Worker-communist Party of Iran

Worker-communist Party of Iran
حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران
ChairpersonHamid Taqvaee
FounderMansoor Hekmat
Founded1991; 33 years ago (1991)
Split fromCommunist Party of Iran
Membership (2008)250[1]
IdeologyCommunism
Workerist Marxism
Third camp
Political positionFar-left
Website
WPIran.org

The Worker-communist Party of Iran (Persian: حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران, romanizedhezb-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".

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.

  1. ^ "Verfassungsschutz-bericht 2008" [Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution] (PDF), Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (in German), p. 299, 2008, ISSN 0177-0357, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2015