Workers' Minimal Demands
on the Occasion of the Thirty-first Anniversary of the February 1979 Revolution
Four independent workers' organizations have issued a communique honoring the thirty-first anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran. A translation is provided below
Thirty-one years have passed since the February 1979 revolution. At that time millions of Iranian people, full of hope for a better life, took to the streets in order to break the yoke of despotism and repression. A nationwide strike lead by workers at the National Oil Company, the vanguard of the Iranian working class, shut down oil pipelines, ultimately tearing the despotic regime asunder. Masses of people chanted, "Our oil workers! Our resolute leader!" Power fell to the people...
Call for Hunger Strike at Isfahan Steel Complex
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Call for Hunger Strike at Isfahan Steel Complex
Fellow workers and friends, During the last few days tens of workers, students and grieving mothers [a reference to mothers of young people killed following protest gatherings on December 4] have been arrested and sent to jail. Many of our colleagues and fellow workers are in prison. Tens of students, who are our children and our allies, are incarcerated. Mothers have been held. The government is closing its eyes to reality and arresting anyone they want. The country is under the grip of security forces and people do not even have the right to gather in a public parks...
Letter of protest sent to Iranian ambassador In Paris by the French SUD unions
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,L’Unionsyndicale Solidaires a été informée de l’arrestation,
de l’incarcération et de la condamnation à des peines des prison et des amendes de plusieurs militants et responsables du « Syndicat
destravailleurs de la sucrerie Haft Tape », notamment Ali Nejati, JalilAhmadi, Feridoun Nikoufard, Ghorban, Mohamad Alipour Mehr...
Letter of protest sent to Iranian ambassador In Paris by
the French CGT unions
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,
Une fois de plus les violations des libertés syndicales et les tentatives du gouvernement iranien de réprimer le syndicalisme indépendant constituent un élément inquiétant du paysage des droits fondamentaux en Iran...
Letter of the "Haft Tapeh refining sugar complex" union leaders addressed to
the International Labour Organization (ILO)
We, workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company, have faced continuing violation of our rights and demands, including non-payments of
our wages for several months, in addition to the concerted efforts by the employer to cease sugar cane plantation and eventually closing down the factory and
privatizing the company. We workers of Haft Tapeh are foreseeing mass layoffs. They have already stopped paying us for our over-time work...
Letter of protest sent to Iranian ambassador In Paris by the French SUD unions
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,L’Unionsyndicale Solidaires a été informée de l’arrestation,
de l’incarcération et de la condamnation à des peines des prison et des amendes de plusieurs militants et responsables du « Syndicat
destravailleurs de la sucrerie Haft Tape », notamment Ali Nejati, JalilAhmadi, Feridoun Nikoufard, Ghorban, Mohamad Alipour Mehr...
The popular movement and various factions of the ruling regime
By: Alireza Saghaf
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
The Iranian coup four months on
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It is now four months since the coup in Iran, thinly disguised as presidential elections. Even though the victors of the coup appear to have succeeded in consolidating themselves and the opposition forces have apparently been pushed back into defensive positions, the massive anti-government demonstrations on September 18 - the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, Quds day, which is traditionally given over to anti-Israel demonstrations - show that there is much life left in the opposition...
TGreen road to nowhere
By: Y.Matherf
The sham presidential election of June 2009 has unleashed a rainbow of political forces, writes Yassamine Mather, including an increasingly strong red component. The task of the left is to support and strengthen the red component of this rainbow, the Iranian working class, as the only force capable of bringing about democracy, and the only movement conscious of the international complexities of the current situation...
Where is the Islamic Republic going?
By: Houshang Sepehr
What is happening in Iran is a spontaneous, ingenious and independent revolt by a people frustrated by thirty years of tyranny by an obscurantist, religious regime, a revolt that was unleashed by electoral fraud.
The present situation is only the result of a long and complex process which has been taking place inside the regime, a deep crisis, located on the one hand at the summit of the governing circles and within the ruling class, and on the other hand within Iranian society...
Iran and Leftist Confusion
By: Reese Erlich
When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive authors, academics and bloggers bending themselves into knots about the current crisis in Iran. They cite the long history of U.S. interference in Iran and conclude that the current unrest there must be sponsored or manipulated by the Empire. That comes as quite a shock to those risking their lives daily on the streets of major Iranian cities fighting for political, social and economic justice...
Crisisof the Iranian regime and popular mobilisation
By: Babak Kia
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
The Tragedy of the Left’s Discourse on Iran
By: Saeed Rahnema
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
Class Nature of the Iranian Regime
By: Torab Saleth
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
Shadow of war or war of shadows?
By: Houshang Sepehr
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
Worker Protest in the Age of Ahmadinejad
By: Mohammad Maljoo
In contrast to some analysis that one section is representing the workers and lower casts and the other section represents the middle class or neo-liberals, it must be said that none of the above sections have such a followers or representations. The Iranian People’s social movement which is at one of its critical junctures has faced many ups and downs in the past thirty years. This recent uprising cannot be considered separate from the struggles of the past thirty years, as it follows the same path and makes
similar...
An Islamic “Chinese model”?
By: Houshang Sepehr
After more than a quarter of a century of the Islamic regime the Iranian
economy is in deep trouble. Nearly 16 years of economic reform, led by
the “moderate” and “reformist” wings of the regime incarnated by the
two ex-presidents, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Sayyed Mohammad
Khatami, responding to the demands of international finance and
organisations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
Bank, have not improved the situation...
A Caliphate disguised as a republic
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is a political construction without parallel. For sure, a certain number of states in the Muslim world, for example Pakistan, the Comoros or Mauritania, also employ the label of “Islamic Republic”, but from the viewpoint of the power structures, the nature of the constitutional regime, the specificity of the ruling elites and even the state ideology, these republics have next to nothing in common with the Iranian model. In the Muslim world no country has ever had...
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