Rahim Bandoui speaks about national minorities in Iran (video)
Rahim Bandoui (Baluchistan People’s Party) speaks on the history of the national question in Iran at the Hands Off the People of Iran weekend school (June 14-15).
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Moshé Machover speaks on Iran, Israel, and nuclear weapons
This video is from the recent Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) weekend school which took place in London over June 14 - 15. As well as being a member of the HOPI steering committee, Moshé Machover is an Israeli socialist, a founding member (1962) of the Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen). In the 1970s ...
A new wave of protest and strike action at the Iran Khodro Car Manufacturing Company
Thousands of workers at the Iran Khodro Car Manufacturing Company have been on strike. The protest began in the form of a hunger strike on June 28, 2008 and since then it expanded across the company and thousands of workers have jointed protests and strike actions since then. Workers demands include: - Freedom of labour organizations ...
Support RMT tube cleaners!
Last Thursday London underground cleaners struck for 48 hours demanding better pay. They go back on strike again from 7pm this evening. We urge you to join them on their picket lines and show them all the support you can. For more details see the RMT website here. The Labour Representation Committee have also organised a rally ...
David Mather and Amir Javaheri Langaroudi speak on the working class movement in Iran
This video is of one of the sessions from the recent Hands Off the People of Iran weekend school. We will feature a number of other videos from this weekend school over the next couple of weeks, so please check back to see the latest updates.
Marxism Fringe 2008
Meetings at the SWP’s Marxism school, organised by CPGB, Campaign for a Marxist Party, and Hands Off the People of Iran: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1 All meetings start 17:00 Friday July 4 - Room 541 Manifesto of the Campaign for a Marxist Party - pre-launch meeting Hillel Ticktin and Mike Macnair introduce themes to be explored ...
Some recommended reading
Here are some interesting things to read from around the blogosphere: Vicky T of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee has recently set up her own blog, 'Infantile and Disorderly,' so check it out. Over at 'The Storm Breaking Upon the University' there is an interesting article on academic freedom and the case of ...
Imperialist pose – report of Manchester HOPI meeting
Chris Strafford reports a Hopi success in Manchester: Hands Off the People of Iran held a successful meeting in Manchester on June 24, titled ‘Can imperialism liberate women?’ The meeting discussed how imperialism cynically claims to support the rights of women and others to legitimate its own actions, including its military adventures. The meeting was opened by ...
From City Hall to Club Row?
Communist Students member James Turley sees little prospect of future success for Socialist Action and Respect: When the Respect (un)popular front split last autumn, it provided something of a parlour game for the rest of the left - which fragment would collapse first? The Socialist Workers Party was seriously rocked internally by the nakedly apolitical nature of ...
War drive gathers momentum
Imperialist threats against Iran have been stepped up once again, writes Communist Students member James Turley: Last July, during a Youtube debate, Barack Obama (now de facto official Democrat presidential candidate) promised he would talk to the leaders of what are perceived as anti-American states - Venezuela, Cuba and Iran among them. This rather mild pledge, in ...
Socialise, not criminalise youth
Communist Students member Carey Davies examines state proscription and media demonising: The recent period has seen the rights and freedoms of young people further threatened under the auspices of combating ‘youth drinking’. Last week a new plan to tackle the supposed problem was unveiled by the government. Predictably this struck a chord with the media, which went ...
John McDonnell MP speaks at Hands Off the People of Iran weekend school – video
Last weekends Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) school was an excellent event. You can read a report from Green Party comrade Jim Jepps at his blog, 'The Daily (Maybe),' here. To enable those who weren't able to get along to also experience the school, HOPI will be putting a number of videos from ...
‘Communists and trade unions’ – videos from Communist University North
Here are two more videos from the Communist University North event which took place at Sheffield University in May. The event was co-organised by Communist Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain. These videos are of the session on 'Communists and trade unions' which was a debate between Dave Douglas and Alan Stevens. Dave ...