Labor Day
Iran at the wake of Labor Day
PMOI’s call for one week of uprising and protest against the clerical dictatorship at the wake of Labor Day
While congratulating all freedom loving compatriots on Labor Day PMOI calls on all of freedom loving Iranians especially aware laborers, teachers and students of Iran to increase their protesting movements and uprisings for a week from April 29 to May 5 of 2010.
Vast and active presence of Iran’s deprived and non-stop waves of protesting movements throughout last year by laborers, farmers, teachers and other sectors of the society, who are all under dreadful pressures, against the clerical regime and its anti-people and plundering policies demonstrated the decisive will of Iran’s oppressed for toppling the criminal and plundering regime of the mullahs in its entirety to the world.
This regime founded by Khomeini talked of deprived and oppressed but was worse than any anti people regimes in stealing the fruit of the work of those deprived and in spreading poverty, unemployment and hunger as well as expanding the distance between societiy’s classes.
With its warmongering and reactionary policies this regime has landed fatal strikes on Iran’s industry, agriculture and economic’s construction; the result of which is even more pressure on the lives of laborers, their deprived families and other deprived sectors of the society.
The evil heads of this regime claimed that they will fight corruption, they will comply to law, they will built the country and they will bring the income of oil on people’s dining tables but in fact they plundered people and were worse than any other oppressor in the history in regard with corruption and oppression.
Iran’s honorable laborers and deprived!
Constant continuation of protesting moves and your protests and uprisings has proved that the people of Iran not only have not surrendered to all the oppression and cruelty of this medieval regime but also they are determined to overthrow this regime in its entirety.
Underlining this national decisive will and to commemorate the global Labor Day the symbol of solidarity and uprising of deprived for freedom and justice PMOI calls on all aware and freedom loving people, youths, laborers, teachers students and other deprived people of Iran to increase their protesting moves and uprisings against the clerical dictatorship.
News / Protests
Tehran, April 15, 2010 – On line site: Resalat news paper talked about Monafeghin’s statements (Monafeghin is the name that regime calls PMOI). “This small group has issued a statement demanding people’s help to revive green movement...in this statement Monafeghin have asked people, laborers, teachers and students to come to the scene in Teachers Day and Labor Day and cry for the freedom of the country”.Sanandaj, April 17, 2010 – A group of deprived peddlers in Sannadaj protested last week in front of the City Council against the suppressive measures of regime’s agents who collected their goods. They demanded that their goods be returned to them and announced that they will continue their protest until they receive their goods.
News / Suppression
Arak, April 17, 2010 – Large governmental enterprises of this city are not able to pay their workers’ wages. The situation is worse in Azar Ab, Pars Wagon Enterprises and Arak’s Refinery.
Arak’s companies are facing lack of cash assets so they are firing their laborers. On the other hand in private sector too the situation is turning critical.
Due to this report Ahmadinejad’s government owes 40000 billion tomans to contractors of private sector.
Tehran, April 17, 2010 – 400 laborers of Sadi Tile Factory have not received their wages for four months. These protesting laborers tried to gain their right. Each time the officials promise them to meet their demands to silence them but it is only a lie.
Asalooyeh, April 16, 2010 – Following the irrational firing of the laborers by the clerical regime 36000 laborers in South Pars region in Asalooyeh were fired. Wave of unemployment and firing of workers followed the economic recession of this region.
A 90% decrease in the number of those employed in this economic region of the country that deals with energy shows a severe decrease in economic and developing activities.
South Pars region and Asalooyeh are counted as Iran’s energy industry pole.
Hormozgan, April 15, 2010 – Laborers of Hormozgan’s Cement Factory said that two years ago a directive was issued to raise the status of temporary workers to permanent ones in this factory but still no step has been taken in that regard. The temporary workers work such as a permanent one but they do not receive bonuses, loans and leaves.
Hormozgan, April 15, 2010 – After the director of Environment Organization in Hormozgan province ordered Abarkooh Industry & Mine Company to be sealed tens of its employees and laborers became jobless. Majid Vafadar, the director, claimed that this company was opened without permission!
Especial report on Asalooyeh energy field
April 10, 2010
Source: Asalooyeh’s manager’s site
In Asalooyeh most of the companies don’t exist any more. Most of the projects have remained futile.
When Ahmadinejad took power he didn’t deal with foreign companies much and if one company was done with its job he didn’t renew the contract.
In his second term companies left, like Shell Company which left five years ago. This company even transferred its representative from Tehran and Asalooyeh to Dubai and has no official office in Asalooyeh any more.
Only some minor Korean or Chinese companies are left there. There are still laborers there but they are inside the camp and no body from outside is permitted to enter the premises.
One laborer: “I work with Statoil a Norwegian company responsible for sites 6, 7 and 8. They were finished last year and since then there has been no new contract with this company.
Statoil had two sets of buildings in Mirdamad and Bokharest streets in Tehran for bureaucratic works but now most of them have returned to Norway and they only have an office in Argantine Square. They had two offices in Asalooyeh but there is only one left and in Kish too they only have one office and no offices in Bushehr. On the whole this company has not more than 50 agents in Iran.
Statoil started his work in Iran 40 years ago and their slogan is that “we work for the people of Iran not the government”.
The laborers here come and go and are not that familiar with their environment they work by contract.
If a project is over here there is no way that you can find another job.
As I have heard 120 French men were present here till 6 years ago but now they are gone. Each foreigner managed 10 laborers. In their project they had hired 1500 workers so when they left these workers were fired.
This was only one example. Some other Korean and Japanese companies left the region too”.
Article: new surge in Laborers’ protests throughout the country
Regime’s pressures for provoking a climate of fear and terror to confront the ready-to-explode society show how this regime is desperate in solving the increasing social crises.
Making a great number of laborers jobless without solving their minimums for living is one of the incurable crises that act as gas over the wrath of Iran’s hardworking people who have risen against this clerical dictatorship.
One Laborer says: “there is nothing left for laborers’ society anymore. We are doomed. If we don’t have permission to take into the streets in our own day how can we cry out our pains then? One day throughout the year is called as our day so we can go and cry out our problems, now they don’t permit us so. Our law is the law of bullies…”
During last week we were witnessing great many protests gathering for defying regime’s labor policies and its plundering elements in the factories. The protestors demanded their postponed wages or they demanded their jobs back.
Some gathered in front of Labor Bureau in west of Tehran. They were temporary laborers whose contract was for 89 days but their managers who were regime’s elements had fired them.
Firing laborers is surging in the factories and there is no way left for the laborers other than to protest.
400 workers from 23 enterprises of Load and Unload in Shalamcheh Port gathered in protest.
Laborers of fishing enterprises at Bandar Minab of Bandar Abbas went on hunger strike.
Laborers of Fars Meat Company said in their protest gathering that from 1400 workers of this company only 90 were left and they too were fired. There is no industry or economy left for Fars Province.
Ahwaz laborers of bus terminal of Zagros protested at the terminal because they hadn’t received their wages for months. Passengers present supported them by chanting slogans and the regime as usual deployed its suppressive forces to the place.
But at the wake of Labor Day and as the number of the Army of Unemployed increases can this regime prevent the river of wrath of laborers from flooding?
The experience of the uprising of people of Iran has given the answer clearly.
People will impose their will.
Even Khamenei has discerned the sound of ‘hurricane’ from far.
