1700 Iranian workers on hunger strike over unpaid wages – 1700 employees of Wagon Pars Company in Arak have gone on a hunger strike to protest the company’s failure to pay their wages and pension. ILNA’s Kar news agency reports that this is the ninth protest organized by the employees this year. The workers have… Continue reading 1700 Iranian workers on hunger strike
Category: Iran News
Azadi Stadium erupts against the regime
Imagine going to a Celtic vs Rangers derby and seeing both sides fans chant the same slogans, march together afterwards and defend each other from the police. You would probably think you have entered an alternative universe. In Iran that is what happened on October 2 at Azadi stadium when Perspolis (باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس) and… Continue reading Azadi Stadium erupts against the regime
“We are countless!” – Video of Sharif University Protests
Video of Sharif University Tehran from September 29 demonstrations:
Crepe Naz workers go on strike
Two hundred and fifty workers at the Crepe Naz textiles factory in Harsin County (in Kermanshah Province, western Iran) stopped work on 12-15 September to protest against not being paid their wages for the past four months. The Crepe Naz factory is affiliated to Mellat Bank and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of… Continue reading Crepe Naz workers go on strike
Two teachers arrested in Karaj charged with attempting to organize strike
The suppressive agents of the State Security Forces attacked “Shohaday-e Saypa” technical school in Qalam Street of Karaj arresting two teachers at 11:00am on Tuesday. They were charged with planning to organize a strike on behalf of part time teachers. They were taken to undisclosed location. The employees and teachers of the educational establishment in… Continue reading Two teachers arrested in Karaj charged with attempting to organize strike
Defiance and Resistance at Tehran University
Thousands of Tehran University students swelled the streets around the university’s main entrance and and Alameh Amini Auditorium where the Science Minister, Kamran Daneshjoo was supposed to be taking part in the opening ceremonies. Students ripped up posters and demanded the expulsion of the minister from campus forcing the security forces to fire tear gas… Continue reading Defiance and Resistance at Tehran University
Save Sheida Jahanbin!
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon her studies and… Continue reading Save Sheida Jahanbin!
‘Trying to pep up the opposition’
There is an interesting article in this month’s Economist about the student movement in Tehran, linked below. Trying to pep up the opposition Why the ruling ayatollahs want to keep Iran’s students under their thumb http://www.economist.com/world/middleeast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14382002
Khodro Workers Support Wagon Pars Workers
Statement from Iran Khodro Workers Workers of Wagon Pars Factory! The right to life is your inalienable right. The non-payment of several months of your wages is an obvious theft. The looters of workers’ wages must be sacked and put on trial. In order to achieve your rights, strike and protest are the only means… Continue reading Khodro Workers Support Wagon Pars Workers
Workers of the Wagon Pars Factory on Strike
Workers of the (the Wagon Pars Company was founded in 1974 and started manufacturing different types of rolling stock in 1984; it is situated in an area of 33 hectares in the industrial township of Arak, approximately 260 kilometeres from Tehran-Iran), in the continuation of their struggle for several months of their confiscated wages were… Continue reading Workers of the Wagon Pars Factory on Strike