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We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
We continue the program with talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, by asking him about the eruption of workers’ strikes and protests across the country.
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
I am of course not in a position to try to teach our heroic workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory as to how to continue their struggle and am so humbled by their actions.
However, I think their struggle has taught us three main lessons that should be followed by other freedom fighters of our country;
First; they have shown a very solid organization in their struggle and have set up 15 committees to coordinate their protests.
If you listen to the speeches of Ismail Bakhshi, their spokesperson, you will realize that he is a true trade union leader. Some reports say he has been freed from detention but other reports say he is still in prison. He has even said that if he dies in custody he wishes his coffin be carried at the front of the next workers’ protest march!
The second lesson is that unity can always be followed by victory. Our movement’s aim must be the end of the Islamic republic regime and its leader Ali Khamenei.
Unity gives strength to people’s will as it gives them hope that there could be a better tomorrow for them.
And the third lesson is that the workers’ movement is an indispensible part of the larger Iranian people’s civil rights movement as we now see that the Iranian students have come out in support of the workers and it is now high time our intellectuals and journalists did the same!
