Labor strikes, the revolutionary schools of labor
The workers cannot remain silent, now they have risen as a class and not as a
trade. The call to strike on Saturday, April 2023, started with ten labor
centers with two urgent demands for a 79% increase in wages and 20 days of work
and 10 days of retraining, then 24 hours later, on Sunday, it reached more than
40 industrial sectors in 5 provinces of Iran. expanded. Now the workers have
joined the strike with the call of the 1402 campaign throughout the oil and gas
and petrochemical industries, steel, copper mine and….
Oil, gas and petrochemical contractors are among the partners of the ruling
mafia in Iran, especially the IRGC gang. With the support of the military,
security and the laws of the Islamic government, the contractors have enslaved
the workers by imposing white contracts and starving them. With the release of
an audio file on 22 April 2023, one of the slaves of the Persian Gulf
Petrochemical Holding exposed the crimes of the contractor and his security and
government accomplices. In this report, het tells about the threats to the
workers' families, about their deaths in the absence of the smallest work safety
conditions, about the slave-like behavior and crimes of the capitalists and
their government.
Workers in the vital economic sectors of the capitalists have called the “1402
campaign” against the existing inhumane and slave-like government. This is a
class issue, it is an uprising in protest against the imposition of Rial wages
and dollar prices of vital goods, it is a protest against the deadly conditions
of inflation in excess of 100% and the tyranny of the Islamic government by
approving a minimum wage about 27%, which is at least 55% less than last year.
Now the ongoing strike is against hunger, working hours and life-threatening
conditions and the crimes of the Islamic regime. While the daily chemical
attacks on girls' schools since December 10 have become a systematic and
targeted policy of the regime, this class uprising in connection with the
national uprising has made the balance of the revolutionary force against the
class rule more effective.
The support of sugar cane of Heft Tepe workers, vanguard students, intellectuals
and the brave vanguard women to rise up and join other labor sectors and
retirees... from the strikes of the vital artery of the Islamic government of
the ruling class, shows a class and glorious uprising. The general strike in
these key sectors is the prelude to the generalization of the revolutionary
movement with workers' scouting.
The striking workers are talking about the necessity of holding the regional
general assemblies that were held in 2021 in Hefshjan, Izeh, Masjed Suleima and
Lordegan. The experience of the trick of promises and deceptions of the
three-month strike of 2021, which was presented with the deception of "Telegram
web site, known as the "largest supergroup of job search and piping and project
team", the government plan of "pursuing demands" in the framework of the
government, with the vigilance of the workers and the collective wisdom and
councilism should not be Allow to appear. The executor of that plan was a
fraudster named Maziar Gilaninejad. This government agent, under the name of his
one-man union called "Syndicai Felzkar-Mechanik" opened an office in the Islamic
Labor Council in Bushehr and started to disperse the ranks of the workers with a
strike-breaking project.
Now the workers, with collective wisdom and the experience of that betrayal, are
preparing for the important step of direct labor action, a nationwide class
strike and standing up to achieve their demands, class independence - their
historical liberation. Independence, consciousness and class solidarity, the
nationwide of the general strike, the advancement of the council-oriented method
for the organization of the labor councils can guarantee the victory and
progress of the working class.
Abbas Mansouran
April 23, 2023 |