A call from the paper The Truth of the Oppressed
For months, the workers and the Iranian people have been fighting for bread and for a decent life. The metalworkers, sugar cane workers, auto part workers, public employees, teachers and others have entered the fight with strikes, demonstrations and picket lines. Also, the students of different universities are marching together with them. The workers of Iran are confronting the Ayatollahs, who are massacring in Syria with their “Islamic Guard”. They denounce that the Ayatollah “live as kings” while “the people live as beggars”. They also have the war cry “Get out from Syria!” against those murderers. With their actions, they seek to open the road to re-take the huge experience of the revolution of the ‘80s of Shorahs (councils of workers, peasants and soldiers) that overthrew the Sha Reza Pahlevi.
The metalworkers of Iran have suffered the repression of the Iranian theocracy and its counterrevolutionary regime, with raids in the homes of the striking workers which resulted in 42 imprisoned workers. The same persecution happens in all the sectors that enter to the struggle in Iran. Free all the prisoners for fighting!
In Iran we are before a revolutionary uprising that re-takes yesterday’s uprising of Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iraq and the entire Middle East for the same demands… In times when we see that in Tunisia once again there’s a worker that has set himself on fire as he had no prospect of a decent life, just as Mohamed Bouazizi did in 2010-2011. This time, it was Abd Erezoq Zorqi, a 32 year old journalist that declared “I’ve decided I will start a revolution. Whoever wants to help me will be welcomed. I will protest by myself, I will set myself on fire and if at least one person gets a job thanks to me, I’ll be satisfied” and he added “Demand your rights, protest, burn tyres…” following this action, there’s a wave of revolts shaking Tunisia for two weeks.
The same way and for the same demands, the workers and people of Jordan are marching in the capital city Amman. In Lebanon, there were demonstrations with the war cry “The people want the downfall of the regime!” In Sudan, not only this war cry goes across the country but the masses have been staging revolutionary days of struggle with clashes against the repressive forces, every day for almost two weeks.
The forces to break the siege to the Syrian revolution and re-arm and reinforce the resistance in Idlib to prepare a counter-offensive against Al Assad have risen in Iran and the entire Middle East, as well as in France, in revolutionary struggles against Macron and that imperialist gang that also subjugates and plunders Middle East! The masses that fight in France, Iran and the entire Middle East are the allies of the Syrian masses! It is a single fight against the same enemy!
From the other side of the planet, in Latin America, in Argentina, metalworkers have sent their solidarity and taken as own the struggle of the metalworkers and of all the Iranian workers. They are workers of Arcelor Mittal, an imperialist transnational company of the biggest producers of iron and steel. This way, there’s international solidarity of the working class between the subjugated by the same transnational companies that over-exploit and plunder at both sides of the planet. It is an example to be followed, to re-take the proletarian internationalism in the world workers movement!
It is published a call of support to the Iranian working class that has started to be endorsed by several production lines, mine shafts, oil wells and other workers concentrations in the planet.
From The Truth of the Oppressed, we call all the workers in Syria and the entire Middle East to endorse this call and actively support the Iranian workers. We call to take the streets of Idlib in solidarity with the metalworkers and sugarcane workers of Iran that support the Syrian revolution and that have the war cry of “Get out of Syria!” against the Ayatollahs as part of their struggle. We call for the Egyptian movements that resist the dictatorship of Al Sisi to take it as part of their claims. The same goes for every barricade in Tunisia, the workers and poor peasants that resist in Yemen against the Saudi invasion… those marching in Jordan, Lebanon, southern Iraq… Unify a single struggle in the Middle East and with the world working class!
This new wave of uprisings for bread that is spreading across the region deserves to succeed. We will avenge our martyrs, the tortures to the prisoners of the revolution and all the sufferings they have caused with their bloody revolution, as the massacre in Yemen or the genocide in Syria, which left 600,000 dead and millions of refugees in tents in the middle of the desert in subhuman conditions or in concentration camps in Europe… For this, it is necessary not to be isolated. The masses rise in France. In China, the country with the most over-exploitation of the world, workers and students have risen staging strikes and hard struggles, also fighting to set up their unions and they were repressed and imprisoned because of it. Unify our forces and our fight in Middle East and to the other side of the Mediterranean Sea as in France! We are one single working class in the entire world above borders! Free all the prisoners for fighting in China, France, Iran and the world!
Long live the international unity of the workers and the subjugated people against imperialism and its servants!