A May Day Message of Solidarity to Imprisoned Iranian Workers
inthesetimes.com / Jeremy Gantz
01-May-2011 (one comment)

The Iranian government continues to repress labor activists and deprive workers of their most basic rights. Although Iran is one of the oldest members of the International Labor Organization, independent trade unionsremain illegal. This week, three activist teachers were arrested and interrogated in an apparent attempt to stop teachers and other workers from demonstrating on International Workers' Day (May Day). Below is a message of solidarity to all persecuted Iranian workers signed by Columbia Universityscholar Hamid Dabashi and 23 other prominent academics, including In These Times contributors Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek.

—Jeremy Gantz, Working In These Times editor

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Simorgh5555

Iranian workers stand up!

by Simorgh5555 on Sun May 01, 2011 02:59 AM PDT

The participation of the Iranian workers as part of the liberation of Iran is ESSENTIAL. So far, the entire oppostion movement in Iran has been seen as a liberal effete bourgeois movement comprising of intellectuals and students. If the workers mobilise and strike then this Terror regime with soon draw its last breath.

Death to the Islamic Republic.

Long Live Iran!  



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