The wave of resistance against the issuance of the death sentence for “Toomaj Salehi” both domestically and internationally is a hopeful example that demonstrates that the fighting people in these critical moments will not allow political prisoners, who are threatened with death, to be left alone. However, the reality is that to force the regime’s hand away from reaching out to the lives of imprisoned individuals, a significantly greater force and a much broader movement are necessary. The latent power of the people, who have the capability to achieve victory in such a great battle, has yet to be mobilized, a duty incumbent upon us and every militant individual. This movement will undoubtedly be like a roaring river that will wash away the entirety of this regime like debris.
In this country, millions of young people despise this criminal regime, Millions of women, held captive, loathe this regime, millions of hungry workers wish for the demise of this regime, millions of teachers, nurses, employees, and retirees live below the poverty line and see their dignity and honor by the collapse of this regime, millions are addicts and witness their grim fate through the eyes of this regime, millions are homeless and curse this regime, and millions of children are deprived of the joys of childhood and yearn for a happier world. All of these nurture a desire for a different world, a world of freedom, bread, work, housing, welfare, comfort, peace, and joy, and everyone knows that with this exploitative, plundering, corrupt, tyrannical, misogynistic, and child-abusing regime, they will not reach the world they desire.
The united effort of the masses to abolish death sentences and free political prisoners can undoubtedly lead to victory. Despite all its tyranny and despite the image it portrays, in the face of the firm resolve and will of the united and organized masses, this regime is weak and humiliated. If it commits crimes, if it creates fear and terror through arrests, imprisonment, torture, and executions, all of this is because it cannot bring about any improvement in people’s lives to establish a base among them, nor can it achieve verbal influence that can deceive and lead people by deception. Therefore, it resorts to the only available means at its disposal, which is imprisonment, killing, and suppression.
But even this means has lost its efficacy, and the people, empowered by the Revolutionary Jina movement, will not be intimidated. Undoubtedly, this regime will eventually kneel before the firm resolve of united and organized masses and radical social movements.
All of us have witnessed to some extent the regime’s weakness in the face of the angry and disobedient wave of the people, and if the evil of this regime has not diminished from the Iranian people, it is not because of its strength but because of its dispersion and lack of organization in radical social movements and workers’ movements.
Although the united and organized masses have demonstrated unprecedented solidarity in various arenas over the past two years, this level of solidarity will not be able to impose more serious setbacks on this criminal regime without diverse and organized formations. and it will not pave the way for the people’s definitive liberation from this regime.
In a situation where the Islamic regime is implementing a policy according to which it gradually shifts the burden of its economic crises and turmoil onto workers and low-income segments of society, launches a war against free and unveiled women in the streets, and simultaneously puts pressure on political prisoners and issues death sentences to intimidate people and deter them from expressing dissent, recent executions and the issuance of death sentences for Toomaj Salehi merely show the regime’s bloody claws against people who know that the regime is powerless and helpless in the face of their wave of fierce struggle.
To seriously push back the regime regarding the economic demands of the working people and the toiling masses, to force the regime’s hand away from the lives of political prisoners, and to consolidate any degree of achievements in previous struggles, the existence of stable mass organizations in various forms is necessary. These organizations should encompass workers, students, women, teachers, nurses, human rights defenders, environmental defenders, child rights defenders, and others. The expansion of mass and civil organizations is a pioneering tool and a guarantor of preserving achievements. This duty primarily falls on the shoulders of socialist activists and leaders and pioneers of radical social movements.
This role, which has led to significant achievements thus far, must be pursued with even greater seriousness and breadth in the future.
