[R-G] Solidarity with the Striking Workers of Behshahr Cheet

[Michael Pugliese]

Solidarity with the Striking Workers of Behshahr Cheet
 
A Letter to the Fraternal Parties and Organisations
 
Dear Comrades,
The capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic has intensified its efforts 
to lay off workers, to delay the payment of wages, and to shut down 
factories. The Islamic Republic is implementing this policy in order to 
satisfy the World Band and the International Monetary Fund. As we discussed 
in the Resolution adopted by the Conference of the Marxist-
Leninist Parties and Organisations in Mexico City in September 2001, this 
destructive and anti-worker policy of the Islamic Republic is creating a 
miserable economic condition for the labourers of Iran.   In continuation 
of this neo-liberal policy, the Behshahr Cheet (chintz) factory with 1800 
workers has intermittently shut down during the past two years and its 
workers have not been paid for 27 months! The workers of Behshar Cheet have 
protested their deplorable conditions many times and have demonstrated in 
front of several official institutions of the Islamic Republic. But the 
capitalist Islamic regime has a deaf ear for the just demands of the 
working people of Iran. The textile workers of Behshahr Cheet are 
protesting daily against the capitalist exploiters and against the Islamic 
authorities with more confidence and determination. Since their demands are 
not met, the workers of Behshahr Cheet have gone on hunger strike since May 
14. According to the reports, several striking workers have become weak and 
the life of some of them is in danger. The anti-worker regime of the 
Islamic Republic has closed its eyes on even the basic measures of sending 
ambulances and medical teams to the striking workers. The authorities have 
practically taken steps to physically destroy the protesting workers.
 
Dear Comrades, This struggle has brought a wave of domestic and 
international support and solidarity for the just demands of valiant 
workers of Behshahr Cheet. Our Party strongly supports the demands of the 
workers of Behshahr Cheet and will do whatever it can to put pressure on 
the Iranian authorities to meet the demands of the striking workers. Our 
Party is calling upon the fraternal Parties and Organisations in every 
corner of the globe to express their support for the striking workers in 
Beshahr of Iran. We request our Comrades to send protest letters to the 
embassies of the Islamic Republic, to the Islamic authorities in Iran 
directly, and to the international labour organisations. We ask the 
comrades to demand the immediate payment of 27-
month delayed wages of the striking workers and to denounce the suppressive 
and anti-human actions of the authorities in Iran.
 
With Communist Salute!
The Foreign Office of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
July 6, 2003
 
 
Toufan at toufan.org
Plitouf at hotmail.com
Fax: 069/96580346 (Germany)

-- 
Michael Pugliese

"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening 
to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding 
that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and 
shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse."
-Tolstoy