Workers' Liberty 3/5: Iran, revolution and counter-revolution, 1978-9
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Iran
Middle East Workers' Solidarity
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Information about the labour movement in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East, and about what's being done in the British labour movement to raise solidarity.
No to war! No to Iranian bomb!
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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are now visiting Iran. In November 2011 the agency reported that Iran had conducted tests “relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device”.
Does criticising the Iranian government make you like the Tea Party?
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At the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts conference in Liverpool on Sunday 29 January, student members of the Socialist Workers Party, Counterfire and Socia
No to war and sanctions, no to the Islamic Republic: support Iranian workers!
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The EU has agreed an oil embargo on Iran. In response Iran has threatened to close the strait of Hormuz (through which oil supplies pass). The US has said if that happens it could take military action.
Stop the War disgraces itself
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The Stop the War campaign, led by Stalinists and former SWPers, is disgracing itself again.
Memorial meeting for Ali-Reza Nasab
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Date:
16 May, 2011 - 20:30 - 17 May, 2011 - 00:00
Location:
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC12 4RL (Holborn tube)
Description:
Memorial meeting for Iranian revolutionary Ali-Reza Nasab.
"Behzad (Ali Reza) Kazemi passed away on the 22nd of April 2011 at 57 years of age. His passing deprives the Iranian Socialist and Workers movement of one its most active and tireless militants. He remained a Socialist for nearly four decades, fighting against capitalism, inequality, state repression, oppression and the crimes of the present. He fought for a world free of exploitation and misery, for Socialism.
"We gather to say our final farewell. To honour the life and struggles of an honourable man who sought a different world, worthy of human dignity. A defender of the workers and the impoverished he wished bread, freedom and joy for everyone and, until the end, gave all his efforts to make this a reality."
If you have any queries please contact Maryam on 07799382413 or email Ettehad_ma@yahoo.co.uk
Iran: demonstrate, stop these executions!
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Date:
15 May, 2010 - 15:00 - 17:00
Location:
Trafalgar Square
Description:
Stop the executions in Iran!
Free all political prisoners!
Rally in front of National Gallery 1pm
March to Iranian Embassy
On Sunday May 9, Farzad Kamangar, a teacher activist from the Kurdish region of Iran, who has been the subject of an international solidarity campaign was executed. Four other political prisoners were executed at the same time. The executions took place without families and lawyers being informed. By such an outrageous "out of the blue" state killing of a high profile political prisoner the Iranian regime attempts to terrorise the labour and opposition movements in Iran.
Add your voice to the protest
Called by Iranian socialists
How can we help Iranian workers?
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Date:
3 April, 2010 - 21:00 - 23:00
Location:
Liverpool
Description:
• Why effective international solidarity needs independent working-class politics. Neither Ahmadinejad, nor Mousavi, but the Iranian working-class!
Jurys Inns Liverpool City Hotel, 31 Keel Wharf, Liverpool
Speakers: Satar Rahmani (formerly a teacher in Iran, now a lecturer at the College of North East London and a member of the University and College Union)
Liam Conway, Central Nottingham NUT
Organised by Workers’ Liberty education workers and Iranian socialists
office@workersliberty.org.uk • iranworkerssolidarity@yahoo.co.uk
Solidarity with Iranian Workers
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Date:
22 October, 2009 - 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Iranian Embassy, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1PT
Description:
Solidarity with Iranian workers
For the right to join and organise independent trade unions in Iran
The International Labour Organisation should stop recognising Iranian government appointees and "workers' representatives"
Free jailed trade unionists and all political prisoners
Free Mansour Osanloo Now!
Protest outside the Iranian Embassy, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1PT (nearest tube Knightsbridge) http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=iran%20embassy%20london.
Thursday 22 October 5pm-6.30pm
Independent trade unions are banned in Iran.
Workers are allowed to form Islamic Labour Councils (ILCs) in Iran but these cannot defend the terms and conditions of their members. These organisations are controlled by the government and the employers. They are not independent and free.
Workers are not allowed to meet to discuss their conditions.
Anyone organising a general assembly of workers is sacked.
In Iran leading members of trade unions are sacked, arrested, imprisoned and beaten up for their trade union activities.
Mansour Osanloo of the Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) is still in prison.
In Iran the authorities repress gatherings by workers, for instance on May Day.
Alireza Saghafy, a member of the Centre for Workers’ Rights in Iran, was detained for five hours on 28 April 2009, during which he was reported to have been told to try to prevent a May Day rally planned for Tehran.
In Iran millions of workers suffer sweatshop conditions. There is no unemployment benefit.
There is nothing Iranian workers can legally do to defend their conditions. When Iranian workers defend themselves, they put their lives at risk.
Repressive conditions in Iran will get considerably worse after the events of June 2009.
During the June protests the regime arrested thousands of demonstrators. Many people were killed. Thousands of people are still detained. Leaders of, for instance, the women's rights movement have been detained. Many people have simply disappeared.
The Islamic Republic of Iran does not allow free and independent trade unions. On the contrary it violates workers’ rights and many other democratic rights. Why then, is it allowed to be a member of the International Labour Organisation, a body which claims to safeguard and uphold basic workers’ rights around the world? Iran is signed up to an ILO convention on gender equality, yet women workers suffer blatant sexual discrimination, are even deprived of the right to work. Why does the ILO pretend the government of Iran will treat its workers in accordance with ILO conventions? And which ILO convention calls for the banning of free trade unions?
The international labour movement needs to step up its campaign against the Iranian government’s repression of trade unions. We should demand the Iranian government allows free trade unions and workers’ rights. The ILO should not recognise Iranian government appointee as so-called workers' representatives. We campaign for these things to show the Iranian workers that we are 100% on their side in their struggle for democracy, justice and the right to organise to defend themselves.
We will be holding monthly protests outside the Iranian Embassy in London to demand these things — up until the next ILO convention in June 2010. Join our campaign and support our protests.
Called by British and Iranian socialists
Supported by:
Workers’ Liberty
Solidarity movement with Iranian people in struggle
Organization of revolutionary Workers of Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran-Hekmatist
Emancipated Cinema
No Sweat
Please get your trade union branch etc to support our protest.
iranworkerssolidarity@yahoo.co.uk
Download a copy of the statement/leaflet for the event.
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