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February 1979: After the revolution<\/strong><\/a> February 1979: Women of the revolution<\/strong><\/a> Dogs, Fleas, Pigs ..and Sean Matgamna<\/strong><\/a> Nothing in common with those who excuse war <\/strong><\/a> Abominable Warmongering Left <\/a><\/strong> Learn the lessons of the Fedayee<\/strong>n<\/a> Lies, Obfuscation and Utter\u00a0Nonsense<\/strong><\/a> News Update: AWL leaders are still liars<\/strong><\/a> Excusing nuclear Armageddon<\/strong><\/a> We don\u2019t want war,\u201d say the AWL. \u201cBut if Israel attacks Iran, who are we to condemn it?<\/strong><\/a> Sons of Imam Matgamna<\/strong><\/a> Latest negotiations: war by other means<\/strong><\/a> Tehran changes reflected in anti-war movement<\/strong><\/a> Dancing to the US tune<\/strong><\/a> Third campism is a stinking corpse<\/strong><\/a> No Friends of Women<\/strong><\/a> Communists for the imam’s line<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Yassamine Mather continues her discussion of political islam. In this article she describes how the left’s illusions in Tehran’s ‘anti-imperialist’ foreign policies played into the hands of enemies of the working class<\/p>\n Sanctions hit workers, not theocratic regime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Yassamine Mather reviews the effect of US and UN moves against Tehran<\/p>\n Donkey economics and islamic martyrdom<\/a> Responding to Workers Power on\u00a0HOPI <\/a><\/p>\n Behind the lies of Petraeus<\/a> Basra shows anti-occupation momentum is growing<\/a> Allying with imperialism<\/a> Bringer of death, destruction and disorganisation<\/a> Galloway’s Iranian propaganda?<\/a> Defence of \u2018western interests\u2019<\/a> New Sanctions and More U.S. Threats Against Iran<\/a> Iran: No let up in US threats<\/a> Preparing for the Hopi launch conference<\/a> When Che’s Children Went to Iran <\/a> Who REALLY Holds the People of the World Nuclear Hostage? Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism<\/a> The 1979 revolution and the failures of the left <\/a> Filling a political gap Lies cannot stop imperialists Ditch the strategic illusion For principled solidarity <\/a> America’s Bleeding “Cakewalk”<\/a> From Stealing to Robbing: <\/a>A Post-Script to “No Blood for Oil!”<\/a> Making Cars in Iran: Working for Iran Khodro<\/span><\/a> US ‘double or quits’ – Mike Macnair Defiance grows Double standards in London and Tehran – Yassamine Mather<\/a> Will Tehran be next? – Yassamine Mather<\/a> Mobilise the dispossessed – Mehdi Kia<\/a><\/p>\n Not a mistake but a state crime – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Heads in the sand – Yassamine Mather on the Stop the War Coalition’s Scottish conference<\/a><\/p>\n Defend Iran’s workers, not its rotten regime – Yassamine Mather<\/a><\/p>\n Against imperialist war, for Iran workers – Yassamine Mather<\/a><\/p>\n Bush ups the ante – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Yassamine Mather explains why the campaign Hands Off the People of Iran has been set up<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Imperialism and method – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Imperialism versus internationalism – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Imperialism lives on – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Secrets and lies – Mike Macnair<\/a><\/p>\n Political Islam’s Relation to Capital and Class – Ardeshir Mehrdad and Yassamine Mather Journal Critique<\/a><\/p>\n Bitter Reality of political Islam: Lessons of 26 years of Islamic Power in IRAN – text of Yassamine Mather’s Yurukoglu lecture<\/a><\/p>\n Middle East: Imperial assault and tasks for the left – Ardeshir Mehrdad interviews Alex Callinicos<\/a><\/p>\n Political Islam – Capital and Class – Ardeshir Mehrdad and Yassamine Mather Middle East:Cradle or grave of the Empire – Ardeshir Mehrdad Iran’s workers need support Weekly Worker 639<\/a><\/p>\n Deliberate mistake? Why did Iran’s president demand that Israel be “wiped off the map”?<\/a><\/p>\n Against war, for workers’ rights Weekly Worker 623<\/a><\/p>\n Sabre-rattling threats – Weekly Worker 593<\/a><\/p>\n Workers Left Unity Iran – The anti war movement, Hezbollah and the issue of political freedoms<\/a><\/p>\n Fearing for the worst Weekly Worker 583<\/a><\/p>\n Dangerous adventure – Iran’s Nuclear industry<\/a><\/p>\n Basra quagmire – Yassamine Mather – Weekly Worker 613<\/a><\/p>\n The fake left looks to change from above Weekly Worker 582<\/a><\/p>\n Alliance Against War in support of Iranian workers’ struggles May 2006 \u2013 published in Variant and Workers Weekly<\/p>\n Workers Left Unity Iran calls for participation in 18 March Worldwide protests against the war<\/a><\/p>\n Reject sanctions and the mullahs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Open letter to the anti-war movement from Workers Left Unity Iran<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWhen Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Tehran on 1 February 1979, a brief period of freedom for Iranians came to an end. Hands Off the People of Iran chair Yassamine Mather <\/strong>looks at the development of the Islamic Republic’s suppression of dissent<\/p>\n
\nThirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Hands Off the People of Iran supporter Azar Sheibani<\/strong> looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror<\/p>\n
\nVicky Thomson<\/p>\n
\nInterview with a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality
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\nMosh\u00e9 Machover<\/p>\n
\nYassamine Mather<\/p>\n
\nTami Peterson<\/p>\n
\nVicky Thomson<\/p>\n
\nMark Fisher and James Turley<\/p>\n
\nVicky Thomson<\/p>\n
\nYassamine Mather<\/p>\n
\nFollowing the Geneva talks, the threat against Iran is as real as ever, argues Ben Lewis<\/p>\n
\nBen Lewis looks at the newly formed National Peace Council in Iran and warns against tailing such a supine political initiative<\/p>\n
\nSuddenly, the SWP-backed Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran has no problem in criticising the Iranian government, writes Nick Jones<\/p>\n
\nJames Turley argues that the left, rather than twisting words, must approach defeatism creatively<\/p>\n
\nYassamine Mather continues her discussion of political islam by examining the women\u2019s movement in Iran, its achievements and contradictions<\/p>\n
\nYassamine Mather looks at the theocracy\u2019s political economy<\/p>\n
\nWhat is the truth about Muqtada al-Sadr\u2019s connections with Iran?
\nYassamine Mather looks at al-Sadr\u2019s pragmatic opportunism and puts the record straight<\/p>\n
\nWhat lies behind the spin about the Iraqi \u2018government\u2019 attempting to take back control of Basra? Mike Macnair examines the issues.<\/p>\n
\nHopi attends, but does not endorse pro-imperialist protest. Mark Fischer reports.<\/p>\n
\nMarch 20 is the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion. Mike Macnair examines the features of present-day US imperialism and sets out once again the basic tasks of the workers\u2019 movement<\/p>\n
\nThe Respect MP has turned on supporters of gay rights in Iran and falsely accused us of warmongering, says Peter Tatchell<\/p>\n
\nHopi’s Yassamine Mather trounces Nick Cohen in debate, reports Mark Fischer<\/p>\n
\nBy Larry Everest<\/p>\n
\nProblems facing the peoples of Iran and West Asia are rooted in the contradictions of 21st century world capitalism, says Yassamine Mather<\/p>\n
\nInterview with Ben Lewis, member of the steering committee of Hopi<\/p>\n
\nby Reza Fiyouzat<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Why a U.S. Attack on Iran Must be Stopped.
\nIn his infamous \u201cAxis of Evil\u201d 2002 State of the Union address, Bush put Iraq and Iran in the bullseye of the next phase of the \u201cwar on terror.\u201d He outlined what were to become the whole set of concocted lies about Iraq\u2019s \u201cWMDs\u201d\u2014lies used to justify a war that has brought about\u2014according to documented estimates\u2014over a million deaths and created four million internal and external refugees.<\/p>\n
\nby Samir Amin. All the currents that claim adherence to political Islam proclaim the \u201cspecificity of Islam.\u201d According to them, Islam knows nothing of the separation between politics and religion, something supposedly distinctive of Christianity.<\/p>\n
\nThis document was written in early 1983 by Saber Nikbeen, (Torab Saleth) then a member of the International Executive Committee of the USFI (United Secretariat of the Fourth International, the most well-known leader of which was Ernest Mandel), as part of the pre-world congress discussions. The author of this document was very critical of the USFI for a de facto support of a grouping that had\u00a0 illusions regarding\u00a0 the Khomeini regime.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>November 1 2007. Yassamine Mather of Hopi spoke to Mark Fischer after the Stop the War Coalition conference on October 27 2007<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>In her speech to the October 27 conference of the Stop the War Coalition, Somaye Zadeh of Campaign Iran tried to counter the imperialist lies about the Tehran regime with misinformation of her own. Yassamine Mather insists upon the truth<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Pro-Tehran apologetics in the Stop the War Coalition represents a kind of nostalgia for the \u2018anti-imperialist front\u2019, writes Mike Macnair<\/p>\n
\nUnite in opposition to both imperialist war and theocratic rule, says Yassamine Mather<\/p>\n
\nMarch 2007. The campaign of misinformation by the Bush administration is already under way against Iran, writes Cyrus Bina<\/p>\n
\na talk given by George Caffentzis at Stony Brook University on March 27, 2003<\/p>\n
\nApril 2007. Critique article by David Mather, Yassamine Mather & Majid Tamjidi<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>March 16 2006. Three years after the invasion of Iraq, and with Iran now in US sights, \u2018Out now!\u2019 must still be our main demand, writes Mike Macnair<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>May 3 2007. Immediately after the London May Day demonstration, Hands Off the People of Iran held a public meeting near Trafalgar Square. Hopi activist Torab Saleth introduced the discussion<\/p>\n
\nApril 12 2007. In the furore over the capture of British sailors and marines and their theatrical release by Iran\u2019s islamic regime, a number of essential points seem to have been forgotten by the British media, and even by so-called anti-war broadsheets, says Yassamine Mather<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 22 2007. Every day the media publish new information about plans for a military attack on Iran and, although many of these stories are simply recounting previous revelations, there is no doubt that the danger of (limited or extensive) military action by the US is now very real. Yassamine Mather reports<\/p>\n
\nVariant 25 Spring 2006<\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘Ahmadinejad – Myth and Reality’ Variant Autumn 2006<\/a><\/p>\n