Worker-communist Party of Iran
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The Worker-communist Party of Iran (Persian: حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران, romanized: hezb-e kommunist-e kârgari-ye Irân) is a political party founded in 1991 that seeks the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the establishment of a Socialist Republic in its place. The party's primary slogans are "Liberty, Equality, Workers' Rule", "Down with the Islamic Republic", "For a Socialist Republic" and "The Basis of Socialism is the Human Being".
Worker-communist Party of Iran | |
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Chairperson | Hamid Taqvaee |
Founder | Mansoor Hekmat |
Founded | 1991; 33 years ago (1991) |
Membership (2008) | 250[1] |
Ideology | Communism Workerist Marxism Third camp |
Political position | Far-left |
Website | |
WPIran.org | |
WPI owns a 24-hour TV station called New Channel, which broadcasts mainly in Persian, but includes some programming in English, Kurdish and Azeri Turkish. The Communist Youth Organization is the youth wing of WPI. The organization's current leader is Hamid Taqvaee.