After the successful May Day activities in Iran the Labour House hirelings of the capitalist government attacked the workers brutally. The Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network has published this latest appeal sent out by the Workers' Action Committee. The attacks are an attempt to intimidate the workers who have been getting more confident in the last period. We will be providing further updates on the situation in Iran over the coming week and launching a solidarity campaign
We workers know from experience that the courts of the capitalist government are only held when workers are to be tried and punished. We witnessed the sham trials of the Saghez activists last year. Now that a bunch of thugs from the Labour House and the Islamic Labour Councils, who are allied to the capitalist government, attack our fellow-workers no steps are taken.
We workers demand that a trial with independent international representatives is held immediately to investigate the crimes of these thugs. If the capitalist government does not arrest and punish these people, then the workers themselves will hold an independent trial with the direct supervision of representatives of independent international trade unions, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and other organisations. If the capitalist government blocks this move then this trial can be held in another country.
The Workers' Action Committee calls on all workers to support the holding of this trial and that the representatives of the ICFTU take part in this independent workers' trial.
The Labour House thugs must be tried!
A workers' independent trial must be held!
13 May 2005
We call on all activists and organisations who would like to co-operate with us to contact us. The Workers' Action Committee welcomes co-operation from all those who are prepared to defend the workers (regardless of any political differences).
Please help us distribute this statement among international organisations.
Workers' Action Committee (Iran)
Translated by Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
iranwsn@yahoo.co.uk
BM IWSN, London WC1N 3XX.
