Fellow workers<\/a>, sisters, and brothers, Valiant workers,
Workers of industrial units, service sector, mines, farms, and rice plants, carpet weavers, fuel carriers, porters, peddlers, drivers, the millions in the army of the unemployed, and the society in general, 17 million working and retired workers who are impatient to overthrow the inhuman and anti-labor rule of religious fascism.
Although the Covid-19 disease<\/a> has made life dark and bitter for workers, particularly under (the mullahs\u2019 supreme leader, Ali) Khamenei<\/a>\u2019s inhuman policies and although the merciless monster of pillage and exploitation, embodied in the mullahs\u2019 religious dictatorship, has driven the working class towards poverty and starvation,
May Day remains worthy of congratulations to all the working women and men throughout the country. This day heralds the end of exploitation and inequality.
Over the past year, Khamenei <\/a>and Rouhani <\/a>did everything to pave the way for the spread of the Coronavirus and the horrific rise in fatalities to block the uprising and protest movements. According to the regime\u2019s official figures, which are far from the actual figure, by autumn 2020, six million people sustained adverse employment consequences, and 1.5 million people lost their jobs during the pandemic. Between autumn 2019 and autumn 2020, more than one million women lost their jobs.
Nevertheless, Iranian workers did not relent on their strikes and protests. They even took further unprecedented steps, including repeated and continued protests by municipality workers and the simultaneous strikes by mineworkers in three cities of Kerman Province against privatization and their job condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIranian workers are the cheapest labor force<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Khamenei called the Persian Year 1400 the year of \u201cproduction, support, and removal of obstacles.\u201d However, the long history and the experience pertinent to the regime\u2019s policies have made it clear that Khamenei\u2019s reference to \u201cremoval of obstacles\u201d facilitates and expedites plundering Iranian society and accelerating vicious exploitation of workers by stripping them of their political, social, and human rights. In line with the \u201cremoval of obstacles,\u201d referenced by Khamenei, workers\u2019 minimum wage was set at just one-fourth of the living basket this year. So, workers need salaries four times greater to reach the poverty line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n