The Unity Statement
Dear Comrades, Communists, Workers, and Fellow
Iranians!
In the following statement, we inform all
Marxist-Leninists, the working class, and the people of Iran that the two
organizations of “The
Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)”
and “The Marxist-Leninist Organization of Toufan-Rahe
Ayandeh” have united.
Both of these organizations reached agreement on all the following
points after necessary discussions and an exchange of points of views. We
circulate this statement among the sympathizers of the emancipation of the
working class and those who sincerely wish to eliminate class oppression and
exploitation. We offer our unified action as a positive example from which they
can gain experience.
We hope this joint effort inspires those who
have love for and consider communism as the ideal of human emancipation.
The Party of Labour
of Iran (Toufan) and the Marxist-Leninist Organization
of Toufan-Rahe Ayandeh, in
their 35-year activities and historical developments and in their separate paths
of struggles for the same goal, have gained a variety
of positive and negative experiences. Based on the lessons of these
experiences, they were able to join for a common struggle and have reached
ideological-political-organizational unity on the basis of the Program and
Constitution of the Party of Labour of Iran as the
single party of the working class of Iran.
After many years of militant struggles and
through the evaluation of each other’s documents and central organs, both
organizations have reached the conclusion that their attitudes towards the
events and surrounding phenomenon were generally based on dialectical
materialism and were consistent in their entirety throughout all ideological
and political arenas. Therefore their
separation is unnatural, unjustifiable, and irresponsible. They therefore decided to put an end to this
division.
Both organizations are of the opinion that
unity in a working class party is not based on petty, daily details. The fundamentals of unity in a communist
organization are based on Marxist-Leninist ideology, revolutionary action for
the emancipation of the working class from the ruling capitalists, and Leninist
organizational principles.
Unity with the single party of the working
class must be formed on the basis of determinative, substantial, and major
issues that express the nature of the organizations. The minor controversial
issues should be investigated within the framework of the party and be resolved
in the service of the party and in accordance with and respect for Leninist
organizational principles. In resolving controversial issues, the emphasis
should be placed on the importance of the principal issues the party is based
on, and on resolving the part in the service of the whole in accordance to the
principle of “unity-criticism-unity.” In
this process, the struggle is carried out with the motivation of strengthening
party unity. Healthy inner-party struggle shows the liveliness of the party and
demonstrates the democratic nature of inner-party relations. This democratic
inner-party struggle further strengthens the party.
The Party of Labour
of Iran (Toufan) and the Marxist-Leninist Organization
of Toufan-Rahe Ayandeh, in
daily struggles and in attracting the conscious elements of the working class,
have always declared their deep beliefs and loyalties to the leadership role of
the party of the working class and to the principles of Leninist party
discipline. They base their beliefs on the historical experience that all
organizations and individuals who believe in Marxism-Leninism, in the October
Socialist Revolution, and in the construction of socialism in USSR by Comrade
Lenin and Stalin can and must unite in a single organization. Their effort to resolve the differences must
have perspective and a target, and must be in the service of further
strengthening of the party of the working class. The party of the working class
manifests the historical memory and achievements of the class, inspires the
continuation of the class struggles, and is the subjective factor in ending
division in the class. The party carries out a ceaseless struggle against
bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideologies, against anarcho-syndicalism, against
trailing behind the “mass of workers,” and against economism. The Party shows that the distorted theory of
“Emancipation of the working class by its own hands”; that is, emancipation
without the subjective factor of consciousness and without the need for the
leadership of the Party, is one of the “worker-worship” tricks used by the
bourgeoisie in its ideological struggles against the working class. It is only
through such struggles that the Party can put an end to dispersion, to the
escaping-discipline attitudes, and to the fascination with individualism. The
struggle against division and dispersion must pass through putting emphasis on
the significance of the leading role and the leadership function of the Party,
through spreading belief in organizational discipline, through advocating
loyalty to the Party, and through showing the path of unity drawn by the
conscious sector of the working class.
Only this planned, conscious, well-thought, and targeted struggle,
together with feelings of communist responsibility, is the remedy to end
division and dispersion.
The party of the working class must be the
manifestation of the ideological firmness and political independence of the
class. Also, it must put the organizational unity of the class in order by
fighting against petty-bourgeois thoughts and tendencies that are designed to
cause division. The existence and activity of the party are the necessary
conditions to end division and dispersion. The party is the conscious,
subjective factor that holds high the banner of the fight against division and
dispersion, and therefore, it cannot surrender to the condition of ideological,
political, and organizational dispersion. The party, as the conscious factor,
must rise up against the spirit of petty-bourgeois divisionism and dispersion
and put its stamp on the removal of dispersion and its consequences that have
damaged Iran’s communist movement since the rise of revisionism.
Consequently, the two organizations, feeling
responsible for the communist and worker movements in Iran, have reached
organizational unity on the basis of ideological-political-organizational
communist principles, and concretely, on the basis of the political line and
Program and the Constitution of Party of Labour of
Iran. The two organizations call on all those who sincerely wish the
emancipation of the working class to overcome their hesitation and join us in
this common path with the feeling of communist responsibility and with the rich
and precious experiences they have gained in their struggles.
Long Live
Marxism Leninism !
Long Live
Freedom, Independence, Democracy, and Socialism !
“ The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)”
“ The Marxist
–Leninist Organization of Toufan-Rahe Ayandeh”
May 1, 2014