As part of the widespread arrests of activists in Iran during the past few days Alireza Saghafi was arrested on Monday, February 1, 2010. He is a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association and a labour rights activist who was arrested on May Day 2009 in Tehran’s Laleh Park.

Reza Rakhshan, the public relations officer of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company’s trade union has been arrested.

El Militante, the Spanish section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), invited a speaker from the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network (IWSN) to give a talk on the recent events in Iran, particularly the fraudulent ‘election’ and its aftermath. Amin Kazemi, the International Secretary of IWSN, took up this offer of El Militante and travelled to Spain in late September.

The Marxist tendency in Austria invited a speaker from the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network (IWSN) to give a series of talks on the recent events in Iran. Here we provide a report and pictures of this tour.

On August 25 workers at the Wagon Pars factory in Arak, central Iran, went on strike over unpaid wages. Following months of tension with the factory’s owners and managers, the workers staged a sit-in protest by sitting on the ground, locking the factory gate and preventing any managers from entering the factory.

The General Board of the Administrative Court of Justice quashed all the dismissal sentences of the Vahed trade union’s workers and sent the case files of these workers to the Arbitration Board of the Labour Office for review.