After a short period of stillness and uncertainty the Iranian civil society has recommenced its chain style battle in the forms of demonstrations, disobedience, strikes and publications of statements.
The worker’s movement which has now discovered one its best leaders in Mansour Osanlou follows the trade demands such as forming syndicates and finds a refreshed strength each time it is suppressed.
Workers who have not been paid their wages in six and seven months put a section of the oncoming storm on display and demonstrate with bare feet against a President whose whole task is about weapons, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Students, by holding courageous demonstrations from time to time are keeping the rebellious flames alive. Women make 8th March as an excuse not to let deprivations of the greatest minority of the society, meaning women who are the majority of the population be forgotten. Prison, detention and fierce actions by the national security guards and the mobilized police have no greater impact other than to keep determination for the struggles alive and strong. Now teachers, by carrying out demonstrations and strikes are putting the clergy regime into its greatest downfall ever. The regime is able to drive workers to the ever-growing queues of poverty and hunger by closing down factories and substituting imports instead of production. It is also able to send students to compulsory military services and put national duties in place of imprisonment. It can let women undergo hunger strikes until their health have been put in jeopardy. However, the strikes by the teachers will be felt in every part of the society. The strength of teachers has no substitute and schools cannot be kept closed for long.
At the same time that the international pressures are increasing the strongest layers of society have reached such conditions that the regime is not leaving much for the people to loose. The hopes of all of those who are against war, against the regime’s adventurous foreign policy and against the Nuclear enhancement programme are on this civil society which form the main powerful opposition to the Islamic Republic regime.
|
