From the article of 'Petrel'
No.649 / October 12, 1997
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We were in sympathy with the internationalism.
We spoke with a communist from Iran.
A partisan of the Workers Communist Party in Iran visited our central office at the end of September.
We spoke pleasantly during one hour, and we were in sympathy with many points and agreed greatly.
To begin with, the Workers Communist Party was said to be built by dividing of the Communist Party at about 10 years ago and to have several thousands members in the party.
The reason to be divided is Kurd problem and the organization of the separating opponent hoists the Kurd racialism, therefore there are overwhelmingly many Kurd in the constituent member.
And we were impressed that this party member of young worker said to have opposed to the racial faction and to have belonged to the party of the internationalist sect although he was Kurd. He was emphasizing that therefore the organization of the other side had only the Kurd, bat there were both Kurd and Iranian in his party.
When we asked, "We know the Kurd problem well. Are there about 10 millions Kurd including Iran, Iraq, and Turkey?," he said as many as 30 millions of persons.
Then we said "What many people there are! You are amply able to organize a 'nation' as half tempting. However he looked as if we said unexpected thing and repulsed it as "We can promote the class struggle as it is now. Therefore we think there is no necessity to establish Kurd nation." It seemed that there were many racialists who insisted on that and they were fighting against them. Who divided and had parted might be the part.
We became to excuse in flustered as, "It is not to organize a nation. However, even if Kurd would organize a nation it would be the same to the workers and they still would be able to fight with uniting. Then, there might be a merit that the Kurd racialism is made clear to be reactionary."
When we said "Anyway, the Kurd race is suppressed by the 'Khomeini system' of Iran, the Hussein system in Iraq, and the military in Turkey. Therefore we sympathize with Kurd," he seemed not understand the word 'Sympathy' and he was consulting a small Japanese Persian dictionary of holdings.
When we asked "What word could not you understand?" He said "It is 'Dojo'" and muttered "Is it pity?" So, we became fluttered greatly and had to shout as "No, no! It is not pity but is shympashy!"
It seemed to be easier for him to speak in Japanese than in English and he seemed not to be so good at English. However, he said not to be inconvenient for a daily conversation in Japanese. He has already worked for as many as two years in Japan.
Moreover, he said that he could not write in Kurd, and he used Persian either in writing and speaking.
Though he said that he read Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky, and the like from young time, he was not able to enumerate the books concretely. We could not understand whether he was not able to say in Japanese or had not read so much actually. However, we felt he was very obedience, and on principle in politic and in theory. He leaked no agreement to Trotsky.
It was a time we were felt that because of our in-principle and class standpoints we might be put the hot trust and support of the workers and the revolutional persons who were requesting the truth all over the world.
(H)