Message from the Worker-communist Party of Iran to

participants on the International Day of Action, Wednesday 15 February:

15 February 2006 is the continuation of

15 February 2003

The call by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and world's trade unions for rallies outside Iranian Embassies around the world in solidarity with Iranian workers and in support of workers of Tehran Bus Company (Sherkat e Vahed) will be recorded as a historic day in the annals of the workers' movement. It will no doubt have a long-lasting impact on the labour movement in Iran. This is a crushing response by the world's labour organisations and progressive people to the Islamic Republic regime. With this action Tehran's bus workers' protest becomes an international one. This action is an achievement of the bus workers' struggle for all the workers and people in Iran against the anti-labour and inhuman Islamic Republic regime.

The 15 February day of action is at the same time a fitting response to the two poles of world reaction and terrorism, i.e. the American and European governments and the Political Islamic movement, who have made life insecure for all the people of the world. 15 Feb 2006 is the continuation of 15 Feb 2003, when tens of millions of people around the world came out against a brutal war that the USA and its European allies launched against the people of Iraq. International labour solidarity and defence of workers' legitimate rights and demands is the response by progressive humanity to the unequal, unjust and inverted world of today and a vital necessity for the development of the class struggle.

The Worker-communist Party of Iran values deeply this action by the world's labour organisations, the participants in these demonstrations and all those organisations and individuals who in the past several weeks have been supporting the struggle of Tehran's bus workers.

Long live international labour solidarity

Greetings to Tehran's bus workers

Worker-communist Party of Iran

14 Feb 2006