September 28, 2022
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran (People’s Fadaian)
The simultaneity` of gender, national and ethnic discrimination with the anger caused by the destructive performance of the Islamic Republic during four decades and the bloody suppression of protests, brought people, especially the youth, to the streets across the country and created a movement that can be called a general movement. A movement that has been formed from the overlap of social movements and protests of different social groups. A movement that has brought the political life of our country into a new phase and has targeted the Islamic Republic and Ali Khamenei at its helm.
The popular movement expressed its identity and solidarity in meaningful slogans such as: "Women, life, freedom", "From Tehran to Kurdistan, oppression against women", "Kurdistan, Kurdistan, the eye and light of Iran", and "From Kurdistan to Tabriz, the people's patience is overflowing". This movement received the widest and most unprecedented domestic and international support and was able to stand against oppressive forces and conquer the streets for almost two weeks. The continuation of protests throughout the country and their frequency in the localities of big and small cities has scattered and exhausted the repression force and created dissatisfaction and disobedience in its ranks.
The continuation of the movement in the street, resistance against the force of repression and uprising for the transition from the Islamic Republic, requires that the street movement should be completed with general and nationwide strikes and workers' strikes, including workers of large production units and oil companies, teachers, employees, shops and markets, bus drivers, truck drivers and truck owners and taxi drivers.
Now, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Cultural Associations came forward and asked teachers and students to refrain from going to classrooms all over Iran on September 26th and 28th. Council for Organizing Protests of Oil Contract Workers has also warned: "If the arrests, the killing of people and the oppression and harassment of women because of the hijab are not ended, and the oppression of the people is not ended, we will not remain silent. We will protest together with all the people and shut down the work."
The Left Party of Iran (People’s Fadaian) considers the call of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Cultural Associations for strike, the warning of the Council for Organizing Protests of Oil Contract Workers and the joining of a number of student organizations to the protests as a step towards a general and nationwide strike. In our party's opinion, a general and nationwide strike will give new strength to the protest movement, will paralyze the regime and make the way to liberation shorter.
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran (People’s Fadaian)
September 28, 2022
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