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The Council of Global Unions (CGU), representing over 200 million workers through the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Global Union Federations (GUFs), and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), condemns the escalating violations of trade union leaders’ and (...)
, by KAMANGAR Shirin
Nearly a year after the mass mobilizations in response to the killing of Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, there is now a relative lull. It is therefore of critical importance to take this opportunity to analyze the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle and to (...)
, by FADAEE Simin
After seven decades of oppression, Iranians yearn for democracy and are willing to risk their lives to win it.
The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each (...)
, by FARAHANY Behrouz
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easier to draw some lessons from what has happened in Iran since last September.
Daily street demonstrations took place all over the country from September to January. This was not a sudden event that came out of nowhere. The experiences of the 2017 and (...)
, by LEROUGE Dominique, SALEMI Sara
Trade unions have no legal status in Iran. Their members can be dismissed, arrested or imprisoned at any time. One of the recognised organisations is the Worker House whose General Secretary was elected Vice-President of the WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) in 2022. We put a few (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
http://www.iran-echo.com/echo_pdf/dossier_09062023.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqG-dl46oMQ
, by SHAHABI Reza
Reza Shahabi is a member of the Board of Directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (VAHED).
Warm greetings,
I am Reza Shahabi, a bus driver in Iran, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (VAHED). I (...)
, by CGT, Collective / Multiple signers, FSU, Socialist Solidarity with the Workers in Iran (SSTI), Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
“Only the Iranian people are capable of laying the foundations for a new, modern society”: echoing a declaration signed by twenty organisations involved in the popular uprising in Iran, a large group of international academics, trade unionists and activists is expressing its support for this (...)
, by DOLLAR Katy
Iran’s dictatorship tightened restrictions on medical abortions and banned the free distribution of contraceptives in 2021 amid a moral panic around the birth-rate. Iranian women have been choosing fewer children in part due to economic crisis.
This has led to public health alarm about (...)
, by SADEGHPOUR Mohammad
In the past 232 days, the fierce crushing blows of the new revolution of the Iranian people are overturning the foundations of religious tyranny inside Iran.
At the time of writing, thousands of oil, gas and petrochemical workers have been on strike since April 11, demanding their basic (...)
, par SALEMI Sara
The intervention of Sara Salami, representative of Socialist Solidarity with the Workers in Iran at the 53rd congress of the CGT (March 2023)
First of all, I would like to thank the CGT for this invitation, thanks to which I am able to address you. I represent the association “Socialist (...)
, by GOLKAR Niloofar
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 (...)
, by SHAHI Afshin
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 (...)
, by FADAEE Simin
Increasing numbers of Iranians want a government of the people, not a monarchy or an Islamic theocracy.
Women, life, freedom: protests against the oppression of Iranian women in Iran in Ottowa, Canada, September 2022. Taymaz Valley/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA (...)
, by DAFT Shireen
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 (...)
, by KIA Babak
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 (...)
, by ESFANDIARI Golnaz
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 (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
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 (...)
, by Independent trade union and civil organizations of Iran
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, (...)
, by Red Roots Collective
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 (...)
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