Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Continuing crises, courageous resistance
Activists who are carrying forward the democratic struggle of the Iranian people for peace, human rights and social progress need our urgent solidarity, says JAMSHID AHMADI
Floral tributes and candles outside the Iranian Embassy in southwest London, as protesters take part in a demonstration, October 30, 2023
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
AMID the ongoing outrage being perpetrated against the Palestinian people right before the very eyes of the world, which quite rightfully dominates headlines internationally, the theocratic dictatorship in Iran continues to lurch headlong from one major crisis into another.
Its governing doctrine of “political Islam” has utterly bankrupted and failed Iran and its people and continues to do so. The recent presidential “elections” charade underlines the reality that the current political and socioeconomic model is completely unreformable.
Over 40 years on from the Islamists’ hijacking and defeat of the Popular 1979 Revolution, which ousted the Shah’s monarchical dictatorship, the theocratic regime now presides over a situation of ruin for most ordinary Iranians.
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The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
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
Codir general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE explains the solidarity campaign's priorities as it holds its AGM this weekend