{"id":1018,"date":"2010-01-25T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2010-01-25T19:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:08:30","slug":"week-of-action-february-13-20-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Week of action, February 13-20 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHands Off the People of Iran is launching a week of action in solidarity with the grassroots opposition movement in Iran, running from Saturday, February 13 to Saturday, February 20. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This will see fundraising events, protest actions and meetings. Comrades around the country are coming forward with ideas for activities that range from pickets and petitions, to benefit meals for a few comrades and friends. We want to mobilise every<\/em> Hopi supporter to participate in the week, at whatever level their circumstances and time constraints allow. (And make sure you send us small reports and photos for our website!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

February is a key month in the Iranian political calendar. The Shah\u2019s regime imploded in February 1979. Every year since, the government has initiated official state-backed marches and rallies to celebrate the revolution and to bolster the myth that its social and political dynamic was simply \u2018Islamic\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However this year, in the aftermath of the huge upsurges post the rigged presidential elections in June 2009, the regime will face stiff opposition. There will be counterdemonstrations organised by both the Green reformists such as the western media darling Mir-Hossein Moussavi and by more radical trends within the movement, forces that are subject to a media blackout.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In their different ways, both these reformists and the elements to their left will challenge the theocracy for the legacy of 1979. This difference is vital, however. The likes of Moussavi charge that the regime has lost its way and deserted the \u2018true\u2019 Islamic nature of the revolution. For the left, 1979 could have had a very different outcome. That is, a victory for the forces of popular democracy from below and fundamental social change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Iran is in turmoil and the opposition is utilising every opportunity to protest and organise. These counterdemonstrations will also commemorate the 40th<\/sup> day since the death of the leading reformist cleric Ayatollah Montazeri and also the murder of protesters in the Ashura demonstration in late December. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This poses important tasks to the anti-war and solidarity movement in this country and beyond.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

First and foremost, we have to dramatically step our work against any imperialist intervention against Iran. Military action would be a disaster for the burgeoning movement. It would disrupt and disperse the masses just at a time when we are beginning to see the potential for a new Iran, shaped by the democratic and militant action of millions of \u2018ordinary\u2019 Iranians themselves.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sanctions \u2013 the so-called \u2018soft\u2019 option \u2013 have the same demobilising effect, if anything in a more insidiously poisonous way. When working people have to spend their time individually begging, bartering or borrowing their way round shortages of basic foodstuffs and amenities, their ability to collectively impose a progressive agenda on society as a whole suffers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, we have to see off the threats of imperialism. We have to give the \u2018red\u2019 strands within the Green movement in Iran the space to survive and thrive. In contrast to some mistaken comrades in the anti-war movement, Hopi knows that the real Iranian anti-imperialists are amongst the millions of protesters on the streets, not in the corrupt and deeply compromised echelons of the clerical bureaucracy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to our anti-war work, we must also supply these comrades with the oxygen of publicity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The bulk of the mainstream English or Persian\u2019s media reporting of the upsurge since June 2009 has implied that the \u2018Green movement is a homogeneous bloc, where the masses are little more than \u2018walk-on\/walk-off\u2019 bit-part players in a drama directed by Moussavi and the reformists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In truth, these \u2018leaders\u2019 have struggled to keep up with the movement. Actions and slogans on the ground have gone far beyond even the maximum demands of the reformists.\u00a0 Since at least September \u201909, important elements amongst workers, students, women and youth have called for the overthrow of the entire regime. While the Green leaders repeated assert their loyalty to the existing order, militant slogans from the movement they purport to lead demand the overthrow of the supreme religious leader, Khamenei and the entire apparatus of Islamicist rule and oppression.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

None of this finds reflection in the mainstream media. The BBC and the western news outlets are the propaganda wing of the imperialist campaign. Sanctions and the threat of military strikes serve the purpose of undermining the Ahmadinejad-led regime and preparing a \u2018colour revolution\u2019 a la<\/em> Georgia or the Ukraine, headed by the likes of Moussavi. The BBC\u2019s selective silence about the evolving politics of the real movement beneath this \u2018hero\u2019 makes it the propaganda arm of that reactionary campaign. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We will target the BBC for protest during the week of action. Details of protests and activities are being finalised as this bulletin goes out. We will keep comrades posted, but check regularly on our website for updates. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Events are planned in:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

London: <\/strong>Call 07792282830 or email ben@hopoi.info<\/a>
\nSheffield: <\/strong>Call 07525437155 or email jazz_tedford@yahoo.com<\/a>
\nGlasgow: <\/strong>yassamine.m@googlemail.com<\/a>
\nWales:<\/strong> Boneshrink@aol.com<\/a>
\nIreland: <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Anne@hopoi.info<\/a>, 086 23 43 238
\nManchester: <\/strong>hopimanchester@googlemail.com<\/a>, <\/a>07883924372<\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWhitworth Arms, 508 Moss Lane East, Rusholme, Manchester, M14 4PA.<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
\nFighting Imperialism and Fighting Repression Day School<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday February 13 @ 1pm
\nUniversity of Manchester Students\u2019 Union Meeting Room 1<\/p>\n

Meeting 1: Imperialism and Iran
\nWith speakers from Glasgow University and HOPI<\/p>\n

Meeting 2: The Iranian Revolution 1979 and Today
\nWith speakers from HOPI and the Green Party<\/p>\n

FUNDRAISER
\nStarts at 6pm<\/p>\n

Whitworth Arms
\n508 Moss Lane East, Rusholme, Manchester, M14 4PA<\/p>\n

There will be drinks and food all night to help raise money for those in struggle.<\/p>\n

**No Cameras will be permitted at this event**<\/p>\n

If you want to help out or find out more please email hopimanchester@googlemail.com or call Chris on 07883924372<\/p>\n

Organised by Hands Off the People of Iran & Iranian Students and University of Manchester<\/p>\n


\nIreland<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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– January 28, 7.30pm, Boole 3, Main Campus, University College Cork, College Road:
\n<\/span><\/span>“Siahkal 1971 – Tehran 2010 the history of the new left in Iran”.
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Hosted by University College Cork Historical Society
\nYassamine Mather, Iranian political activist and writer will trace the emergence of a movement of extraordinary significance in the struggle for democracy in Iran today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– February 9
\nHopi discussion and organising meeting Solidarity Books, Douglas Street, Cork
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Come along and help to plan our week of action.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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