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Workers’ struggle in Iran is not a call for invasion
Mass protests continue in Iran, but the threat of military intervention on top of sanctions only strengthens the theocratic regime. JANE GREEN considers the issues
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
MASSIVE popular protests in Iran, which began at the turn of 2017-18, have been the starting point for a struggle across the country’s industry and workforce, and show no sign of abating.
In addition to their pressing demands for unpaid wages and salaries, working people have also targeted the policies of regime.
Protests have continued to target widespread privatisation, corruption and the plunder of national resources.
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The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation