Tag: Iran
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The struggle for freedom in Iran
Tempest is hosting along with New Politics an event on the ongoing protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Armini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman killed while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.”
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When Iran is free
Amid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition…
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So that the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement does not die!
Tempest re-publishes a statement in solidarity with the political prisoners of the Iranian Regime.
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Striking echoes in Iran
Nasrin and Sam Salour report on the growing strike movement in Iran and analyze the historic dynamics and ironies in the strike, and what it means for the theocratic regime.
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Iran’s Bloody November
Sam Salour summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
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Council power in the Iranian labor movement
Nasrin and Sam Salour discuss how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.