On Monday December 7, Hands Off the People of Iran activists attended a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy to mark Students Day. It was particularly important for those outside Iran to express our solidarity because this year’s commemorations in that country have highlighted a deepening radicalisation of the student movement, with demonstrations spreading beyond the …
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The 56th anniversary of a murder of a student by the Shah’s security forces during Vice-president Nixon’s visit in 1953 may prove to be the last held under the heel of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Possibly millions of students, youth and workers took to the streets in protests against the regime and the barbaric …
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A Statement by Iran Khodro Car Workers – December 6 2009 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 …
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These policies were adopted by Hopi’s AGM on November 28 2009 For reports of the meeting, see Weekly Worker and The Commune For a Middle East Free of Nuclear Weapons and other WMDs Sanctions are a form of war Day of solidarity with Iranian workers No to state murders Click here to read the policies …
Please email any amendments by Wednesday, November 25, midnight to office@hopoi.info Motion 1 For a Middle East Free of Nuclear Weapons and other WMDs Moshe Machover, London The US imperialists, flanked by their hatchet man, Israel, and by their European camp followers — masquerading as ‘the international community’ – are accusing Iran of planning to …
To say that oil figures prominently in the Middle East is to state the obvious. However, does this mean that the politics of imperialism in the region should be solely or mainly explained through attempts to gain control over oilfields and pipelines? That has certainly been the approach of much of the left in Britain …
Cyrus Bina, author of “The economics of the oil crisis”, is undertaking a speaking tour of Britain next week with meetings in Manchester, Glasgow and London. All are welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion. MANCHESTER: Tuesday November 24, 8pm: ‘Iran, oil and the working class’, meeting room 4, University of Manchester … Student …
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Child M is Mehrshad Sadeghi from Gorton, Manchester. He is a 9 Year Old boy. Mehrshad is a happy and successful boy from a Manchester school. He has lived with his family in Manchester for the last two years. He has many friends. Mehrshad and his family are seeking asylum. They face persecution …
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پشتیبانی ازاقدام اعتراضی مشترک درمحکومیت اعدام ها درایران توسط “شورای فعالین دانشجویی چپ مستقل مقیم گوتنبورگ “دوستان سوئدی” حزب عدالت سوسیالیستی سوئد “ شنبه 21 نوامبر2009 ، دربرنس پارکن – گوتنبرگ رژیم جمهوری اسلامی وماشین سرکوب آن بعد ازاعدام احسان فتاحیان، علیرغم اعتراضات وسیع درسنندج وجای جای کشورونهادهای جهانی ،ماشین سرکوبش همچنان درراه است ودادگستری …
Workers organise against the regime first published in the Weekly Worker November 19 2009 More than 300 workers in the Abadan oil refinery gathered on Thursday November 12 to protest against non-payment of wages and bonuses, saying they had not been paid for more than three months. Hopi chair Yassamine Mather reports: The refinery authorities …
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