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Practical solidarity with the people of Iran
Codir general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE explains the solidarity campaign's priorities as it holds its AGM this weekend
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM: Protests over the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the ‘morality police,’ in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 2022
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
THE Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights (Codir) has a long history of supporting the struggle of the people of Iran. What are its current priorities?
GL: The Islamic Republic of Iran has been struggling with economic, social and cultural crises for a long time now. The theocratic dictatorship can’t offer any solution to the political, economic, environmental and cultural challenges the country is facing.
High unemployment and inflation, inequality, unprecedented environmental degradation, brain drain, repressive social conditions, rampant corruption, as well as the continuing threat of war are the realities facing Iran today.
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The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
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
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran