Crux
20th May 2010, 13:01
I would like to note that I am pretty critical towards the WPI, mostly as per our contact with their exile members and some of their ex-members. Still this is a very important report:
A big step forward for the Iranian revolution against Islamic regime!
Today, people in Sanandaj, Mahabad, Bokan, Kamyaran, Miaandoaab, Oshnavieh, Nowsood, Piranshahr, Saghez, Baaneh, Divaandareh, Dehgalaan,Naghadeh, Sardasht, Javaanrood, Ravaansar, Rabat and all other cities and towns in Kurdistan carried out a successful general strike, despite undeclared province-wide martial law and all other measures the regime had resorted to. Almost all schools, universities and %80 of shopping centers and work places were closed. Islamic Regime found itself, clearer than ever, surrounded by the ocean of people’s hatred! This strike was not just a powerful, glorious response to the recent cruel executions of 5 political activists. It was not just the expression of the defeat of the regime’s policies of execution and increasing terrorization of the people. It was an act with far-reaching consequences that will severely change the balance of political power against the regime. In a word, it was a significant step forward for the current Iranian revolution against the Islamic regime for freedom and equality.
The general strike in Kurdistan on May 13th, 2010, will be remembered as an historic act, and as an historic day, in the process of the Kurdish people’s struggle in the Iranian revolution. The masses took part in the strike in their millions and broke the wall of the ever-more-severe suppression in Kurdistan, thus pushing the Iranian revolution one significant step forward. It will raise the spirits of the people all across Iran and intensify the regime’s state of desperateness and visionless manyfold. After May 13th, the people in Tehran, Ahvaz, Mashhad, and so on, will feel much stronger in their fight against the Islamic regime!
The mass strike in Kurdistan will also radicalize the current revolution in Iran even further, and swing it more to the left. Kurdistan has always remained the “fortress of the revolution” of 1979. The people in Kurdistan have always said “no” to the murderous Islamic regime. The broadest masses have always shown the deepest hatred towards the regime and all its factions. Now that these masses have set foot in the arena of political struggle to actively determine their fate, they simply show a simple fact ever more vividly, that is, what goes on in Iran is not a movement to “reform” the regime but a revolution to bury it in its entirety. Meanwhile the “revolutionary Kurdistan”, in general, and the “red Sanandaj”, in particular, have been the stronghold of organized left, consistent democrats, and revolutionary communists since 1978-79 revolution. The idea of a general strike in Kurdistan per se, the fact that it was called by the communists, the fact that it gained the support of all political forces in Kurdistan, and the fact that it took such huge dimensions in practice, provide yet another air-tight proof that the Iranian revolution turns more and more to the left as it goes further and further ahead.
The public strike of May 13th in Kurdistan showed something else too. It took place pursuing the extensive, vigorous protests by the Iranians living abroad against the sudden and secret execution of five political prisoners in Iran. These protests were supported by the people within Iran. It all goes to prove, once more, that all the people in Iran share the same destiny in their struggle for liberation. The public strike by the people in Kurdistan was a manifestation of our slogan: ‘“No!” to ethnic state! “No!” to religious state! “Yes” to humanist state!’ Right, nationalist forces, as well the forces of the regime itself, i.e., all the forces that seek to divide the people along ethnic and/or religious lines, received a fierce blow in the public strike in Kurdistan.
Finally, the public strike in Kurdistan was a leap forward also in that it promoted the tactics and forms of struggle, and thus contributed to the clearer articulation of the current revolution. It added, in practice, besides street demonstrations, “public strike” to the tactics of revolutionary struggle. At the present moment the adoption of this tactic is an absolute necessity for the revolution to advance. There is no doubt that today’s move by the heroic people in Kurdistan will set a pattern for the revolution across Iran.
Worker-communist Party warmly salutes the people in Kurdistan and congratulates all freedom-loving people, all the communists and all political parties who made today’s strike a success.
Down with Islamic regime in Iran!
Long live Iran’s humanist revolution for humanistic state!
Long live socialism!
Worker-Communist Party of Iran
May 13, 2010
A big step forward for the Iranian revolution against Islamic regime!
Today, people in Sanandaj, Mahabad, Bokan, Kamyaran, Miaandoaab, Oshnavieh, Nowsood, Piranshahr, Saghez, Baaneh, Divaandareh, Dehgalaan,Naghadeh, Sardasht, Javaanrood, Ravaansar, Rabat and all other cities and towns in Kurdistan carried out a successful general strike, despite undeclared province-wide martial law and all other measures the regime had resorted to. Almost all schools, universities and %80 of shopping centers and work places were closed. Islamic Regime found itself, clearer than ever, surrounded by the ocean of people’s hatred! This strike was not just a powerful, glorious response to the recent cruel executions of 5 political activists. It was not just the expression of the defeat of the regime’s policies of execution and increasing terrorization of the people. It was an act with far-reaching consequences that will severely change the balance of political power against the regime. In a word, it was a significant step forward for the current Iranian revolution against the Islamic regime for freedom and equality.
The general strike in Kurdistan on May 13th, 2010, will be remembered as an historic act, and as an historic day, in the process of the Kurdish people’s struggle in the Iranian revolution. The masses took part in the strike in their millions and broke the wall of the ever-more-severe suppression in Kurdistan, thus pushing the Iranian revolution one significant step forward. It will raise the spirits of the people all across Iran and intensify the regime’s state of desperateness and visionless manyfold. After May 13th, the people in Tehran, Ahvaz, Mashhad, and so on, will feel much stronger in their fight against the Islamic regime!
The mass strike in Kurdistan will also radicalize the current revolution in Iran even further, and swing it more to the left. Kurdistan has always remained the “fortress of the revolution” of 1979. The people in Kurdistan have always said “no” to the murderous Islamic regime. The broadest masses have always shown the deepest hatred towards the regime and all its factions. Now that these masses have set foot in the arena of political struggle to actively determine their fate, they simply show a simple fact ever more vividly, that is, what goes on in Iran is not a movement to “reform” the regime but a revolution to bury it in its entirety. Meanwhile the “revolutionary Kurdistan”, in general, and the “red Sanandaj”, in particular, have been the stronghold of organized left, consistent democrats, and revolutionary communists since 1978-79 revolution. The idea of a general strike in Kurdistan per se, the fact that it was called by the communists, the fact that it gained the support of all political forces in Kurdistan, and the fact that it took such huge dimensions in practice, provide yet another air-tight proof that the Iranian revolution turns more and more to the left as it goes further and further ahead.
The public strike of May 13th in Kurdistan showed something else too. It took place pursuing the extensive, vigorous protests by the Iranians living abroad against the sudden and secret execution of five political prisoners in Iran. These protests were supported by the people within Iran. It all goes to prove, once more, that all the people in Iran share the same destiny in their struggle for liberation. The public strike by the people in Kurdistan was a manifestation of our slogan: ‘“No!” to ethnic state! “No!” to religious state! “Yes” to humanist state!’ Right, nationalist forces, as well the forces of the regime itself, i.e., all the forces that seek to divide the people along ethnic and/or religious lines, received a fierce blow in the public strike in Kurdistan.
Finally, the public strike in Kurdistan was a leap forward also in that it promoted the tactics and forms of struggle, and thus contributed to the clearer articulation of the current revolution. It added, in practice, besides street demonstrations, “public strike” to the tactics of revolutionary struggle. At the present moment the adoption of this tactic is an absolute necessity for the revolution to advance. There is no doubt that today’s move by the heroic people in Kurdistan will set a pattern for the revolution across Iran.
Worker-communist Party warmly salutes the people in Kurdistan and congratulates all freedom-loving people, all the communists and all political parties who made today’s strike a success.
Down with Islamic regime in Iran!
Long live Iran’s humanist revolution for humanistic state!
Long live socialism!
Worker-Communist Party of Iran
May 13, 2010