MESSAGE FROM THE CENTRAL
BOARD OF KOMALA
Long live the 1st of May, the
international day of the worker!
This year the workers are preparing
for the demonstrations of the 1st of May, and at the same time the
Iranian Islamic regime is running over the workers with oppression and unjustice.
The result is unemployment, suspensions and exclusions, long postponement of the
payments of wages, brutality and violence, and military harassment against the
workers when they are protesting against this treatment. Other results are
early pensioning of the workers, and exploiting of workers at small businesses
by excluding their working place from the laws of protection of the working
conditions. The workers’ attempts to organize themselves are being stopped, and
this is the common policy.
The conservative in Iran has seized
power after they struck down the so-called reform friendly people of the
national assembly. They are now planning more totalitary actions and less
freedom for the people. The brutal Islamic regime has become still more
isolated and less influenced by reform friendly impulses. Among the workers
and according to the public opinion, in addition to the international society,
there are strong protests against the oppression, violation of the human rights
and national rights like the freedom of speach, that are taking place in Iran.
The oppression of minorities is particularly strong.
The social and political situation
in Iran with the economical inflation which has struck the people and especially
the workers, has impoverished the nation. This in addition to what is going on
inside the government when it comes to rivaling and pressure from different
groups. The result is that the Iranian people will not experience peace, safety
and progress untill this regime is overthrowed. This is the common opinion of
the people, and it adds to the strengthening of the workers’ movement. The
demands of justice and observance of human rights are the most important items
in the fight of the people of Iran today.
Wide self organizing and
establishment of independent organizations of workers is not only important and
conclusive in this struggle, but it expresses the great need of demanding
radical changes. The people’s wish for changing the social and economic
situation of today, the fight for full freedom, the women’s liberation, the end
of national oppression of minorities, the acknowledgement of the rights and
needs of the young, and most importantly the fight for democracy and religious
freedom in addition to a secular (non-religious) government, are all important
items.
There are no doubts about what the
main reason is when it comes to why the wishes of the people are so weakly
positioned politically, namely the lack of a democratic and liberal alternative
to what the goverment of Iran represents today. To create a broad alliance in
favour of democracy is important for workers and socialists in Iran. The
activists of the 1st of May demonstration should therefore focus on
these items. They are extremely important and decisive for the people of Iran.
The workers movement on the basis
of the international society stands strong, and is organized against reductions
made by the capitalists. It is also strongly supported by anti dictatorial
movements. The struggle for democracy and secular (not-religious) government is
the formost demand of the mass movements of Iran. It is necessary that we are
working for more densely self organization among the workers under the
leadership of the pioneers of the workers’ fight of Iran, and we have to
strenghten the international solidarity of the workers. It is obvious that this
movement of the people will be strenghtened when we are taking steps towards
stronger solidarity.
Workers from Kurdistan are among
the minorities who are most exposed to oppression of the Iranian regime. The
workers are living under extreme conditions, some of them as internal refugees.
Some of them have only seasonal work, or they are working in small businesses
which are granted exemption from the laws of protection of the working
conditions. These are factors which have a dividing effect upon the solidarity
of the Iranian and the Kurdish workers.
The
people of Kurdistan is today actively involved in the radical movement of the
people, and the fight is getting stronger. This is a situation which the
Kurdish activists should make the most of, to be able to make the workers
organize themselves at both small and large places of employment. In this way
the class struggle and the people’s fight for autonomy will be strenghtened, and
the active participation in the Kurdish fight for freedom will increase.
Long live the international
solidarity among the workers!
Long live the independent organizations of the
workers!
Down with the Iranian Islamic regime!
Long live freedom!
Long live Socialism!
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