We received from Iran and we publish
1. Two predatory and genocidal capitalist regimes have entered into war. The Israeli state and the Islamic regime, like all other capitalist states, are each more than the other, all of them are worker-killing, criminal, and warmongering to the core.
2. The Israeli state, the hateful offspring of a transpolar coalition filled with the brutal capitalist rivalries of the victors of the second imperialist war to achieve common and contradictory anti-worker, anti-human goals, has been and continues to be the unwavering support of this entire beast. Everything it does, including its 80 years of continuous genocide and holocaust against the accursed Palestinian and Middle Eastern working masses, has been agreed upon without need for calculation, conditions, and relies on the consensus that is always and everywhere present, penetrating all poles of capital. The Islamic Republic has a different but homogeneous background, the product of the defeat of the turbulent movement of the Iranian working masses at the end of the seventies of the last century, it was the emergency option of the day of world capital to suppress the revolutionary uprising of the workers and ensure the survival of capitalism. It was born from the filthy lap of such conditions. As soon as it gave birth to the most violent forms of genocide and physical repression, it launched an idea against the labour movement, a barbarity that was sugar-coated in the heart of the global bourgeoisie and considered to be something to be learned, while simultaneously making the earth and time of the region and the world an arena for seeking share, seeking excess, demanding greater shares of power, and ruling, something that, contrary to the initial function, angered the ruling giants of capital and forced them to confront it with restraint. The current criminal war is also a corner of this confrontation seeking share on the one hand, and the crushing militaristic response of the rivals on the other.
3. The stormy night attack of the Israeli government, with the unwavering and unconditional support of the largest sectors of global capital, led by America and Europe, has managed to paralyze and ground the predatory Islamic regime to a great extent in the very first moments, so that it will not be able to recover and use its existing capacity to confront it for hours. This does not necessarily mean that it will collapse, sink into itself, or surrender. The Islamic Republic will use all its might to find a solution, resist, and defend its anti-human existence. It has considerable reserves, facilities, and capacities for this. It is necessary to emphasize this point because the mere military superiority of Israel and its supporters, the regime’s chained and obvious defeats over the past year, and the defeated and worn-out situation resulting from these defeats and blows should not and cannot be considered sufficient reasons for the war to be short-lived, for the Islamic Republic to yield to the demands of its rivals, and for the story to be over. It is by no means clear what the regime will do and how far it will succeed in holding the field, but it will resist and advance until it feels the threat of imminent destruction.
4. On the other hand, the genocidal, holocaust-causing Israeli government, the imperialist, fascist American bourgeoisie have not started the war with the aim of getting rid of Iran’s nuclear scenario. They have never, at any time, seen the Islamic regime’s nuclear activities as a problem for themselves. The nuclear dispute has been and is merely a pretext for settling fundamental and decisive scores. An issue that has assumed much greater importance in the current war than ever. The basis of the disputes over these 45 years has been the Iranian regime’s excessive demands, unlimited demands for share, its defiance and refusal to submit to the twisted order of the United States, its allies, and its satellites on the one hand, and the firm, unwavering will of the opposing faction to force the Islamic rulers of capital to retreat from demands for share and submit to their global strategy on the other. The current war started by Israel and the United States is set to determine the fate of this long, half-century dispute forever. On this basis, it will take time, neither side will give up easily, since the Islamic Republic is in a completely weaker and more vulnerable position, it will certainly take the path of compromise, America, Israel, do not have alternative allies and replacements for the predatory regime of Iran, they know very well that no part of the opposition is capable of playing any role in this transition. The disgusting, disgusting, humiliating, hatred-filled tail of the monarchist and Pahlavi-worshipping mafia has never achieved the slightest illusion in their calculations. The Islamic Republic is not going to fall in the face of competitors, it is going to surrender, and the predatory religious rulers of capital, knowing these assumptions and data, are trying until their last breath to lower costs and reduce the scope of retreats.
5. The end of the war will absolutely not mean the resolution of disputes, competitions, wars and conflicts, crisis-making, catastrophic economic sanctions or subsequent devastating wars and conflicts. Everything will continue as before. As long as capitalism remains, the conflicts, conflicts and genocides of the entire bourgeoisie against the entire working class and their wars, competitions, and contests over the distribution of surplus values, capital, profits, property, and power will continue with a wider scope and increased intensity. The expectation that the war of Netanyahu, America, and the evil octopus of the Islamic Republic will remove from the heads of the 60 million working masses of Iran and change everything is so stupid, absurd, and hateful that it can only be an example of the ultimate loss of consciousness, fossilization, and destruction of humanity. The falling of any number or any section of the Iranian working class into the swamp of such an idea is a very terrible and terrifying alarm bell for the entire labour movement. A disaster that must be the target of the most crushing, constructive class criticism from all workers.
6. The emphasis on the retreats, submissions, and surrender of the Islamic Republic as a precondition for the end of the war phase of the conflict by the United States, Israel, and Europe, is in no way predictable, with what economic situation, what degree of collapse of the capitalist work cycle in Iran, what degree of internal turmoil in the regime, what level of explosive hunger, famine, misery, displacement, poverty, and the massacre of the working masses will be associated. One thing is clear, the ruling part of the American bourgeoisie, of which the ruling beasts of Israel are also an inseparable part, even its ruling cell, will not hesitate to turn Iran into Libya, but the Islamic Republic is much smarter than to be a prisoner of the fate of Gaddafi, Saddam, and Assad.
7. All that has been said, plus all other evidence, screams that the war is likely to continue. It will probably flare up more. Hunger, famine, lack of water, the plague-like deprivation of medicine, treatment, health, the disasters of homelessness, unemployment, displacement, poverty that have been rampant in all the previous years and decades will become more explosive and unbearable. The capitalist class and its military, police, and security machinery of repression and murder will fall more brutally on the lives of our comrades. Both sides of the war. All the war-making governments, both hostile genocidal blocs, will try with all their capacity to bring all the disasters, consequences, and sinister effects of the war on our class. The top and bottom, the starting and ending point of all this talk is that we must reverse the trend and turn the enemy’s dark scenario against itself. We must reverse the story. Let us destroy all the competitions, confrontations, conflicts, and wars against the warmongers, the governments, the genocidal bourgeoisie of countries, and against global capital. This is possible, we can do it, we have the potential to play this role. Stamping the impossible seal on what our class struggle has all the capacity to make possible is only the work of the misanthropic capitalist system and the international anti-human bourgeoisie. It is the nature of capital that every anti-capitalist desire, will, determination, and action of the workers of the world locks the impossible and stamps the impossible seal. The implementation of this sinister scenario is an inseparable part of the magical and fetishist power of commodity production and, at its highest level, capitalist production. The foundation of this system’s existence is based on “personalizing things and objectifying humans, making the product of the workers’ labour an all-powerful, active, and productive god, and the worker an obedient, speechless slave, without any will or role, in relation to the creation of his labour. Capital, with its dark nature, stamps the impossible on all possibilities of our class struggle and prevents us from pursuing our human liberation goals. These seals must be broken, these locks must be broken, the entire burden of war must be placed on the shoulders of the capitalist war-making governments, and this work must be pursued and advanced by beating the drum of the anti-capitalist class struggle with greater awareness, vigilance, wakefulness, and determination.
8. We declare with the loudest cries that their war is not our war. We are at war with both governments, both poles, all of capital. We consider any kind of convergence, harmony, alignment of any worker with any side of the war as a shameless and shameless act for capital and against our own movement, against our fellow masses. We are against war and we make this opposition an agenda only by proposing perspectives, horizons, expectations, strategies, solutions, remedies, alignments, fielding’s and clear and stormy anti-capitalist campaigns. The field, the platform, the environment of our class alignment, alignment and war is precisely the place where capital separates us from our work, deprives us of control over the fate of our work and production, deprives us of the thoughtful, growing, flourishing, and instructive practice of playing a strong, conscious role against wage labour, in planning, planning, and exercising control over our own work and life. The focus of our forces for a real class campaign against capitalism is here and against everything that capital has done and continues to do.
9. A very key, identity-defining point is at stake here. Every struggle we have against war and the warmongering of governments must be clearly and distinctly anti-capitalist. Otherwise, we will become the miserable and black infantry of one of the two opposing camps, two governments, two anti-humanist poles of the bourgeoisie. For example, if we are content with walking in the streets, stamping our feet on the ground, and shouting slogans against war at the sky. Such an action, although it is the right thing to do as a complement to the anti-capitalist struggle or as a link in the internationalist anti-war campaign, is, in the absence of these two important indicators, falling into the abyss of acting on one side of the war. The reflection will be that it seems as if our struggle is only against the warmongering of the Islamic regime, we demand that this octopus surrender to its more war-mongering and criminal rivals!!. Global capital, with all the demonic power of its thought engineering, will definitely reflect the story in this way. While the reality of the matter is not like this, we, with all our flesh, skin, blood, and working existence, are against both governments, both poles, and against the very foundation of capitalist existence. We recognize both sides as equally, and each more than the other, as a war of attrition, genocide, and inhumanity. An anti-war march will be correct when we turn the entire conditions of work, production, and life into an arena of class anti-capitalist campaign. This issue is equally valid and important for chanting slogans against the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. We are certainly against the bourgeoisie allocating every rial from the labour of our class to the manufacture of any type of weapon, but this protest and struggle of ours should in no way be a means of settling the internal scores of the bourgeoisie, in favor of one government against another or a section of the capitalist beast against another government and camp. Our outcry to challenge the Islamic regime’s warmongering must simultaneously act as a crushing, iron fist against the genocidal, Holocaust-prone rulers of Israel, and the imperialist, fascist, and expansionist monopolies of the Western capitalist bloc.
10. Wherever we are, every work centre, school, hospital, transportation network, commercial centre, place of sale, agriculture and industry, municipality, mine, house, neighbourhood, port, road and building area, sea, forest, land, air, let us join hands. We have anti-capitalist workers’ councils. Let us link the councils together, let us create a passionate nationwide council movement against wage slavery. Why should we consider this work as Martian, extraterrestrial, and dreamy??!! Just because the regime resorts to all kinds of repression to break our resolve? Doesn’t it do this with every strike, doesn’t it suppress every struggle of any number of masses of our class to increase the price of labour by any amount? Doesn’t our every breath of protest in any other area bombard social life? Has it not been hundreds of times more ferocious and harsher with the aim of imposing the veil on the lives of women and girls of our class. Why have we not retreated in each of these areas, we have stood, we have advanced, we have continued the struggle, but as soon as we talk about organizing the council, the universal power of our class fills the earth and time with it!! It is not possible!! It is utopian!! Do we??!! The answer is clear, capital, the octopus brainwashing devices of the wage slavery system, the education and training system, and the engineering of capitalist thoughts have instilled this in us. It has fossilized us in itself, to the extent that it has deprived us of the ability to think differently and contrary. A reality that is terrifying and must be rebelled against. This rebellion does not take place in the philosophy classroom. We must rush towards each other, make one voice, one comrade, one ally of the council. The living and present bonds within the home, the house, the neighbourhood, the workplace, the conditions of struggle, the turbulent focus of establishing the councils.
11. Let us use the councils as a weapon of power and a vessel for seizing the centers of work and production. In the normal situation, when the fire of war between the predatory capitalist states is not ignited, strikes, the most general shutdown of the cycle of production and work, the most crushing disruption of the political, civil, security, police, legal, and social order of capitalism are the most effective weapons for forcing the bourgeoisie and its state to retreat against its own demands. In the conditions of war between states, this solution is not necessarily correct. It presents the same important problems as stated above. It is seized by one side of the war, our struggle must be against all two poles of the war, a symbol of the independent rise and powerful alignment of our class against the existence of capitalism. For this reason, it must go beyond strikes. The seizure of the centres of work and production brings forward the general, organic seizure of the cycle of work and production. The seizure solution in the context of this situation is the manifestation of the will and determination of the working class to settle accounts with all of capital. A solution that terrifies the American bourgeoisie and Europe more than the Islamic Republic and the predatory Islamic regime more than anyone else. It is absolutely not a question of walking this path simply and easily. It is clear that we will be suppressed from the ground and the sky. It is about getting on the road, reaching out to each other, setting a roadmap, establishing councils, striving to unite them, and joining forces to elevate the current campaign to a nationwide council movement capable of seizing the entire cycle of work, dominating the fate of production, work, and life.
12. It may be asked what will happen to the demands, for example, the export of medicine, treatment, education, shelter, water, electricity, gas, from the domination of capitalist moneyed commodity trading? It is clear from the sun that the urgent order of work and struggle will be more fundamental and vital than ever, with the slogan of occupation, preparation for occupation, development. The more this preparation increases, the more our power to impose demands on the enemy will increase, and to the extent of this increase, the greater our victory will be.
13. We must enter the field as a class. We have no other choice. We have been running away from this work for hundreds of years and the dominant logic, universal and everywhere dominating our consciousness, has been: It cannot be done!! It is not possible!! First the class game, syndicalism, democracy, civil movements, rainbow revolutions, anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, federalism, the endless chain of wastelands in which to languish in them has become the black fate of generation after generation of our class. Finally, a day must begin, we believe that this day has come.
Workers Against Capitalism, June 2025
