{"id":90,"date":"2026-04-20T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpiran.net\/English\/?p=90"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:33:02","slug":"statement-of-the-communist-party-of-iran-on-the-eve-of-international-workers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpiran.net\/english\/statement-of-the-communist-party-of-iran-on-the-eve-of-international-workers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Communist Party of Iran on the Eve of International Workers\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Workers, toilers, and freedom-loving people!
May Day, International Workers\u2019 Day, is approaching; a day on which the working class across the world brings its history of struggle, suffering, and hope to the streets and to places of work and life, and keeps the banner of solidarity and liberation raised. The Communist Party sincerely congratulates this historic day to the workers and toilers of Iran and the world, to all fighters for equality and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the working class of Iran is living through one of its most difficult periods. Severe price increases, crushing inflation, and wages many times below the poverty line have destroyed workers\u2019 lives. Temporary and blank-signature contracts, lack of job security, absence of insurance, and the lack of any real rights in the workplace have made the situation unbearable. Millions of workers are poor even with full-time work. They cannot provide basic needs such as food, housing, healthcare, and education for their families. Alongside this, widespread unemployment among young workers and the children of the working class, even those with higher education, has pushed them to the margins. This situation is the direct result of the rule of rent-seeking and religious capitalism of the Islamic Republic and its connection with major domestic capitalists and global capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 12-day and 40-day wars and the military adventurism of the Islamic Republic in the region have imposed additional pressure on the working class. On the one hand, workshops, factories, and workplaces, under the shadow of bombardments, have directly turned into killing fields for workers; on the other hand, with the absence of safety and labor standards, the increase in deadly accidents, and the transformation of the workplace into a prison where the worker must either submit to deadly conditions or, through dismissal and layoffs, be cast into the margins of poverty, workers\u2019 lives are indirectly threatened with physical and psychological ruin. Yet, even this is not the full extent of the catastrophe. The enormous costs of militarization, warmongering, and internal repression are paid from the pockets of workers and toilers; through the reduction of welfare budgets and public services, through the continuous decline in the value of wages, and through the imposition of unemployment and wages that are many times below the poverty line. This policy has effectively condemned millions of workers to gradual death; a death in which exhaustion, malnutrition, illness, despair, and addiction are different faces of a single catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all these pressures, the working class of Iran has not remained silent in the face of capitalist oppression and exploitation. Despite the official prohibition of strikes and any independent gathering, in recent decades we have witnessed, on average, thousands of strikes, gatherings, and labor protests annually across various sectors: from oil and petrochemicals to steel and automobile manufacturing, from mines and railways to education and healthcare, from municipal workers to contract and temporary workers. These protests, which have often been met with repression, arrests, threats, and dismissals, show that the working class of Iran is neither passive nor surrendered; rather, it is seeking more effective ways to organize and to impose its demands. With the easing of the war atmosphere and the anxiety caused by military tensions, this class, relying on this rich background of struggle, can and must begin a new round of struggle for its demands with greater strength and awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, one of the main weaknesses of workers\u2019 struggles in recent decades has been their fragmentation. Although every strike and every protest is, in its own place, an important and courageous step, separate strikes, limited to a single factory or city, without coordination and simultaneity, can hardly force the regime and the capitalists into serious and lasting concessions. The global experience of the working class, as well as the experience of Iranian workers themselves, has shown that the real power of this class lies in \u201cunity of action\u201d and in the simultaneity of nationwide strikes and protests; in linking economic and trade-union struggles with political struggle against the entire ruling capitalist system. Overcoming fragmentation and moving toward nationwide coordination is a vital and urgent task in the period ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party believes that in the coming period, the working class of Iran is compelled to place two central and vital demands at the core of its struggles; demands without the realization of which advancing in higher levels of party organization, political activity, and exercising leadership over other progressive social movements will be extremely difficult:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the official and unconditional freedom of the right to strike, in the broadest sense of the word; that is, recognizing the right of workers to stop work, at any level and at any time, without fear for their livelihood, dismissal, arrest, or repression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the freedom to form and operate independent workers\u2019 organizations, in its comprehensive sense; that is, the right of workers to create unions, associations, councils, federations, and any type of organization elected by and accountable to themselves, independent of the state, employers, security institutions, and government-controlled labor houses and yellow councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imposing these two demands on the ruling class is not a secondary demand, but a precondition for opening the path to socialist organization and the exercise of the leading role of the working class in the whole society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as these freedoms have not been officially, legally, and practically achieved and consolidated, the struggle of the working class must focus on practically imposing them at all levels. This means that workers, within the daily struggle for work, wages, insurance, housing, workplace safety, and other livelihood and trade-union demands, must assert in practice their right to strike, assemble, elect real representatives, and form independent organizations, and not retreat from it. Every strike, every gathering, and every effort to create an independent organization is a link in the chain of struggle to secure these vital freedoms. Only through this living and practical experience can the culture of solidarity, self-organization, and self-leadership of the working class take shape and become institutionalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party of Iran emphasizes this fundamental truth that the working class is the only class that, through its own liberation, will free the entire society from exploitation, oppression, and discrimination. The society for which the working class struggles is a society based on equality, general welfare, and the elimination of all forms of national, gender, religious, and class oppression; a society without the exploitation of human by human, without poverty and humiliation. This perspective is based on the objective position of the working class in social production and its decisive role in the functioning of the material life of society. As long as social production turns on the shoulders of workers, this class can and must use its power to break the capitalist relations and establish a new, socialist, and humane order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party, on this global and historic day, calls on all workers and toilers, all socialists and freedom-seekers, to move toward unity, organization, and a more conscious and nationwide struggle around common demands. May Day is the day of the power and hope of the working class; let us turn this day into the starting point of a new stage of struggle for liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communist Party of Iran
May 2026
April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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