A Group of Socilaist Activists
Manifesto of Revolutionary Socialism
May 2015
From Kandokav 2 - The Manifesto of revolutionary Socialism (a proposal for discussion on the need for a revolutionary socialist tendency in Iran): Dying but Barbaric Capitalism; Bourgeoisie and its Rivals; The Crises; The Revolts and the Solutions; The Socialists and the revolutionary Road of Marxian Socialism; revolutionary Socialism and Contemporary Iran.

A. Rahim
Results and Prospects
November 1982

A. Soltanzadeh
The Socio-economic Roots of Reza Shah's Monarchy
1930
Soltanzadeh's views on Reza Shah's period in opposition to the official Soviet positions on Iran.

Adam Hanieh
When Oil Markets Go Viral
April 2020
from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4651-when-oil-markets-go-viral

Adam Westbrook
Blood Bananas!
April 2015
A short film by Adam Wstbrook about the high price paid for cheap bananas

Alan Maass
Who will make socialism?
July 2011

Ali Farmandeh
From the Fedayii Movement to Fedayii Organisations
December 2006
A crtitique of Fedayii organisations from the inside.

Ali Farmandeh
The Right to Self-determination or the Policy of "Solving the National Question"
December 2006

Ali Khedri
Help the "Coordinating Committee"
May 2005
The Coordinating Committee to help Form Workers’ Organizations

Ali Nassiri
Comandante Che
April 2015
A painting by the Iranian abstract painter Ali Nassiri donated to the site.

Amed Dicle
The results of the Kobane war; so far…
October 2014
The results of the Kobane war; so far ... from Amed Dicle, a Kurdish journalist and TV presenter.

Amin Hasoori
Zizek and Charlie Hebdo
Jan 2015
From Praxis

Amir Parviz Pooyan
Reading with a Bloody Throat
June 2012
Works of Amir Parviz Pooyan - Alternative Publication

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
The women’s growing movement against Trump
March 2017

Andreas Sartzekis
Greece: Election Results
Jan 2015
An early analysis of the election results.

Antonio Gramsci
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
1929-35

Augusto Boal
Theatre of the Oppressed
1979
Published in 2008 - Pluto Press

Avtis Soltanzadeh
Soltanzadeh's Works - 2
1919-1922
Soltanzadeh's articles of the Comintern's period.

Bertell Ollman
The Utopian Vision of the Future (Then and Now): A Marxist Critique
Jul 2005
From Monthly Review site

Chad Kautzer
Educating the Educators
July 2018
Commentary on part of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845)- From Krisis 2018, Issue 2

Chris Gray
Israelis and Palestinians - Moshé Machover

Cyril Smith
Marx's Conception of Science
Aug 1997

Daniel Bensaïd
On a Recent Book by John Holloway
2005

David Graeber
Roy Bhaskar obituary
Dec 2014
Guardian, 4th Dec. 2014

Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy Against Capitalism
1995
Cambridge University Press 1995

Ellen Meiksins Wood
Empire of Capital
2003

Emma Goldman
Living My Life
1931
New York: Knopf, 1931.

Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England
1845
Transcribed and HTML mark-up for MEIA by Tim Delaney in 1998.

Erdem Yörük
Kurds, Labor, and the Left in Turkey
June 2015
An interview with Erdem Yörük from EastLeft

Erich Fromm
Marx's Concept of Man
1961
First published: Frederick Ungar Publishing: New York, 1961 - Transcribed: by Sam Berner

Ernest Mandel
ABC of Marxism
1977

Ernest Mandel
Leninist Theory of Organisation
1970

Ernest Mandel
On Bureaucracy
1965

Ernest Mandel
Permanent Revolution in Backward Countries
1978

Ernest Mandel
Marxist Economic Theory
1962

Ernest Mandel
The Future of Marxism
1993

Ernest Mandel
Trotsky’s Conception of Self-organisation and the Vanguard Party
Nov 1989
Revised version of a paper submitted to the Internationales Symposium Leo Trotzki – Kritiker und Verteidiger der Sowjetgesellschaft, Wuppertal 26-29 March 1990.

Ernest Mandel
How To Make No Sense of Marx
1989
From Marxists’ Internet Archive

Ernest Mandel
La grève générale. Questions stratégiques
1974
https://www.contretemps.eu

Felix Morrow
Civil War in Spain
1936
Part of a special issue of Kandokav on the Spanish Civil War. Translated into Persian by Y.K.

Foroogh Asadpoor
Intellectuals and (anti) Hegemonic Projects
June 2014
A review of Hayek theories and Iranian neo-liberals - Praxis Publications

Foroogh Asadpoor
revolutionary Subject
April 2010
A review of Beyond Capital by Michael Lebowitz - Bidar Publications

Foroogh Asadpoor
A Critique of Neo-historicism
November 2007

Foroogh Asadpoor
Critical Realism
August 2011
Alternative Publications

Fourth International
Socialist Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
September 1979

Franz Jakubowski
Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism
1936
A Persian translation of Franz Jakubowski's book.

Franz Jakubowsky
Being and Consciousness
1976
First chapter from Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism by Franz Jakubowsky, translated by Anne Booth, Allison and Busby 1976

G. M. Stekloff
History of the First International
1928

Garikai Chengu
How USA Helped Create ISIS

Georg Lukacs
History and Class Consciousness
1923

George Lukacs
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought
1924

Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
1967
Ken Knabb Translation - Rebel Press

Hal Draper
The Dictatorship of Proletariat in Marx and Engels
1987
First chapter of The Dictatorship of Proletariat from Marx to Lenin

Hal Draper
Marx's Theory of revolution2 - Volume 1 - Bureacracy and State
1977

Hal Draper
Marx and the Withering Away of State
October 2011

Hasan Azad
In Defence of Marx's Theory of Value
March 2015
A reply to Bohm-Bawerk critique of Marx's theory of value.

Hillel Ticktin
What is the capitalist strategy?
September 2014

Hillel Ticktin
Capitalism - Declining Forms, Failing System
August 2013

Hiroshi Uchida
Marx’s Grundrisse and Hegel’s Logic
1988
Preface, Chapter 1 and excerpts from Marxist Internet Archive

Hugo Goeury
Jair Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism in Brazil
May 2019

Iraj Azarin
Mystical Socialism - Bettelheim's "Transitional Period"
November 2007
From the "Workers Socialist Unity" site

Isaak Illich Rubin
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
1928
An important work on Marx's theory of value

Istvan Meszaros
The Structural Crisis of the System
January 2009
Meszaros talks to Judith Orr and Patrick Ward about the current economic crisis - Socialist Review, January 2009.

Istvan Meszaros
Socialism or Barbarism
2001
From the "American Century" to the Crossroads - Monthly Review Press

Istvan Meszaros
Lukacs' Concept of Dialectic
1972

Istvan Mezaros
Marx's Theory of Alienation
1977

James Plested
Saving Art from the Market
March 2015
"Capitalism is killing art" - from RedFlag site

John Bellamy Foster
Marxism and Ecology
August 2011

John Bellamy Foster
Mészáros and the Critique of the Capital System
June 2015
Foreword to "The Necessity of Social Control" from Monthly Review

John Lea
Socialism or Barbarism - Istvan Meszaros
January 2002
Review of Istvan Meszaros on Socialism or Barbarism - Monthly Review Press

John Molynoux
Marxism and the Party
1972
Published by: London, Pluto press, 1972

Justin Raimondo
The Israeli-Saudi Alliance
June 2015
Does it go deeper than a mutual antipathy to Iran? From antiwar.com

Karel Kosik
Dialectics of the Concrete
1976

Karina Nohales, Javier Zuñiga
Chili: «La classe travailleuse est en train de se constituer comme un acteur politique»
Nov 2019
In French. from Contretemps : http://www.contretemps.eu/chili-revolte-classe-travailleuse/

Karl Korsch
The Current Situation with "Marxism and Philosophy"
1930

Kevin Murphy
Story of the February Revolution
March 2017
Russian workers went on strike on International Women’s Day 1917. They ended up toppling tsarism. source: Jacobin

Khabar Mazyari, Asoo Fooladi
The National Question in Iran and the Communist Alternative
December 2012
From Alternative, No 15

Khabat Maziyar
Syriza's Proposed Package: the Big Deceit or a little Obedience
July 2015

Khabat Maziyar
Political Subject, Symptom of a Dark Confused Age
Nov 2015
A critique of petty-bourgeois supra-class ideas and politics.

Lenin
State and Revolution
1917

Lenin
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
1917

Lenin
The Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic revolution2
1905

Lenin
Development of Capitalism in Russia
1899

Lenin
What is to Be Done?
1902

Lenin
Lecture on the Lessons of 1905 Revolution
1917

Lenin
Letters on Tctics
1917

Lenin
What is to be Done
1902

Leo Frankel
The Paris Commune
2008
Association des Amis de la Commune de Paris

Majid Naficy
Swan Lake
8th March 2015

Maral Jefroudi
Parliamentary Elections in Turkey
June 2015
HDP’s poetic call for “Great Humanity” - from International Viewpoint

Marcello Musto
On the History of the 1st International
May 2015
Persian translation of the introduction by Marcello Musto on the history of the 1st International - translation by Ramin Javan

Marx
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy Of Right
1844

Marx
On The Jewish Question
1843

Marx
Theses on Feuerbach
1845

Marx
Critique of the Gotha Program
1875

Marx
German Ideology
1846

Marx
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
1844

Marx
Pre-capitalist Economic Formations
1858
1965 edition

Marx
Poverty of Philosophy
1847

Marx
Civil War in France
1871
From Marx/Engels Internet Archive

Marx
Grundrisse
1858

Marx
On Press Freedom
1843

Marx
Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
1841

Marx, Engels
Communist Manifesto
1848

Marx, Engels
The Holy Family
1844

Marx, Engels
The Communist Manifesto

Michael Lebowitz
The Silences of Capital
1997
From the Process Group

Michael Lebowitz
The Relevance of Marxism Today
March 2013
An Interview With Michael A. Lebowitz by Zhuo Mingliang

Michael Lowy, Olivier Besancenot
Che Guevara - His revolutionary Legacy
July 2012
Translation by Nikoo Poorvarzan - Alternative Publications

Michael Löwy
The Spark Ignites in the Action - the Philosophy of Praxis in the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
May 2011
From the International Viewpoint

Michael Roberts
The spectre of deflation
Jan 2015
from Weekly Worker

Michael Roberts
The fantasy world of the Long Depression
Apr 2019

Michael Roberts
G20, Trade and Financial Stability
Sep 2019

Michel Husson
Economic Crisis and Global Disorder
Oct 2019
From International Viewpoint - December 2018

Mike Macnair
The Communist Hypothesis - Alain Badiou
Maoism with pretensions - Mike Macnair reviews: Alain Badiou's 'The communist hypothesis'

Mohammad Reza Shalgooni
Palestinians of Today, Jews of Yesterday
April 2009

Mohammad Reza Shalgooni
The Real Culprits for Acid Attacks on Women are Sitting in "Parliament"
October 2014
From Gozareshgaran site

Moshe Machover
Netanyahu's Double Gamble
March 2015
An article by Moshe Machover, on the Israeli Elections - from the "Israeli Occupation Archive" site - http://www.israeli-occupation.org

Moshe Machover
After the Israeli Elections
March 2015
From Weekly Worker

Moshé Machover
Zionism - Quest for Legitimacy
September 2014

Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2007

Nazanin and Yamin
A Critique of Anarcho-Collectivism
March 2018
Frpm Kandokav 6 (in Persian)

Parviz Sedaghat
The Puzzle of Fictitious Capital
March 2015
Alongside the international expansion of the finance sector in the world capitalist economies, Iran has witnessed a huge growth in fictitious capital accumulation which has now become a major structural problem in the Iranian economy.

Paul Lafargue
The Right To Be Lazy
1883
Translated: Charles Kerr - 1883

Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
October 1970

Perry Anderson
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
1974
NLB 1974

Perry Anderson
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci
1976
From NLR 100

Peter Hudis
Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative - Istvan Meszaros's Beyond Capital
Jan 1997

Peter Hudis
The Dialectic of the Spatial Determination of Capital
March 2015
Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital Reconsidered - from Logos

Pierre Frank
The Fourth International
1979

Praxis
Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method - Bertell Ollman
Book review from the Praxis site

Process Publications
Lenin's Testament

Rahyab
Come Closer Comrade!
March 2014

Rahyab
We are Standing!
March 2015
A Persian poem by Rahyab for Norooz

Ramin Javan
Ukraine at the Centre of the World Capitalist Crisis
August 2014

Ramin Javan
Memoirs of Nadeschda Joffe
October 2001
A review of Nadeschda Joffe's biography

Ramin Javan
Oberst Chabert - Balzac
October 2012

Ramin Javan
In memory of Joe Hill

Ramin Javan
The Revolutionary Poet of Munich Soviet
June 2015
On the anniversary of the murder of Erich Muhsam by the Nazis.

Ramin Javan
Trotsky and the Workers Soviets
Jan 2016
Currently only in Persian

Raoul Vaneigem
A Warning to Students of All Ages
This pamphlet was originally published in French in 1995. It was translated by JML with NOT BORED! in August 2000.

Reza Moghaddam
A Critique of Islamic Councils
From the Workers Socialist Unity site

Reza Shahabi
The Role of Advanced Workers in Iran
June 2013

Reza Shahabi
About the Class Struggle in Iran
March 2013

Robert Albritton
Marx's Value Theory and Subjectivity
Albritton argues here that "at the present time no single theory has greater potential for advancing the theory of subjectivity than Marx's value theory."

Roman Rosdolsky
The Making of Marx's Capital
1968

Rosa Luxemburg
Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
1903

Rosa Luxemburg
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
1906
From Essential Rosa Luxemburg by Helen Scott, Haymarket Books

Rosa Luxemburg
Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
1903

Rémi Grumel
Récession mondiale : où va la crise du coronavirus ?
March 2020

Sahand Riahi
The Situation in Kubane
October 2014
Interview with Dariche TV

Sarah Amirian
On the Causes of the Acid Attacks
October 2014

Sergio Grez
Chili. Le soulèvement populaire doit ouvrir la voie à l’assemblée constituante
Nov 2019
Par Sergio Grez (Forum de l’Assemblée constituante)

Shahab Borhan
Women - a Volcano Under the Islamic Republic
Mar 1984

Shahab Borhan
Which Independence, Equality and Freedom For Women
Apr 2004
A reply to a manifesto on Women by Shahrzad Mojab

Shahrokh Zamani
Against the Death Sentence, in Defence of the Right of Self-determination for National Minorities
October 2014

Shahrokh Zamani
Free Esmaeel Abdi
July 2015
Shahrokh Zamani from inside Gohar Dasht prison calls for solidarity with the striking teachers and the demand for the freedom of jailed teachers.

Shideh Sotudeh
Politics is the continuation of war by other means!
March 2015
If Clausewitz had seen the current world-order of permanent wars brought about by US imperialism he would have probably said the opposite! So what are the prospects for peace in the Middle East if USA and Iran can reach agreement on the nuclear issue?

Simon Wells
Threat of Social Breakdown - Ebola Epidemy
October 2014
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa is a product of structural poverty and politics, argues Simon Wells

Socialist Left Unity
Dariche TV
The TV of Iranian Socialist Left Unity

Socialist Workers Party
revolution2 and Counter-revolution2 in Kurdistan
December 1979
revolution2 and Counter-revolution2 in Kurdistan - A Socialist Workers Party pamphlet

The Process Publications
The First Red Spark in the East - Avatis Soltanzadeh
2013

Torab Saleth
Third Anniversary - What Now?
February 1982
A statement written on the third anniversary of the Iranian revolution2, inviting critical currents within the left organisations to join together for a new re-groupment of the Iranian left. An invitation which led in April 1982 to the formation of the revolutionary Socialist Tendency.

Torab Saleth
Marxism and Revolutionary Strategy
May 2015
From Kandokav 2 - Marx and the Theory of revolution2; Political revolution2 and Social revolution2; revolutionary Tasks; Socialist revolution2; The Longevity of Strategy; Question of Strategy in the Russian revolution2; Permanent revolution2.

Torab Saleth
Towards a National Workers Organisation
Jan 2015
Towards a National Workers Organisation in Iran.

Torab Saleth
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Iran
August 1985
An internal discussion document submitted to the Bureau of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International written by a member of the International Committee, Saber Nikbin (Torab Saleth).

Torab Saleth
Iranian Capitalism
April 2013
Interview with Dariche TV about the structure of Iranian capitalism

Torab Saleth
revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat
October 2014
Speech at Socialist Left Unity Seminar in Washington - 4th Oct 2014 - Persian

Torab Saleth
On Asiatic Mode of Production - 1
December 2012
Part 1 of an interview about the Asiatic Mode of Production in Iran.

Torab Saleth
Asiatic Mode of Production - 2
December 2012
Second part of interview with Dariche TV about the Asiatic mode of production - Persian

Torab Saleth
On Marxist Philosophy
February 2013
Interview with Dariche TV on Marxist philosophy - Persian

Torab Saleth
Lessons of the Russian revolution
October 2012
Interview with Dariche TV about the lessons of the 1917 Russian Revolution - in Persian

Torab Saleth
The 1953 Coup - Ervand Abrahamian

Torab Saleth
Terrorism and Communism - Zizek Introduction
February 2009
A review of Slavoj Zizek's introduction to a new edition of Terrorism and Communism by Trotsky

Torab Saleth
revolutionary Strategy - 3
August 2014
Third part of an interview with Dariche TV on revolutionary strategy - in Persian

Torab Saleth
Islamic Revolution or Counterrevolution
On the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, Torab Saleth examines its historical roots- from the Weekly Worker 12.02.2009

Torab Saleth
How useful is the Theory of Permanent Revolution Today
Dec 2007

Torab Saleth
On The Left Unity Platform
March 2005
Transcript of a speech on the Platform of the Iranian Workers Left Unity

Torab Saleth
Workers and Toilers Action Programme
November 1979

Torab Saleth
Intellectuals and Power
August 2009

Torab Saleth
Class Nature of the Iranian State
December 2007
From the Critique magazine

Torab Saleth
Problems of the Workers Movement and the Need for a National Organisation
October 2014
Interview with Dariche TV on the current situation within the Iranian workers movement and about the need to build a national workers organisation, and its relationship to the task of building a leading workers party in Iran.

Torab Saleth
Socialists and the Slogan of Constituent Assembly
May 2015
From Kandokav 2 - The Nature of the Problem; The Experience of the Iranian revolution2; Bourgeois and Socialist revolution2s; The Right Opposition; The Left Opposition; Evasions; The Experience of the Russian revolution2; Workers State and Constituent Assembly; Historical Scenarios.

Torab Saleth
A Note on the Israeli Elections
March 2015
Notes on the growing class divisions in Israeli society and its effects on the upcoming elections

Torab Saleth
Diplomatic Victory or Islamic Capitulation!
April 2015
About the Iran-US nuclear deal - in Persian

Torab Saleth
Marx and the Revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat
May 2015
From Kandokav 2: The Current Roots of the Debate; Marx and Proletarian Dictatorship; State and Government; Governmental Form Of Proletarian Dictatorship.

Torab Saleth
On the Asiatic Mode of Production
May 2015
From Kandokav 2 - The Importance of the Theory of Asiatic Mode of Production; Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production; Characteristics of the Asiatic Mode of Production; Asiatic Mode of Production in Iran

Torab Saleth
Revolutionary Workers Party - Part 1
July 2015
Interview with Dariche TV on the need for a revolutionary workers party in Iran (in Persian) - broadcasted in 3 parts - part 1 and 2 on definitions and part 3 on concrete application in Iran.

Torab Saleth
Revolutionary Workers Party - Part 2
July 2015
Interview (in Persian) with Dariche TV

Torab Saleth
Revolutionary Workers Party - Part 3
August 2015
Dariche TV interview with Torab Saleth on the need for a revolutionary workers party - Part 3 (in Persian)

Torab Saleth
Marxist-Bolshevik Educational Program
Nov 2015
in Persian

Torab Saleth
History of the Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Tendency - Part 1: 1971-79
March 2016
The History of the Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Tendency is based on discussions with Torab Saleth over a number of sessions which will be published in a series of Kandokav issues. This first part deals with the period between 1971 to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. (in Persian)

Torab Saleth
Present Epoch
June 2017
A review of the concept of epoch in Marxism and an analysis of the present epoch. (article in Persian)

Torab Saleth
Conspiracy, Revolt, Revolution and Social Disintegration
Jan 2018
An abridged translation of an interview by Behzad Asadi with Torab Saleth about the recent upheavals in Iran-Jan-2018

Trotsky
The Third International After Lenin
1928

Trotsky
Permanent Revolution
1929

Trotsky
The Transitional Programme
1938

Trotsky
Boshevism or Stalinism
1937

Trotsky
History of the Russian revolution2

Trotsky
History of the Russian Revolution
1930

Trotsky
Revolution Betrayed
1936

Trotsky
On Optimism and Pessimism
1901

Trotsky
The Spanish Revolution And the Dangers Threatening it
May 1931

Trotsky
The Lessos of Spain: The Last Warning
Dec 1937
On the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Vazir Fathi
The Idealist - Political Prisoners of the 80s
2013
The Idealist - Political Prisoners of the 80s - from Process Publication

Vazir Fathi
Speech on May Day
May 2014
Speech about the importance of organisation for the Iranian workers - In Persian

Vazir Fathi
The Common Features of the Political Prisoners of the 1980s
October 2013
Speech in Washingtonon the anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran - in Persian

William I. Robinson
Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State
2018
Republished from Critical Sociology

William Robinson
21st Century Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism
April 2019
By William Robinson. From the Marxist Sociology Blog.

William Robinson
Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism
Oct 2019

William Robinson
The ‘Socialism of Fools’ of the ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Left
Aug 2023

Worker Activists
Towards a National Workers Organisation in Iran
May 2018
A may day manifesto by Iranian worker activists

Yassamine Mather
The IS conundrum
October 2014

Yassamine Mather
Israel's Secret Nuclear Arsenal
July 2014
From the Weekly Worker

Yassamine Mather
On the Statement of Iran Tribunal
December 2012

Yassamine Mather
Response to her critics on the ‘Iran Tribunal’
October 2012

Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz
The “New Turkey”: Fetishizing Growth with Fatal Results
June 2015
From Monthly Review

revolutionary Socialist Tendency
Kandokav
Site of a "journal of revolutionary socialism" with an extensive archive of past issues listed by individual articles of magazines published by the Iranian left.