WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #7-26 - Always standing with deserters. Four years after the war in Ukraine - the demonstrations (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Antimilitarist demonstrations and initiatives were held in several cities around February 24th. On this symbolic date, four years after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, street demonstrations were held against all forms of imperialism, against militarism, in solidarity with deserters on all fronts. Responding to the call of the Antimilitarist Assembly, in Trieste, Livorno, Turin, Reggio Emilia, and Palermo, there were demonstrations in the squares and symbolic actions in some of the places that most represent the arms race and war, such as weapons factories and war-mongering monuments.

On this "anniversary," the Italian government has revived war propaganda to justify the arms race, approving a new decree for the sale of weapons to Ukraine, the thirteenth since 2022. Among the themes that have peppered the warmongering rhetoric of recent weeks, we've heard more talk of a new advance by the Ukrainian army. They continue to portray the war in heroic terms, while Ukraine and Russia have become a vast slaughterhouse for the proletariat, with hundreds of deaths a day on a front as long as the entire Italian peninsula. This is the future they envision for the young generations they would like to enlist in the armed forces, for the working class they want impoverished, submissive and disciplined, reduced to fighting for their masters or producing and transporting weapons that will kill other proletarians. Faced with this scenario, the only option for salvation is desertion. But what exactly does this mean? A concrete image comes to us from the war in Eastern Europe.

Data emerging between 2024 and 2025 shed light on the situation. In Ukraine, approximately 1.5 million people have become unavailable to local recruitment centers. They have not communicated their new residence to the administration and therefore cannot be formally reached for conscription. These people, if still in the country, risk being recognized, held on the streets, and forcibly recruited. In city neighborhoods, solidarity groups are keeping recruiting teams away to prevent them from abducting local residents for recruitment. There are also nearly 290,000 open criminal cases against soldiers who have unjustifiably abandoned their units. Of these, the majority, approximately 235,000, have not returned after leave or vacation, while 54,000 are legally considered "deserters," having left their units without justification. The situation in Russia appears to be similar; Although there are no comparable data, we know that between 2022 and 2025, approximately 800,000 Russians left their country. Regardless of other causes of emigration, some of which were strongly influenced by the war the country has been plunged into, many are seeking to escape military mobilization.

We took to the streets immediately, not to support a government, not to choose an imperialist side, not to support a nationalism, but against all armies and all wars.

State neutrality or bourgeois equidistance are not our concern; we are against all governments, all states, and all imperialisms. We choose a side, the side of the oppressed and exploited classes, thrown into the meat grinder of war wherever it is being fought, cast into poverty and crushed by repression everywhere in the world. This is why we stand in solidarity with the deserters, with those who demonstrate how one can escape the massacre, the military machine. But that is not enough. As the Kharkiv Assembly group has highlighted in several articles, the mass of draft dodgers and deserters in Ukraine must move beyond hiding and overthrow their government. The same should happen in Russia, where the repressive grip would require a strong mass movement to undermine the police state and stop the war. This reflection serves to remind us that desertion must be the first step and transform into revolution. The individual ethical choice to avoid the massacre, which must be supported, is not enough; the choice must become collective, to build a mass movement capable of stopping a war and overthrowing a government.

But in the midst of a war, under bombs, in fear and suffering, in flight, under martial law, setting these processes in motion is extremely difficult. We must act sooner. This is why we must be clear about what we can do now, and expand the meaning of desertion. In the workplace, in production and logistics, as in schools and universities, deserting the war means halting weapons production, blocking military transport, rejecting the reintroduction of military service in any form, rejecting war propaganda, and working to build a mass antimilitarist movement that can challenge war policies.

Dario Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/sempre-a-fianco-di-chi-diserta-a-quattro-anni-dalla-guerra-in-ucraina-le-manifestazioni/
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI, #205 - UKRAINE: The solution lies on the battlefield (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Four years after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, it is becoming increasingly clear that this war cannot be ended through peace negotiations but will only be resolved on the battlefield, as evidenced by the failure of all peace talks and initiatives. ---- This war is increasingly less talked about, even though its human, economic, and social cost is only growing, and its consequences are increasingly falling on the shoulders of the Ukrainian people and the peoples of Europe, sacrificing the interests of the less well-off classes and the economies of the EU member states, polluting their institutions, irreparably damaging social cohesion, perverting the values of individual freedom and religious freedom, causing irreparable damage to culture, the arts, and the sciences, and contributing significantly to the continent's overall decline in the

political balance between the major regions of the planet, which are being redefined.

The sacrifice of the interests of the less well-off classes

The war in Ukraine and its objectives have been shared and embraced by European governments. This choice impacts the interests of the less well-off classes, who are forced to make sacrifices to secure the resources needed to finance this war. These resources are becoming increasingly scarce with the passage of time, the deterioration of the situation on the battlefield, and the withdrawal of the United States government from the conflict.
This requires the renunciation of the welfare system, which workers and the less well-off classes of Western European countries had so painstakingly won, at the cost of hard struggles and sacrifices, during the eighty years since the end of World War II. By choosing to support the war, the results achieved by the class struggle, which had produced well-being and benefits that are now disappearing, are being sacrificed, one after another, under the weight of the cost of the war effort. This is also due to the loss of the supply of low-cost energy purchased from Russia, from which every country in the European Union benefited and which allowed the economic and industrial apparatus to be competitive and profitable, without entirely shifting the burden of capitalist accumulation and profit extraction onto the cost of labor, and therefore onto workers' wages.
All this was done to finance the ambitions of Ukrainian nationalism, a multiethnic, and entirely undemocratic country that, after being scarred by a coup and triggering a civil war by using its army to repress the Donbas separatists demanding autonomy, saw war as the price to pay for creating and strengthening a national identity. It conceived a project of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious superiority-absolutely authoritarian, xenophobic, hostile to the values of individual and collective freedom, and corrupt in its institutions, as, alas, the facts have demonstrated. The Russian invasion of February 22 was merely one stage in this long process of degeneration of the Ukrainian state and was part of the pre-existing civil war that followed the 2014 coup.

The damage to the economies of the member states of the EU

To achieve its goals, Ukrainian nationalism became both the servant and ally of Great Britain, which throughout history had sought to divide the peoples of Europe, to shatter their unity, to better exercise its political and economic hegemony over them. Britain aspired to possess a means through which to shatter the unity of the Russian state, balkanizing it and dividing it into small states, thus enabling it to enter into agreements with them aimed at the exploitation, utilization, and appropriation of their notoriously rich natural resources.
Britain's objective soon became that of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, gravitating around the London Stock Exchange and the United States, which declared themselves willing to aid Ukraine and directed its war efforts to cut off the very sources that fueled the economies of Germany and Europe as a whole. Hence the attack and destruction of Nord Stream 2 and the interruption of supplies of cheap Russian gas and oil, the growing and structural crisis of the economies of European countries, forced by the power of the declining US empire to purchase US energy at a much higher price and, above all, to channel their savings into investments in the United States, so that the center of the empire could reindustrialize at the expense of its vassals.
By ensuring their support for Ukraine despite it being contrary to their interests and lending credence to the narrative that Ukraine stands as a bastion of liberal democracy and an attacked country, Western European countries created the conditions for the United States to disengage from all support and assistance to Ukraine, not after having been paid by forced contracts for the exploitation of their resources, thus burdening the costs of the continuing conflict with European Union countries, forced to purchase American weapons to supply them to Ukraine.
All this while, meanwhile, Ukraine was bleeding to death in the war and losing half its population, forced to flee the country by the outcome of the war and the underlying causes of the conflict. The systematic destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure, the sacrifice of its population, were imposed by a nationalist oligarchy willing to do anything to enrich itself through corruption, profiting from war profits, resorting to the ostracism of the Russian language, burning books inconvenient to those in power or written in Russian, imposing the state church, fomenting a split within the Orthodox ecumene, and forcibly recruiting the population to be sent to the trenches.

The pollution of political institutions

The West, rushing to support Ukrainian nationalism, did so at the cost of denying its founding principles, including the rule of law, individual liberties, religious freedom, the secular nature of institutions, and the separation of Church and State. A notoriously corrupt political class, as demonstrated by the scandals involving bribes received on war supplies, seized control of the country, prostituting itself to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and paying extortion money to secure autocephaly for the schismatic Orthodox, eager to seize the wealth of the canonical Orthodox Church, chasing faithful from their churches and forcing them to join the new Church.
This accentuated characteristics and behaviors that were widespread in the country even before the war. In Ukraine today, you can avoid going to the front, just pay; you can leave the country, just pay, even if martial law doesn't allow it; you can have anything not available on the market, just pay, and above all, everything related to war supplies is traded. In Ukraine, public land has been sold to national oligarchs and multinationals investing in the sector, seeking territorial ownership and economic control. National agricultural production has been destroyed, concentrating land and mineral resources in a few hands. The war-related displacement and exodus have been exploited to carry out massive real estate deals aimed at seizing vacant lots and buildings. The repression of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been exploited to seize its assets and art treasures. In short, a war economy has been built that has enriched many and impoverished the majority of the country's population.
In particular, the creation of the autocephalous Orthodox Church, aimed at supporting Ukrainian nationalism, has led to the violation of property rights, the right to freedom of worship, equality between different religious denominations, and the secular nature of the state, all of which are enshrined in law and endorsed by a judiciary subservient to power. It has allowed, aided by the state of war, the plundering of the country's religious cultural heritage and the exodus of countless works of art from Ukrainian territory, ostensibly to protect them from destruction, but with no guarantees that they will be returned to the country and will not constitute part of the price paid for the funding received. What was not sold-the wealth of books, cultural artifacts, and archaeological finds-was burned, destroyed, and banned, deemed the fruit of Russian cultural colonialism in the country, thus destroying millennia of Ukrainian history and its roots.

The irreparable damage to social cohesion

The suffocation of Ukraine's multi-ethnicity in the name of an all-encompassing nationalism, characterized by ethnic, cultural-religious, and linguistic factors, leads to the marginalization and alienation of the Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian components of the population, as well as the Russian one, creating the conditions for the territorial downsizing of the country, stimulated and produced by the outcome of the war, which is turning in favor of the Russians. This makes it possible to reduce Ukraine to a downsized state, increasingly deprived of access to the sea. Therefore, the outcome of the conflict merely sanctions a de facto situation that corresponds to the feelings of the remaining population settled in the territory, given that the continuation of the conflict and its inevitable outcomes will lead Russia to acquire not only the territory currently claimed, but probably that of Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, as well as a buffer zone in the Sumy region that protects the border with Russia. This, while the Russian General Staff does not rule out the capture of Odessa in the event of the Ukrainian army's collapse. It should be clear by now that Russia is willing to commit all its forces to victory in the war on the ground and that, in the event of insurmountable difficulties on the ground, rather than lose the war, it would certainly resort to nuclear tactics, overcoming the resistance of the moderate Putin, convinced of the unequal balance of power to his advantage with the European Union, NATO, and the United States, certainly not willing to die for Ukraine and face a nuclear holocaust to defend its integrity.
It must be acknowledged that the war in Ukraine has introduced a poison into the European Union that will corrode it from within, determining a rightward shift in the political axis, causing economic and cultural decline, lowering the level of well-being of the population, social protections, and civil liberties, imposing the verticalization and regression of its form of government towards illiberal authoritarianism, favoring the transformation of state management into democracy: precisely the political regime and transformation hoped for by Punti.

The perversion of the values of individual and religious freedom

To achieve this goal, it was essential for Ukraine to overcome, by denying, the separatism between state and churches (a choice immediately supported by the Baltic countries), and to adopt, in the name of national interest, a state religion that legitimizes power and allows for the management of freedoms and consciences. It was also essential to control political participation and civil liberties-in other words, to structure social relations to mirror those of the enemy, with the declared intent of fighting it, unaware that it is taking on its characteristics.
In this vision, Ukrainian society, perpetually militarized and shaped by war, equipped with a battle-hardened and experienced army thanks to the conflict, would join the European Union to form the Praetorian Guard corps called upon to defend its member states, with external and internal defense functions (the US Ice Border Patrol being a prime example), transformed into democracies, generated and produced by the conflict.

Irreparable damage to culture, arts and sciences

It goes without saying that such a plan, once implemented, would cause irreparable damage to culture, the arts, and the sciences, triggering a regression of the entire continental region toward a pre-Enlightenment culture, hostile to any separation of powers, a form of participation in the management of power by the lower classes, characterized by neo-feudal economic relations, an illiberal culture controlled by a science subservient to power, where free teaching and the right to education are denied. A militarized society, in which an authoritarian approach to social relations prevails, economic management is entirely in the hands of large-scale employers, but in which the
preservation of the population's ethnicity is safeguarded, immigration is effectively opposed, and gender relations are restored along a patriarchal axis, respecting tradition and the centrality of the male.

The overall decline of the continent in the political balance between the large areas of the planet that are being redefined

Thanks to this set of choices, the political balance between the major regions of the planet, which are being redefined, would be affected, assigning Europe and its peoples the role of a province of the US empire, a structurally subordinate role that places the European consumer market at the disposal of the empire's prosperity and the continued growth of capitalist accumulation and US dominance over the Western world.
This choice, in addition to marking the decline of Europe and its culture, and its role in human history, unbalances the balance of power between the various geopolitical regions and contributes to altering the balance of power in a multipolar world, strengthening one of the players in the field, which can thrive and thrive on the exploitation and enslavement of another potential player.

The War in Ukraine: An Unwinnable War

Those pursuing these goals have paid the price without paying the price, that is, they have failed to consider that the war in Ukraine cannot be won, even if it leads to the more or less complete extinction of the Ukrainian people. These four years of war have demonstrated that it has been useless to recruit volunteers, professional soldiers from Western armies who have formally resigned from their respective armies, to go and fight as contractors alongside mercenaries recruited from around the world; to supply the country with every type of weapon; to provide military instructors and support activities; to allow criminal gangs or guerrilla groups to use the battlefield of the Ukrainian war for war lessons; to enable and assist Ukraine in carrying out unorthodox warfare actions such as the attack on bombers belonging to the Russian strategic triad. Slowly and decisively, but steadily, Russia increased its war production, improved its armaments, developed new warfare systems, encouraged and imitated by Ukraine, placed its industrial and economic structures at the service of the war effort, while maintaining constant GDP growth not only stimulated by the war economy, making a qualitative leap with the entry of missiles such as the Oreshnik into operational weapons.

The rejection of the Russian oligarchic model and of any form of oligarchic democracy

Awareness of these facts does not mean siding with Russia or Putin or supporting his arguments, but simply being aware of the interests of the Italian proletariat and that of Europe as a whole, on whose shoulders and pockets the cost of the war effort falls. We are opposed to all wars, especially those that are contrary to our interests and those of the workers, who are ultimately the ones who suffer the greatest harm. This is because war deprives states of the resources necessary for the well-being of their citizens.
As anarchist communists, we oppose a state like Russia, which has adopted a capitalist economy, albeit a planned one, based on the five-year plans of the Soviet tradition. We abhor the model of relations between the state and the churches, whether the Orthodox Church, which is prevalent and legitimizes the Russian state, or those of other faiths. We do not share, and consider liberticidal, the essential symbiosis and division of powers between the temporal and the spiritual, typical of the political system currently in force in Russia. We oppose a society dominated by oligarchs who pursue profit and the exploitation of man by man, merely by a different name from the most rapacious capitalists. We oppose power politics and, above all, wars that slaughter men and women, children and the elderly, which destroy and annihilate humanity, causing loss and ruin. We oppose the gender-discriminatory policies practiced in Russia. Above all, we oppose nationalism, wherever it comes from and whoever it belongs to, be they Ukrainian or Russian. This does not prevent us from analyzing the facts and seeking to understand.

Gianni Cimbalo

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/03/01/ucraina-la-soluzione-e-sul-campo-di-battaglia/
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Culture - Read: Sieffert, "The Wrong Cause: Intellectuals and Israeli Propaganda in France" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Former editor of Politis and Middle East specialist, Denis Sieffert offers a critique of the disinformation at work in the French media, between mendacious narratives and the relaying of Israeli propaganda, in the wake of the shockwave of the October 7, 2023 attack. He dissects the various strategies deployed: the inverted representation of the dangers, according to which it is Israel's existence that is threatened; selective compassion; the "right of Israel to defend itself," which has allowed the inference that October 7 was the beginning and obscured the colonization; the injunction to recognize the terrorist nature of the operation, without conceding the slightest resistance; the "formidable trap" of the November 12, 2023 demonstration against antisemitism, instrumentalized in defense of Israeli policy; the The criminalization of anti-Zionism, equated with anti-Semitism, etc.

He then analyzes the discourse of a number of French intellectuals (notably the political scientist Gilles Kepel, the sociologist Eva Illouz, the rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, and the journalist Caroline Fourest) and compares it to reality.

His argument is constantly punctuated by numerous clarifications, to preempt any reductive accusations and prevent the manipulation of his remarks, regardless of its source. One might only be surprised that he considers La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) to be "radical left."

In conclusion-concise and illustrating this constant vigilance toward nuance-he states that: "Anti-Semitism is neither imaginary nor residual, and Hamas terrorism is indeed an abomination. But neither anti-Semitism nor Hamas violence is the primary cause of the conflict." To claim otherwise is to participate in the Zionist manipulation machine. Essential reading!

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

Denis Sieffert, *The Wrong Cause: Intellectuals and Israeli Propaganda in France*, Lux, 2026, 184 pages, EUR17.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Sieffert-La-Mauvaise-cause-Les-intellectuels-et-la-propagande-israelienne
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE POLAND - news journal UPDATE - (en) Poland, FA: 1 marzec, Kraków - We're defending the residents of Kazimierz. Krakow Against Gentrification (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This Sunday (March 1st), we invite you to a huge event in Kazimierz! ---- We're meeting at the corner of Corpus Christi and St. Wawrzynca Streets to shout our opposition to the developer's and the Church's attempts to destroy the tenement houses on Corpus Christi and St. Joseph Streets. ---- Be sure to join our Signal channel (below) to stay up to date with this protest and the next ones, without depending on Facebook's algorithms. ---- In addition to the protest, there will be a large fair, concerts, and dances. Let's show who Kazimierz belongs to and how vibrant it is!

We're starting at 11:30 AM with a protest in front of the Corpus Christi Parish Church, where we'll give voice to the residents of the gentrifying Kazimierz. The fair, concerts, and dances will begin immediately after the protest, on Corpus Christi and St. Joseph Streets, and will last until late in the evening. Around 5 PM, we're planning a concert by Professor Street and Erik Havoc.

https://www.facebook.com/share/19rXruJbq9/
Note: This is a logo-free event. Please do not display party flags. We also do not invite politicians to the microphone. In particular, we do not invite Mayor Miszalski.

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https://federacja-anarchistyczna.pl/2026/02/27/1-marzec-krakow-bronimy-mieszkancow-kazimierza-krakow-przeciw-gentryfikacji/
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL: IRAN - On the Current War and the Need for Revolutionary Action (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 See online: Iranian Labor Confederation Abroad. https://iranlc.org/ ---- We are publishing here a text from the Iranian Labor Confederation Abroad (ILC, based in Berlin) that we believe is important to share (automatic translation) ---- Iranian Labor Confederation Abroad - The Confederation's Declaration on the Current War and the Need for Revolutionary Action ---- March 1, 2026

The assassination of Ali Khamenei and several leaders of the Revolutionary Guard and the ruling regime constitutes a major event in Iranian history. It deals a decisive blow to the very heart of the repressive apparatus and the foundations of the Islamic Republic. The death of the man who, for decades, embodied violence, oppression, misery, warmongering, and the law of the strongest was a moment of liberation for millions of Iranians, an outlet for long-suppressed anger, and a source of immense joy. The presence of the population in the streets and the social reactions testify to the depth of the hatred that the Islamic Republic has instilled in Iranian society through years of crimes and massacres.

This joy is not the joy of war. It is not the joy of bombings and the deaths of children. It is not the joy of foreign intervention. This joy is the joy of seeing the disappearance of the monster who, barely two months ago, in January, killed tens of thousands of people through gunfire and repression, plunging society into an ocean of pain and anger. The people who breathe today are the same ones who, yesterday, were crushed under batons, bullets, and prison bars.

However, the truth must be told without mincing words: this blow to the highest levels of government occurred in the midst of a war, imposed from above and without the consent of the people. A war that threatens human lives, plunges cities into bloody chaos, and seeks to paralyze society under the yoke of fear and destruction. The United States and Israel, through their military attacks, are directly implicated in this conflict and must be condemned unequivocally. No amount of "savage" or "defensive" rhetoric can justify these massacres.

But it must also be emphasized: the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are not the victims of this war, but rather its principal instigators. The government, which for years has manipulated society for its military and nuclear projects, is now paying a heavy price by collapsing from within. Khamenei's death does not signify the end of the crisis, but it clearly demonstrates that this government is no longer capable of maintaining its former authority. A structure whose leader has been deposed, embroiled in war, and confronted by a society gripped by anger and hatred, has entered a phase of irreversible instability.

At the same time, it is crucial to recognize that a power vacuum at the top does not necessarily guarantee the fulfillment of the popular will. It is precisely in such moments that projects aimed at controlling society are implemented: "controlled transition," reshuffling, and the imposition of top-down alternatives, intended to seize control of the revolution and wrest decision-making power from the people. Secret agreements, the reproduction of the same structure under a new guise, or the imposition of puppet governments under the cover of "stability" and "transition": all these are attempts to control the revolution and prevent the direct expression of the popular will. These scenarios do not signify the end of the Islamic Republic, but rather the perpetuation of the same repressive order in another form.

The only force capable of neutralizing this trend is an independent, national, and grassroots organization within society.

At such a moment, the main challenge for society is not merely "opposition to the war." It is about consciously exploiting the vacuum created to advance revolutionary overthrow. The war is meant to terrorize society and suspend the revolution; the people's response must be to rebuild and organize their social power at the very heart of this crisis.

The working class, wage earners, youth, women, and all social forces must understand that no external force will establish freedom. Only an organized society can definitively overthrow this government. Joining existing social organizations, strengthening independent trade unions, and creating councils, local committees, and cooperative networks is no longer a choice, but an absolute necessity. It is imperative, both to protect human lives in times of war and to take control of the destiny of society.

The Islamic Republic is wounded and shaken. The time for waiting is over; now is the time for action. The true end of the war will not lie in an agreement between governments, but in the revolutionary overthrow of an order that has transformed life into a battlefield.

We call upon the peoples of the world, the labor movement, and the defenders of freedom to stand with the Iranian people, not with governments and the military. True support is support for the people's right to overthrow the Islamic Republic and build a humane, free, and egalitarian order.

The struggle has entered a new phase. Repression and fear have been overcome, and the possibility of moving forward is opening up. A society that has shed so much blood has the right and the duty to shape its own future.

Iranian Confederation of Labor Abroad
March 10, 2024

The Confederation of Iranian Workers Abroad officially began its activities on February 23, 2024, with its founding general assembly held in Berlin, Germany.

This organization was founded by a number of labor activists, journalists, and feminist activists who have been active in the labor movement and civil society organizations in Iran in recent years and who were recently forced to leave the country.

The Iranian Confederation of Labor Abroad was established to amplify the voices of workers, teachers, journalists, women, the LGBT community, and all workers living in Iran to the international community and to reflect their activities and struggles.

This confederation seeks to establish contacts with trade unions and labor institutions in various countries, as well as with international labor organizations, to secure their support for Iranian workers. It also strives to encourage trade union organizations to exert increased pressure on the Islamic Republic in response to the widespread repression of workers.

Effective support for the Iranian labor movement requires international solidarity from workers and peoples worldwide. This can only be achieved through concerted action by trade unions in different countries and international labor organizations.

Therefore, we call for extensive communication with our colleagues around the world and for more effective action to support Iranian workers and exert strong pressure on the Islamic Republic.

The Islamic Republic has created front organizations, claiming to represent workers, that are not independent and implement government policies. Independent organizations established by trade union activists are also repressed by the government and cannot freely carry out their activities.

Therefore, the Iranian Confederation of Labor Abroad is making every effort to alert other international trade union organizations to the unacceptable situation and repression suffered by Iranian workers at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4648
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