Thousands of workers at the Iran Khodro Car Manufacturing Company have been on strike. The protest began in the form of a hunger strike on June 28, 2008 and since then it expanded across the company and thousands of workers have jointed protests and strike actions since then. Workers demands include: - Freedom of labour organizations ...
Last Thursday London underground cleaners struck for 48 hours demanding better pay. They go back on strike again from 7pm this evening. We urge you to join them on their picket lines and show them all the support you can. For more details see the RMT website here. The Labour Representation Committee have also organised a rally ...
This video is of one of the sessions from the recent Hands Off the People of Iran weekend school. We will feature a number of other videos from this weekend school over the next couple of weeks, so please check back to see the latest updates.
Here are some interesting things to read from around the blogosphere: Vicky T of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee has recently set up her own blog, 'Infantile and Disorderly,' so check it out. Over at 'The Storm Breaking Upon the University' there is an interesting article on academic freedom and the case of ...
Hopi's two day school reflects its resonance in the working class. CS member Chris Strafford reports Over the weekend of June 14-15 Hands Off the People of Iran held a successful school, with around 70 people attending some or all of the sessions. All the openings were recorded and will soon be available on the Hopi ...
Here are two more videos from the Communist University North event which took place at Sheffield University in May. The event was co-organised by Communist Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain. These videos are of the session on 'Communists and trade unions' which was a debate between Dave Douglas and Alan Stevens. Dave ...
A press release from Keele UCU: The lecturers’ union UCU is calling for a boycott of Keele University as part of the campaign against management’s attacks on staff. Greylisting of Keele University to begin Friday 13 June. Greylisting is the ultimate sanction available to UCU members and is only ever used where a university or college refuses to ...
Delegates to the conference of ASLEF, the train driver's union, voted overwhelmingly this morning to affiliate to Hands Off the People of Iran. This is great news after last week's affiliation by civil servant's union PCS, and shows once again that HOPI's opposition to both war and the Iranian regime is far from 'too complicated' ...
Compilation video of the Iranian workers taking to the streets in their fight against theocracy.
Delegates at the recent PCS union's annual conference voted overwhelmingly to affiliate to the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. This is fantastic news for the campaign and will hopefully open up opportunities for the campaign to win further serious support from the working class movement. There is a similar motion supporting HOPI which ...
Here is an article by Jason Travis of Bolton NUT Jason is a supporter of Permanent Revolution Nearly sixty people came to the rally, outside a governors' meeting, against the Academy at Withins School, Bolton with strikers, parents, students and delegations from other schools and workplaces. The mood was defiant and loud, leaving governors in no doubt about ...
Haft-Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran have been on strike for over two weeks now, in their third strike of the past year. Here is some video footage of a recent demonstration of the workers and their families. And here is a report on the strike from Kargaran: Over 6,000 workers march again on 15th day of ...
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