To : The
International Conference of the Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations,
labour-activists, progressive organisations, and freedom loving people of the
world
The worker-activists must be released immediately and
unconditionally from the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran
!
Dear comrades,
The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of
Iran has recently intensified the repression of the labourers and
worker-activists. In the past few months, many labour-activists have been
detained, imprisoned, and tortured by the security forces of the Islamic
Republic.
Shahrokh Zamani, a house-painter and decorator
has been in detention since June 7, 2011. He was arrested while traveling from
the city of Tabriz to the Capital Tehran by a public bus. Shahrokh was involved
in establishing the independent trade union “Painters’ Syndicate” and he is a
member of the “Committee to Form Independent Worker Syndicates”. Shahrokh Zamani was kept in solitary
confinement for more than a month. He went on hunger strike for a week to
protest his detention and mistreatment. The regime of the Islamic Republic has
transferred him to Tabriz prison. No official warrant for the arrest of Shahrokh
was issued and no charges are filed against him.
The capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic
is fearful of the formation of independent worker-organisations and of the
unity of the workers with other sections of the society. The Islamic regime
sees its end by the united and nation-wide strikes and protests of the
labourers and is trying to suffocate any attempt to build independent and
democratic workers' organisations. Following this policy, the regime of the
Islamic Republic of Iran has harassed, tortured and imprisoned Mansour Ossalou,
Ali Nejati, Ebrahim
Madadi, Torabian, and other prominent trade union activists for several years.
Shahrokh Zamani, together with his comrades, Mohammad Jarrahi and Seyed (both are labour activists), and two
university students Nima Pourhemmat and Sassan Vahhabi are the latest known victims of this criminal
policy.
Our
Party believes that repression of the workers and toilers by the regime of the
Islamic Republic of Iran also serves the interests of imperialism and the world
reaction. We strongly condemn the repressive actions of the Iranian regime.
The
Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) supports the just struggles of the
labour-activists for a better working condition and we praise their attempts to
form independent trade unions. We call on all fraternal Parties and the
Marxist-Leninist Organisations, all worker-activists, and all progressive
minded individuals of the world to express solidarity with the struggles of the
Iranian worker-activists. The people of the world should be outraged over the
imprisonment and treatment of the Iranian masses and labour activists and to
demand the regime of Islamic Republic to free all political prisoners
immediately and unconditionally. Only the intensification of the just struggle
of the Iranian labourers and of the genuine international support for masses can
force the Islamic regime to retreat and to stop the repression of the Iranian
people.
Release Shahrokh Zamani and other
worker-activists immediately and unconditionally!
Long live the struggles of the
Iranian working class!
Down with the capitalist regime of
the Islamic Republic of Iran!
The
Party of Labour of