Iran: increasing anger & workers’ protests on brink of Labor Day

          
            Iranian workers to mark International Labor Day by holding anti-regime rallies 

On the brink ofInternational Labor Day, the mullahs’ regime in Iran has increased the price of oil-based products and placed the entire nation under increasing pressure, especially the laborers. These pressures, in addition to those already imposed by the regime, have increased labor protests across the country.
This includes more than 12,000 retired workers that rallied outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) on Sunday, April 27th, protesting their low pensions and the stealing of their wealth by the regime’s Social Security Organization.
Workers of the Karoun Sugar Cube Factory in Shahr-e Kord staged a gathering protesting not being paid their insurance pensions, and the workers of the Azar Nasooz Complex also protested not receiving half of their wages during the past few months.
Nearly 100 workers of the Khuzestan Pipe Factory rallied outside the province’s so-called high court and demanded to receive their monthly salaries and paychecks.
Expelled workers of the Pakdasht Punel rallied and demanded to receive their delayed paychecks and pensions. Furthermore, over 200 workers of the Pars Ghu Vegetable Oil Factory rallied and protested the closure of this factory by the Tehran municipality.
In other developments in Tehran, groups of active and retired workers disrupted and turned into turmoil a sham session held by the regime under the pretext of supporting workers on April 26th in the Ministry of Labor. The protesting workers chanted slogans against Jahangiri, Rouhani’s deputy, Rabi’i, the regime’s labor minister and Mahjoub, the director of the so-called Labor House. As a result, Jahangiri cancelled his speech halfway and ended the session in a huge embarrassment.
In a serious faceoff against the mullahs’ regime, Iran’s workers and freedom-loving people are preparing to hold independent labor rallies on Thursday, May 1st, outside the Ministry of Labor in Tehran and also governor offices in various cities, calling for workers to rise united against the plundering mullahs’ regime.
A group of youths and high-school students in Dezful, a group of unemployed workers in the city of Doroud, a group of nurse students in the open universities of Ahvaz, Khoram Abad and Abadan, and a group of Parand Open University students are amongst those who have announced their solidarity to hold protest rallies marking International Labor Day to voice their opposition to the mullahs’ regime.