The Tudeh party, the successors to the Communist Party of Persia – an Iranian socialist organisation that has suffered suppression and bloody purges since the 80s – recently made a press release declaring their support for the protest sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini and called for the overthrow of the Islamic republic.
Is this organisation in any way positioned to lead a revolutionary effort to replace the theocratic Islamic republic with a socialist republic, or does the recent upheaval constitute an unnecessary risk to Iran, which may instead fall victim to a US controlled colour revolution? Who are the contenders for state power in the event of this unrest galvanising into a civil war, and what are the chances of socialists/communists coming out on top under such circumstances?
Something suspicious I noticed while watching videos of the George Floyd protests where these loudmouths coming out with megaphones and steering crowds into chanting more benign, watered down stuff.
Had the same thing during the BLM solidarity marches here in the UK. We had those XR melts literally leading the entire protest around with a drum band like the pied piper. The crowd was poised to take over the main artery that’s basically the nexus of the entire city, before the drummers got drummer and they whisked the entire crowd away to a large field away from anything of any real importance.