is among the most octopi of them, it is because, like any other state, it seeks a greater share of profit, power, and sovereignty. But Iranian capitalism, with its lower average labor productivity, lower competitiveness, and lower share of international surplus value, lacks this position. It has seen the solution as exploding the pressure of exploitation of tens of millions of workers, depriving workers of the lowest means of livelihood, welfare, medicine, treatment, environmental health, creating regional crises, helping the emergence of Hezbollah, the Popular Mobilization Forces, the Fatemiyoun, and the like. It has resorted to brutal gender apartheid, imprisonment, torture, and execution to suppress the working masses. It has clashed with America and Israel to have a greater share of power and has burdened and continues to burden the Iranian working class with the costs of these share demands. It resorts to every crime, but the driving force behind all its barbarities, contrary to false ideas, is not “political Islam!! Which plays the role of a government personification of capital in the hell of Iranian capitalism. Religion, its apartheid, is a weapon to eliminate the danger of the labour movement from the capital, a tool to strengthen the alignment and arrangement of forces for seeking participation in the international arena. This regime must definitely be overthrown, but not in a war for democracy and human rights, the end of which is a change in the government model of capital along with the ever more terrifying strengthening of the foundations of capitalist power, and the more rebelliousness of the current ruling blacks. But in a conscious battlefield that has a clear horizon of the disappearance of exploitation, classes, and every type of government ahead. History says: This is the only way to fulfill urgent demands, future expectations, and establish a society of free, equal, needless people, free from any constraints. All other ways have been tested enough, with the most terrible costs, and have yielded the most terrible results. This is the most vital lesson of the class struggle in recent centuries of history, and this same lesson warns that the current conditions, although extremely dark and gloomy, are a good opportunity to ignite this campaign. We have been suppressed in an unprecedented way. We have lost tens of thousands of young people, children, the elderly, women and men of our class. We are grieving, but the successive waves of repression and killing have not caused the slightest disturbance in our will to continue the struggle. Our anger, rage, and rebellion have made us more intense, more inflamed, and more violent than in the days before the January Revolution. One obvious reason is that what brought us to the streets, all the grounds for uprising and rebellion, have not only not diminished, but have become more and more explosive every moment. We began the January Revolution with the historic cry of the workers of the world that “we have nothing to lose except the iron chains of poverty, misery, deprivation, captivity, and lack of rights”. And when all our assets are steel chains locked on our hands and feet, what reason is there to fear the continued growth of the struggle? No reason!! And on this basis, we must turn defeat, repression, massacre, the suffering of our comrades, and losses into opportunities. Let us turn all of them into a historical opportunity in our workshop of thought, solution-thinking, and worker understanding to play the most glorious roles. How?? With what strategy, path, and solution? In which field? These are questions that must be answered, and the anti-wage labour approach of many decades has answered them in a clear, grounded, praxis, movement, and worker way.
The first thing to say in this passage is that we must seek the right and successful path of the campaign. Simply fighting, rebelling, taking risks, starting uprisings, launching a huge chain of strikes, street demonstrations is not a cure for the pain. These struggles must shake the dominance of the owners of capital and the rule of the capitalist class and the capitalist system over our work, production and life, make them the target of conscious and planned aggression and drive them towards destruction. The results of our production and work must be directed as much as possible towards the sphere of livelihood, welfare, health, education, comfort, a healthy environment, the elimination of housework, the elimination of the economic dependence of women on their husbands and children on their parents, a free life without need, the destruction of every form of apartheid. The intervention of the state above us in our lives must be brought under the scourge of extinction more and more dramatically, more rapidly. This principle, criterion and criterion must become the compass, the guiding star of all wars and conflicts, all our current struggles. Something that has happened completely in reverse throughout the twentieth century. We have completely abandoned the battlefield of mastery over the fate of our work, life, and production. We have considered being a seller of labour power and wage slavery to be the absolute destiny of our existence!! We considered the domination of the capitalist beast and the predatory capitalist states over existence and non-existence to be rightful, natural, and destined for our lives!! At the same time, we protested, went on strike, revolted, and prepared for an uprising against what the capitalists and their governments did to us based on their nature, existential philosophy, and social objectivity. The result of these struggles, revolts, and uprisings is the same as what we have seen over the last 150 years and are seeing now more than ever. We are captives of a terrible volcanic contradiction, and everything we do is under the whip of this contradiction. The main source of poverty, hunger, exploitation, misery, deprivation, killing, oppression, subordination, being ruled, all the blackness of the rubble falling on us and being excluded from the organized, nationwide, council-based control over the fate of our work and lives.
We consider this being destitute to be rightful and natural, we consider it sacred, we pray to it, at the same time we boast about the violence, hunger, poverty, apartheid, genocide and barbarism that have emerged from this being deposed, rejected and destitute. Every year we organize several thousand strikes, we flood the streets, we recognize the basis of the capitalist class’s ownership of the products of its labour and toil as legitimate, sacred and rightful, we complain about the hunger, homelessness, misery, unemployment, humiliation, lack of medicine, lack of doctors, poverty resulting from the sanctification of this ownership and we attribute the reason to the incompetence of the state leaders. We consider the existence of the state above the head to be the sacred principle of creation, and we pour out into the streets, angry and rebellious, about the dictatorship, killing, apartheid and bloodbath resulting from the existence of this state above the head, we demand the overthrow of this ruling type of state with another type. We insist that “the real and original source of the blackouts is not flawed – any flaw is in the entity that directs the water”, we must “change them” and ultimately manipulate the water supply model!!
A complete contradiction of a volcano in which the vast masses of our class are terrifyingly melted, fossilized in its molten molten rock. Generation after generation struggles, protests, rebellions, uprisings, revolutions. But campaigns, wars, struggles full of their storms, thunder and lightning, only produce mice, and those are plague-causing mice. Why?? Because the purpose of battles, spending, and sacrifices is simply to decorate and embellish the system of wage slavery, to change the governmental model of these octopuses’ relations. By what we call the struggle to remain a wage slave, to live as a worker, to be separated from work, to be deprived of the ability to determine the destiny of our lives, production, and work, we not only do not falter, but we also strengthen it to the catastrophic black scenario that has been going on for many years under the banner of democracy, false caricatured freedom, and human rights that are in line with the excessive production of capital!! The capitalist class has been twisted by the oppositions of the right and left, and the working masses have played the role of its implementer. This is a terrible contradiction and a story of the petrification of the working masses. A class that is supposed to free itself, history, and humanity from the shackles of exploitation, classes, and the state, from every shackle beyond itself, whatever it does, every strike, rebellion, struggle, and revolution only makes the foundations of domination, sovereignty, the perpetuation of wage slavery, the foundations of the separation of man from his work, and the exclusion of humanity from determining the fate of his work and life more iron. What is being done and is being done under the name of struggle, not only does not shed any light on the path of any liberating change, but it sweeps the idea of a liberation campaign from the land of human life, struggle, and consciousness. A reality that is not mysterious. Rust is unambiguous, it is against any fantasy, boasting and slogan-making. The war of changing governments is not a human liberation, but a humiliating burial of both freedom and humanity. He who seeks freedom in the overthrow of one regime and the establishment of another regime, first of all, cracks the whip on the basis of being human and remaining human. If a spark of freedom is to shine on human life, the heat of this radiation must be felt in the collective domination of the anti-wage labour council of people over the fate of their work, production and life. The state in any form, model and structure, with any ideology, ritual and approach, in any case is the state of the dominant class, the dominant system, the dominant economic relations. For this very reason, it is the guardian of exploitation, subordination, captivity, deprivation of freedom, lack of rights, deprivation, poverty, hunger, being ruled, and the misery of the overwhelming majority of humanity. The very existence of such an octopus indicates the absolute sovereignty of all injustices, freedom killings, the victimhood of 75% of the population of society and the world on the verge of perpetuating the dominant genocidal system. As long as classes exist and one class exploits another. As long as the majority of the world’s inhabitants are subordinate and one class dominates the fate of their work and lives, there can be no talk of freedom, choice, choice, free will, free man, human rights, gender equality, ethnic equality, real human suffrage, and in a word, real man. The existence of the state above the head is evidence of the existence of classes and the dominance of one class over the fate of life, work, and production of another class, a document of the dominance of a system based on exploitation and subjugation of the vast majority of the population of the planet, and, consequently, clear evidence of the deprivation of the majority of humans of rights, freedom, choice, gender, and ethnic equality, a loud cry of the deprivation of humans from the right to determine the fate of their own lives, and the fundamental question is, “Why should one endure the pain of watering a garden from which paper flowers grow”? Why should we be interested in rebellions, uprisings, and struggles whose outcome is nothing other than the fall of one government octopus, the rise of the next man-killing octopus, the consolidation of the foundations of the system of wage slavery, and the perpetuation of the domination of the exploiting class over the fate of the life and work of the exploited class?? The deceitful chest-crackers of democracy, freedom, and human rights, the cardboard copy of capitalism, have historically answered this question. Their answer has been that “We have strategy, we have tactics, let’s not mix these up, tactics pave the way for the realization of strategy. In tactics, it is not permissible to be contentious, one should be committed to any reform, start reforming capitalism, consider its elections sacred, participate in them, replace the incompetent statesman with a worthy one, respect the parliamentary resolutions of the wage slavery system, respect the laws of the capital assemblies, demand their improvement and humanization, demand the right to form a union, request acceptance of party membership. Demand the right to strike, apply for freedom of demonstration, improve the living conditions with this right, go to the ballot box and take the path of replacing governments, replace the bad ones with the worse ones. If these, these prayers, compromises, consensus-seeking, and appeasement do not give the desired result, one can sound the trumpet of uprising, take to the streets, replace the government of the day of capitalism with another government of the same system, call this a revolution!!
If we carry out all these principles, branches, obligations, and abominations legitimately, we will enter an era in which we will have all the necessary preparations to settle accounts with the capitalists and their governments! We can, following the partisan imams, and following the great party authorities, separate our own from the greater and lesser, replace the state machine of the day with a more modern, perhaps much older party machine, and call this the dawn of the world of socialism. In this entire ascetic path, one thing must not be forgotten. Deviating from these principles is leftism, childhood illness, mixing strategy and tactics, seeking contradiction in tactics, fantasy, and weaving utopia! The historical answer of the democrats, reformists, and partisans to the above question has been this. An answer that is a clumsy and shoddy montage of all the deceptions, lies, brainwashing, and distortions created by the capitalist think tanks. If even a millionth of this nonsense had the slightest tinge of truth, the working masses of the largest part of the world, especially the two continents of Europe and America, should have triumphantly crossed the last frontiers of society, purified and refined from every form of exploitation, classes, the state, and the remnants of these sinister phenomena many years ago, and by doing so, would have made all of humanity inhabit the most distant galaxies of liberation! The history of the world for one hundred and fifty years is a testimony, line by line and word by word, to the deceit, sorcery and falsity of these terrible claims fabricated by capitalist think tanks. These fabrications must be rejected in their entirety. They must be stamped with the poison of human consciousness and buried in history. What should have long ago replaced these strategizing, tactical weaving, and prescription writing is the conscious class struggle of the vast human masses for the organized, nationwide, council-style domination of the fate of their work, production, and lives. Exactly the same way that is the most natural, most spontaneous, most homogeneous, most harmonious, most cohesive orientation in the life and work and campaign of the workers, and it is capital, capitalists, scholars of the wage slavery system, ideologists, theorists of the bourgeoisie, along with their students, who lead the working masses away from this campaign, orientation, rail, workers, by virtue of being workers, are engaged in social production and work, collectively, their work is essentially social and a hundred, a hundred, several hundred, several hundred, a thousand, a thousand or more gather under one roof. It is capital that breaks up their togetherness, gathers them to lock them up one by one, separately, separately in separate cells of the production chain and bury them there, their demands are generally common and unified. It is capital that, under the whip of its inhumane division of labour, makes these demands different, and alienated from each other. Their protest, rebellion, uprising automatically has a collective, anti-capitalist, council-like direction. It is capital and its intellectual owners and representatives who stifle this collectivism, councilism and anti-capitalism of the self, they cling to the law, the state, rights, civil order of profit-making dynamics. The further back in time we go, the more we witness the spontaneous and natural antagonism of the working class with capital and capitalists. If the physical suppression of the working class and the labour movement by capitalist states has been talked about as little as a drop in the seven seas, the more terrifying intellectual suppression of this class by the whip of bourgeois thought engineering, the work process and the cycle of the capital order, the left-wing saviors of peaceful, militant, camp, non-camp social democracy, not even a sip of infinity has been described. Under the plague of this intellectual suppression, workers everywhere in the world, including the capitalist hell of Iran, have completely forgotten the basis of the war to dominate the fate of production, work and life. They have fallen into an abyss where they consider talk of such a campaign to be delusion and utopianism. The same evils that the forces and factors above have cultivated in their minds are now cultivated more globally, digitally, aggressively, more democratically, more human rights-oriented, more pluralistic than before, and they are reaping the fruits of this cultivation in a galaxy. If this mountain of inversion of the nature of capitalism, the institutions of capital power, and the forces of capital were not hanging within the labour movement, the working class would see a nationwide organized campaign, a council for collective control over the fate of life, work, and production as the most natural, most accessible, most familiar, and most urgent track of their campaign. It is a clear truth that the 20th century left has even tied the hands of the official parties of the bourgeoisie from behind in inverting and injecting this inversion into the consciousness of the workers.
The gist of the matter is that what has been done and is being done in the twentieth century and even worse over the last few decades under the name of struggle is nothing other than circumambulating the Kaaba of capital, “Rami Jamarat” by evil capitalists, “Sa’i Safa and Marwa” in seeking needs from capital, “wearing Ihram” for the time and place of good capitalism!! and decent capitalists!! in various ways, behind different imams and deceitful authorities. This entire process, this entire rejected record, must be struck with the whip of awareness once and for all. The path of class struggle against wage slavery must be taken, the path of entering the battlefield of the total domination of the Council over the fate of life and work. Every demand, strike, rebellion, and uprising of workers in every area of social life must establish this theme and nature. We must stand against the principle of being a worker, of living as a wage slave. On this basis, livelihood, welfare, legal, political, social, environmental, and gender demands, even at the lowest level, should not be raised with the premise of always remaining a worker. On the contrary, the campaign to obtain each of them should be made a moment and a link in the overall chain of the anti-capitalist class struggle. In this regard, the campaign to increase wages is not a class struggle but a self-burial in the degenerate and inhumane system of wage-earning. At the lowest level of expectation, a barricade should be erected to remove food, clothing, housing, household goods, water, electricity, medicine, treatment, education, transportation, entertainment, physical and mental health of everyone from any kind of monetary transaction, capitalism. Freedom in the conscious narrative of the labour movement is not freedom of speech and the press, the formation of unions and street demonstrations, strikes inside work centers, the absolute prohibition of any form of government interference in human life is the first paragraph of this movement’s indictment. We must fight for freedom from every constraint created by capital and class relations. In the fight against gender apartheid, we must not lock the space and time of demands into freedom of dress and removal of the veil. At the very beginning, we must press for the elimination of women’s domestic work, the immediate elimination of any kind of economic dependence of women on their husbands and children on their parents. Seeing the “right” in having the right to work, to vote, to choose where to live, to be a member of this or that organization, and to determine the capitalist model of government is not a campaign for conscious worker rights, but a caricatured claim of rights, a twisted version of bourgeois opposition to the rulers of capital. The labour movement must insist on the inalienable right of everyone to free, penetrating, direct, creative, and equal intervention in the council-wide, collective determination of the fate of work, production, and life.
This is where all the workers will raise their voices in protest and say that we have been on several thousand strikes every year. We have launched riots, we have launched uprisings. We have made revolutions, thousands, thousands, and recently tens of thousands of us have been killed, despite all this, we have not even been able to increase our wages, we have not released any prisoners, we have not achieved any success. Now you say that we should fight to remove the basic necessities of life from the control of buying and selling!! We should block the government’s interference in our lives, we should put pressure on the elimination of housework, and… A protest and response that is the bomb of all stoning and a clear example of the famous proverb of the mother and daughter who told stories all night long until morning and when the daughter was asked for her opinion, she yawned and said, “I counted 330 ants that entered this nest.” All that is being said is that what has been done and is being done is not a class struggle, but a burial and shrouding of the power of the class struggle in the cemetery of the capitalist order. The struggle between classes, between the exploited and the exploiting, the subordinate and the dominant, means that the parties dismantle any form of consensus, unleash all their power and enter the field against each other. The capitalist class has historically done this. It has spared no effort in mobilizing, organizing, and putting into action the last vestiges of its physical, intellectual, legal, political, military, police, civil, ideological campaign power, brainwashing, waging war, creating a holocaust, and incinerating humanity. The opposite is true of the working class. Not only has this class not brought its magical, transformative, and liberating power into the field to any extent, at any level, but it has not put its power into action, or rather, has buried all of this power or, in fact, anti-power in favor of the wage slavery system, in the quagmire of the belief in always remaining a worker, a wage slave. The ultimate goal of his expectations was to receive ten percent of the result of his labor and add another 90 percent to the capital of the capitalists, to replace one predatory capitalist state with another, to reduce the number of prisoners, to get rid of the compulsory veil, and so on. This work can be called anything, but it is class struggle. If generation after generation these things have been done and the life of the working masses has been increasingly accelerated towards regression, misery, hunger, and increasing poverty, does it have anything to do with the impossibility of realizing the above demands??!! The essence of the matter is that we should sweep away the system of capital, entanglement, self-revolution, and self-exhaustion forever and, hand in hand, become an organized, nationwide anti-power, an anti-wage slavery council, and take the path of a campaign to dominate the fate of labor, production, and life. Something that has never been done at any point in the history of capitalism. Isn’t expressing oneself as such an anti-power and establishing a movement debatable? This statement is so shallow and vulgar that even its criticism makes one feel disgusted and disgusted. The Iranian working class has sufficient capacity to establish this movement. It must use this capacity. The striking and characteristic feature of the current conditions is that it is forced to adopt this orientation more than ever before. It is at a historical turning point. It must take the path of campaigning to master the destiny of its life and work, otherwise not only its life but also its survival is in doubt.
Nasser Paydar
February 2026