Mansoor Hekmat

Mansoor Hekmat of its true name Zhoobin Razani is a Marxist revolutionary Iran IEN, born with Teheran in 1951 and died in London in 2002.

He is the founder in 1978 of the Union of the communist combatants, he takes share with the Iranian Révolution of 1979, marked by the creation of working councils (will shoras). He refuses any support for the islamist mode of the ayatollah Khomeini, contrary in the majority of the left, and denounces the “myth of the national middle-class progressist”. Constrained to flee with the Kurdistan in 1981, because of repression, the members of the Union of the communist combatants amalgamates with a Kurdish organization resulting from the Maoïsme, Komala, with which they found the Communist party of Iran.

The new organization has a true army, which holds head with the Iranian mode and the nationalists. In their “released zone”, the women's rights are respected, which is worth the hatred of the traditionalists to them. In 1991, in total rupture with Kurdish nationalism, Mansoor Hekmat leaves the Communist party of Iran and involves with him most of the organization. It then creates the Parti Communist-workman Iran, then in 1993, the Parti Communist-workman Iraq, born from the insurrection of the working councils in 1991. The two parties are narrowly mixed right from the start. Taken refuge in London, Mansoor Hekmat dies of a cancer in July 2002.

Partisan of the “return to Marx”, Mansoor Hekmat considered that the working class was to count only on its own forces, and that it was the only one to have made evolve/move the things positively during the 20th century. It considered that there had never been there socialist countries, the the USSR and the China being anything else only middle-class nationalisms, which neither had abolished wage-earning and the exploitation, nor communized the means of production.

Though inspired by the Communism of council, Mansoor Hekmat attached a great importance to the organization and the Propagande, considering that “Communism with the margin of the company, it is not Communism”. It thus wished to reconcile the fight for authentic social reforms, in particular for the women's rights, and the revolutionary combat. Marked by the Yugoslav and Rwandan tragedies, it defended a humanistic, laic vision and universalist against any form of ethnic or religious division.

After its death, the party which it contributed has to found in Iraq became one of principal the left organization in this country, while the Iranian branches became inevitable actors of the opposition to the Islamic Republic.

Quotations

" The base of socialism is the human being considered at the same time collectively and individually. Socialism is the movement which restores the will conscious of the man, it is a movement to release the human beings of the economic obligations and control of the predetermined moulds of the production. It is a movement aiming at abolishing the classes and classifications of the people, which is the essential condition for the blooming of the individu."

Mansoor Hekmat, Marxism and the world today

External bonds

Solidarity Iraq (Texts of Mansoor Hekmat in French and information on the Communism-workman in Iraq)
Mansoor Hekmat in the Marxist Files
Foundation Hekmat (texts in several languages)

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