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جمعی از چهره های معروف دانشگاهی، مطبوعاتی و اجتماعی چپ جهان، با امضای نامه ی سرگشاده ای ضمن ابراز نگرانی نسبت به وضعیت جعفر عظیم زاده، خواهان پایان دادن به سرکوب کارگران در ایران شدند. این بیانیه برای امضا در نشانی زیر قرار دارد. secure.avaaz.org
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اطلاعات موجود در اسناد ضمیمه که بدستمان رسیده، ما را بر آن میدارد که به حکم شلاق علیه کارگران معدن طلای آق دره در ایران اعتراض کنیم، و همچنین نگرانی شدید خود را نسبت به سلامت و تندرستی آقای جعفرعظیم زاده، فعال کارگری ضد سرمایه داری و رئیس هیئت مدیره اتحادیه آزاد کارگران ایران، که از تاریخ ۱۰ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۵ در اعتصاب غذا بسر میبرد، اعلام داریم.
جعفرعظیم زاده از نوامبر ۲۰۱۵ برای گذراندن حکم شش سال حبس تعزیری به اتهام "اجتماع و تبانی به قصد اقدام علیه امنیت ملی" که به دلیل فعالیتهای کارگری ایشان بوده است، در زندان اوین محبوس است؛ این اتهام، به نظر می رسد یکی از اتهامات اصلی ای است که دولت ایران بطور روتین علیه فعالین کارگری بکار می برد. جعفر در اعتراض به اتهام ساختگی "اجتماع و تبانی به قصد اقدام علیه امنیت ملی" و دیگر اتهامات امنیتی علیه او و دیگر فعالین کارگری و در محکومیت سیاستهای ضد کارگری روزافزون دولت ایران در یک اعتصاب غذای نامحدود به سر می برد.
همانطور که در بالا ذکر شد، ما شدیدا از احکام وحشیانه شلاق علیه ۱۷ کارگر معدن طلای آق دره که در ایران به طور علنی در ماه می ۲۰۱۶ انجام شد، خشمگین هستیم. این کارگران برای امنیت شغلی و علیه بیکارسازی ها دست به اعتراض زده بودند.
هچنین مطلع شده ایم که ۹ نفر از کارگران معدن سنگ آهن
بافق واقع در استان یزد نیز به ضربات شلاق و حبس‌های تعلیقی محکوم شده اند.
کارگران معدن بافق (شرکت سنگ آهن مرکزی ایران-بافق) به دلیل اعتصابات و
اعتراضاتی که از سال ۲۰۱۴ آغاز شد دادگاهی شده بودند. چنین احکام ضدانسانی
ای علیه کارگران معترض نقض فاحش کلیه مقاوله نامه ها و دستاوردهای شناخته
شده بین المللی در رابطه با حقوق کارگری و حقوق انسانی بطور علی العموم می
باشد. شلاق یک عمل به شدت بی رحمانه و نوعی شکنجه است و باید بلافاصله
متوقف و ممنوع شود.
ما عمیقا نگران سلامتی و تندرستی جعفر عظیم زاده و دیگر کارگران زندانی در ایران هستیم، و خواهان آزادی فوری و بدون قید وشرط آنها می باشیم. حکومت ایران مسئول مستقیم جان جعفرعظیم زاده و دیگر زندانیان سیاسی می باشد. در عین حال، ما صمیمانه از جعفر عظیم زاده درخواست می کنیم که به اعتصاب غذایش پایان دهد؛ مبارزه برای حقوق کارگران زمانی قدرتمندتر است که فعالین جنبش کارگری زنده و سالم باشند.
گرگ آلبو، استاد علوم سیاسی دانشگاه یورک-کانادا، سردبیر سوسیالیست رجیستر
کوین اندرسون، استاد جامعه شناسی در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا
سیروس بینا، استاد ممتاز پژوهش اقتصاد؛ دانشگاه مینه سوتا، ایالات متحده آمریکا و اقتصاددان در زمینه صلح و امنیت
نوام چامسکی، استاد زبان شناسی (بازنشسته)، موسسه فناوری ماساچوست
جان کلارک، سازمانده، ائتلاف علیه فقر در انتاریو - کانادا
استیو ایرلی، فعال کارگری، روزنامه نگار، وکیل و سازمانده، ایالات متحده آمریکا
بیل فلچر، نویسنده و اکتیویست، ایالات متحده
صفیا گاهیر، دبیر کمیته همبستگی بین المللی اتحادیه کارگران خدمات عمومی کانادا- انتاریو
سام گیندین، فعال کارگری، اقتصاد دان و مشاور سابق رئیس اتحادیه کارگران خودروسازی کانادا (یونیفور جدید)
براد هورنیک، دانشگاه سایمون فریزر، فعال "سیستم را باید تغییر داد نه آب و هوا را"
بوریس کاگارلیتسکی، جامعه شناس و نظریه پرداز مارکسیست، مدیر موسسه جهانی شدن و جنبش های اجتماعی
مایکل لبوویتز، استاد بازنشسته، بخش اقتصاد، دانشگاه سایمون فریزر، کانادا
دیوید مک نالی، فعال چپ و محقق؛ استاد رشته علوم سیاسی دانشگاه یورک، کانادا
دریک اوکیف، نویسنده و روزنامه نگار، سردبیر رسانه کمانه
پییر مورو، دبیر، پیوند کارگری استرالیا- آسیا
مایک پالسک، رئیس سراسری اتحادیه کارگران پست کانادا
لئو پانیچ، استاد برجسته پژوهش علوم سیاسی در دانشگاه یورک و سردبیر سوسیالیست رجیستر
میثاق پارسا، استاد جامعه شناسی، کالج دارتموث، ایالات متحده آمریکا
هرمان روزنفلد، نویسنده، معلم و فعال کارگری؛ عضو پروژه سوسیالیستی
اینگو اشمیت، هماهنگ کننده علمی برنامه مطالعات کار در دانشگاه آتاباسکا، کانادا
پیتر تاتچل، مدیر بنیاد پیتر تاتچل
مایکل یتس، از سردبیران مانتلی ریویو
Why this is important
The information in the accompanying document has come to our
attention, and we would like to protest the flogging sentences against
Agh Dareh Gold Mine workers in Iran and to express our serious concerns
about health and wellbeing of Mr. Jafar Azimzadeh, an anti-capitalist
labour activist and chairperson of the Board of the Free Union of
Iranian Workers, who has been on hunger strike since April 29, 2016.
Jafar Azimzadeh has been serving a 6 year prison sentence in Evin Prison since November 2015 merely for his labour activities. He was charged with "assembling and colluding with intent to act against national security”; this seems to be one of the key charges that the Iranian government has routinely been using against labour activists. Jafar is on indefinite hunger to protest against the fabricated charges of “gathering and colluding with intent to act against national security" and other security-related charges against himself and other labour activists and to denounce the ever-increasing anti-worker policies of the Iranian government.
As stated above, we are extremely outraged over the brutal flogging sentences against 17 Agh Dareh Gold Mine workers in Iran which were carried out publically in May 2016. These workers were protesting their right to job security and protection against layoffs. What’s more, we have been informed that nine Bafgh Mining Company workers in Yazd Province have also been sentenced to imprisonment and tens of lashes in recent days. Their sentences for the time being has been suspended but will be carried out if they breach court orders. Bafgh mine workers (Iran Central Iron Ore Company Bafgh) were prosecuted following their strike actions that started in 2014. Such inhuman sentences against protesting workers are the gross violation of every internationally recognized convention and achievements on the rights of workers and human rights in general. Flogging is an extremely cruel act and a form of torture and must be stopped and banned immediately.
We are deeply concerned about the health and wellbeing of Jafar Azimzadeh and other jailed workers in Iran and call for their immediate and unconditional freedom. The Iranian government is responsible for the life of Jafar Azimzadeh and other political prisoners. At the same time, we are sincerely urging Jafar Azimzadeh to end his hunger strike; the struggle for workers’ right is strengthened when the labour movement’s activists are alive and well.
The above statement was first signed by the following renowned scholars and labour/ progressive activists. Please sign this petition and support the above statement in solidarity with workers in Iran.
Statement issued on June 15, 2016. Signatories in alphabetical order:
Greg Albo, Department of Political Science, York
University & Co-editor of the Socialist Register;
Kevin B. Anderson, Professor of Sociology at
University of California, Santa Barbara;
Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota, USA & Fellow, Economist for Peace and Security;
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty-
Steve Early, Labour activist & journalist, lawyer and organizer, USA
Bill Fletcher Jr., Talk show host, writer & activist (USA);
Safia Gahayr, Chair - International Solidarity Committee, CUPE Ontario;
Sam Gindin, Retired Assistant to the President of Canadian Auto Workers (now UNIFOR) and the former Packer Chair
in Social Justice at York University;
Brad Hornick, PHD Candidate, Simon Fraser University, active with System Change Not Climate Change;
Boris Kagarlitsky, Sociologist & Marxist theoretician, Director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements
Michael A. Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada;
David McNally, long-time leftscholar-activist; Professor, Department of Political Science, York University;
Derrick O'Keefe, Author and Journalist, Editor at Ricochet Media;
Piergiorgio (Pier) Moro, Secretary, Australia Asia Worker Links;
Mike Palecek, National President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers;
Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University & Co-editor of The Socialist Register;
Misagh Parsa, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, USA;
Herman Rosenfeld, writer, educator, and activist; member of Socialist Project;
Ingo Schmidt, Academic Coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University, Canada;
Peter Tatchell, Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation;
Michael Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review
The following scholars and activists endorsed the above statement as of June 16, 2016:
George Binette (Camden UNISON Branch Secretary), London Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, Department of European & International Studies King's College, London
Joseph Daher, Assistant Professor, Lausanne University, Switzerland - Anti capitalist activist
Mohan Dutta, Professor, National University of Singapore- Department of Communications and New Media
Alex Gordon, former President, National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT), Britain
Amir Hassanpour, Assistant Professor (Ret.), University of Toronto
Peter Hudis, Author, Professor of Philosophy, Oakton Community College
Pranav Jani, English and Postcolonial Studies, the Ohio State University
Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle East politics, SOAS, University of London
Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History, LaRoche College, Pittsburgh USA
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education OISE/University of Toronto
John Rees, Counterfire, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, Spokesperson for People's Assembly Against Austerity
Steven Salaita, American University of Beirut
Kim Scipes, Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University Northwest, Westville, Indiana, USA
Ahmad Seyf, Senior Lecturer, Regent's University, London David, Michael Smith, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston
Socialist Movement
Rona Smith, Educator, Houston Socialist Movement, USA
Please sign on to this petition in support of the above statement in solidarity with workers in Iran.
Jafar Azimzadeh has been serving a 6 year prison sentence in Evin Prison since November 2015 merely for his labour activities. He was charged with "assembling and colluding with intent to act against national security”; this seems to be one of the key charges that the Iranian government has routinely been using against labour activists. Jafar is on indefinite hunger to protest against the fabricated charges of “gathering and colluding with intent to act against national security" and other security-related charges against himself and other labour activists and to denounce the ever-increasing anti-worker policies of the Iranian government.
As stated above, we are extremely outraged over the brutal flogging sentences against 17 Agh Dareh Gold Mine workers in Iran which were carried out publically in May 2016. These workers were protesting their right to job security and protection against layoffs. What’s more, we have been informed that nine Bafgh Mining Company workers in Yazd Province have also been sentenced to imprisonment and tens of lashes in recent days. Their sentences for the time being has been suspended but will be carried out if they breach court orders. Bafgh mine workers (Iran Central Iron Ore Company Bafgh) were prosecuted following their strike actions that started in 2014. Such inhuman sentences against protesting workers are the gross violation of every internationally recognized convention and achievements on the rights of workers and human rights in general. Flogging is an extremely cruel act and a form of torture and must be stopped and banned immediately.
We are deeply concerned about the health and wellbeing of Jafar Azimzadeh and other jailed workers in Iran and call for their immediate and unconditional freedom. The Iranian government is responsible for the life of Jafar Azimzadeh and other political prisoners. At the same time, we are sincerely urging Jafar Azimzadeh to end his hunger strike; the struggle for workers’ right is strengthened when the labour movement’s activists are alive and well.
The above statement was first signed by the following renowned scholars and labour/ progressive activists. Please sign this petition and support the above statement in solidarity with workers in Iran.
Statement issued on June 15, 2016. Signatories in alphabetical order:
Greg Albo, Department of Political Science, York
University & Co-editor of the Socialist Register;
Kevin B. Anderson, Professor of Sociology at
University of California, Santa Barbara;
Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota, USA & Fellow, Economist for Peace and Security;
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty-
Steve Early, Labour activist & journalist, lawyer and organizer, USA
Bill Fletcher Jr., Talk show host, writer & activist (USA);
Safia Gahayr, Chair - International Solidarity Committee, CUPE Ontario;
Sam Gindin, Retired Assistant to the President of Canadian Auto Workers (now UNIFOR) and the former Packer Chair
in Social Justice at York University;
Brad Hornick, PHD Candidate, Simon Fraser University, active with System Change Not Climate Change;
Boris Kagarlitsky, Sociologist & Marxist theoretician, Director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements
Michael A. Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada;
David McNally, long-time leftscholar-activist; Professor, Department of Political Science, York University;
Derrick O'Keefe, Author and Journalist, Editor at Ricochet Media;
Piergiorgio (Pier) Moro, Secretary, Australia Asia Worker Links;
Mike Palecek, National President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers;
Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University & Co-editor of The Socialist Register;
Misagh Parsa, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, USA;
Herman Rosenfeld, writer, educator, and activist; member of Socialist Project;
Ingo Schmidt, Academic Coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University, Canada;
Peter Tatchell, Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation;
Michael Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review
The following scholars and activists endorsed the above statement as of June 16, 2016:
George Binette (Camden UNISON Branch Secretary), London Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, Department of European & International Studies King's College, London
Joseph Daher, Assistant Professor, Lausanne University, Switzerland - Anti capitalist activist
Mohan Dutta, Professor, National University of Singapore- Department of Communications and New Media
Alex Gordon, former President, National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT), Britain
Amir Hassanpour, Assistant Professor (Ret.), University of Toronto
Peter Hudis, Author, Professor of Philosophy, Oakton Community College
Pranav Jani, English and Postcolonial Studies, the Ohio State University
Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle East politics, SOAS, University of London
Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History, LaRoche College, Pittsburgh USA
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education OISE/University of Toronto
John Rees, Counterfire, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, Spokesperson for People's Assembly Against Austerity
Steven Salaita, American University of Beirut
Kim Scipes, Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University Northwest, Westville, Indiana, USA
Ahmad Seyf, Senior Lecturer, Regent's University, London David, Michael Smith, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston
Socialist Movement
Rona Smith, Educator, Houston Socialist Movement, USA
Please sign on to this petition in support of the above statement in solidarity with workers in Iran.
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