Support for the People’s Struggle: A Statement on the Developments in Iran |
During the current uprising in Iran, the perspectives of labour activists should have been central. Instead, because they ran against the dominant currents of warmongering and Pahlavi monarchist nostalgia, their voices were marginalised in both Persian-language and international media.
As usual, attention was lavished on Iranian figures who openly justify war and are funded by the United States and Israel, or on those who—offering no principled opposition to foreign intervention, monarchist reaction, separatism, or the Mujahedin—treat the mere overthrow of the existing government as a universal remedy.
For this reason, and in order to make clear to a global audience that these views are far from universal, we aim to amplify the voices of labour activists in Iran. We ask you to listen to a different voice: one emerging from the deepest experiences of suffering, exploitation, and class oppression.
The following statement is by the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Vahed), a trade union in Greater Tehran. It was translated into English by Sepideh Jodeyri.
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