Recommended Works: Class Struggle in Iran

Peykar 

Many of these texts come from various former Marxist organizations that were active in pre-1979 revolutionary ferment or from academic studies on the capitalist mode of production in Iran. These texts may be opinionated--in no means does Ebookcollective share or affiliate with any particular political organization.

So here are some works you MUST read (from all parties, sects, etc.)  (ebook provided--all are pdfs unless provided with the format)

Books/Essays (Academia)

1. Assef Bayat, Workers and Revolution in Iran 

2. Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions 

3. Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran

4. Ervand Abrahamian, Structural Causes of the Iranian Revolution

5. Andreas Malm, Shora Esmailian, Iran on the Brink Rising Workers and Threats of War  (2007) 

6. Arjomand,  A Demographic Theory of Revolution - Or, Sociology as Sorcery

7. Arjomand,  The Causes and Significance of the Iranian Revolution

8. Arjomand, Religion and Ideology in the Constitutional Revolution

9. Arjomand - The Law, Agency, and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society - Development of the Insitutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century

10. Asef Bayat, A Women's Non-movement: What it means to be a woman activist in an Islamic state.

11. Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran

12. Mir-Hosseini - Impact of Wage Labour on Household Fission in Rural Iran

13. Mir-Hosseini,  Some Aspects of Changing Economy in Rural Iran - The Case of Kalardasht

14. Moaddel, Class Struggle in Post-Revolutionary Iran

15. Moaddel, Shi'i Political Discourse and Class Mobilization in the Tobacco Movement of 1890-1892

16. Moaddel - State-Centered vs Class-Centered Perspectives on International Politics

17. Moghadam - Industrial Development, Culture and Working-Class Politics - A Case Study of Tabriz Industrial Workers in the Iranian Revolution

18. Moghadam - Socialism or Anti-Imperialism - The Left and Revolution in Iran

19. Moghadam - Women, Work, and Ideology in the Islamic Republic

20. Moghadam and Ashtiani - The Left and Revolution in Iran

21. Zachary Lockman, Workers and working classes in the Middle East (epub)

Cherik Fadais (چريک‌های فدایی خلق ایران) 

(Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas)

1. Armed Struggle; both a Strategy and a Tactic — by Massoud Ahmad-Zadeh

2. Remarks on the Question of the Organization of the Working Class in Iran

3. The Spread of a Misogynist Culture, the Means to Further Serve the Exploitation of Workers-- Ashraf Dehghani

4. Torture and Resistance In Iran (Hemaseyeh Moghavemat)-- Ashraf Dehghani (pt. 1) (pt. 2)

Peykar (پيکار) 

1. In which direction is our society going?

Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) (سربداران)
1. Islam: Ideology and Tool of the Exploiting Classes by Nasrin Jazayeri 

Tudeh Party of Iran (نامه مردم)
1. Brief History of The Tudeh Party of Iran

Unity of Communist Militants (Ettehade Mobarezane Komonist)

1. Anarcho-Pacifism: Peykar with the Wooden Sword!

Minutes of the Congress of the Peoples of the East Baku (September 1920)

"The Congress of the Peoples of the East held in Baku in September, 1920 holds a special place in the history of the Communist movement. It was the first attempt to appeal to the exploited and oppressed peoples in the colonial and semi-colonial countries to carry forward their revolutionary struggles under the banner of Marxism and with the support of the workers in Russia and the advanced countries of the world." 

--Tom Kemp, Forward to the Congress of the Peoples of the East-Baku (1920)

Available in marxists.org 

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