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On February 15th, twenty workers’ unions, feminists, students, and one human rights organization in Iran published the Charter of Minimum Demands of Independent Civil and Trade Unions of Iran, the first collective document from within the country, voicing their demands for a democratic and just (...)
The Iranian government has announced several arrests in connection with the reported poisoning of more than 7,000 schoolgirls in more than 100 schools around the country. Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has condemned the poisonings, saying perpetrators should be “severely punished”.
Yet (...)
Recent media attention has drawn global focus on an escalating number of Iranian schoolgirls falling ill over the past few months because of suspected chemical attacks. Accounts differ, but many reports cite more than 1,000 cases of poisoning at schools across Iran. At least 58 schools in ten (...)
As the uprising enters its sixth month, Iran is plunging further into a deep economic and social crisis. But the struggle against the regime continues.
The fall of the national currency seems endless. The population’s mobilizations against the cost of living are multiplying. If political (...)
For months, antiestablishment protesters have called for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical regime and demanded greater social and political freedoms.
Now, opposition figures and civil society groups inside Iran have shared proposals that would transform or even replace the current theocratic (...)
20 independent trade union and civil organizations in Iran put forward their most basic demands in a joint statement.
The demands presented in this charter encompass a range of social, political, and economic changes necessary for Iran. These demands seek to establish rights such as free (...)
Twenty independent organizations and unions of Iranian teachers, workers, women, students and retirees have issued the following statement of minimum demands:
To the Honorable and Open-Minded People of Iran:
On the forty fourth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the economic, (...)
This statement was read out by the Red Roots Collective at the Iran demonstration in Manchester yesterday 11 Feb 2023.
We are the voice of workers, oppressed and subaltern! We reflect the power of powerless people! But this reflection is not simply a voice. Within the of voice of voiceless (...)
"Throughout the years, and particularly in the past two decades, the Islamic regime has faced consecutive movements and revolts by different sections of the population in reaction to a wide variety of socio-economic and cultural problems. The September 2022 death of the young Kurdish woman (...)
Since the murder of Jina-Mahsa Amini on September 16 by the morality police, a popular uprising unprecedented in its scope, depth and duration has shaken the Islamic Republic of Iran. In less than 48 hours, the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” spread throughout the country, then around the world. (...)
Labor organizing is severely restricted in Iran but independent unions have actively backed demands for women’s rights.
January 16 marked the fourth month of a new uprising in Iran, which began with protests against the arrest and police murder of a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, for (...)
THE THREE DAYS of protests announced by Iranian university students early in December to mark Student Day was a clever choice. They knew it was not going to be supported by royalists. Student Day commemorates three leftwing students, Ahmad Ghandchi, Shariat-Razavi and Bozorg-Nia, who had been (...)
It was July 2020, following the protests of the previous years, the retired spontaneously organized a rally in front of the Social Security Organization and demanded an increase in salaries according to inflation, efficient insurance and free health care system, etc. thanks to their continuing (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF) is pleased to host the appeal launched by Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran (SSTI). Don’t forget to write “Solidarity Iran” on your checks or money transfers, as the non-dedicated donations we receive go to the Permanent Solidarity Fund for Asia of (...)
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ON OCTOBER 16, 2022 Suzi Weissman interviewed Yassamine Mather on the demonstrations following Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s murder for Jacobin Radio. Arrested by Iran’s morality police for wearing a hijab too loosely, Amini was beaten to death and died in the hospital on September 16.
The (...)
The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic State’s history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution.
On July 14, 1789, when the revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille in France, Louis XVI asked the Duc de La (...)
The murder of Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September by the “morals police“ for an ill-adjusted lock of hair triggered a vast popular movement of protest and rejection of the Islamic Republic.
This murder was the “last drop of blood” that broke the camel’s back. For nearly 60 days, women, young people, (...)
After more than 50 days of demonstrations, the mobilization continues in Iran, in the face of a destabilised regime that is strengthening its repressive measures every day.
When it was established in 1979, the Islamic regime declared that it wanted to put an end to the domination of the (...)
We, Ukrainian feminists, express our solidarity with Iranian uprising, triggered by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian moral police. Thousands of women responded to this crime by going out on the streets, cutting their hair and publicly taking off and burning hijabs as a symbol of (...)
In support of the uprising in Iran, a coordination of left-wing and feminist groups has been formed in France, bringing together several collectives such as the feminist queer and anti-capitalist collective in which Sarah, interviewed by Diego Moustaki for l’Anticapitaliste, participates.
Can (...)
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