Members of Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran and supporters from the Iranian community held a demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian students’ movement on March 25. The demonstrators held pictures of the recently arrested students and carried a banner which read, ‘Free our comrades’. We called the demonstration in solidarity with members of the ...
Internationalism must be a principle which we make concrete, writes Dave Isaacson The level of repression against radical activists and voices of opposition to the Islamic Republic in Iran has increased in the recent weeks. Activists from the students’, women’s and workers’ movements, as well as those from national and religious minorities, have all suffered violent ...
Mahsa, a young Iranian student living in Europe, explains how sanctions affect her and other students "Section 13 of terms of services : PROHIBITED PERSONS (COUNTRIES, ENTITIES, AND INDIVIDUALS) 13.1.B Each individual which is a National or Citizen of a Sanctioned Country is hereby prohibited from registering or signing up with, subscribing to, or using any service of ...
Regular readers will be aware of the continued heroic struggle of Iranian students against the Iranian regime. Today four more student leaders and comrades were attacked at home and arrested. Their names are Amirhosein Mohammadifar, Sanaz Allahyari, Nasim Roshanai and Maryam Sheikh all in their early twenties. They all belong to the Freedom and Equality ...
Communist Students deplore the attempts by the Iranian regime to suppress independent worker activists such as the Haft Tapeh workers with accusations of 'acting against national security'. Ali Nejati, Feridoun Nikoufard, Mohammed Heydari Mehr, Ghorban Alipour and Jalil Ahmadi 's only crime is to act in defense of fellow sugar cane workers , many ...
We have just recieved this message from Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran: Mohammad Pourabdollah and Alireza Davoudi, two Equality and Freedom Seeking (EFS) Students in Iran, were arrested. This morning, Feb. 12th 2009, the forces of regime arrested Mohammad Pourabdollah in a brutal attack to his house in Tehran. He has been kept in the ...
John McDonnell MP will launch a new campaign at Hopi's annual conference (details see below). This campaign will focus on the need to overturn the existing sanctions – as well as fight against any new ones. Sanctions constitute a 'soft war' on Iran. The programme of sanctions imposed so far has on the one ...
Video from a Hands Off the People of Iran public meeting at Kings College London. Nick Rogers (CPGB) and Torab Saleth (Workers Left Unity Iran) discuss the implications of Barack Obama's election for Iran and the Middle East.
Iranian worker activist Mahmoud Salehi has released the following statement on the capitalist crisis. While some in Communist Students will disagree with his characterisation of the Paris Commune as a workers' council, his general argument - that this is a crisis of capitalism as a system, and that it necessitates serious strategic thinking about how to ...
Video from HOPI public meeting in Manchester on October 22. For a report see here: http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=1506
On 8 August 2008 Nader Zarebi, an asylum seeker from Iran, hanged himself in a park in Longsight, Manchester after being made homeless from his accommodation. Forced into destitution and homelessness, with no legal way to support himself, fearful of losing his life if returned to Iran where hundreds of political prisoners are executed every ...
The long-awaited debate between Worker's Liberty patriarch Sean Matgamna, professed Zionist and opponent of troops out now, and Israeli socialist Moshe Machover (HOPI and CMP) finally happened on 12th October. The subject was 'Israel, the Palestinians, and Iran', though Matgamna studiously avoids any mention of Iran. The outrage caused by his recent article excusing an ...
On Sunday 5th Oct a group of Iranian students gathered in front of the Islamic Majlis (parliament) in Tehran protesting at their expulsion and other restrictions from the university authorities. These students are known as "marked students" - a term used by the Ministry of Higher Education to describe students with no security ...