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Copenhagen picket
Copenhagen: Demonstration in support of Iranian workers
Friday 26 June, around 250 gathered in front of the Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen. The demonstration was arranged by IWSN in cooperation with the Initiative for Solidarity with the Iranian Trade Unions and the Struggle for Justice, and supported by a number of trade unions as well as Amnesty International.
The protestors were welcomed by Jamal Tabari, a Metal Worker and shop steward. Next, a young metal worker read out messages of solidarity from the Danish TUC, the Metal Workers Union, HK (retail trade and office employees union), FOA (public sector workers’ union). The biggest trade union in Denmark, 3F, sent their international secretary Sune Bøgh to deliver a speech.
Demonstrators chanted slogans in Danish and Farsi. Among the slogans were “Down with the dictatorship”, “Freedom for all political prisoners”, “Down with the Islamic Republic in Iran”, “Down with the anti-women regime” and “Death to Khamenei”.
Frederik Ohsten, editor of the Marxist journal Socialistisk Standpunkt, and active in IWSN, delivered a speech. He said that there is no regime in the world that can survive when a mass movement of ordinary people says “Stop!”
He pointed out, that the tactics pursued by Mousavi and other leaders have failed disastrously. He stressed that the working class is the key, and that a constituent assembly can be called by the means of a general strike to overthrow the despotic regime.
Activists supporting the Marxist tendency in SF (Socialist Peoples’ Party) intervened in the gathering and sold 25 copies of Socialistisk Standpunkt. Many workers present expressed their joy about the speech delivered by the representative of the tendency.
Jamal Tabari concluded the demonstration by thanking the participants and the organisations arranging the gathering. A special thanks were given to the trade unions who supported the demonstration. The participants shouted angry slogans at the embassy. Again and again they shouted the slogan “Death to the Islamic Republic!”
Free all jailed workers now!
The right to strike is an absolute right!
Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
30 June 2009