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As mass protests continue in Iran, what are the lessons of the 1979 revolution?

December 23, 2022 Chris Moore

The current mass movement in Iran by women and the working class is taking place against the regime that came to power in the revolution of 1979. What lessons are there for today’s revolutionaries from […]

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Iranian regime increases repression – step up international solidarity with the street protests and strikes!

December 7, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

The revolutionary youth movement in Iran has been going on for well over two months. In these 11 weeks, more than 18,000 people have been arrested and more than 400 murdered by the regime. Now […]

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Iran: The revolutionary youth movement faces the challenge of organising!

November 8, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

For a 48-hour general strike, as the next step towards overthrowing the regime! 26 October saw the end of the 40-day mourning period after Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s death with protests taking place in 30 Iranian […]

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Iran’s revolutionary youth movement continues – prepare a general strike!

October 17, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany) and Robert Bechert (International Secretariat, CWI)

Events are moving rapidly in Iran. Despite massive repression, with over 200 killed, and thousands of demonstrators, and now strikers, arrested, increasingly revolutionary protests continue to grip practically the whole of Iran. These have lasted […]

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Iran: Mahsa Amini’s death triggers revolutionary youth movement

September 26, 2022 By Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Mahsa Amini’s death has plunged Iran into turmoil. Protests and clashes have taken place in at least 85 cities and towns. Protests, often led by young women, immediately began after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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