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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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A lightning strike by the Sadra shipbuilding workers forced the
management to commit itself to paying backwages by Monday of next week.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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Not satisfied with the terrible economic burden and lack of
rights that it has imposed on Iranian workers for three decades Iran's
pro-business regime is preparing for the first part of a major wave of
privatisation.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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According to reports received from Shush city around 5000
workers are now on strike at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Development Commercial
Company. The strike has entered its sixth day and all three shifts, as well as
all parts of the factory and cane fields of the company, are solidly behind the
strike.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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3000 workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Development
Commercial Company are now on strike. At present all parts of the company are
involved in this widespread strike, including workers in the offices.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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According to reports received from Iran five
workers from the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company have been summoned to appear in
court in Dezful city, charged with a range of 'crimes' relating to the workers'
strike and other struggles.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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When the Special Forces clamped down on the Kian Tyre
workers they also ordered firefighters to aim boiling water at the workers. Six
firefighters refused to do so. Because of this they have been held at the
Ahmadabad Mastoofi detention centre for over 48 hours.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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A Special Forces unit using bulldozers
broke through the walls of Kian Tyre (formerly Alborz Lastic) and abducted 1000
workers, who had been protesting about unpaid wages. No one has any knowledge
of their whereabouts.
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By Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Resisting the attempt of the company to
replace contract workers with cheap labour, the SADRA shipbuilding
workers have come out on strike again, facing a brutal intervention
on the part of the police.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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Mahmoud Salehi, who was sentenced to prison for his role in trying to organise the 2004 May Day
rally in Saghez, was
finally released on Sunday. But we need to carry on the struggle for the
release of all trade unionists and labour activists in Iran!
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
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Mahmoud Salehi, the former leader of the Saghez Bakers' Union, has
not been released from prison despite serving the full term of his
custodial sentence. In protest he has now gone on hunger strike in
Sanandaj prison (in Iranian Kurdistan).
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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According to a report by the National Union of Sacked and Unemployed
Workers in Iran three labour activists who were arrested and tried following
last year's May Day celebrations in Sanandaj have each been lashed 10
times. Please send a protest letter to put pressure on the Iranian regime to
release these class war prisoners immediately and
unconditionally.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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On Saturday, February 16th, pickets and rallies
were held in several countries around the world in solidarity with arrested
students in Iran.
Supporters of the International Marxist Tendency in Switzerland,
Britain and Denmark and the USA took part in the events.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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A journalist and civil activist in the Sistan
and Baluchestan province
of Iran has been
condemned to death. Yaghoub Mehrnahad is a journalist and the secretary of Javanan
Sedaye Edalat (Youth, the Voice of Justice) NGO.
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By Militaant
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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The
Iranian regime has raised the level of repression against many sections
of society, especially against students. To show solidarity with the imprisoned students a
number of Iranian opposition groups are organising pickets outside the
Iranian regime’s diplomatic missions on Saturday 16 February 2008.
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By Militaant
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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Here we republish two articles by Militaant, journal of revolutionary socialist youth in Iran. They deal with the latest atrocities by the Iranian regime against the student movement.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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Mahmoud Salehi, one of the Saghez Seven labour activists who has been in Sanandaj prison (in Iranian Kurdistan) for the past nine months, has been taken to hospital because of kidney problems. The reason for that is the ill-treatment in prison by the Iranian regime.
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By "Against the status quo" blog
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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On the afternoon of Monday 3 December the
Iranian regime’s Information Ministry contacted a number of left-wing
students and told them that they should report to the Ministry the next
day. If they did not present themselves at the Ministry at 10am, or
went anywhere near Tehran University, they would be arrested.
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By "Against the status quo" blog
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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Despite the heavy presence of the Iranian
regime’s security forces at Tehran University today’s Students’ Day
commemoration went ahead as planned. Around 500 students and left-wing
activists took part in the event - with just 24 being arrested.
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By "Against the status quo" blog
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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The security forces of the Iranian regime attacked the
home of a left-wing student activist involved in organising the students’
protest inside Tehran University on 4 December. Those arrested include Anousheh
Azadfar, Mehdi Gerayloo, Alnaz Jamshidi, Ehsan Azadfar and Nader Ahsani.
(Translated by Militaant, journal of revolutionary socialist youth in
Iran.)
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By Militaant correspondents in Iran
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
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This is a report by Iranian students on a meeting to
organise protest against brutal measures meted out by the authorities including
the sentencing of three Amir
Kabir University
student activists. The meeting also suffered police harassment. This is an
ongoing situation Iranian students have to suffer.
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By “Standing with clenched fist” blog
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
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Four student activists have been arrested and there whereabouts are unknown.
Please add your organisation or name to the list of solidarity groups supporting
the campaign.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
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See this video about the leader of the Tehran
busworkers.
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By Co-operation Council of Labour Organisations and Activists
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
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The workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane mill in Shush city in
Khuzestan province [in southern Iran] have been on strike and have been
holding protests for around two weeks.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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Workers at the state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Plantation and
Industry Company have gone on strike demanding payment of several
months' unpaid wages. They have gathered in front of the Governor's
Office in Shush city, in Khuzestan province (southern Iran), and say
that they will stay on strike until their demands are met.
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By editors of “Militant” - a Persian language youth journal
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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We urge everyone,
particularly students' unions and organisations, to protest against a savage
attack on students in Iranian jail. Put pressure on the Iranian authorities so
they receive immediate and full medical attention and that all students are
released without charge. We are also publishing The
manifesto of the socialist students of the Polytechnic on recent events.
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By Rob Walsh
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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Rob
Walsh reviews new book by Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian (Published by Pluto
Press, www.plutobooks.com). The book
looks at the role played by the Iranian working class in past movements and the
role they are playing today. A compelling read.
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By Co-operation Council of Labour Organisations and Activists
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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According
to information received from Mahmoud Salehi he is in a critical
physical condition.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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Mahmoud Salehi, the leader of the Saghez Bakers' Union and one of
the 'Saghez seven' labour activists, was re-arrested on 9 April.
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By the Co-operation Council of Labour Organisations and Activists
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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On 1st of May, there was a gathering in front of the Labour
Relations Office in Sanandaj [Iranian Kurdistan] to commemorate May
Day. Even though those gathered were commemorating May Day peacefully,
they were attacked by the security forces and about 20 of the workers
taking part were arrested.
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By Morad Shirin
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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On 16 May, in response to recent conciliatory moves by US
imperialism Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution,
gave his clearance to the first face-to-face talks between the US and
Iran for 27 years.
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By Co-operation Council of Labour Organisations and Activists
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Thursday, 10 May 2007 |
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This
year, as in previous years, the workers of Iran commemorated May Day
under the conditions of having absolutely no organisations and rights. Again workers were arrested and brutalised. Here is an appeal by a group of Iranian workers who were the victim of repression by the Iranian state.
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By Militant magazine's reporter
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007 |
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There were around five to six thousand workers at the Shiroodi
sports stadium near Tehran. The
Labour House, however, again
used its own rotten old method for dispersing the workers.
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By Militant
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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We have received an appeal from a group of revolutionary socialist activists in the students'
movement in Iran, who intend to publish a journal for all revolutionary socialist
youth.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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Following the article on the repression at the Mazandaran university in Iran, we publish an appeal of the students to the workers of the world.
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By Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Youth
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 |
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Students have been seized by security forces at the Mazandaran
University, in northern Iran, and their whereabouts are unknown. Please add your
voice to the protest.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
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After Mahmoud Salehi’s arrest his son issued this appeal to
the workers of the world.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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On April 9 the security forces in Saghez (in Iranian
Kurdistan) rearrested Mahmoud Salehi. He has been facing several false charges
since May Day 2004. On that day he and many other labour activists were
arrested for attempting to organise a May Day rally in Saghez.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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While the reactionary president of Iran,
Ahmadinejad, pretends to be defending the interests of the Iranian people, in
reality on the ground what we have is unemployment, low wages and a huge
backlog of unpaid wages. The latest attack on workers is the decision to
drastically reduce the already low minimum wage.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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The real question to be asked is not whether the British sailors were in Iranian or Iraqi waters. The real question is who benefits from this "provocation". The incident would seem to fit in well with the plans that imperialism has to strike at Iran's nuclear development plan.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
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The Pentagon is continuing intensive planning for a possible bombing attack on Iran. These preparations began already last year, by order of the President. In other words, the decision has already been arrived at. All that Bush is waiting for is a suitable opportunity to put it into practice.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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The new Iranian labour movement stands at a crucial turning point.
On 8 March over 35,000 teachers from Tehran province protested against
low pay outside the Majles (parliament). Around 50 to 60 of them have
now been arrested, including a number of their leaders.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
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According to the latest
news from the trade union activists of Tehran province, in the earlier
today the security forces arrested a large number of teachers.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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After a period of intense discussions, several
labour movement groups have come together in Iran to work in a united manner in
the struggle for independent labour organisations.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
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There is a lot of talk about Iran in the media these days. Unfortunately
very little news gets through about the terrible conditions faced by the Iranian
workers. On March 20th we are supporting the day of action called by the Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network and the Workers' Action Committee (Iran). Please mobilise for this day and send out the message that the Iranian workers are not alone.
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By the Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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Mansour Ossanlou, the leader of the Steering Committee of the Trade
Union of the Vahed Bus Company of Tehran and Suburbs, appeared in court
on Saturday, 24 February. His 'trial' at the 14th branch of the
Revolutionary Court was held behind closed doors and he has been told
that he or his lawyers cannot divulge details of the charges brought
against him.
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By Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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A new book on Iran
has recently come out, Iran
on the brink, which is based on interviews with workers in Iran and which gives
a unique glimpse into the struggles and aspirations of the Iranian working
class. On March 6 at 6.30pm it will be launched at Housmans Bookshop in London.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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Instead of listening to the advice of Baker and the Iraq Study Group to seek an exit strategy, Bush prefers to up the stakes, increasing the number of troops in Iraq and threatening both Syria and Iran. He is coming into conflict with the ruling class he is supposed to represent. Herein lies a potential political crisis of major proportions in the USA. |
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By the Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network - www.iwsn.org
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
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Following the sacking of 38 workers at Iran Sadra's Bushehr shipyard on
30 January, 150 workers shut off the shipyard's gate.
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By Iranian Revolutionary Socialists' Youth
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Friday, 12 January 2007 |
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Following the student protests "16 AZAR" in Tehran on November 20th last year, Behrouz Karimizadeh,
student activist at the University
of Tehran, has disappeared
since early this week.
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By John McDonnell
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
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John McDonnell, the left-wing Labour MP, raised in the British parliament
the question of the arrest of Mansour Ossanlou and the maltreatment of
Tehran bus workers.
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By Morad Shirin
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
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Further to our previous
report, we publish an article based on reports directly from students involved
in Wednesday’s protest in Tehran
University. After a
period of calm, the students have once again broken the silence and indicated
the path that needs to be followed if an end is to be put to the terribly
repressive Islamic regime in Iran.
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By Morad Shirin
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
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The commemoration
of the 53rd anniversary of Student Day began by breaking the western gate of Tehran University. At noon today,
a large crowd that had gathered to commemorate the 53-rd anniversary of Student
Day was prevented from entering the grounds of Tehran University
by the security forces and the university's security personnel.
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By the Iranian Revolutionary Socialists' League
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Wednesday, 01 November 2006 |
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The British newspaper The Guardian, likes to present
itself as the voice of liberalism. But on October 27 it published an editorial
praising St Andrews
University for giving
ex-Iranian President, Khatami, an honorary degree, conveniently ignoring the
brutal crimes this man was responsible for when he was in office. The Iranian Marxists sent The Guardian this letter.
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By the Iranian Revolutionary Socialists' League
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 |
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Mohammad Khatami, Iran's
'President' from 1997 to 2005, will be in Britain
to receive an Honorary Degree in Scotland
and deliver a speech at Chatham House in London.
Help organise protests against his presence in Britain.
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By Iranian Revolutionary Socialists' League
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
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As Iranian President Ahmadinejad visits
Venezuela, the Iranian Marxists send an appeal to the Venezuelan workers and
youth explaining the plight of the masses in Iran.
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