WFTU-PRESS RELEASE-The protests in Iran and the imperialists’ “barking”

 

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) as an internationalist, classoriented, unitary trade union organization, defends the workers’ right in every corner of the world to demonstrate freely, to go on strike, to claim their rights, to protest against the anti-labour policies of their governments and employers.

This is a statutory principle of the WFTU. This way, we also support the right of Iranian workers to protest and demonstrate freely, asking for better working conditions for their lives. We understand the workers of Iran who ask for a limitation of high prices, for wage improvements and social benefits.

At the same time, the World Federation of Trade Unions, as a genuine antiimperialist trade union organization, informs loud and clear the workers of the whole world that the support to these demonstrations by the U.S. President Trump, by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, by the Prime Minister of the UK T. May, by the kings and monarchs of the Middle Ages who in their own countries ban trade unions’ operation, by the EU etc, reveals that imperialists in their hypocrisy are trying to take advantage of the existing high prices and salary problems in Iran, in order to promote the strategic plans of Imperialism.

Over the last period, strikes, also massive ones, have been organized in India, France, Greece and Brazil, but kings, monarchs, Trump and all the others have never stated that they support these demonstrations. So, it would be better if they stopped their hypocrisy.

Today, after the scenario of the so-called “Arab spring”, after the looming defeat of the US and their allies in Syria, after the three-year bombings against the poor people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia, after the Trump government’s fascist decision to give Jerusalem as a “gift” to Israel, all workers perceive reality. No one is convinced by the imperialists’ tears who want to start a new fire in the region. The vast majority of the peoples and workers understand that imperialists are barking in order to promote their imperialist strategic goals.

Athens, Greece – 4 January 2018