Iran

Execution League

Amnesty International has recently published its “league table” of rates of execution in countries around the world. 80% of executions worldwide were carried out by just one country. There are no prizes for guessing which... Yes, it’s China. 1700 people were murdered by the Chinese state last year. The other big offenders were Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US; those countries were responsible for 14% of executions. Gay and human rights activist Brett Lock (brettlock.blogspot.com) has done a useful analysis of the figures. He worked out at the rate of executions in each country relative to the...

Iranian workers' message to French workers

Message of Congratulations and Solidarity of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company on the victory of the workers, students and people of France. Date: 11 April 2006 Over the past few weeks, the people of Iran, the working people, students and our union, have been closely and with much interest following the news from France, hoping in our hearts for the victory of the just movement of the great workers' and students' unions and the people of France. The news of this movement was inspiring and exhilarating for the imprisoned union activists in Iran. The Syndicate of Workers...

Tehran bus workers step up protests

Bus workers step up protests as more strikers are confirmed sacked; Hayat Gheibi released following a hunger strike. Mansoor Hayat Gheibi, member of the executive board of Tehran bus workers' union, was released on 10 April following several days of hunger strike. Although out of prison once on 19 March, along with a number of other colleagues, Hayat Gheibi was re-arrested shortly afterwards. Last week he began a hunger strike in protest at his continued detention. However, union leader Mansoor Ossanlou continues to be detained since 22 December 2005 without any charges or access to a lawyer...

Support the Iranian workers!

Sam Azad is an Iranian born AWL member who was involved in events around the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and its aftermath. His story indicates the need to forge a movement in opposition to both war and Iran’s reactionary regime. To understand the current situation in Iran — the dominance of an Islamic regime and the dynamic of struggle — it’s essential to understand the recent history of the country. This history is indivisible from the development of capitalism in Iran. Iranian capitalism relied mainly on the development of the oil industry in provinces bordering Iraq. This, and the influence...

No to War! No to the Islamic Republic of Iran!

The people of Iran face two threats simultaneously: the prospect of imperialist American-led military action and sanction and the ongoing but accelerated repression and despotism of the Islamic regime in Iran. The threat of the occupying imperialist forces and their long-term plans for the region and Iran are better known in the west. The occupying capitalist forces know that the prospect of a military action or sanctions against Iran will harm the people of Iran but that has no place in their calculations. The occupying forces ultimately want a change from the above and Iraq are painfully...

Keep up the pressure to free Iranian bus drivers

Five imprisoned bus drivers, all members of the executive board of Tehran's bus workers' union, and Sattar Amini, a metal worker, were released on bail on Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 March. However, the head of the union, Mansoor Ossanlou, and Afshin Bahrami, an auto worker from Iran Khodro car plant, remain in prison. On Saturday Ebrahim Madadi and Yaghoub Salimi were greeted with flowers and embraced by their colleagues outside Evin Prison in Tehran. Three other members of the union’s executive, namely, Mansoor Hayat Gheibi, Gholamreza Mirzaee and Ebrahim Noroozi Gohari, along with Sattar...

Ossanlou and Bahrami still in jail

Five imprisoned bus drivers, all members of the executive board of Tehran's bus workers' union, and Sattar Amini, a metal worker, were released on bail on Saturday and Sunday. However, the head of the union, Mansoor Ossanlou, and Afshin Bahrami, an auto worker from Iran Khodro car plant, remain in prison. On Saturday Ebrahim Madadi and Yaghoub Salimi were greeted with flowers and embraced by their colleagues outside Evin Prison in Tehran. Three other members of the union's executive, namely, Mansoor Hayat Gheibi, Gholamreza Mirzaee and Ebrahim Noroozi Gohari, along with Sattar Amini, a metal...

Tuesday 14 March: 46 Tehran bus drivers sacked as protests continue

Bus workers protesting the laying off of hundreds of their colleagues for taking part in a strike on 28th January have been handed a list of 46 confirmed dismissals. The list includes five members of the union's executive who are still in prison. The state-owned company (Sherkat e Vahed) said the orders came from the regime's intelligence authorities. Earlier, workers had been told that a 'disciplinary committee' has been set up which is working its way through a long list of workers to be expelled for their participation in the strike. Around 1,000 detained bus workers, recently released...

Letter from the Tehran bus workers’ union - Release our leaders!

The following letter, addressing world labour organisations, was issued in Tehran on Monday 27 February by Tehran bus workers’ union: The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat e Vahed) is most grateful to all the world’s labour organisations for their unsparing support for our newly-formed organisation. The efforts and protests of Tehran Vahed Bus Company drivers and workers for their lawful, welfare [trade-union] demands, which have continued without let-up to this day, have included repeated visits to the Labour Ministry and [Tehran] Municipality, many rounds of...

A call for solidarity with Iranian women

An International Women’s Day statement from iranian feminists For International Woman’s Day the women of the “Campaign for Abolition of all Misogynistic Gender Based Legislation and Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran” have planned a daring protest which will start from Frankfurt on 4 March and end on 8 March in front of The Hague international court. This march will bring together activists of the Iranian women’s movement in exile as well as hundreds of other Iranian men and women who have joined hands to protest 27 years of repression against the women in Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The...

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