A New Wave of Popular Uprising and the Expansion of Nationwide Solidarity
This is a moment of accumulation, the accumulation of anger, awareness, and experience.
A moment when history propels society forward not through excitement, but through certainty.
What is unfolding today in the streets, bazaars, roads, and universities of Iran is the outcome of a continuous and historical process. The recent uprising is the continuation of a chain of social resistance and nationwide protests by the Iranian people over nearly half a century of the Islamic Republic’s despotic and anti-human rule, resistance that reached a qualitative maturity in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and is now being reproduced in a broader and more deeply social form. A movement that first returned dignity to the center of politics has today drawn livelihood, labor, everyday life, and the right to live into a direct confrontation with ruling power.
Following the new wave of protests by shopkeepers and bazaar merchants on December 28, 2025, the spread of demonstrations to various parts of Tehran, their continuation in the following days across several cities, a clear sign of the expansion of this historic convergence has emerged. The university, the bazaar, the street, and the workplace, each in its own language, yet with a shared demand, have joined the popular protests. In this context, in particular, the statement of the Union of Truckers and Drivers of Iran is not merely an expression of sectoral dissatisfaction; it is a sign of the conscious entry of one of society’s vital pillars into the arena of political confrontation.
This is no longer about reforming a decision or replacing a manager; the issue is the incapacity of a political order to sustain social life. The linkage of the bazaar and the road, of work and life, signals the formation of a social power that can no longer be ignored.
We, in the political coalition “Broad Solidarity for Freedom and Equality,” declare clearly and without ambiguity: the Islamic Republic has neither the capacity for reform nor the will to be accountable. A structure built on repression, the systematic exclusion of society, ethnic and gender discrimination, the destruction of livelihoods, and the securitization of life cannot be a bearer of freedom, economic justice, or a humane future. Clinging to any hope of reform within this regime only postpones the crisis and increases its human cost.
Today’s unity of merchants, drivers, workers, students, and protesting citizens reflects the emergence of a new collective rationality, one that has understood that liberation is neither granted from above nor born from within structures of repression. The current protests are neither scattered nor temporary; they trace the main contours of a nationwide movement whose aim is to move beyond the entirety of this system and reclaim the right to self-determination.
We believe that Iran’s future will be shaped through the continuation of nationwide solidarity, through organization independent of the ruling power, and through the conscious linking of social struggles. The street, the bazaar, the university, and the road are now components of a single arena, an arena in which society is preparing itself to bring an end to an anti-life order and to open the horizon of freedom.
At this point in history, silence is no longer neutrality.
Standing on the side is no longer possible.
Either we stand with a society that demands life, dignity, and freedom, or on the margins of a system that is nearing its end.
We stand;
in the continuation of Woman, Life, Freedom,
alongside the people;
until the end of this regime,
and until the beginning of freedom.
Comprehensive Solidarity for Freedom and Equality in Iran
December 30, 2025