Help the people of Iran get rid of the Islamic regime!

international | anti-capitalism | other press Saturday March 01, 2008 17:07 by Asqar Karimi - Worker-communist Party of Iran

Asqar Karimi of the Worker-communist Party of Iran appeals for solidarity to isolate the Iranian Dictatorship and to to help the Iranian People to overthrow this brutal regime. Full text at the link.

To the people of the world! To trade unions, student unions, women’s rights organisations!
3 Labour activists were flogged in Sanandaj and 8 others are to be flogged for taking part in a May Day rally! The Islamic Republic has taken another step against the working class and all the people in Iran. Their aim is to silence, crush and dehumanize. Its what the slave driver did 20 centuries ago. This time, however, they are dealing with a working class that has no intention of submitting; a working class whose struggles and leaders are known to the whole world.

·Official figures say, in the past 10 months,1 million women have been arrested, fined and/or flogged for not being dressed as demanded by the Islamic government and for courtship with the opposite sex;

· 50 students have been arrested and tortured for taking part in demonstrations in support of workers, against sexual apartheid, for the freedom of political prisoners;
· Teachers have been sent to prison for going on strike for better pay and conditions;
· Sisters, Azar and Zohreh Kabiri have been sentenced to death by stoning for sex outside marriage;
· 300 people in Bandar Torkeman, have been jailed or exiled for protesting at the murder of a fisherman by the security forces;
·In Zahedan, M. A. Jalali, A. B. Reegy, A. Reegy, A. R. Roudini and D. Pahlevan, had their right hands and left feet amputated for alleged kidnapping and armed attacks;
· Tayyeb and Yazdan in Fars have been sentenced to be thrown to their deaths for alleged sodomy;
· Scores have been hanged in recent months, Many are on the death row; some to be stoned to death.

This is only a fraction of the Islamic Republics gory violence against the people.

This regime has executed 100,000 political and labour activists, women’s rights defenders, secularists and dissidents. The struggle of the people of Iran should be supported so that they can end this regime. As long as it exists, there will be no improvement in the lives of the people of Iran. The only way forward for the people of Iran is the revolutionary overthrow of this dictatorship.

This regime cannot be reformed. Neither war, nor “critical dialogue”, nor letting the Islamic Republic into international organisations is the solution. These only strengthen the regime and undermine the people in Iran. At the time of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, a massive solidarity movement built up with the people of South Africa against that racist regime. Now the Islamic regime in Iran should be rejected and isolated by an international protest movement of the people, and finally overthrown by the people of Iran. Then a whole world will be free of this regime.

Long live international solidarity with the people of Iran for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

Asqar Karimi
For the Executive Committee of the
Worker-communist Party of Iran