From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:54:55 -0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pttp] solidarity with Iranian textile workers Dear comrades, If you can help circulate this letter and get more signatures to it, this would be greatly appreciated. Send any correspondence to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1- CAMPAIGN FOR THE RELEASE OF ARRESTED ESFAHAN TEXTILE WORKERS To Juan Somavio, the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation As you are aware, during the past year the situation of Iranian workers has deteriorated daily. The following are a few cases: 1- The increase in the number of temporary contracts which presents workers with an uncertain future employment in the future and deprives them of the rights mentioned in the Labour Code. 2- The introduction of the law excluding workshops with five or less workers from the remit of the Labour Code officially deprives workers of these units from having the basic social guarantees and rights of the Labour Code. 3- Unpaid wages in many factories, sometimes for as much as 32 months, seriously jeopardise the ability of workers and their families to afford their daily bread. 4- The widespread job losses, which darken and make uncertain the future of many workers, are taking place under conditions when the jobless and sacked workers do not receive any unemployment insurance. Under such conditions a wave of workers' protests for confronting this situation has formed during the recent months. The latest of these was the peaceful protest march of the Baresh Textiles in Esfahan on May Day 2001. Their rally for receiving their unpaid wages was brutally suppressed by the anti-riot police, resulting in 50 textile workers from Baresh being arrested and more than 20 being injured. We the signatories of this letter demand that the ILO put the Iranian government under pressure so that it recognises the rights of workers and releases those arrested during recent events. Nader Shakiba, spokesman of Workers' Independent Union of Iran 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academics and critics: Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor - USA Dr Esmail Nooriala, poet and literary critic Dr Hamid Hamid, university lecturer - USA Howard Zinn, historian - USA David Barsamian, producer of Alternative Radio - USA Trade unions, trade unionists and local organisations: Nigel Pearce (NEC, National Union of Mineworkers, personal capacity) - Britain Phil Waker (NEC, Communication Workers Union, personal capacity) - Britain Jeremy Dear (National newspapers' organiser, National Union of Journalists, personal capacity) - Britain Sean O'Quinn, Member United Food Commercial Workers Local 400 - USA Boulder County Labour Council AFL-CIO - Boulder, USA Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center - Colorado, USA Khalil Vermezyari, Vice President CUPE Local 2497 - Toronto, Canada Alex Grant, President, Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2278 - Canada Central Committee of the Students' Committee to Defend State Education, CEDEP - Mexico Struggle Committee of the High School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, CLESIME - Mexico Francisco Lara, Tenants Organisation, UVVAC - Mexico Federico Cortes Corona, member of the Mexican Electricians Union, SME - Mexico Jose' Luis Aguilar, Tenants Organisation Colonia La Estrella, Ecatepec - Mexico Ramon Campos, member of the trade union of the Mexican Postal Service - Mexico Miriam Municio, general secretary Spanish Students Union - Spain XAQUIN G� SINDE, member of the Regional Executive Committee of CCOO (Workers Commissions union) in Galicia - Spain Jose' R. 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Germany Editorial Board Marxist magazine Socialist Appeal (www.socialist.net) - Britain Editorial Board "In Defence of Marxism" (www.marxist.com) - Britain Espe Espigares, British organiser, Youth For International Socialism (www.newyouth.com) - Britain Peter Johnson, national organiser, Youth For International Socialism (www.newyouth.com) - United States Editorial Board L'Humanite - Canada Gernot Trausmuth, Editorial board of "Der Funke" - Austria Eva Nesensohn, chairwoman of the Young Socialists Vorarlberg - Austria Tanja Kreinbucher and Manuel Kaufmann, Executive Committee of the Young Socialists - Austria Editorial Board of Militante newspaper - Mexico Rosalba Ramos, Rank and File Insurgent Movement, Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD - Mexico Carlo del Angel, Committee for the Socialist Youth, Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD - Mexico Jose' Luis Ruiz, member of the PRD, Neza - Mexico Ricardo Nataren Delgado, PRD Committee, Pijijiapan, Chiapas - Mexico Amauri Solis, PRD Committee Las Margaritas, Pijijiapan, Chiapas - Mexico Editorial Board Marxist paper El Militante - Spain Tzolis Hristos: Member of PASOK (Greek Socialist Party) YOUTH Central Committee - Greece Kanelopoulou Asimina: Member of PASOK YOUTH Central Committee - Greece Dafnis Stelios: Member PASOK YOUTH Central Committee - Greece Tsitonis Takis: Member PASOK YOUTH Central Committee - Greece Karagianopoulos Stamatis: Member of Athens PASOK YOUTH Committee - Greece Kanelopoulou Christina: Member of Athens PASOK YOUTH Committee - Greece The Editorial Board of the Danish Social-Democratic paper Socialistisk Standpunkt - Denmark Claudio Bellotti (Party of the Communist Refoundation, PRC, National Leadership member) - Italy Gabriele Donato, Alessandro Giardiello, Jacopo Renda, Giuseppe Letizia (PRC National Political Cte. members) - Italy Antonio Forlano (member of the leadership of the Filt-Cgil union in Milan) - Italy Dario Salvetti (National Coordination of Communist Youth) - Italy Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network http://iwsn.topcities.com _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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