Workers in Iran: Special “August 9th” Issue

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 14:23 by Nasser Asgary - International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran

This is a special edition of Workers in Iran. The main topic covered is the imprisonment of Iranian Trade Union Leaders Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi and the campaign for their release. Full text of this edition at link below.

Release Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi

Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) strongly supports the proposed international action for the release ofMansur Osanlu and Mahmud Salehi.

WPI ceaselessly exposes the crimes of the Islamic regime in Iran against both the workers as well as the people at large, and struggles for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mahmud Salehi and Mansur Osanlu.

Other articles in this edition:

3 months’ prison and lashes for 11 May Day activists in Iran - Islamic court’s verdict

Kermanshah Electrical and Iron Workers Join the Day of Action to free Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi

Labour Activists in Petrochemical Plants of Mahshahr Join the Struggle against Imprisonment of Labour Activists

Tabriz Workers Condemn Imprisonment and Show Trials of Labour Activists

Solidarity with “World day of action for the release of Mansour Osanlou and Mahmoud Salehi

To: International labour and human rights organisations

The Islamic regime in Iran has launched a campaign of arrests, kidnapping, executions and stoning deaths in an attempt to drive back the ongoing protests, strikes and demonstrations in Iran by creating a climate of terror and fear. We are calling on all labour and human rights organisations aroundthe world to raise their voice in protest against this barbarity of the Islamic regime...