1- We condemn the heinous and barbaric sentences of whipping the labour activists, teachers and protesters by the Islamic regime of Iran. This brutal and anti human Islamic punishment should be condemned by all workers organisations and all civilised people around the world. For example Mohammad Habibi a jailed teacher was sentenced to ten and half years in prison and 74 lashes. All these brutal sentences must be abolished. We strongly condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran for issuing such brutal sentences.
2- We support the indictment and protest of Ismail Bakhshi the well known and popular leader of the Haft-Tapeh suagar cane workers in Shush city in Iran, against the tortures he was subjected to in the Islamic government;s prisons. Ismail Bakhsh, who was arrested for defending workers’ rights during the struggles of the Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers, was arrested two times for protesting torture inside the prison. He and Sepideh Gholiyan, a journalist who was arrested during the protests of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Workers and supported the Ismail; claim is also in jail. They are under pressure to deny their statements about torture in prison. Ismail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholiyan have called to be tried in an open and public court. Their condition is urgent. We want them and all the jailed workers and teachers and other political prisoners to be released, and we condemn the use of torture against prisoners in Iran.
3- The Islamic Republic of Iran arrests and imprisons workers for their struggles and for defending their rights and their lives and livelihoods under charges such as “disturbing national security and national security”. We support the campaign against the securitising the struggles of the workers in Iran and demand the complete abolition of all security sentences issued for labour activists, teachers and social activists.
4- We protest ILO because of its silence and appeasement with the Islamic regime about the ongoing violation of the very conventions declared by this organization, by the Iranian regime.
The Islamic regime continues to deny people their basic rights. The right to organize, the right to strike, to freely assemble, to celebrate International Labour Day and the right to freedom of expression. Such a regime should not have a place in ILO.
5 – We join with other international labour and humanitarian oraganisation that have raised their voices to cal for the immediate and unconditional release of of Ismail Bakhshi, Sepideh Gholyan, Jafar Azimzadeh, Mohammad Habibi, Ismail Abdi, Mahmoud Beheshti, Ruhollah Mardani, Athena Daemi, and all political prisoners in Iran.
6-We stand in support and partnership in the “Free Them Now” campaign to free all jailed workers in Iran.
Campaign to Free jailed workers in Iran(Free Them Now)
Shahla Daneshfar (shahla.daneshfar2@gmail.com),
Please add your signatures under this resolution: Signatures:
-Shahla Daneshfar Speaker of Campaign to Free jailed workers in Iran(Free Them Now)
-Kazem Nik-khah head of international relations of FTN
-Stefhen Von Sychowdki President of VDLC
-Stephanie Smith president of the BCGEU
– Saeed Nama the president of the Iraqi workers federation
– Solidarity party in Switzerland
– Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
– John Clarke, OCAP Organizer, in Canada
-Post Union in Canada(Ontario) and LO in Norway also has expressed their support for this statement in FTN’s meetings with them.
July 18, 2020
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Beside the above signatures we should mention Mr Mclelan the president of the Sydney Branch of the Shipping Union who in aletter to Guy Rider on June2, 2016 stressed on the dismissal of the Islamic regime . He wrote “We call upon the ILO to immediately dismiss the membership of Iran from the ILO”
And on September 3, 2014 Mr Andrew Dettmer National President of the Australian Manufacturing workers Union, wrote a letter to the Iranian authorities and his last point was that his union “calls for international political isolation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its boycott at the international labour organization (Ilo) and all world bodies”. (you can find links here)
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.جان کلارک از ائتلاف علیه فقر در کانادا به کارزار برای اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از سازمان جهانی کار پیوست
بدنبال تماس های محمد کاظمی، جان کلارک از چهره های شناخته شده و سازماندهندگان اصلی ائتلاف علیه فقر در استان اونتاریو در کانادا قطعنامه کمپین برای آزادی کارگران زندانی (Free Them Now) با تاکید بر اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از سازمان جهانی کار را امضا کرد. این قطعنامه هم اکنون بصورت پلاتفرم کمپینی جهانی به جلو میرود و علاوه بر جان کلارک تا کنون شورای اتحادیه های کارگری ونکوور در کانادا (VDLC) در برگیرنده ٦٠ هزار کارگر، اتحادیه کارگران خدمات دولتی در ونکور کانادا (BCGEU) در بر گیرنده ٧٧ هزار کارگر، سعید نعما دبیر کل فدراسیون اتحادیه های کارگری در عراق، این قطعنامه را امضا کرده اند. اتحادیه سراسری کارگران نروژ (LO) و اتحادیه کارگران پست کانادا نیز حمایت خود را از مضمون این قطعنامه اعلام داشته اند.
تاکید قطعنامه فری دم ناو بر اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از سازمان جهانی کار با استناد بر محرومیت کارگران در ایران از حقوق پایه ای خود است. در همین راستا بندهای این قطعنامه عبارتند از: ممنوعیت شلاق و لغو احکام شلاق، دفاع از کیفرخواست اسماعیل بخشی علیه شکنجه و زندان، پایان دادن به امنیتی کردن مبارزات، به رسمیت شناخته شده آزادیهای سیاسی پایه ای در جامعه از جمله حق تشکل، حق اعتصاب، حق تجمع، حق آزادی بیان و برگزاری روز جهانی کارگر، و آزادی فوری و بدون قیدو شرط کارگران زندانی، معلمان دربند و همه زندانیان سیاسی
قطعنامه Free Them Now چتری است که تمام کارزارهای جاری در سطح جامعه از جمله کارزار در حمایت از بازداشت شدگان نیشکر هفته تپه، کارزار در حمایت از دستگیر شدگان اول ماه مه، کارزار در اعتراض به امنیتی کردن مبارزات که جعفر عظیم زاده رییس اتحادیه آزاد کارگران ایران و اسماعیل عبدی از اعضای کانون صنفی از درون زندان آنرا اعلام کرده بودند، کارزار علیه احکام شنیع شلاق و برای آزادی کارگران زندان، معلمان زندانی و تمامی زندانیان سیاسی را در بر میگیرد. Free Them Now با کارزار اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از سازمان جهانی تلاش دارد صدای کارگران و همه مردم ایران در سطح جهان باشد.
کمپین برای آزادی کارگران زندانی در ایران
Shahla.daneshfar2@gmail.com
١٨ تیر ٩٨، ١٨ ژوئیه ٢٠١٩
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