Tens of labor activists and unionists were executed during
this National Catastrophe
This year coincides with the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the summary execution of the political prisoners in
1988, the event which the patriotic, progressive and democratic forces of our
country justly named as The National Catastrophe. Following the defeat of
Khomeini’s militaristic policies in 1988, and with a previously prepared plan,
leaders of the Islamic Republic with Khomeini at the top, ordered the collective
execution of the political prisoners. With this plan the government implemented
a bloody cleansing and deprived the Iranian revolutionary and peace-seeking
movement from its most prominent leaders and cadres. The aim of the
reactionaries under Khomeini’s leadership was the elimination of the Iranian
people’s progressive movement, and the patriotic and democratic parties and
organizations. During this criminal massacre, the Iranian workers’ labor-union
movement lost its most experienced and conscious leaders and cadres as well. In
less than two months, and at the minutes-long court hearings, which were
reminders of the Inquest Courts of the Middle-Ages, along with thousands of
prisoners from the left and democratic forces, tens of experienced and
qualified labor-unionists were executed.
To date, the reason and burial
location of these peoples’ champions and defenders of workers have not been
determined.
In unison with the progressive
forces, labor unions and families of the peoples’ martyrs, the Iranian
Committee for Labor-Union Relations demands identification and punishment of
those who ordered and those who carried out these unforgettable crimes. We call
for a unified struggle of all progressive and democratic forces to expose this
haunting crime of the 1988 communal massacres of the political prisoners. We honor
all peoples’ noble sons and protectors of freedom, social justice, peace and
national sovereignty; and hail memories of all workers and unionists martyred
at this massacre and all other martyrs.
The Iranian Committee for
Labor-Union Relations
