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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 […]

Iran

Iran: Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory workers return to strike action

June 25, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Since 14 June, workers at the Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory, near the Iranian city of Shush in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, have again taken strike action. Led by their independent trade union, the workers carried […]

Coronavirus

Iran: Covid crisis and workers’ struggles

May 28, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

According to the Iranian regime, towards the end of May, the number of people in Iran infected with covid-19 was over 140,000, and the number of people who have died as a result of the […]

Iran

Anger and renewed protests shake Iran: mass opposition can end the regime

January 15, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

Build a socialist movement that can offer an alternative to the rich elite, poverty and capitalism! A wave of anger at what is seen as the regime’s lying and incompetence after the tragic downing of […]

Iran

Suleimani’s assassination – Middle East thrown into turmoil

January 4, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

Shockwaves went around the world, and outrage spread in the Middle East, as news broke of Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and a key Iranian […]

Iran

Fuel rise sparks nationwide anger across Iran

November 22, 2019 Robert Bechert, CWI

Iran has been shaken by a new nationwide wave of anger and protests after a sudden overnight government announcement that imposed 50% fuel price rise on the cost of fuel. This measure, accompanied by a […]

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