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Iranian Workers Unite in Huge Protest
Yassamine Mather
A strike that started amongst one section of oil workers in southern Iran has
spread to all oil exploration, refinery, and petrochemical plants in the
country and is gaining widespread support from other workers too.
Throughout the 20th century, Iranian oil workers have played an important
political role in the struggles of the Iranian people, demanding not only the
nationalization of oil production in the 1950s, but also, participating in
action against the Shah’s corrupt regime. The nationwide oil strike before the
February 1979 uprising played a significant role in its overthrow.
Since coming to power, the Islamic Republic regime has been very wary of the
importance of these workers, doing its utmost to weaken their power by
privatizing large sections of the oil industry and deploying hundreds of
contractors. The regime’s current divide and rule policy aims to impose a large
number of contractors and to separate contract workers from permanent employees.
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