Latest editorial
AN IRANIAN human rights organisation is calling on British trade unionists to stand with workers at the “epicentre” of the coronavirus crisis in Iran.
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) said the theocratic regime had refused to impose protective measures in workplaces or provide financial support to help businesses remain afloat while in lockdown.
“This means that workers are coerced into going to their workplaces despite the dangers rather than being left jobless, destitute and hungry,” the group said in a statement.
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
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
