All arrested oil workers must be released!
The Islamic Republic must be boycotted and thrown out of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)!
Workers in the petrochemical industries in Bushehr Province in the south of Iran today entered the fourth day of their great strike in support of the nationwide protests of the people of Iran against the Islamic Republic.
Since yesterday, the workers of Abadan Oil Refinery have also been on strike in solidarity with the rising of the women and men in Iran.
The regime’s security forces have responded by arresting workers, and currently at least 30 workers are reported to be in jail. The release of these jailed workers is now a key demand of the strikes.
In its latest statement today, the Organising Council of the Protests of the Project Oil Workers warned the Iranian authorities that if the jailed oil workers are not released and the security forces are not withdrawn from the oil installations, the strike will be widened.
We call on all trade unions and workers’ organisations around the world to support the oil workers, condemn the Iranian regime’s attacks on them and to demand that all jailed workers be released immediately.
The anti-worker actions of the Islamic Republic and its use of brutal violence against women and men on the streets of Iranian cities should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
Furthermore, we call on you to demand that this regime be boycotted globally and thrown out of all international UN bodies, such as the ILO.
Global political isolation, as was once achieved successfully against the racial apartheid regime, is a concrete act of solidarity with the workers and the protesting women and men of Iran against the regime of gender apartheid.
Free Them Now! Campaign to Release Jailed Workers in Iran
13 October 2022