Solidarity 127, 21 February 2008

Solidarity with Iranian trade unionists

International union federations are organising a global action day on 6 March to express our solidarity with Iranian workers. The day of action is demanding that Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi are released immediately and unconditionally from prison. The TUC, RMT, ASLEF, T&G Section of UNITE, UNISON and GMB unions in Britain and hundreds of others internationally are backing action on the day. The campaign is also demanding respect for fundamental workers’ rights in Iran. The imprisonment of Osanloo and Salehi are not isolated cases. Nine education workers were sentenced to 91 days in...

Defend Tony Greenstein!

Not a headline you'd expect to see here, since Tony Greenstein has spent much of his energy, for many years, on denouncing and traducing the AWL because we support the right to self-determination for Israeli Jews as well as for the Palestinians. But read on. Greenstein has been the most high-pitched and abusive of those who say that when AWL argues against left anti-semitism, we are just belabouring an invented straw man, and de facto helping the ruling circles in Israel. Well, now Greenstein himself - a vehement supporter of boycotting Israel, etc. etc. - has fallen foul of people on the left...

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