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Iran: steel workers fight back

On Tuesday 20 February the 3,000 militant, resilient steel workers at the National Steel Group in Ahvaz, south west Iran, struck again. The workers are demanding suspended worker activists be readmitted to the plant, and that a job reclassification plan is fully implemented. The steel workers are furious that past agreements with management which ended previous strikes have not been fully implemented. The steel workers struck in November 2023, and again in December and January. Relying on mass meetings to take decisions, at one point the workers sealed the entrances and exits to the site and...

Teetering on the brink of wider war

The drone attack that killed three US troops in Jordan on 28 Jan has led to an escalated US response to Iranian-backed militias. The US says it has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in early February. Especially given how long it has taken the US to respond, this will have been far from a decisive blow against the militias and their arms caches. Since 7 October, there have been over 160 attacks on US troops in Syria and Iraq. 28 Jan was the first resulting in soldier deaths, which meant the US was almost certain to respond. The targets are the local militias, but the message it sends is to the...

Yes, the day will come

Interesting, isn’t it, that the same thought is often conveyed in different languages, by oppressed people living through difficult times, across the world. Battling Apartheid, the South African poet, Mongane Wally Serote, put it most elegantly: It is a dry white season dark leaves don’t last, their brief lives dry out and with a broken heart they dive down gently headed for the earth not even bleeding. it is a dry white season brother… indeed, it is a dry white season, but seasons come to pass. The Irish have Tiocfaidh ár lá (Our day will come). Strange And Arash Azizi, who has written a...

Economic strife in Iran

Iranian pensioners have regularly taken to the streets in recent years to demand an end to corruption, free access to health care, and improvements to pensions which have been decimated by inflation. On Wednesday 10 January thousands of retired teachers demonstrated for better pensions and the release of jailed teacher trade union activists. Protests across Iran’s strategically important oil and gas sectors have been running since early September 2023. Workers are demanding pay increases, Iran’s currency, the rial, fell by 5% after the US-UK strikes on the Yemeni Houthi movement as fears grow...

Pay revolt in Iran

From April to June 2023, the number of workers’ protests in Iran rose fourfold compared with the same period in 2022, and revolt is still brewing.

"On the Israel-Gaza war": Statement from the Solidarity with the Iranian Workers' Movement Committee

The below statement was published by Solidarity with the Iranian Workers' Movement Committee (SWIW) , an initiative promoting solidarity with workers' struggles in Iran. The statement can also be downloaded as a PDF, here . Israel’s assault on Gaza has entered its fourth week. Under the pretext of confronting Hamas terrorists, the Israeli army is besieging Gaza and has displaced 1.4 million people, massacred civilians, destroyed 27,781 residential units, bombarded numerous civilian sites, and forcibly displaced thousands. It has turned Gaza's huge prison into a killing field for civilians...

Iran: another woman killed by hijab police

On 1 October a 16 year-old school student, Armita Garavand, was attacked by officers from Iran’s notorious “morality police” as she entered a Tehran metro station with two friends. Armita was accused of not wearing the mandatory hijab. She was badly injured during the assault and has since died from her injuries. The Iranian state, recognising the similarity between this attack and the murder by the morality police, in September 2022, of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman, has done everything possible to restrict access to information about the attack on Armita Garavand...

"We should end this cycle of crime! (On the Israel-Palestine war)", statement from the Worker-communist Party - Hekmatist (Official Line)

This is a statement from the Worker-communist Party - Hekmatist (Official Line), also known as the Hekmatist Party. It is taken from their website, here . More statements on the war in Israel-Palestine here. We should end this cycle of crime! (On the Israel and Palestine war) The wide scale “Al-Aqsa storm” attack of Hamas on Israel on Saturday 7 October 2023 was the largest military attack since the “Arab and Israeli” war in 1973. The extent of this attack, the overcoming of Israeli military and recapturing of large, occupied land along Gaza, surprised not only the Israeli state but also...

Statement by the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran

This is a statement by the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran. It is reposted from their Twitter/X, and automatically translated from Persian. There may be errors in the translation. Workers' Liberty does not share or endorse all the views expressed in statements we repost. For our own statement on the war, click here . In recent days, we have witnessed a renewed conflict in the Palestinian region and the attack of the Islamist group Hamas on the lands under the control of the Israeli government, which was unprecedented in the past years or even decades. The incident that shows more than...

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