The Iranian Communist Party and Women's Enfranchisement

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In 1931, there's this law passed as part of legal centralization under Rezaofshah to that bans, you know, any form of communalist political organizing. The Iranian Communist Party is attempting these sort of initial labor-based organizing and strikes in the 1930s. So when the Tudid arrives in on the scene in 1941, in this moment of relative political openness, it has a couple of figures from this earlier moment are affiliated with it. It very quickly shifts to as part of its program a support for for women's enfranchisement, women's rights.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class