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Iran is particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the representatives in France of the Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran explained the catastrophic situation: «the hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking in resources; precarious populations are deprived of incomes; the (...)
We strongly condemn the re-arrest of Ismail Abdi and the dismissal of Mohammad Habibi from the Ministry of Education.
The members of the International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggle draw your attention to the situation of Ismail Abdi and Mohammed Habibi, Iranian teachers.
We (...)
An analysis of popular protests and grass roots demands
“No matter what the reason is for protests, whether they’re about flooding or the rise in fuel prices, there are always chants of ‘Down with the regime!’ The connection is very clear: we live under an oligarchy and a dictatorship in which we (...)
The assassination of General Ghassem Soleimani by an American drone on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad is undoubtedly another step in the confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States. The targeted assassination of Soleimani, ordered by Donald Trump himself, took place (...)
The continued threat of a shooting war is the main issue, but there are some others to be noted. The internal situation in Iraq and Iran remains unclear, the U.S. presence, threats of war and acts of war undermines the struggle for democracy and an end to corruption.
The decision by Trump not (...)
The eloquent statements and slogans voiced by the latest wave of mass protests in Iran seem to indicate that the uprising has entered a new stage. The efforts of the regime to derail the protests after the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani and to give the impression that the Iranian (...)
The statement issued by some of the students taking part in the protest movement today in Amir Kabir University (Polytechnic) in protest to the downing of the civilian aircraft by the anti-aircraft missiles of the Air Defence Unit, 12 January 2020, translated by Farhang Jahanpour. These days, (...)
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned over the extremely serious and dangerous escalation of recent conflict between the US and Iran.
Donald Trump’s reckless assassination of Qasseem Solemeini was an act of war, and a provocation to escalate tensions in the region into another (...)
Say no categorically and proactively to US warmongering and stand firmly in solidarity with the working class and the poor and oppressed people of Iran, and not the tyrannical Iranian regime, and help strengthen anti-capitalist, anti-poverty and social and economic justice movements in Iran and (...)
Everything Donald Trump has done since taking office has brought the United States closer to war with Iran. The assassination of Qassem Soleimani pushes the United States even further down that catastrophic path.
So let me offer this general observation three days into the new year: 2020 isn’t (...)
December 24, 2019 — Two female academics held in Tehran’s Evin Prison called for international solidarity as they announced that they would be denying food and water indefinitely as of Christmas Eve.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Iranian-born French academic Fariba Adelkhah are (...)
Mass protests kicked off in Iran last month over an increase in fuel prices, resulting in a government crackdown in which over 7,000 protesters were arrested and 200 killed. An Iranian trade unionist explains what these protests have looked like on the ground and why leftists should support (...)
The following is a statement by the Iranian leftist diaspora in the United Kingdom, France and Germany who have formed a loose coalition of academics and militants to express their support for the ongoing popular uprising in Iran.
This statement signed by more than 70 academics, militants and (...)
The recent round of spontaneous protests against the petrol price hike has to be contextualized as part of the “long-term revolutionary process” in Iran.
The 2017-18 uprisings changed the Iranian political landscape for good. Since then, the Islamic Republic has entered into an ‘organic crisis’ (...)
Iran Nationwide Popular Protests Call for Overthrow of Demagogic RegimePolice stations, banks, some public buildings, a few religious seminaries and many posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been set on fire. Demonstrators have blocked roads. Slogans include: “Gasoline is (...)
To the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran
Paris, July 27, 2019
Two months after the peaceful rally of the 1st May 2019, held in front of the Iranian parliament in Tehran, the pressure on arrested people does not stop (...)
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is concerned for the health of imprisoned women human rights defenders in Iran, including several who are ill or who have been on hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement; and calls for the immediate release of all jailed human rights (...)
Stopping the ominous drive toward a direct U.S. war against Iran demands opposition both to U.S. imperialism and to the repressive Iranian regime. It demands reaching out to labor, feminist, student and oppressed minority struggles in Iran and connecting them to labor, feminist and anti-racist (...)
During the past two weeks, the ongoing wave of protests and strikes in Iran have gained a new intensity.
On the one hand, the impact of the second and more cruel wave of the U.S. Trump administration’s sanctions on Iran is truly breaking the backs of the masses. Although the sanctions which (...)
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