The Iranian People's Just Uprising is Legitimate and Cannot Be Stopped! - ATIK

The uprising of the Iranian people continues to spread across the country. What began as protests
against the economic crisis in Tehran on 28 December 2025 quickly turned into an uprising involving
large crowds. Periodically in recent years, the simmering anger of the masses has risen to the surface,
and after taking blows, it has withdrawn again, continuing to gather strength. Most recently, in 2022,
the murder of Mahsa Amini by the fascist regime sparked nationwide protests under the slogan ‘Jin,
Jiyan, Azadî’. This accumulated anger has now resurfaced and is spreading alongside the uprising that
began on 28 December.
The fascist regime is attacking the people's legitimate struggle using every means of violence at its
disposal. In response to the uprising led by workers, women, youth and students, the regime forces have
carried out massacres. Police and military forces opened fire on protesters in all cities with all kinds of
weapons, killing hundreds and arresting thousands. Those arrested are being tortured and executed.
These massacres and arrests are increasing daily.
The imperialist powers are continuing their efforts to control the justified uprising of the people. Led by
the United States and Israel, all imperialist states are attempting to portray the uprising as being under
their control by publicly supporting it. The entire bourgeois media is manipulating the masses by
propagating this narrative.
This ongoing uprising is part of the Iranian people's long-standing and justified struggle against the
current fascist regime. In this regard, the assessment by Iranian trade unions that ‘the protests that
have begun are a popular uprising against poverty, high inflation, economic collapse, oppressive and
coercive policies, the silencing of the people, violence against women, and the destruction of the
fundamental principles of social life’ is significant. Consequently, the assertion by some bourgeois
intellectuals that this is an imperialist-controlled rebellion aimed at undermining this just struggle is
absolutely unacceptable. This approach isolates the resistance and deprives it of international solidarity.
The legitimate struggle of the Iranian people will be won through international solidarity!
Contradictions between imperialist powers around the world are deepening. These contradictions are
increasing the danger of a new world war. The US attack on Venezuela, Russia's invasion of Ukraine,
Israel's genocide in Palestine, and the Taiwan conflict between the US and China indicate that conflicts
will intensify in the coming period.
In response, uprisings led by the masses, particularly women and young people, continue to spread far
and wide. The new wave of uprisings initiated by the Iranian people is also part of the common struggle
of the working class and oppressed peoples internationally. This struggle can only succeed with the
support of the international working class and oppressed peoples.
With this sense of duty, as ATİK (Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe) we call on all
democratic forces, human rights defenders, women's, youth and LGBTI+ organisations, workers'
organisations and trade unions to embrace and support the just resistance of the Iranian people!
Down with the Fascist Iranian Regime!
Long live the Iranian People's Legitimate Resistance!
Long live International Solid