This news just in from US comrade Mike Bessler of the Friends of the Equality and Freedom Seeking University Students of Iran: We have received word that Freedom and Equality Seeking Students (DAB) Behrouz Karimizadeh and Majid Majedi are now out of jail, which is a very positive development. They were apparently released in mid-April. Of ...
Students at Sahand Technical University staged a spontaneous sit in this Monday (21st April) in protest at the University authorities' attacks on a number of female students. As the university authorities and the university president Chanaghlou refused to listen to their demands, the students decided to continue their protest and widen the scope of the ...
Part One Torab Saleth of Hands Off the People of Iran looks at the nature of the Iranian regime and its relationship with the United States. He describes the history of the conflict and goes behind the current media speculation to explain what is really going on in the Middle East. Part Two Torab Saleth responds to questions ...
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Below is a press release from the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi For Immediate Release: April 6, 2008- According to the Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, Mahmoud Salehi, a well known and one of the most courageous labour leaders in Iran, was finally released today, Sunday, April ...
No to sanctions and war, no to the theocracy! Free the Iranian students! By Benjamin Klein In early December 2007, dozens of socialist Iranian students were arrested for taking part in the National Student Day demonstration. This demonstration has a long history and can be traced back to the 1950s, when three Iranian students were killed ...
The original motion pushed by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty displayed its soft position on imperialism (No804): "Conference believes: That the current chaos, sectarian conflict and corporate plunder consuming Iraq proves that American (and British) military adventures in the Middle East have almost inevitably disastrous consequences" (my emphasis). This slippery formulation has been changed at the ...
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 ...
By Michael Jones The debacle of the March 14 elections to the Iranian majlis (parliament) is a vivid example of the extremely undemocratic political system in Iran and the growing gulf between the mass of the (overwhelmingly young) Iranian population and their theocratic rulers. An apt metaphor for the regime's desperate attempts to legitimise the elections ...
Communist Students member Ben Lewis has written a report of the 'save Mehdi' demo which can be read in this weeks Weekly Worker. Here are some photos from the protest last Saturday. Just click on the thumbnails to see full size pics. And some of the latest information on Mehdi's case can be read here in ...
From the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students of Iran: On behalf of all students in Iran, we express our great appreciation for your efforts in publicizing the news related to the mass arrest of our friends and comrades and your protest against the Islamic republic of Iran. The movement for equality and freedom in Iran ...
Andeesheh Nicko and Roja Bamdad of Iranian Workers Bulletin call for solidarity action to free the kidnapped union leader Iranian Workers Bulletin: www.iranianworkersbulletin.org The campaign to free prominent Iranian union activist Mansour Ossanlou ...
After a brief let-up, military conflict between the USA or one of its proxies and Iran is again a serious possibility, with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert making ever more belligerent statements over Iran's nuclear capabilities and George Bush announcing a ‘troop surge' in Iraq. These developments have posed sharply the need for the world's anti-war ...