In our continuing bid to help comrades beat the filters in Iran we are posting the location of demontstrations, the main slogans and some important news. We ask our comrades and supporters to put this up across the Internet. شعار روز آن خس و خاشاک تویی/پست تر از خاک تویی/شور منم نور منم/عاشق رنجور منم/زور تویی کور تویی/هاله ...
Communist Students greets the mass demonstrations and bravery of the people on the streets of Iran with hope and solidarity. The mass actions are a testament to the revolutionary élan of the youth, worker’s and women’s movements, who over the last three decades have struggled and suffered at the hands of the theocratic state. The ...
To help beat the filters imposed on the internet in Iran, Communist Students along with comrades in HOPI and other organisations will be posting demonstrations in Iran on our website as long as our sites are not blocked. Two demonstrations so far : Wed 26 Khordad - 17 June 5.00pm 7 Tir Square Thursday 27 Khordad - 18 June ...
Emergency Meeting - Saturday June 20 With Yassamine Mather and Moshe Machover. Followed by a fundraising social. 20 June 2009, 2pm Caxton House,129 St. John's Way London, N19 3RQ Iranian society is convulsed by a political crisis on a scale not seen for over a decade. Masses of Iranian people have taken to the streets ...
Protests have been called following a raid on the cleaning staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies by 40-50 armored police from the Immigration and Border Agency. Nick Jones reports. At 6.30am on Friday the 12th the company that sub-contracts SOAS' cleaning staff called a meeting of the employees, having assembled in the main ...
Yassamine Mather, chair of Hands Off the People of Iran, assesses the highly fluid situation in Iran: It is no surprise that the highly contested results of the presidential elections in Iran have sparked unrest in Tehran and other cities across Iran. The level of cheating on display seems crazy even by the standards of ...
Lotfollah Poor Abdollah, in an open letter to Shahroudi has demanded for the basic Legal Rights of his son, Mohammad Poor Abdollah, who has been detained arbitrarily for the past 100 days. According to Mr. Poor Abdollah this is the second letter in a row that he has written to the Judiciary head, demanding a meeting ...
Mike Macnair explains why the CPGB recommended a Labour vote on June 4 The political dynamics of the scandal over MPs’ expenses claims are becoming clearer. The dominant dynamic of hatred for the corruption of the parties and MPs is towards a ‘democratic’ but rightwing populism which aims to produce an apolitical politics, a politics without ...
No straightforward ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to open borders at Sheffield No2EU meeting, reports Mohsen Sabbagh On Thursday May 28 members of the Socialist Party in England and Wales held a public meeting for No2EU’s European election campaign in Sheffield. Heading the No2EU list for Yorkshire and Humberside is Keith Gibson, a GMB militant who was involved in ...
The most recent advancements made by the Sri Lankan government, in that country’s 30 year civil war, have evidenced sheer brutality. Whilst the official target of the government’s campaign is the notorious rebel group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), this has frequently operated as a smokescreen for institutional persecution of the islands Tamil ...
James Turley brings down some false hares raised during the crisis over MPs' scams If any MP had entertained the naive hope that the expenses crisis was going to blow over with a few well chosen platitudes, they have now been decisively disappointed. On May 19, the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, announced his ...
Darya Homan slates Povey's Shah Abbas encomium Writing in The Guardian on May 13, the Socialist Workers Party’s favourite Iranian, Elaheh Rostami Povey, described a blood-drenched 16th century ruler of Persia as “inspirational”. Cooing over Shah Abbas I (1571-1629) as a “visionary”, Povey says that “under his rule Iran became a great political power, transforming international trade and ...
Below is an article by a Liverpool Postal Worker on the growing refusal of CWU members to deliver BNP material for the upcoming European elections. Postal workers across the country are once again refusing to deliver BNP European Election leaflets. The national press are telling readers that this is because staff who deliver to areas ...