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Editor’s note Following a long and heated debate within the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI), the majority of the members the Central Committee of the WPI in a statement issued on August 24, 2004, announced their resignation and the formation of the Worker-communist Party of Iran-Hekmatist. For most of the members, supporters and those who had been following the progress of the WPI, this event was met with disbelief and disappointment. As it is the case with most political splits, the real differences take a while to become clear and manifest themselves in terms of political stance and practices. Now, more than one year after the split, the WPI-Hekmatist Party has established itself as a credible, radical and a maximalist political entity. Against all the odds and in the face adverse difficulties the Hekmatist party has managed to repair some of the damages inflicted on the Worker-communism movement and raise the banner of Worker-communism and advocate and practice the kind of communist policies that were developed and practiced by Mansoor Hekmat. The Middle East is in turmoil. Iran is on the verge of a major upheaval. The Islamic regime is on its last leg. All the political forces, both internal and external are intervening to shape the direction of the political development in Iran to their own advantage. A window of opportunity has opened up for the working class and the communists to challenge the bourgeois forces and start the process of a permanent revolution leading to the establishment of a socialist state. With the publication of the KOMONIST we are resuming a vital element of our work; that is to inform the labour activists and the socialists around the world of the political situation in Iran from a communist perspective and try to promote the interests of the working class and all the issues surrounding the rights and well being of people of Iran. Furthermore, as an internationalist Party we are duty bound to intervene, wherever possible, in the struggles of the working class and endeavour to forge international solidarity. It is our intension to, through this paper, mobilise the widest possible support for the struggles of the working class in Iran and strengthen international class solidarity.
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