Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist

The Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist is an opposition Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

in exile. Its founder and current leader is Koorosh Modaressi

Koorosh Modaressi

Koorosh Modaressi is the founder, general secretary of the central committee and leader of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist. He was a founder of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran in 1991, from which his current party split....

, its current vice-leader is Rahman Hosseinzadeh and its current Chair of the Politbureau is Fateh Sheikh.

The group has a military arm, mainly in Iranian Kurdistan

Iranian Kurdistan

Iranian Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of West Azerbaijan province....

, the Freedom Guards. The current commander-in-chief of the Freedom Guards (who is also military adviser to the leader of the party) is Abdollah Darabi.

The WPI-Hekmatist was formed in 2004 after a major split from the Worker-communist Party of Iran

Worker-Communist Party of Iran

The Worker-communist Party of Iran founded 1991, is a political party that seeks the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the establishment of a 'Socialist Republic' in its place...

(WPI). More than half of the WPI's Central Committee and almost all of its Kurdistan Committee joined the WPI-Hekmatist. The leadership of Worker-Communist Party of Iraq

Worker-Communist Party of Iraq

The Worker-Communist Party of Iraq is a Marxist political party in Iraq and amongst Iraqi exiles. Rebwar Ahmed is the current leader of this party. It was Established in July 1993 through a merger of communist groups....

also supported this move and it is now the sister party of the WPI-Hekmatist.

The group claims to hold more closely to the line of Mansoor Hekmat

Mansoor Hekmat

Mansoor Hekmat was an Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. He opposed the Shah and, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, led the Worker-Communist Party of Iran , which is opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran...

, the WPI's founder, but this claim has denied by the WPI leadership and the dispute between the two parties is still ongoing.
WPI-H denounce the WPI leadership as enacting a "retreat to the traditional Left" and WPI leadership call the WPI-H "a right-wing split" and sometimes in sarcasm "Anti-Hekmatist" or more recently "UnHekmatist".

The Hekmatist party has declared it to be their goal to establish a modern Communist mass party in Iran and organize a Socialist revolution as Marx had formulated it. They distinguish themselves from other "traditional Left" groups by emphasizing their organization's focus on an immediate task (to the vanguard of the social movement for a Socialist revolution), rather than merely be an "intellectually-enlightning sectarian organization".

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