A fresh start in Iran?
As the dust continues to settle on the row over the captured sailors, a much more interesting and potentially earth-shattering story is unfolding in Iran. In Solidarity 3/109 Paul Hampton examined the description of the workers’ movement contained in a new book, Iran on the Brink* by Shora Esmailian and Andreas Malmby. Mick Duncan spoke to these activists and authors, who here expand on some of the themes of their book. SE/AM: Iran has a long history of class struggle. The key dates of this history are : • 1906: the Constitutional Revolution. The Shah was forced to accept the formation of the...