April 23th, 2019

From Las Heras, answer to the workers of Iran

LET'S SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING COMMITTEE FOR THE FREEDOM
OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE WORLD!

Commission of Convicted Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras
 

To the Workers’ Committee of Iran

Dear comrades of Iran:

We are very proud to see that the letter we have made public from our Commission was translated by you into Persian language and that it is well known by the workers in struggle in Iran.
The Iranian regime has raged against the workers who fight in the steel industry and sugar mills, imprisoning, torturing and persecuting all those who have risen for their labor rights.
We feel totally identified with the statements of Ismael Bakshi when he denounced the horrific tortures he suffered in prison, the same ones that our comrades received in prison after fighting against the oil companies.
As you say, the harsh repression and torture of workers in order to defend the status quo is one of the main duties of the capitalist police, regardless of their geographical location. Those on top have united to attack our rights and brutally repress us when we fight; We have to unite over the borders to defend ourselves.
When the court of revenge that condemned us dictated the sentence, we were not alone: thousands of workers from our country and all over the world confronted the judges of the oil companies, alongside us. From that day on we have fought together with all the workers imprisoned and persecuted for fighting in the whole world and we will never separate again. As a result of that unity, we remain free and standing, fighting for our acquittal against the brutal sentence of life imprisonment and prison.
We are convinced that this is the way to stop the hand of governments and regimes that defend the interests of imperialism and the bosses. That is why we have set up the International Network for the Freedom of Political Prisoners and Justice to Our Martyrs.
The fight to free the political prisoners among the Iranian working class and that of the world is the same fight for the freedom of the bus drivers of the East Line of La Plata, of Daniel Ruiz, Facundo Jones Huala, Anahí Salcedo and the twelve anarchist prisoners in Argentina, for our acquittal and the acquittal of the oil comrades Armoa, Vibares and Onate and for ending the  persecution to workers fighters like Alejandro Villarruel of the Santiago River Shipyard and the more than 7500 prosecuted workers. It is the same fight against the murderers of Santiago Maldonado, Rafael Nahuel, Teresa Rodriguez, Anibal Veron, Kostequi and Santillán and all our martyrs in Argentina and the world.

The 1st of May, International Workers' Day is approaching. We must retake the example of the Chicago's Martyrs  and the workers who fought together with them all over the world, in world general strikes for the same demands the exploiters are seeking to take away from us today.
A single world working class, a single international struggle!
We are one fist with the workers and the oppressed who rise today in Algeria, Sudan and France!

To conquer our freedom and that of all political prisoners in the world:
LET'S SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING COMMITTEE FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE WORLD!

For the freedom of all the political prisoners of Ahwaz and Haft Tappeh and all the prisoners for fighting! For the living appearance of and freedom to Comrade Ismael Bakshi, sugar worker of Haft Tappeh, arrested and tortured by the police of the Iranian theocracy!
For the freedom of Sammer and Medath Issawi and the more than 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners in the prisons of the Zionist occupier!

Freedom to George Abdallah, fighter of the Palestinian cause, and to the Basque independence fighters that are prisoner in the prisons of the Fifth French Republic!
For the freedom of all political prisoners in the prisons of al-Assad in Syria!
Freedom to Alfon, prisoner of the Bourbons and the Spanish State!
Freedom to the workers and students of China in the prisons of the Chinese Communist Party!
Freedom to the young anarchists imprisoned in the jails of Syriza in Greece!
Freedom to Mumia Abu Jamal, prisoner in the jails of US imperialism!
Freedom to the anti-imperialist fighters imprisoned in Guantanamo!
Freedom to the political prisoners of Egypt and Tunisia!

We demand for living appearance of the workers of Jasic Technology and the students of Beijing in China!
We demand for living appearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico!
Trial and punishment to the murderers of our martyrs!
There will be no forgetting or forgiveness to al-Assad, Putin and the Iranian theocracy, genocidal murderers of the Syrian people on behalf of imperialism!

An injury to one is an injury to all! Let's continue fighting together!
The rebellion of the slaves is not a crime, it is justice!

Commission of Convicted Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras.