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Iran

Iran: Cuts, corruption and the campaign for the freedom of political prisoners

June 14, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sol (CWI Germany)

Iran has not been at rest since the beginning of 2022. Amongst the protesters were teachers who, under the leadership of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, led a campaign of protests and […]

Iran

Iran: Stalled nuclear deal talks and rising industrial struggles

March 29, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

The war in Ukraine and the further twist it has given to the sharpening of international relations is, amongst other things, now seemingly blocking a conclusion to the nuclear talks in Vienna. These discussions concern […]

Iran

Iran: Oil and gas workers strikes greets new president

July 7, 2021 Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International, CWI

Almost immediately after last month’s Iranian presidential election, a national strike began in the country’s strategically important oil, gas and petrochemical sector and is still continuing. Organised from below through unofficial bodies, this strike has […]

Iran

Iran’s presidential election: Urgent need to build an independent workers’ party

June 21, 2021 Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)

Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president, openly described in Iran as ‘engineered’, revealed the regime’s weak popular support. The mechanics of his ‘victory’ were those of rulers fearful of the population. Facing a rising tide of […]

Iran

Iran: ‘Joint May Day statement’ a significant coming together of workers’ organisations

May 28, 2021 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Recent days have seen more strikes and protests by workers in Iran, more signs of the general revival of the workers’ movement there since 2017. The May Day statement (below) issued by 15 Iranian workers, […]

Iran

Iran: Haft Tappeh sugarcane factory re-nationalised – struggle for workers’ control and management must continue!

May 10, 2021 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported on 8 May that the country’s largest sugarcane factory, Haft Tappeh, has been re-nationalised. The factory was privatised in 2015. Since then, the workers have been fighting for its […]

Iran

Iran: Release the Haft Tappeh Workers’ Union representatives!

November 2, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

On 30 October, four representatives of the Haft Tappeh Workers’ Union were arrested by the Iranian regime’s security forces and imprisoned in the Shush detention centre. The arrested workers are Ebrahim Abasi Monjezi, Yousef Bahmani, […]

Iran

Strike wave marks new stage in revival of Iranian workers’ movement

September 4, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Since the beginning of August, Iran has seen more and more workers from different sectors follow the example of the Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers who went on strike on 14 June. These workers started […]

Iran

Iran: Oil, petro-chemical and heavy equipment workers join sugar workers taking strike action

August 4, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

With a strike involving thousands of Haft Tappeh sugarcane refinery workers about to enter its third month, other significant strikes began in Iran at the start of August. Some were in the oil industry where […]

Iran

Iran: Continued international solidarity with protests necessary

July 17, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Small steps back by the regime is combined with continued repression Events are beginning to speed up in Iran again as protests increase. A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane […]

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