Film of Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian's Press Conference in London Mark Fischer heard two of Iran's student activists talk of persecution and imprisonment - from WW 739 A well-attended press conference in central London on September 29 saw two student activists from the Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran describe their experiences at ...
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 ...
Communist Students was one of the founding affiliates of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign, which takes the principled position of both opposing imperialist war and acting in solidarity with the radical movements for liberation and socialism in Iran. We want to build this campaign in universities, colleges and schools across the UK, ...
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Ben Lewis reports on a successful intervention At last week’s Trade Union Congress in Brighton, a small group of activists handed out Hands Off the People of Iran leaflets and other material, spoke to delegates and visitors, and all in all highlighted the current drive to war against Iran and the tasks of the solidarity movement ...
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 ...
HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN BULLETIN Drop the charges against Anooshe Azadbar! www.hopoi.org Over the summer months HOPI has been doing patient work, building up our contacts and supporters in Britain, Iran and around the world. The coming months will be very busy for HOPI. With freshers fayres, meetings and demonstrations taking place. We ask all supporters ...
Where does ‘military support’ end and other forms of support begin? asks Nick Rogers What should be the role of communists and working class militants in inter-state conflicts within the international capitalist order of states? In this article I attempt to rethink some of the theoretical positions we have inherited from more than 80 years ago. ...
Nick Rogers takes issue with other Weekly Worker writers in their assessment of international relations and the imperialist drive to war In this article and a subsequent one I seek to explore a number of areas of ambiguity within the formulations of the Hands off the People of Iran campaign - and some straightforward differences. I believe ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 Yassamine Mather demolishes the AWL leader's falsehoods... and CS member Ben Lewis was present when the AWL set up yet another posing front group In Iran there is a saying used when someone makes a comment based on a number of falsehoods, leading to an even sillier conclusion. It ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 There should be no place for Sean Matgamna in any principled Marxist organisation, write CS member James Turley and Mark Fischer After his article in Solidarity of July 24, it should be axiomatic that Sean Matgamna - the loose-cannon patriach of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty - be expelled from ...
Following the Geneva talks, the threat against Iran is as real as ever, argues Ben Lewis Those concerned about the prospect of Iran being bombed back into the stone age may have been encouraged by the recent attempts at diplomacy and negotiations between the US, Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran over the weekend of ...
Davood Bagheri is an Iranian student activist who helped organise the recent wave of student demonstrations. He fled Iran in fear for his life but was arrested by Turkish police trying to cross the border into Greece. Davood has been held for three months in Erdine prison and tortured repeatedly. After a suicide attempt he was ...