Iran - February 4th, 2022

With the ongoing teachers’ struggle at national level,
coordinated in more than 125 cities, at the head
Huge workers' struggles shake Iran

It is necessary to unify all the sectors that enter the fight for the same demand for wages, against job insecurity and dismissals

General strike now!

Iranian teachers are in struggle. They are on strike in all the country unifying the fight in more than 125 cities. They regularly carry out demonstrations to local municipalities and the parliament in Tehran. Their demands are free education for the children of Iran, rights for active teachers and those who retire to have a salary equal to the family basket, opening of employment sources, and for the freedom of their colleagues that the regime has imprisoned, for carry out this fight.
Teachers are today the vanguard of Iranian working class that has been leading huge struggles sector by sector. In every part of Iran, we see a protest, a demonstration, a strike... There is not sector of the working class, of the ruined peasants, of the retired, of teachers, of the oil workers, of the students, of the nurses, of the workers of the sugar cane, of the construction workers who do not go out to fight for their demands.
In Tehran, construction workers, as the teachers, marched to the parliament calling for compliance with the construction job security law, denouncing government officials who refuse to comply it. Retirees also march to parliament for decent retirement.
On the other hand, petrochemical workers of the state company Razi Petrochemical, in the province of Khuzestan, went on strike to protest the dismissal of several workers and better security conditions in the complex. Another petrochemical plant, Morvarid Petrochemical, in the city of Assaluyeh, has also gone on strike over payment of back wages. Employees at the Barez tire factory in Kerman province are fighting for their wages. The sugarcane workers of the Mian-ab Sugarcane Company have been marching and striking for almost two weeks in search of an answer to the payment of wages. Nurses from Isfahan marched for full job contracts and ending job insecurity.

The clerics live as kings and condemn the people to live as beggars!

An enormous workers' response has risen up facing an oppressive regime that starves people maintains poverty wages, or does not even pay them, and throws the full weight of the crisis on the masses with layoffs, job insecurity and high cost of living, blaming to the US imperialism's sanctions, while the ayatollahs get rich doing business with the European imperialists. The clerics surpassed the siege of sanctions and live like kings, while they make the people live like beggars.
On the basis of starving the workers, imprisoning thousands of them, condemning them to death, and their counterrevolutionary massacres like in Syria or Iraq, the ayatollahs discuss their fabulous business in Vienna together with all the imperialist powers. And there are still currents that call themselves from the left or from the working class that defend these counterrevolutionary butchers, wanting to pass them off as “anti-imperialists”! They are servants of the repressive anti-worker clerics, junior partners of the imperialist powers.

Let the regime of the Iranian theocracy fall!

The Iranian working class is already fighting in the streets, with its vanguard being the education workers.
They have the authority to call for a Struggle Coordinator of those who are fighting, to unify the demands and from there to call for a general strike now! To unify all the sectors in struggle under a single set of demands for the payment of wages, a raise at the level of the family basket, full job contracts for all contracted workers, an immediate solution to the supply of water for the crops and livestock of the poor peasants and households, to stop layoffs.
It is necessary to call for a National Congress of workers and peasants delegates in struggle to coordinate all those who are fighting and unify the combats. Let the factory and workplace committees be set up by neighborhood, town and province! The shoras, the councils of workers, peasants and soldiers, return, with direct democracy, as in the 1980 revolution.
The self-defense committees and the fighting committees must be set up to defend themselves against the murderous dogs of the Islamic guard and their Basij.

Expropriation without payment and under workers' control of the hydrocarbons, metallurgical industry and any company that does not pay wages! There is money, the ayatollahs and their associates steal it. Let them pay for the crisis! Enough of hunger wages of misery, workers and retirees without being paid! Enough of unemployment and job insecurity!
Enough of clerics and their millionaire businessmen friends while the people live like beggars! Out with the ayatollahs and their Islamic guard! Let the regime fall! Freedom for the thousands of political prisoners in Iran!
That the right to self-determination be recognized for all minorities within the country with a Persian majority!

The struggle of the working class throughout Iran is a sibling to the Syrian resistance, to the struggle of Iraqi workers, and to the entire Middle East, confronting the murderous Iranian Guard that massacres in Syria and Iraq and supports Hezbollah in Lebanon. The same intifada from Gaza to Idlib, Baghdad and Tehran!

Paper "The Truth of the Oppressed"