Letter From a Striking Oil Worker in Iran
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 18 2021 12:19
Below is a brief note from a striking worker, Mahmoud from Assaluyeh. Not only is it a good illustration of how the leading strikers in Iran today are thinking and how their discussions are shaping up, it also gives us an insight into the potential of the working class movement when we see how far the workers have advanced. It is a window into the future, showing what could be created, not only throughout Iran but also beyond.
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Workers' Strikes in Iran: A New Wave of Struggle
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 20 2020 14:41
In December 2018 we wrote an an article entitled Workers' Strikes in Iran: This Time it is Different about the end of the magnificent strikes and demonstrations of the Haft Tapeh sugarcane factory workers. The promises which were made to the workers then were once again broken, and when they had not been paid since March 2020 they resumed their strike on 15 June. As we write they have now been on strike for over 2 months.
Workers in Stalin's Russia - Marie Louise Berneri
A short book written in 1944. Berneri outlines how socialism did not exist in the U.S.S.R. and how the lives of workers under state socialism was essentially the same as those who lived under capitalist democracies.
The Iranian Revolution at the Twilight of the Workers' Council
Submitted by mobarez on Jan 3 2020 16:18
A short history and analysis of the Iranian Revolution with a focus on the role of the working class and the rise and fall of the shoras workers councils.
Workers' Democracy is the Only Real Democracy
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 1 2019 12:45
The Trumps, the Bolsonaros, the Putins and the Xi Jinpings offer us capitalist barbarism and only the self-activity of the whole working class – the basis of working class democracy – can save humanity.
Workers' Strikes in Iran: This Time it is Different
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 2 2019 13:06
To see the new phase of the crisis, which began with the bursting of the speculative bubble in 2008, as just a repeat of the same decades-long pattern of boom and bust, is a mistake. It is a gross misunderstanding of the impasse that capitalism has come to today.
The Class Party in the Light of the Struggles in Iran
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 6 2018 10:30
The struggle can hardly prosper if it becomes isolated in Iran. The Iranian workers’ need for a useful political organization, to develop consciousness and guide struggles, is what we all need. Not in the future but now.
Iran: Workers' Strikes and Protests Continue
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 3 2018 13:31
Today the slogan of Bread, Jobs, Freedom, Soviet Organisation is to everyone's surprise, if not disbelief, resonating everywhere. The support of other workers, teachers, office workers has ignited hope in the hearts of millions of workers and toilers. Against the regime’s drumbeat for imperialist war, our slogan is “no war but class war”. As the class struggle intensifies, the balance of power in Iran is being questioned for the first time since 1979.
The Crisis and the Rise of Workers’ Militancy in Iran
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 21 2018 10:53
This time, it is the workers of the Haft Tapeh that after several years of strikes, struggle and enduring all the hardships, arrests and beatings of their representatives, have stepped up their struggle and reorganised themselves.
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