Iran - May 19, 2022
In the face of the unbearable food price hikes and the scarcity of life staples…
Long live the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian working class and poor people for bread, land and freedom!
Down with the starvationist repressive regime
of the Ayatollahs!
The international prices of wheat keep rising in this rotten world capitalist system dominated by imperialism, which deprive the workers from bread each time more. In the face of this situation, the anti-worker government of the Ayatollahs removed the subsidies to flour, which sky-rocketed the prices of bread in Iran and took the cost of livingthrough the roof. An inflationary spiral is taking place and it seems unending. Every day the Iranian workers see their wages can buy less things, while the Ayatollahs get obscenely rich with the oil barrel at 110 dollars internationally. The clerics live as kings and the people as beggars!
The workers and the people in Iran see themselves standing over black gold and they don’t have enough to bring the bread back home. So, fighting for bread, many demonstrations, protests and clashes against the repressive forces took place in several cities like Khuzestan, Qom, Susangerd, Izeh, Shiraz, Hafshjan, Neishabour and also in the capital city Tehran. There have been revolts and looting the Ayatollah’s guards shops. The protests keep expanding city to city and the revolt is generalized. There have also been demonstrations locally and nationally, striking the theocracy in the entire Iranian territory at the same time. The war cry of this struggle is “death to Raisi!” (the Iranian president), “death to Khamenei!” (The supreme leader and maximum authority in Iran). That is to say, the exploited masses know that in order to conquer bread they need to defeat the Ayatollahs.
This process merged with multiple strikes, protests and other workers struggles that had been taking place scattered sector by sector in several Iranian cities, as that of the oil workers, petrochemical workers, metalworkers, farming industry and teachers, which were the only ones that could make a nation-wide strike only two months ago. Their demands of a decent wage, against labour insecurity, against dismissals, for the freedom of their comrades arrested in the struggle, now have merged in a single generalized struggle against the Ayatollah to conquer bread and for that, we need to defeat the theocracy!
This process has been developing in the last years, where there has also been an uprising for water in Khuzestan and other areas in Iran last year, or the great mass revolutionary uprising that shook the whole country in 2019 facing the increase in the fuel prices and the unbearable cost of living that clashed directly with the theocratic regime and its repressive forces, leaving more than 1500 dead and 8000 political prisoners, mostly sentenced to life in prison and death, some of which had been executed. We are seeing successive waves of strikes, demonstrations, uprisings against the regime, as it happened in late 70’s, when the glorious 80’s revolution that toppled Sha Reza Pahlevi broke out. That is to say, if this process keeps developing till it knocks down the regime, we could be before the beginning of a new Iranian revolution, now against the Ayatollahs.
The Iranian theocracy, a counterrevolutionary force in Iran and the whole Middle East
The Ayatollahs responded and are responding to this process with a repression as the one of Sha or even worse in late 70’s, with hundreds of dead, thousands of prisoners, dismissals and persecution to leaders. It is a regime that was reinforced after massacring the Syrian revolution, massacring the revolutionary uprising in Iraq, supporting the Houthis to divert the Yemeni revolution and supporting Hezbollah to crush the Lebanese masses and, together with al-Assad, guard the borders of Zionism.
The Ayatollahs and its revolutionary guard are the butchers of the peoples of the Middle East, starvationist and repressors of its own people. The revolutionary struggle at the heart of Iran is a heavy blow on the left in the face of the hard defeats we suffered in the revolutions in Middle East, not only the ones mentioned above but also in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, among others. The best allies of the Iranian workers are the Syrian resistance, Palestine, the masses that seek the Sudanese dictatorship falls, etc. We need to reverse the great tragedy that the division between Shii and Sunni meant for the exploited of Middle East, encouraged by imperialism, especially since the bloody Iraq-Iran war in the 80’s, to re-unify the ranks of the working class in the whole region.
The trap of a bourgeois front in opposition to the Ayatollahs
Only the working class can provide a way out to all the exploited
Foreseeing that an imminent fall of the Iranian regime might occur, US imperialism is setting up an alternative to expropriate the revolution and that power does not fall into the hands of the masses. He set up a front with the opposition bourgeois sector led by Maryam Rajavi called “National Council of the Resistance in Iran”, integrated by businessmen as starvationist as the Ayatollahs and direct agents of the US.
The Ayatollahs separate themselves from this sector guised as anti-imperialists (supported by its followers in the workers movement, as the Stalinist parties and the reformist left), when they are the same ones that apply the worst plans of hunger and misery against the masses, while they keep doing business with European imperialism and are negotiating with all the imperialist powers in Vienna how they give the business in exchange for investments in the industry and oil, remaining them as managers. We are before two ends of the same rope that strangles the Iranian working class and that of Middle East. Only the working class leading the Iranian poor people can give a way out for all the exploited.
Down with the Iranian theocracy regime!
We need to unify this great revolutionary process that stood up in Iran in a workers and peasants congress to end with this starvationist repressive regime. Let’s send delegates from all the sectors that are fighting and those who are joining in the demands into a national coordination of struggle. General strike now!
Out with the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs and its repressive forces that impose the worst plans of starvation and misery! Dissolve the officers cast of the murderous Iranian Guard! Let its troops return from Syria, Iraq and the whole Middle East! Free all the political prisoners! For a national Iranian assembly, with a representative each 100,000, recallable at any moment by its electors, with a wage of an average worker!
For the return of the shorah, the councils of workers and soldiers, as in the ‘80s revolution!
To get bread, Expropriate the oil, petrochemical and food industry to guarantee funds, a decent wage and food for the whole people! No more multimillionaire clerics and businessmen living as kings and workers living as beggars!
This can only be guaranteed by a workers and peasants revolutionary government that breaks with every bourgeois fraction, allied to the exploited masses of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, to put the region back on its feet against all the governments and regimes servants of imperialism that plunder Middle East. The fight is only one… In the entire Maghreb and Middle East, one single intifada! |