Labor Day Protests With Slogans: "Imprisoned Workers Must Be Released" And "It Is Mourning Day Today, Worker's Life Is Doomed Today"
Iranian workers and toilers turned May Day to a scene of protest and expressing outrage against the mullahs' anti-labor regime. While in a despicable act the regime hold the sham labor day event at Khomeini’s grave, workers bashed this event and repeatedly cut Rouhani’s speech by their slogans. Workers chanted "It is mourning day today, worker’s life is doomed today." The MC of the event called the workers “mercenaries” and threatened them that he would shatter their mouths.
Peddlers, drivers, porters,
Nurses, Carpet weavers,
Farmers,
Dismissed workers,
Millions of job-seeking men and women,
Fellow working men and women of Iran,
I would like to congratulate you on May 1, the International Workers' Day.
Felicitations on this day are not just meant to appreciate workers' suffering and fortitude, but to harbinger and recall the burning hope for a future that is free from repression and exploitation, a future that will be realized with the power of the deprived and oppressed workers, whose force is able to fight and bring about change.
On this occasion, I would like to salute and extend my warmest greetings to the thousands of courageous workers who staged protests last year and expressed their demand for toppling the mullahs' corrupt, oppressive and despotic rule.
I salute the workers who voiced their protest at the cost of their jobs and those who were flogged and imprisoned for doing so.
The mullahs' response to these righteous protests was more suppression and treachery for if they accept any of the workers' basic demands, they will have to reject the existence of their regime.
Iran's working class had never been so entangled in poverty, unemployment and disarray.
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