First of May this year correlating with a new era for the worker’s movement in Iran bears a distinctive meaning. What emerged from the input of the struggles of the worker’s front last year, alongside the students’ and women’s movements has undoubtedly placed them ahead of the front line of the battles of the Iranian civil society against corruption, despotism and the unworthy government.
By following their trade demands, such as the very important right to form independent syndicates and by making many sacrifices workers have put the Islamic regime face to face with a very serious downfall and the movement that has commenced is so powerful that all the suppression of the regime will not be able to stop it.
Currently leaders of this powerful movement of workers, in addition to persuading their own struggles are also facing a strategic substitute that not only in the general battle against the regime but also in formation of the country’s future will be greatly influential. The worker’s movement can see itself as the heart of the struggles of the Iranian civil society and national political battles, or it can turn it into a form of war between classes. A new danger that the movement is facing is the perseverance of many groups who are trying to divert the worker’s struggles. If the workers join up with the other forces of the civil society a powerful force will be formed against which the Islamic Republic will have no power. However, battle of classes could cause a split amongst the active fronts that it would only result in further strengthening of the regime.
Those who see the Iranian society as the war ground of different forces and layers of society are not paying attention to the fact that the real battle now is between the people and the regime. Differences of economical interests are a fact and every group has the rights to have its own agenda, but under no circumstances should diversions be allowed to be made in the real and immediate fronts of the struggles. Those who speak with the language of forty or fifty years ago are not representatives of a future of Iran that not only will be built on the ruins of the Islamic Republic but also on the ruins of the worker’s paradise.
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