{"id":2046,"date":"2012-04-17T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:16:08","slug":"stop-press-majid-tamjdi-to-speak-at-hopi-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Stop press: Majid Tamjidi to speak at Hopi school"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Majid Tamjidi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The veteran labour activist and political analyst Majid Tamjidi, who now lives in exile, will be joining our weekend school on Saturday April 21 at 2.30pm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He will address the vital issue of ‘How sanctions and the Islamic regime destroy the Iranian working class’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His intervention comes at a time when thousands of jobs are being lost. Many people have returned from the New Year holidays on April 1 to be told that their jobs have gone. Others haven’t been paid for many months. We know of\u00a0 many people who now have to move out of their homes, because they cannot pay the rent anymore.<\/p>\n

The Iranian theocracy has played a big part in destroying the once so mighty Iranian working class – but the sanctions are doing the rest. Some believe that sanctions are an alternative to war. But in reality, they are a form of war<\/em>designed to soften up a country for regime change from above. But the ruling elites in the US, the UK and Israel have no interest in establishing genuine democracy in Iran \u2013 or their own countries, actually. The interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan brutally underlined this.<\/p>\n

The official rate of unemployment in Iran stands at 12% (although most commentators estimate it is at least double that) and the pressure on the Iranian car industry perfectly illustrates how sanctions impoverish the working class:<\/p>\n