The councils and the sovereignty of the people

[hashem]

The worldwide experience, and now also the experience of Iran, has well proved that the parliamentary democracy, under deceitful guise, has always been the means of practically depriving the workers and the masses of effectively determining their own fate. In our point of view, a soviet system is the best and most available means by which the whole working class and all of the people can function as legislative and executive bodies in the society, and, thereby, determine their own life. Under the present conditions that technological progress has, more than ever, developed the International communication so that everyone can access the information in every field of knowledge, a soviet system will facilitate the direct participation of workers and masses in the administration of the social affairs more than ever. This system can also prevent the establishment of a bureaucratic system, which can be placed superior to the revolution and people, thereby, making them an incapable audience of the political scene.

Local soviets, the soviets of the people’s representatives at all levels, and the all-Iran congress of the deputies of the people’s soviets, as the country’s supreme ruling organ, form the structure of the political power in the country and will provide the real opportunity and possibility for workers and all of the people to participate in both the administration of the societal affairs and in the determination of their own political and economical future.

passage from the program of CPIran