Maziar Razi

Maziar Razi is the first Iranian Trotskyist. In 1968, as a leading student activist of anti-Vietnam War protests in London, he joined the International Marxist Group (IMG), the then British section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI). In subsequent years, together with other Iranian Trotskyists, he formed an Iranian Commission of the USFI and was one of the principle leaders of the Socialist Workers' Party (Hezb-e Kargaran-e Socialist), the Iranian section of the USFI in 1978.

During the last 37 years M. Razi has been a revolutionary socialist and contributed a great deal, organisationally and theoretically, to the Iranian working class movement. He is now the editor of kargar.org, spokesperson of the Iranian  Revolutionary Socialists’ League (IRSL), and a political activist in the Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network.  

Amongst many editorial and analytical articles and interviews in Farsi, comrade Razi has published several books and pamphlets in Farsi on Marxism and working class organisational issues. They include:

• In Defence of Marxism (against reformism in workers' movement), 222 pages
• Some observations on Karl Marx's philosophy (theory of praxis), 26 pages
• On organisational problems of the working class, 231 pages
• On the concept of the party and independent workers' organisation, 92 pages
• On Organisation, 56 pages
• On the youth (organisation questions), 77 pages
• Stalinism and Trotskyism, 15 pages
• On Internationalism (four internationals), 53 pages
• Principles and Aims of Revolutionary Socialists, 20 pages
• Communism and the Worker-Communist Party (Critique of Mansoor Hekmat's views), 137 pages
• In Deffense of Troskyism

Comrade Razi has also written introductions to the following classics which have been recently re-published and also appear on the Farsi section of MIA:

• The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
• Theses on Feuerbach (Marx)
• Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
• The Permanent Revolution (Trotsky)
• The Transitional Programme (Trotsky)
• Results and Prospects (Trotsky)
• The Paris Commune (Trotsky)
• Stalinism and Bolshevism (Trotsky)
• Their Morals and Ours (Trotsky)
• Everyday Notebooks (Trotsky)

Some of M. Razi's articles have been translated into English and other languages.

M. Razi archive