Iran in crisis: solidarity with workers, women and students in Iran (a Marxism 2009 fringe meeting)
FG08, Faber Building, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H
Since 13 June, mass protests have shaken the Iranian regime.
Most of the British left, including the Socialist Workers Party, has rightly declared its solidarity with these protests. But this is a major U-turn from the previous situation, in which the SWP said little about repression in Iran and opposed attempts to link anti-war campaigning to solidarity with Iranian workers, women, students, national minorities and others fighting the theocratic capitalist state.
Come and discuss the current situation in Iran, how we can make solidarity and the lessons of the 1978-9 revolution/counter-revolution which created the Islamic Republic - in which the working class and oppressed reached out for power, but were crushed because the left failed to understand the nature of political Islam.
Speakers: Iranian socialist Sam Azad; an Iranian student activist
Facebook event here.