When president Raisi of Iran died in a helicopter crash on May 19, did
the Iranian working people mourn? The communist Tudeh Party of Iran reports:
Despite the government's false propaganda and an array of elaborate
shows at Raisi's funeral ceremonies, ... the majority of society was
indifferent to these grand ceremonies and theatrical mourning
displays. _Many people even welcomed and expressed joy over the
death of one of the dictatorial regime's criminal servants._
With the death of Ebrahim Raisi, the criminal servant of the
ruling dictatorship, the "homogeneous regime" project favoured by
["Supreme Leader"] Khamenei has suffered another blow. This project,
centred around Raisi's administration, had already overseen major
failures in both domestic and foreign policy over the past three years.
On one front, the widespread boycotting of a succession of sham
elections over the past three years, marked by the people's
resounding "NO!", have dealt a significant blow to this project and
the credibility of Khamenei and his appointed president. On the
other, the widespread protests of the people under the slogan
"Woman, Life, Freedom" have placed the entire ruling dictatorship in
an unstable and irreversible situation and now in perpetual fear of
the people.
One simply cannot support the struggle of the people and the
left and progressive forces in Iran being waged under the repression
and injustice of the theocratic dictatorship while, under the
pretext of supporting an anti-imperialist struggle, sending
condolences to the "leader" of that very same reactionary
dictatorship and praising an executioner like Ebrahim Raisi!
https://www.idcommunism.com/2024/06/tudeh-party-of-iran-death-of-raisi-chaos-in-a-homogeneous-regime-and-need-to-organise-for-maximum-pressure-on-ruling-dictatorship.html
But multipolarista Carlos Martinez glorified the butcher Raisi! China
Daily heard from him:
Carlos Martinez, a British political commentator, said, "_Ebrahim
Raisi fought with honor in the struggle against imperialism_, for
sovereignty, for peace and multipolarity." Martinez said that
Raisi's legacy includes resolute support for Palestinian liberation,
Iran's membership in BRICS and the SCO, a significant deepening of
Iran-China relations, and a total refusal to succumb to the West's
bullying and intimidation.
https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/583737
When Martinez speaks of fighting against imperialism, he means only U.S.
imperialism (or "Western imperialism," ignoring the contradictions
between the U.S. and Germany, etc.). Martinez has no class consciousness.
And the multipolarista Communist Party of Great(!) Britain-ML denied
that Raisi was a butcher of women, denouncing the stand of the Tudeh Party:
This sudden tragedy was a truly painful blow for the Iranian people.
... President Raisi was also routinely denounced for his
government’s _alleged “repression of women”._ Little actual evidence
has ever been presented for this claim...
Perhaps even more rabid and vitriolic than the [Western] media
were the self-identifying ‘socialist’ and ‘communist’ organisations
in the west, most of which routinely jettison any pretence of
anti-imperialism as soon as Iran is mentioned. These charlatans were
united in hysterically raging against the record of a lifelong
internationalist...
https://thecommunists.org/2024/06/12/news/iran-president-raisi-dead-resistance-axis-lives/
The multipolaristas' darling, president Xi Jinping of the PRC, sent
formal condolences to the state of Iran. Taking their cue from him
instead of from working people, Martinez and the CPGB M-L glorify Raisi.
They sicken us with the multipolarista theory of tossing out class
struggle and reducing anti-imperialism to posturing against U.S.
imperialism. They have made themselves enemies of the Iranian working
people and the workers of the world.
-- Charles Andrews <http://www.hollowcolossus.com>
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