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 ...
Leeds Hopi launch meeting: Thursday May 1, 6.30pm Venue: Kadas Cafe, 5 Crown Street (near the Corn Exchange), LS2 7DA. Click here for a map. Speakers: Yassamine Mather (Hopi national secretary) Cliff Slaughter (Movement for Socialism) Lee Rock (PCS-personal capacity and CPGB) Martin Hemingway (Green Party Euro candidate for Yorkshire and Humberside region) and a local Iranian speaker. Click here to download the ...
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 ...
The following is a message from comrade Kaveh, an Iranian student activist now living in London. In the past 4 months, the Islamic regime of Iran has attacked and oppressed the leaders and activists of the Iranian communist movement -- namely, the “Freedom and Equality Seeking University Students.” More than 41 of our comrades have been ...
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 ...
As Israel's brutal blockade of the Gaza Strip continues and Palestinian despair intensifies, what should be the response of the left? By Ken Crisp The desperate suffering of the people of Palestine was again brought to the world's attention on January 23, as thousands of Palestinians broke through the border wall at the Rafah passage and ...
Communist Students is standing Chris Strafford as a candidate in the elections for the National Union of Students national executive committee. Read his manifesto here. And join the Facebook group here.
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 ...
From the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students of Iran December 12, 2007 In the name of Freedom, Humanity, and Justice Students, Workers and People of the World! In the past week, more than 43 leftist students in Iran were arrested by the Islamic Republic government security forces before and after the annual demonstration of the Students' Day at the ...
It is now clear that 9/11 provided an excuse for imperialist expansion that has changed the world forever. The brutal consequences of US and British foreign policy are being lived out daily in Afghanistan and Iraq. For them the ‘war on terror’ has resulted in over one million deaths. The US has decided to compensate ...