London solidarity with Iranian workers
Friday is the unions’ global protest day in solidarity with our colleagues in Iran. Free trades unionists there have been harshly repressed in recent years, with many in prison for organising unions outside the approved ‘puppet union’ structures, or for daring to hold May Day celebrations.
I’ll be outside the Iranian embassy on Friday with colleagues from the TUC, ITF and UK unions. There’s more information on the demo at the TUC site, if you’re able to come along (12:30-13:30 at SW7 1PT).
With word of strikes as part of the current widespread protests over the election results in Iran, workers and free unions are at huge risk in the coming weeks, and their brave actions need to be publicised and supported wherever we can.
If you’re not in London (you mean not everyone is these days?), check out the Justice for Iranian Workers site for other events and actions.
Justice for Iranian Workers is also on Twitter (of course), Facebook event, and UnionBook group. The Facebook group the organisers set up has been made “unavailable” for some reason, and our best entreaties to Facebook to reinstate it are falling on deaf (bot) ears. But even without Facebook’s help, there are plenty of ways to spread the word.
UPDATE: After 24 hours down, and numerous complaints to Facebook, the group is back, yay! (for now at least). It’s a useful mailing list for co-ordinating Friday’s events, but another warning not to put all a campaign’s eggs in one network!
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