Happy International Workers’ Day to all workers and hard workers!
This year, we celebrate International Workers’ Day in a situation where Iran has undergone profound transformation and transformation after the death of Mahsa (Gina) Amini, and from within it a revolutionary movement has emerged that has severely shaken the foundations of the Islamic Republic and has prepared the conditions for the next stage of this movement, which will be a comprehensive revolution. This movement, in the next stage, will be accompanied by general political strikes and will draw a huge army of workers, the unemployed, teachers, nurses, employees, the poor and the hungry, etc. into a joint struggle against the Islamic Republic.
In the current situation, the economic, political and social fabric of society has completely collapsed. Repression, killing, imprisonment, torture, corruption, high prices, inflation, poverty and unemployment are rampant. Continuing to live in these conditions is not only impossible for workers and hardworking people, but it has also become difficult and impossible for the general public, especially women and youth. The grounds for revolutionary change in society are being created one after another. Demanding rights and demands have become a social and everyday matter. A wider range of teachers, nurses, retirees and workers have turned to street protests to assert their rights.
Nationwide protests and strikes have become more coherent and consistent. The nationwide strike of contractors affiliated with oil, gas, and petrochemical companies is one of the most unprecedented class-based unions of workers in the Islamic Republic. Although protests and strikes are currently union in nature, due to the current revolutionary situation and the Islamic Republic’s unwillingness and inability to meet the demands and demands of workers and their oppressed classmate, their nature will gradually change to political protests and general strikes, to the point where oil company workers, like during the late Pahlavi dynasty, will shut off the oil taps on the criminal Islamic Republic of Iran, workers in large industries will stop production, and port and shipping workers will stop exporting oil and products that generate income for the Islamic Republic. This process is inevitable, and the Islamic Republic will not be able to stop it or postpone its inevitable death by repression.
International Workers’ Day can become a symbol of revolution and class unity and solidarity among workers and other toilers, with the slogans of bread, work, freedom, and council administration.
The Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile) congratulates the workers and other hard workers of Iran, including teachers, nurses, employees, retirees, the unemployed, etc., on International Labor Day, and calls on the general public to turn this day into a struggle against the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile)
7 Ordibehesht 1402 equals 27 April 2023