---
title: '"Workers, toilers! Islam is your supporter": Jomhouri-e Eslami special issue, 1982'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kargaran-zahmatkeshan-eslam-hami-shomast-1982/
description: 'Halftone poster printed in a newspaper supplement: a striding worker''s silhouette carries a flag lettered with an invocation of God, beside the lines…'
section: Collection
---

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# "Workers, toilers! Islam is your supporter": Jomhouri-e Eslami special issue, 1982

Halftone poster printed in a newspaper supplement: a striding worker's silhouette carries a flag lettered with an invocation of God, beside the lines 'Workers, toilers! / Islam / is your supporter'. The tell: 'Islam' stands as the grammatical subject of a promise of support with no stated programme, and the religious flag is placed in the worker's hands to carry the appeal's authority.

## Text on the object

Original (Persian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
کارگران زحمتکشان
اسلام
حامی شماست

[overprinted numerals at lower right: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Workers, toilers!
Islam
is your supporter

[illegible]
```

The flag in the figure's hands carries an invocation of God (the word Allah is legible) that is only partly readable in the halftone; it is not transcribed. Text at the left edge is newspaper body copy cut by the crop and is [illegible]. The English is a literal machine translation by Claude.

[← "Schluß mit der israelischen Aggression": FDJ students' Lebanon solidarity meeting, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-lebanon-solidarity-meeting-plaenterwald-1982/) ["STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-suhl-youth-peace-manifestation-stop-sign-1983/)

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