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IRANIAN rights campaigners in Britain have launched an appeal for solidarity with teachers on strike in their country over poverty pay and poor living conditions.
Since December 10, the teachers have waged a campaigns of sit-ins, strikes and demonstrations in towns and cities across Iran called by the Co-ordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Associations (CCITTA).
Tens of thousands of teachers and their trade union activists have gathered outside of the Ministry of Education in 25 provinces.
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
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
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI