Socialist Workers’ Party of Iran A brief history of the “Socialist Worker’s Party of Iran” during 1979 -1983. The founders of Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party (Hezb-e Kargaran-e Socialist - HKS), were Iranian students abroad, politically active against the Shah’s dictator regime, mainly in Europe and USA during the early 1970s. In opposition to the Stalinism, Maoism and the guerrilla tendencies, they were Trotskyites, and established a direct relation with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI or "USec"). Politically they based their activity on the Trotsky’s Transitional Programme and the first four congresses of the Comintern. During the 1970s from London, they produced a theoretical and political journal called Kand-o Kav (Analyse).