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, ...
Behrooz Karimizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran, who has recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian security forces; Kaveh Abbasian, the spokesperson for the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, who was subjected to months of persecution, ...
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 ...
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 ...
On September 4 at 11am, Anooshe Azadbar - overwhelming voted one of its honorary vice presidents by the British student union at its annual conference in April - was brought before a court in Iran. She faced multiple charges: – plotting against the Islamic regime – ...
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 ...
Imperialist threats against Iran have been stepped up once again, writes Communist Students member James Turley: Last July, during a Youtube debate, Barack Obama (now de facto official Democrat presidential candidate) promised he would talk to the leaders of what are perceived as anti-American states - Venezuela, Cuba and Iran among them. This rather mild pledge, in ...
The Manchester branch of Hands Off the People of Iran has organised the following meeting: Can Imperialism Liberate Women? Hands Off The People Of Iran Public Meeting. Discussion on Imperialism, the threat of war and the women's movement in Iran. During the meeting we are asking for organisations and trade union branches to read out messages of solidarity which ...
Hands Off the People of Iran is holding a weekend school on the weekend of June 14-15 from 11am at University of London Union, Malet Street. Click here for a map. Click here to download the A4 leaflet: front and back Book a stall for £20 by emailing us Speakers include John McDonnell MP, Professor Bill Bowering ...
Check out this video made by some of our comrades in Iran chronicling the recent struggles there. Slogans in the song include, "in the fight for freedom and equality we have nothing to loose but our chains." The placards hold slogans such as "socialism or barbarism" and others in support of workers and women's movement ...
Picture: Iranian May Day demonstration in 2007. May Day Greetings from Hands Off the People of Iran (this message has been sent in Farsi to a range of organisations in Iran) To our brothers and sisters in Iran, We in Hands Off The People of Iran (HOPI) wish to send our May Day greetings of solidarity to you. ...