Solidarity 287, 29 May 2013

Iran: two leadership crises, one revolutionary solution

Some of the best-known candidates for Iran's coming presidential election have been banned from the poll by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. The bans reflect conflicts within the regime. The following is the English translation of the editorial of Militaant No. 58, March 2013. http://marxist.cloudaccess.net/polan/492-two-leadership-crises.html The newspapers and news bulletins are full of clashes between the Khamenei and Ahmadinejad camps. These two main representatives of the Iranian bourgeoisie's warring factions have even used their Nowruz [new year] messages to criticise each...

Greek workers continue to move left

Sofia Theodoropoulou, an Athens activist of the revolutionary socialist organisation Okde, spoke to AWL members at the Lutte Ouvriere fete near Paris on 18-20 May. The last elections in Greece, in May and June 2012, showed a big movement to the left in the country. That was expressed in much bigger votes for the left. That shift to the left is still in progress. Over the months since then we have not seen so many one-day or two-day general strikes, or demonstrations, but we have seen long-running sectoral strikes, weeks or months long, in steel [31 October 2011 to 26 July 2012], in the Athens...

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