CS spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality Could you describe your organisation's history and political aims? Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and that the islamic ...
CS spoke to Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, about the ‘credit crunch’ and what it tells us about the dynamics of capitalism today You have described the latest capitalist downturn as a “turning point” for capitalism as a whole, which is in some ways similar to 1929. Can you expand on this? In fact, one can read ...
Ben Lewis spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality Could you tell us about your organisation’s history and political aims? Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and ...
Benjamin Klein interviewed Mahsa, an Iranian supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran who is currently living in Italy There are some people on the anti-war left in Britain who are saying that the students protesting in Iran are actually in favour of military intervention. The left student movement in Iran has always struggled against the ...
Ben Lewis spoke to Marsha-Jane Thompson, SYN co-chair and one of the conference organisers Looking back to the conference, how do you think it went? I think it went extremely well, although it’s sometimes hard to tell from the ...