Communiqué
No 7
We Will Smash the State of
The scenes
that played out in the streets and alleys of central Tehran on Saturday night,
June 20th, made the events such as September 1978 [the first times
Shah’s army shot the crowd of a demonstration in Teheran in the events leading
to Revolution of February 1979)] look like a child’s game. The intensity of
fighting, and the number of women and men who, with their lives in their hands,
were standing firm in the front lines and driving back the armed herds of
violent thugs, was unprecedented. The Islamic regime who is terrified of the
rising tide of people’s protests gave the ultimatum (last warning) to people
through Khamenei’s call on Friday prayers. In utmost
desperation, the Islamic regime is heavily relying on security forces and
military clamp down of the masses. Illusions have evaporated, the cunning
religious preaching and the myths of Imam Zaman* can
no longer fool the angry people; the lies of State media can no longer put to
sleep the masses who have risen up. Instead its lies fan the flames of popular
anger. The only things left for the murderous ruling gang to safeguard its rule
are guns, batons, teargas, chains, and herds of anti-riot and law and order
forces, basijis and finally the army.
The brutal
attack that started since Saturday afternoon against scattered but numerous
crowds not only did not succeed in ending the protest but rather helped to
expanded it to various popular areas of Teheran. The units of basij and anti-riot used the tactic of separating
(dividing) the crowd into smaller groups and then encircling and crushing each
group. This tactic was working at the beginning, but it didn’t take long before
the scattered masses re-gathered in the streets and alleys in the surrounding area
and this time with a spirit and methods totally different from that of
demonstrations of the last couple of weeks. In this scene of street war covered
with clouds of teargas, earth and heaven were shaking with the sound of slogans
and shouts. And this time slogans were directly targeting the Islamic republic
and its leader: “death to Islamic Republic!” “death
to dictator!” “death to Khamenei!”
“Government of Coup d’etat, Resign,
Resign”. There was not much room for Allah o akbar (god is great). A young person on the
street corner wrote with blue spray painting: “Even Shah heard the cry of my
revolution! But Jamaran is Deaf!” (Jamaran is the headquarters of the Leader) Streets were
littered with shoes, handbags, mobile phones, and other things that were left
from the demonstrators. Somewhat further, youth put fire on any garbage they
could put their hands on in order to fight the effects of the teargas. Youth
punished the forces of suppression with stones and sticks wherever they could.
But the brutality of the thugs knew no bounds. Blood was flowing from heads and
necks. Clothes were torn up, the forced veil was abolished in the heat of
fighting and head scarves were being used as masks for covering faces. Those
who were slowly arriving from different various part of Teheran towards Enghelab and Azadi (Revolution
and Liberation, the name of two streets the fighting was happening – the names
where put on these streets after 79 rev!!!) expecting the same peaceful and
millions-strong demonstrations of last week, suddenly found themselves facing a
war zone. Those who had come to demonstration with family (in family form,
members of family) stood on side walks staring at clashes. But very soon they
became the target of batons, chains and lashes of Basij
for “unlawful gathering”. The reactionary violence was so widely applied that
the idea of rightful violence rapidly presented itself among the many different
strata and types of people that were present, and flow from the tongues in the
form of slogans.
Many youth
were kidnapped by the plain cloths security forces. The number
of arrests are very high, ambulance noise was non stop, they have used
water canons, then they resorted to bullets. Because of the huge number of
forces of suppression throughout the previously defined course of the
demonstration, as well as other important cross roads and squares of Teheran,
the tens of thousands who have heroically carried out the battles in the axis
of Enghelab – Azadi were
forced to scatter and retreat in different neighborhoods.
Now, in the
dark of night, the herd
of Basijis are continuing their crimes.
In Amirabad, at least two people have been killed. So
far there is news of 19 deaths. With the politics of suppression adopted by the
regime, tonight’s deaths are definitely much more. In turn, there has also been cases of punishing and delivering justice to
the criminals and some cases of disarming the forces of the regime. On Saturday
the 20th of June at the night time, from East to West, North to
South of Teheran, there was state of siege. The patrols were searching cars as
late as 11 pm and wherever they found a young person to be suspicious, they
would violently put them out, and took them to unknown places of custody. That
night many eyes stayed open. Many thought of tomorrow, about the road ahead,
about methods that need to be taken up in order to advance the uprising of the
masses in order to lead it to victory. During the day in short moments that
were found for discussion, there was talk of need for widespread and general
strike, some said nothing can be done without weapons. One thing is clear. It
is going to be a long fight. People should prepare themselves for days and
months ahead, to remain in the field in different forms. The slogans of the
uprising should become clearer and deeper, and the level of struggle be raised
in such a way that is capable of seizing victory.
Lets Raise our level of consciousness! And widely stir
debate among the masses!
Form
revolutionary cells of the most advanced young women and men in each
neighborhood, factory and university in order to widely distribute the
communiqués and tracts of exposure, to raise consciousness among the masses and
to invite the people to various militant struggles!
Communist
Party of
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* Imam Zaman or absent
imam – who is supposedly the 12th imam of Shia who
lived some 1400 years ago and will resurrect at some point in order to save
humanity from itself.