Information bulletin of "The Committee in Solidarity with the Iranian workers Movement -Abroad"
Information bulletin of "The Committee in Solidarity with the Iranian workers Movement -Abroad"
Operation Ajax: 70 years since the CIA and MI6 joint venture in Iran
70 years ago, in 1953, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its British counterpart, MI6, organised a coup d'état to oust Iran’s first and last democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
Details about the coup emerged after the CIA released a trove of documents about the mission, named “Operation Ajax”. The release of the new documents provides the first official confirmation of the extent of the CIA’s involvement in Iran’s history.
Once upon a time it was oil in Iran
In the 1950s, after World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War, there were two major factors for American imperialism when it came to “managing” Iran. First, that Iran remained a politically reliable geographic buffer, which blocked Soviet Union access to the warm water of the Persian Gulf. Second, that Iran’s profitable oil reserves remained in the hands of Western companies. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, owned by the British government, had been in the country ever since the discovery of large reserves in 1908...
communiqué des syndicats français
Paris, le
4 december 2023
Iran: death penalty intensifies
The news coming out of Iran is very worrying. Faced with rising social and popular anger linked to the economic crisis, the dictatorial regime is stepping up repression, taking advantage of the detour of world public opinion towards the ongoing war in Gaza.
There has been a marked increase in the number of arrests of workers' activists under fallacious pretexts: the Iranian authorities are increasingly targeting workers and pensioners, accusing them of organizing peaceful demonstrations against the high cost of living and wage arrears.
The list of arrests and imprisonments continues to grow. Among the most recent victims are: Reyhaneh ANSARINEZHAD (a female worker activist); Osman ESMAILI, Esmail GUERAMI and Kamran SAKHTEMANGAR (retired workers and former detainees); Reza Aghdasi AGHDASI (dismissed worker, invalid and deaf)...
Information bulletin of "The Committee in Solidarity with the Iranian workers Movement -Abroad"
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
Last week, a
flier calling on
contract workers
to go on a
hunger strike
was distributed
at the Isfahan
Steel Complex.
Contract workers
have suffered
wage and benefit
cuts since they
became directly
contracted by
the factory.
Currently, their
wages and
benefits are
significantly
below those of
the company’s
regular
workers...
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
By: Mehdi Kia
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
By: Houshang
Sepehr
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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www.iran-echo.com needs
your support
Dear friends,
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www.iran-echo.com
attempts to put at
your disposal the
most of information
regarding the
situations and
fights of the
workers in Iran. Our
objective is not
limited to provide
the texts, articles,
booklets and books
in this respect but
also to intervene
and take various
actions in favours
of the Iranian
workers. For us,
this work is a
committed step and
is an immense task.
Moreover, we wish to
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(the Socialist
Solidarity with the
Workers in Iran),
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unfortunately has
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