Brutal flogging sentences against mine workers in Iran

[hashem]

Agh Dareh gold mine workers: "We get cancer, and we receive lashes too!"


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The anti-worker regime of Islamic Republic of Iran in May 2016 has carried out flogging sentences against 17 workers at Agh Dareh Gold Mine in West Azerbaijan Province. Each worker received between 30 and 100 lashes. The regime carried out these brutal flogging sentences against mine workers after they staged actions to protest layoffs of about 350 workers. This is not the first time the anti-worker IRI has sentenced workers to flogging. However, within the currant socio-economic and political contexts and the implementation of the most aggressive austerity and anti-worker agendas in Iran after the nuclear deal with the US and other world capitalist powers, the regime is preparing for even harder stance against the working class. We are calling on the international working class to strongly condemn the barbaric flogging sentences against workers in Iran and to pressure the Iranian regime to stop this brutal and torturous practice altogether.

International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI)
June 1, 2016

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www.workers-iran.org (http://www.workers-iran.org)

[Antiochus]

The Iranian revolution should be a present reminder for anyone who flirts with the idea of uniting with religious groups for the purpose of toppling a state. Even the 'best' of them (i.e Liberation theology), their ultimate loyalty is to the bourgeoisie, to the cardinals, to the mullahs. Iran is almost certainly the key to the entire region. It is the largest and most populous of the states in the region (if you draw the line at Afghanistan), has a decently developed economy with strong R&D sectors, is not already beholden to Western interests (not necessarily for positive reasons but oh well) and has a large and well off diaspora that would would support at least some basic liberal democratic reforms. Turkey might still be in the same boat but considering the course they are taking there I would say Iran is better off.

[Discordant element]

In the middle ages, the bourgeoisie went against religious values. That had to change- which is why organized religion is now supporting the established state, indoc- education, and obeying your superiors (the bourgeoisie, of course). On top of that, none of them can help you actually run the state after the revolution, they will just take the opportunity to brainwash the population.

Also, the US has been kinda keen on destabilizing the region, so of course they would assure that they would have a terrible form of government.