2026-01-02

Long live the struggle against poverty, high prices and inflation! Forward to the revolution!

In recent days, a wave of mass protests has erupted in a number of Iranian cities. These protests, which began on Sunday, December 28, 2025, following an unprecedented rise in the value of the dollar and a sharp increase in prices, combined with a combination of protests by businessmen and people from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, spread to Jomhuri Street in the early hours and then to other areas of Tehran. The current new wave of protests, which is rooted in the general dissatisfaction of the masses, the people’s livelihood difficulties, the skyrocketing inflation, and the meager wages and rights of workers and laborers, continued on Monday and Tuesday and has taken on wider dimensions by spreading to cities such as Isfahan, Mashhad, Karaj, Hamedan, Qeshm, Kish, Mallard, Mamasani, and Kerman.

The rapid spread of popular protests from Tehran to other cities, along with slogans against Khamenei and the Islamic Republic, and the rapid support of students at Tehran and other universities in the country, reflects the pent-up anger and disgust of the working masses who are no longer willing to tolerate the crimes of the Islamic Republic. An authoritarian and reactionary regime that has suppressed the Iranian people for many years, imposed poverty and deprivation on them, and spent billions of dollars from the hard-earned money of workers and laborers on waging war, expanding its proxy forces, and nuclear facilities. A corrupt and oppressive regime that, despite all the poverty and misery it has imposed on the workers and laborers of Iran, has responded to society with unlimited repression and any protest movement with arrests, imprisonment, executions, and killings. As in the past two days, in order to disperse the protesting masses, it has thrown tear gas at them, surrounded universities, beaten protesters, and in some cases even shot them.

The growing protests of the Iranian masses in the past few days have clearly shown that not only have the killings, executions, imprisonments, and arrests of the past years not been able to stop the oppressed people from fighting to get rid of the poverty, misery, and discrimination imposed on them, but they have once again taken to the streets with slogans of “Death to the dictator,” “Death to the Islamic Republic,” and “Long live freedom,” turning the streets into their battlefield with the ruling reaction. More importantly, with the formation of a new wave of protests, the militant students of Tehran’s universities have also linked the university campuses to the street struggles of the people from the very first hours of the street protests by chanting slogans such as “no Pahlavi, no leader (supreme leader), democracy and equality,” “Women, Life, Freedom,” and “The student dies, but will not accept humiliation.”

Meanwhile, a few seemingly monarchist forces – perhaps security infiltrators – are trying to divide and disrupt the current protests of the Iranian people, as in 2022, by attending some of these gatherings and chanting slogans in favor of Reza Pahlavi. Therefore, it is necessary that women, youth, and progressive forces accelerate the current growing protests while rejecting and isolating these neo-fascist policies, along with exposing the fascist actions of Israel and the right-wing television channels such as “man-o-tou” and “Iran International” which spread deepfake videos by falsifying and dubbing videos of street protests. The masses of the Iranian people should also expand popular protests by joining the ranks of street struggles as much as possible, strengthen their struggle unity even more than before, and distance themselves from those who try to create division by infiltrating their struggle ranks.

More important than the street struggles of the working masses and the solidarity of the militant and freedom-loving students with their struggles in the past days is the formation and spread of labor strikes and their connection with the street struggles of the masses of the Iranian people. A rightful demand that the street movement and the student movement should demand from the Iranian working class in these decisive days. Undoubtedly, if the workers of Iran in these decisive days in factories and service institutions unify their scattered strikes, stop the wheel of production, and rise up united and unified to organize nationwide strikes, then surely this time it will be the workers, women, and the broad masses of the Iranian people who will celebrate the victory of the revolution on the ruins of the Islamic Republic.

Down with the Capitalist Regime of the Islamic Republic

Long Live Freedom, Long Live Socialism

31 December 2025