Statement from a Collective of Independent Iranian Organizations Opposing War and Warmongering Policies

Socialist Jun 17, 2025 09:36 443

Statement from a Collective of Independent Iranian Organizations Opposing War and Warmongering Policies

Given the current volatile and dangerous conditions in Iran and across the region, the undersigned organizations find it necessary to adopt a collective stance.

The working people of Iran — including laborers, teachers, nurses, retirees, and other wage earners — have never benefited from war, militarization, aerial bombardment, or the policies of domination and exploitation, nor will they ever.

Israel’s military strikes, including the bombing of hundreds of targets across various parts of Iran — from key infrastructure and industrial sites to refineries and residential neighborhoods — are part of an aggressive war agenda. The price for this is being paid by ordinary people, particularly the working class, through loss of life, livelihoods, and daily insecurity.

Israel’s claims that it bears no animosity toward the Iranian people are blatant falsehoods and political propaganda. Only yesterday, Israel’s defense minister threatened to “burn Tehran.” Repeated threats from Trump and other U.S. officials — alongside the full backing of Western powers for such actions — have only further escalated tensions and destruction across the region.

The governments of Israel and the United States are leading perpetrators of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and countless other atrocities throughout the region and the world. International bodies like the United Nations, which strike poses of peacekeeping while remaining silent in the face of these crimes, are complicit in the global system of domination. The capitalist world order — with its profit-driven logic and imperialist centers of power — lies at the root of war, humanitarian catastrophe, and ecological collapse.

The Iranian working class not only gains nothing from war but is directly targeted by its consequences. Continued sanctions, vast allocations to military spending, and the suppression of freedoms will only deepen poverty, intensify repression, and bring about greater hunger, death, and displacement for millions.

We, as independent workers' and grassroots organizations in Iran, hold no illusions that the United States or Israel intend to bring freedom, equality, or justice to us — just as we hold no illusions about the repressive, interventionist, warmongering, and anti-worker nature of the Islamic Republic.

For decades, Iranian workers and the oppressed have paid a heavy price — prison, torture, execution, dismissal, threats, and assault — for demanding basic rights and a dignified life. We are still denied the fundamental rights to organize, to assemble, and to speak freely. Workers and the toiling masses of Iran are justifiably enraged and alienated from a regime — and the capitalist class it protects — that has amassed immense wealth over four decades by enforcing a state of perpetual insecurity and dispossession. All those responsible for the suppression and murder of workers, women, youth, and the oppressed in Iran must be brought to justice by the people themselves.

Our struggle is a social and class struggle — rooted in our own power, continuing the trajectory of recent popular uprisings, from Bread, Work, Freedom to Woman, Life, Freedom. It is a struggle that aligns with the international working class and all forces committed to justice, freedom, and equality.

The continuation of the current war path will bring nothing but further destruction, irreversible damage to the environment, and new human tragedies. The Iranian working class and the country’s marginalized majority — like the oppressed peoples of other countries in the region — are the chief victims of this reality.

We call on all labor unions, human rights groups, anti-war movements, environmental activists, and peace-seeking forces around the world to raise a united voice in demanding an immediate end to war, bombing, the slaughter of innocent people, and the devastation of the environment. We ask them to stand in solidarity with the struggles of the Iranian people and other peoples of the region to end genocide, militarism, and authoritarian repression.

The peoples of the Middle East urgently need an end to the catastrophic power struggles between regional and global forces — and the establishment of a lasting peace, one built on grassroots organizing, mass participation, and democratic self-determination.

No to war — No to warmongering policies
An immediate ceasefire is our urgent demand

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