From Iran, statement of the workers of Sugar Mill Haft Tappeh
Warriors of Armenia and Azerbaijan!
Your guns are pointing the wrong way!
Our audience is not the criminal presidents, generals and commanders of the repressive armies; our audience is not the media that feed off the blood of the people and the fire of war; our audience is not the racists who, with their stupidity, justify the specific economic-political and class interests of the despots.
Our audience is you who work and sell your labour power. Our audience is the people of the lower class; you workers and toilers! You who, in order to survive, are hired by the employer, the capitalist, public and private companies, and so on. You are our audience: you who in wars become the cannon’s meat of the bosses, presidents, prime ministers, parliamentarians, racists, regional armies, religious leaders, oppressors, freeloaders, and the local, national, regional and global criminals!
Our audience is you, the toilers and underlings of both Armenia and Azerbaijan! How easy and painful it is that with racist and hateful propaganda and incitement, they take many of you to the field where you are the sacrificed victim, and the gains go to the freeloaders higher up in the states, governments, armies, companies and capitalists. How painful is their image of you, being sacrificed for the benefit of freeloaders and under false promises! What painful images of you reach us!
Tomorrow, when your blood is shed, it will be the armaments factories and these racists and capitalists who cheer. These leaders, capitalists and benefactors of Azerbaijan and their regional partners who say in their hearts: die, my fellow Turkic-language speaker, O my brave Turk, O my hero! Die, so that I will build riches from your blood shed in war. Whereas in their hearts they are deeply happy that you are killed, but in their interviews, they will sing your praises – as a fellow Turkic-language speaker – in heroic poems and stories!
And you also, the youth who travels from Armenia for a reactionary and inhuman war! Tomorrow, when your blood is shed, O Armenian youth, what mourning ceremonies by your fellow Armenians, regional and global allies and your co-religionists, will not rise to the roof of the sky!
They deceive, excite and sacrifice you, while the capitalists – Armenian, Azeri, Turk, American, Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Arab, Kurd, European and so on – are overjoyed at the death of you both. Killing both you, young Azeris, and you, young Armenians!
Warriors of Armenia and Azerbaijan! Wishing the deaths of others, chanting slogans and becoming enraged by racist stupidity and being abused by the machines of hate and killing will not solve your problems, but your problems will deepen for decades to come. But killing you will solve the monetary and financial problems of the powers that are taking advantage of this war.
Toilers and workers in Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh and Armenia and Azerbaijan! Killing is not a solution that achieves peace! We have had the experience of falling victim to the futile eight-year war between Iran and Iraq: the main losers were the people of Iran and Iraq. There is nothing sacred or worthy in these wars; desert it; turn the direction of struggle and strife towards the freeloaders, the governments and their allies!
Warriors of Armenia and Azerbaijan! Your guns are pointing the wrong way! Don’t point your guns at each other, at the people, at toilers and workers! Take aim at the generals, the presidents, the parliamentarians, the heads of state, and the freeloading blood-spilling capitalists. They set you against each other, so that they have a colourful banquet from your blood to fill their stomachs – that will never be full – and make their bank accounts fatter!
Warriors of Azerbaijan and Armenia! Put down the weapons you are aiming at each other and join the other victims of oppression, poverty and repression; together with the Kurdish, Persian, Arab, Turkmen, Turk, Armenian, and ... unite together with workers anywhere and everywhere against the criminal freeloading superiors to achieve all your political, economic, social, human, labour and class rights!
Warriors of Armenia and Azerbaijan! Your guns are pointing the wrong way!
Iran, Haft Tappeh workers
This message was received and published by the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Company workers’ independent Telegram channel.
⬆️ Warriors of Armenia and Azerbaijan! Your guns are pointing the wrong way!
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