Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CFDT, CGT, FSU, Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
NB : A farsi version is available at http://www.iran-echo.com/echo_pdf/04122023_fa.pdf
The news coming out of Iran is very worrying. Faced with rising social and popular anger linked to the economic crisis, the dictatorial regime is stepping up repression, taking advantage of the detour of (...)
, by Vahed Syndicate
Today, November 6, 2003, Labor activist Reyhaneh Ansarinezhad was transferred to Evin Prison to serve her outrageous four-year sentence.
Reyhaneh Ansarinezhad was arrested in her residential address by the Ministry of Intelligence on May 12, 2022, and after spending 78 days of detention and (...)
, by SHAHABI Reza
These days, many articles in the official media deal with the livelihood problems of workers, and sometimes they also interview some figures and retirees. The reflection of the intolerable situation of the workers in the official media, which had a habit of denying or belittling the workers’ (...)
, by Revolutionary Workers’ Union of Iran
October 21, 2023 - Protests by oil, gas and petrochemical workers have been taking place intermittently for months. The latest round of protests by oil workers started in October of this year. According to the reports published by the oil workers, on Monday, September 25, a number of laid-off (...)
, by AFARY Frieda
Iranian progressives, strongly condemn Israel’s bombing of the people of Gaza. While they emphasize the genocidal character of the Israeli siege of Gaza, they also strongly condemn Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israeli civilians, planned with the Iranian government’s extensive training and (...)
, by AFARY Frieda
Iranian progressives, strongly condemn Israel’s bombing of the people of Gaza. While they emphasize the genocidal character of the Israeli siege of Gaza, they also strongly condemn Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israeli civilians, planned with the Iranian government’s extensive training and (...)
, by ELHINNAWY Hind
The Nobel prize committee said Narges Mohammadi represented the struggle of many thousands of brave women fighting for their rights.
Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. (...)
, by AFARY Frieda, DUTCHAK Oksana
In this part of the interview the Iranian American socialist and feminist, translator and writer Frieda Afary speaks about the most recent feminist and anti-authoritarian uprising in the country as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the challenges for the global progressive movements. (...)
The Council of Global Unions (CGU), representing over 200 million workers through the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Global Union Federations (GUFs), and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), condemns the escalating violations of trade union leaders’ and (...)
, by KAMANGAR Shirin
Nearly a year after the mass mobilizations in response to the killing of Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, there is now a relative lull. It is therefore of critical importance to take this opportunity to analyze the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle and to (...)
, by FADAEE Simin
After seven decades of oppression, Iranians yearn for democracy and are willing to risk their lives to win it.
The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each (...)
, by FARAHANY Behrouz
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easier to draw some lessons from what has happened in Iran since last September.
Daily street demonstrations took place all over the country from September to January. This was not a sudden event that came out of nowhere. The experiences of the 2017 and (...)
, by LEROUGE Dominique, SALEMI Sara
Trade unions have no legal status in Iran. Their members can be dismissed, arrested or imprisoned at any time. One of the recognised organisations is the Worker House whose General Secretary was elected Vice-President of the WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) in 2022. We put a few (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
http://www.iran-echo.com/echo_pdf/dossier_09062023.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqG-dl46oMQ
, by SHAHABI Reza
Reza Shahabi is a member of the Board of Directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (VAHED).
Warm greetings,
I am Reza Shahabi, a bus driver in Iran, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (VAHED). I (...)
, by CGT, Collective / Multiple signers, FSU, Socialist Solidarity with the Workers in Iran (SSTI), Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
“Only the Iranian people are capable of laying the foundations for a new, modern society”: echoing a declaration signed by twenty organisations involved in the popular uprising in Iran, a large group of international academics, trade unionists and activists is expressing its support for this (...)
, by DOLLAR Katy
Iran’s dictatorship tightened restrictions on medical abortions and banned the free distribution of contraceptives in 2021 amid a moral panic around the birth-rate. Iranian women have been choosing fewer children in part due to economic crisis.
This has led to public health alarm about (...)
, by SADEGHPOUR Mohammad
In the past 232 days, the fierce crushing blows of the new revolution of the Iranian people are overturning the foundations of religious tyranny inside Iran.
At the time of writing, thousands of oil, gas and petrochemical workers have been on strike since April 11, demanding their basic (...)
, par SALEMI Sara
The intervention of Sara Salami, representative of Socialist Solidarity with the Workers in Iran at the 53rd congress of the CGT (March 2023)
First of all, I would like to thank the CGT for this invitation, thanks to which I am able to address you. I represent the association “Socialist (...)
, by GOLKAR Niloofar
On February 15th, twenty workers’ unions, feminists, students, and one human rights organization in Iran published the Charter of Minimum Demands of Independent Civil and Trade Unions of Iran, the first collective document from within the country, voicing their demands for a democratic and (...)
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