Slogans: “Imprisoned workers must be freed”, “Workers are willing to die, but not accept nadir”
More than 250 laborers gathered in front of the clerical regime’s parliament on Tuesday, April 28 to mark the Labor Day March while they were actually opposing repression and the despotic rule of the mullahs in Iran. They started to chant slogans demanding better working condition and job security, but quickly turned to more political demands and more progressive slogans including the “freedom of political prisoners”, “imprisoned workers for their involvement in last countrywide demonstration saying:
“Imprisoned workers must be freed” and “workers are ready to die but not accept nadir”, “Laborers and teacher must be united” and “Laborers and students must unite.”
Some of the slogans written on placards and posters included:
“Flogging workers, return to barbarism”
“We will not tolerate any more the petty salary”
“Increase of taxes without increase in pay, is robbing bread from the workers’ plate” and,
“%1 security, %99 hunger”
The protesting workers condemned the anti-labor policies and repression of workers by the clerical government in their final communiqué. This communiqué in part said: the workers find insufficient government authorities’ initiatives to curb workers’ protest movements and say that they would continue with their protest until their grievances and demands are met.