Message of gratitude from Shiva Kheirabadi and Sousan Razani to all workers and working-class supporters!

Workers of the world!

We, the prosecuted participants of May First 2008 in Sanandaj, have witnessed all your protests against the inhuman flogging sentences. We thank all you beloveds for your response.

We believe that May First is the international day of unity and solidarity for the working class, when it demonstrates its global power, and it deserves to be celebrated throughout the world.

Working class women and men striving for a better life, free of poverty, impoverishment, and torture, are pursuing a human imperative, a necessity that has always been repressed through most vile methods by the guardians of Capital. But workers have always confronted these injustices with a greater sense of coherence and consciousness.

In our case the guardians of Capital meant to intimidate and ridicule us, but the lively presence and receptiveness of our working class mates proved that floggings and incarceration couldn’t stop us from pursuing our just demands.

Working class women and men have long waged struggles for an end to all inequalities, and prejudices, and until these goals are attained, their struggles shall continue with more coherence, unity and consciousness.

From bottom of our hearts, our sincere gratitude goes to all the workers, unions, and all free people who have supported us and condemned the unjust judgment; from a long distance we shake all your hands!

Iran-Sanandaj

Sousan Razani- Shiva Kheirabadi

February 21, 2009