The Fourth International, the World Party of Socialist Revolution, demands that you immediately release the fifteen members of the Hezb-e Kargaran-e Sosialist (HKS—Socialist Workers Party) arrested without justification or charges in Ahwaz, as well as three members of the oil workers council, other workers, Arabs, members of the Fedayeen and Mujahadeen organizations, and other supporters of the Iranian revolution who have been similarly unjustifiably detained.
The members of the HKS are supporters of the Fourth International and as such have been long-time fighters against the shah and his imperialist backers. All of them joined in the February overthrow of the Washington-backed monarch by the Iranian masses.
The Fourth International and its sections throughout the world worked for years to defend all victims of the shah's repression, and are in the forefront of defense of the Iranian revolution against imperialism. Iranian supporters of the Fourth International who were forced into exile like many others by the shah—some of whom are among those arrested in Ahwaz—were particularly active in this work. Others among the arrested HKS members were staunch participants in the movement against the shah inside Iran. Their only "crime" is their advocacy of socialism, their defense of the interests of the workers and peasants and of the rights of nationalities who have suffered so much under the shah's oppression.
These revolutionary and anti-imperialist fighters must be released forthwith and all threats and harassment against them stopped.