The Islamic Republic confirmed the news of the killing of Ali Khamenei and a number of its military commanders and officials following the US-Israeli military attack on Iran on the morning of Saturday, 28 February. Official news agencies of the Islamic Republic announced that several commanders and government officials were also killed, including Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff; Mohammad Pakpour, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Defence Council; and Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics.
This morning Israel and US bombs fell on Tehran and several cities across Iran.
This is not an attack to “aid people” of Iran, but a clear attempt to push back the progressive and revolutionary movement of freedom-seeking people in Iran. It is all too evident that this is a war pursued by Netanyahu and the Israeli state to break out of the deadlock and isolation they have been facing from the global civilized humanity. This war is part and parcel of Israel’s “New Middle East” plan and that of its supporters, most prominently the United States.
A mob of fascists chanting support for Reza Pahlavi, waving their monarchist flag of Iran, and shouting homophobic abuse and slander at anyone outside their gangs, gathered outside the meeting of Stop the War Coalition and anti-war movement in Manchester this evening.
A mob of fascists chanting support for Reza Pahlavi, waving their monarchist flag of Iran, and shouting homophobic abuse and slander at anyone outside their gangs, gathered outside the meeting of Stop the War Coalition and anti-war movement in Manchester this evening.
The course of developments following the widespread protests against poverty and destitution has placed Iranian society in one of the most perilous periods of its political life.
Protests against rising prices and inflation quickly spread from Tehran’s bazaar and turned into a mass protest against the architects of poverty and misery, the Islamic Republic, extending to other cities, and to other sections of society and universities.
The course of developments following the widespread protests against poverty and destitution has placed Iranian society in one of the most perilous periods of its political life.
Protests against rising prices and inflation quickly spread from Tehran’s bazaar and turned into a mass protest against the architects of poverty and misery, the Islamic Republic, extending to other cities, and to other sections of society and universities.
The course of developments following the widespread protests against poverty and destitution has placed Iranian society in one of the most perilous periods of its political life.
Protests against rising prices and inflation quickly spread from Tehran’s bazaar and turned into a mass protest against the architects of poverty and misery, the Islamic Republic, extending to other cities, and to other sections of society and universities.
Tonight, Israel navy attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla and, up to this moment, has intercepted nine vessels carrying humanitarian aid, while there are growing fears that smaller boats may be sunk.
A Condolence Message To the Family, Friends, Comrades, and Colleagues of Azam Kamgoyan
With deep sorrow and sadness, we received the news of the passing of our dear friend, colleague, and feminist activist Azam Kamgoyan, who left us at a time when her voice, dedication, and profound humanity are needed more than ever.
With deep sorrow, we regret to inform all that comrade Azam Kamguian - a prominent figure in the Iran’s communist movement and one of the founders of the Hekmatist Party (Official Line), has passed away in London after a long illness. Her heart full of love for liberty, socialism and a better world ceased beating.
UK government’s gagging orders – a coverup for complicity in war crimes
Following the recent letter signed by several hundred staff at the Foreign Office, regarding the complicity of the UK government in the genocidal war that Israel continues to wage in Gaza and Palestinian territories, now there is crackdown on the staff at the Home Office. The staff are being put under pressure to fall into line with the UK government’s official policy of support for Israel.
Over the past week, following the full-scale military assault by Israeli forces on Iran, the situation in the Middle East has become unprecedentedly perilous. To date, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the state of Israel have refrained from disclosing much of the destruction, citing “military secrecy”. This is not only limited to destroyed buildings and sites, but also includes the true number of civilian deaths and the countless injured and wounded across many cities and regions.
On the Side of Trump’s Return to Power in America
America after January 20th
By: Soraya Shahabi
The apprehension of 77 protesters in London on Saturday 19 January has sparked fury among people who have been taking to the streets over the last 15 months against the genocide in Gaza.
Call for protest actions on November 29
against Israeli genocide in Palestine
For the past 78 years, the people of Palestine have continuously been subjected to crimes of aggression by the Zionist occupation, a systematic oppression of ethnic cleansing, genocide, organised state terrorism, murder, embargo, land and property confiscation, destruction of infrastructure, apprehension and torture in prisons and detention centres, etc.
In the early hours of Wednesday, July 31, 2024, Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas' political bureau and the head of Hamas' negotiating team with Israel, who was in Iran for the inauguration ceremony of President Pezeshkian, was killed along with one of his guards in his residence in Tehran by a missile attack. So far, the finger of blame has been pointed towards Israel. Besides the Islamic Republic, Hamas, and various Palestinian groups, many governments including those of Russia, China, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Qatar, Malaysia, Jordan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and others have condemned this assassination, calling it a dangerous move towards escalating tensions and war in the Middle East.
Recently there have been direct military actions taken by both the Israeli government and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Acts of war which irrespective of their duration and scale, have further fuelled the atmosphere of war in the region.
Today, it is clearer than before, that Israel, its military government, and Netanyahu, while carrying out genocide of the innocent people of Gaza, are only trying to escalate the war and military hostilities to other countries in the region, especially Iran, to get out of its domestic and international deadlock. Israel’s government has been trying to pull in NATO, the USA, and the European Union countries to the Middle East to relieve itself from international isolation, even among its traditional and historical allies in the Western societies.
By: Soraya Shahabi
Words cannot describe the situation that Gaza has been experiencing for the past months. In addition to the increasing and heartbreaking statistics that are released every day by their own "responsible" media! In addition to the dimensions of slaughter, destruction, and injuries to more than two million people that are conveyed to the world every day by these same media to keep everyone "updated," what the media and politicians in the West present as "normal" is the face of "dehumanization" that is imposed on the victims and survivors.
By: Soraya Shahabi:
Part one
Global Resistance Movement:
The ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Israeli government against the people of Gaza, which continues despite the initial foolish assumptions and the media propaganda of Western powers, led by America, regarding the control and "management" of it, contrary to the "congratulatory" statements of Hamas and its regional supporters after Hamas's attack and the "magnification" of the power of "resistance forces" and the imminent destruction of the "Zionist regime", all completely out of their control.
The Israeli government's war machine is claiming the lives of tens and even hundreds of innocent people every day. While the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was claiming that “We need to do more to protect civilians" during his visit, the Israeli forces bombed three hospitals, Al-Shifa, Gaza’s Indonesia Hospital and Al-Quds. The exact number of the dead and injured in these attacks is not yet known, due to the continued shelling and the attacks on ambulances. It is reported that In Al-Shifa Hospital alone, dozens of medical staff and patients have been killed and injured. Gaza is a scene of bloodbath and crimes these days! As per publicly stated announcements, the fascist government of Israel, as an extension of the brutality and criminality of the United States and its European allies, intends to put an end to all forms of life in this area.
The wide scale “Al-Aqsa storm” attack of Hamas on Israel on Saturday 7 October 2023 was the largest military attack since the “Arab and Israeli” war in 1973. The extent of this attack, the overcoming of Israeli military and recapturing of large, occupied land along Gaza, surprised not only the Israeli state but also everyone worldwide.
This attack affected the political scene of Middle East and the world, and the question of Palestine and its future, was once again put afore globally. With the attack of Israel on Gaza, this war entered a more bloody and more horrific phase.
Greetings to our courageous fellow workers in the auto industry.
We have been closely following your struggle for decent pay and conditions and your demands including the call for a shorter working week.
After years of putting pressure on workers to bear the burden of the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic and all the austerity measures, and even refusing to lift and reverse all of the so-called “temporary measures”, you have overwhelmingly stood together and decided to take industrial action. This strike is forced upon auto workers by the companies that have taken sky-rocketing profits and overfilled their pockets with the fruit of your labour. Your action is so justified, that despite all the lies and threats that have been announced through their media, they have not been able to sway the clear public support that you have both in the US and beyond.
With the call of unions and left parties and organisation against the French government’s bill to raise the retirement age, the whole of France has since March 16, become a battlefield where workers and generally people are protesting and expressing their anger against the Macron’s administration.
March the 8th, International Women’s Day, is a day when women and freedom seeking people across the world put forward their claim against the lack of right of women in the “modern” world. This year, however, this claim has taken a much more extensive and powerful dimension in Iran and across the world, following the onset of the feminine revolution in Iran.
Dear Ms. Walton
We, the undersigned, would like to express our sincere gratitude for your union’s efforts in a struggle for a fair deal for your members. We congratulate your first step in this endeavour which has made the Ford Government retreat from imposing Bill 28, and return to the negotiation table. We wish you success in your fight for a just society. Our organizations, its members and supporters are beside your union and activists in this struggle and support you to reach a fair deal.
The government finally had to concede and accept the halt to the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. This is a major victory for the civilised humanity. A victory for the civilised humanity and all those who have been continuously protesting against such an inhumane policy against the people who have fled war zones and persecution.
Long Live International Solidarity of the Working Class!
The main message of working class on the occasion of the international workers’ day is that workers should take the power from the ruling class. This is the day that working class announces its independence as a class that has no interest in the continuation of the miseries that have been brought upon humanity in this capitalist system. It is on this day that working class once again calls for unity in pursuit of freedom, equality and for a decent life worthy of human beings.
Contrary to the propaganda of the bourgeois governments and official media, the world is not facing the threat of a third world war or a return to the Cold War era. This time, the people of Ukraine, alongside the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and others, will pay the price for settling accounts among the world powers, in form of death, destruction, displacement, deprivation and suffering. They will become the victims of the confrontations to re-divide the world and redefine the areas of influence by these powers.
Over the past four years and especially since the beginning of this summer, the Iranian society has continuously been moving increasing closer to ridding itself from the Islamic Republic by the power of the masses – four years that has been filled with workers and mass protests, forcing the Islamic Republic to the brink of collapse and being overthrown.
Mass protests and struggles that have grown stronger and more demanding against not this or that “faction”, “individual” or “institution” of the Islamic Republic, but against the regime as a whole and the entire governing body and all its apparatus of power. These protests have become more resolved, stronger, broader and more forward-looking by the mass of people! The intervention of the working class and freedom-seeking masses in the protests has also wrapped up the destructive attempts of regional and global powers that under the guise of "liberation" of Iran, have been opposing the struggles against the Islamic Republic and the prospects of "freedom, prosperity and security" for people of Iran in the past 42 years.
After two decades of military presence of US and NATO, Taliban has once again taken the power in Afghanistan, and the people in this country are faced with terror of one of the most reactionary states in the world.
Despite the declarations of the US administration, the path of the return of the criminal drug gang of Taliban started with the negotiations of 18 months ago when Taliban was not only given recognition but also legitimacy and access to power, in total disregard of the people of Afghanistan.
Update on the strike action by oil, gas and petrochemical workers in Iran
It is 23 days since the strike action of oil and gas workers which has swept across Iran. Currently over 100,000 workers have joined the strike action over demands including pay and conditions, health and safety, 20 day working month. Given the rocketing rises in the prices of basic goods, workers are demanding automatic pay increases accordingly, and abolishment of the role of sub-contractors in the industry.
Workers at gas, petrochemical and oil refineries have gone on strike across Iran over pay and conditions, health and safety, and social welfare. This is a national strike in a sector that the Islamic Republic has officially categorised as one where workers are forbidden to have their own organisations!
Over the past four decades, the Islamic Republic has broken the structure of this sector, and set up a range of different companies, under several holdings. Through this process, large sections of workers were made redundant, leaving these companies and their agencies to recruit workers again with making majority of them as “contract”, “temporary”, “agency”, “un-official” employees. Every effort was made to break the rank of these tens of thousands of workers and spread disparity and competition amongst them. In addition, a frenzy media propaganda was orchestrated to spread such rumour as these workers are much better paid than any other sector in order to drive a wedge between them and the rest of the working class in Iran. Additionally, some sections have been located in the so-called “special zones” where workers at these zones are literally segregated to avoid any possible disruptions to for example oil extraction and in the shipping ports. The conditions in extraction sections are so harsh that workers generally have much shorter life expectancy, and are always in danger of immediate death due to poisonous fumes and gases.
During this week alone, there are reports of at least 60 Palestinians murdered, residential blocks destroyed, and more devastation by the Israeli troops as the racist policies of ethnic-cleansing are being carried out. Protest actions have been taking place in so many countries against the openly fascist actions of the Israeli state and its green light to the inhumane anti-Arab policy of expansion of settlements, and demanding a just end to this conflict.
Long Live International Unity and Solidarity of the Working Class!
May Day, the international workers’ day is upon us. The day that workers, across the globe, express their class solidarity against the capitalist system and its blind pursuit of more profit; a day of celebration of unity in struggle for a world rid of all discriminations and divisions based on race, gender, birth-place, nationality, and all the other divisions that have been enforced upon humanity.
May Day Celebration
International Workers’ Day is approaching. This year we celebrate May Day with workers activists from several countries.
Speakers confirmed to date:
The response of the Islamic Republic to the escalation of protests that have been taking place across Iran, has been nothing but further arrests and detentions. The recent widespread protests of the pensioners which has drawn popular support in practically all the major locations in the country, has also been met with the same response.
In their gatherings, pensioners have been expressing their resentment against the authorities and their total disregard for the poor standard of living of the people. In addition to the rocketing rise in the prices of the most basic necessities, the people in Iran have also suffered from the authorities’ total negligence in providing any protection for the people in the face of the miseries of the Covid-19 over the past year.
A growing wave of protests have swept across Iran. Thousands and thousands of workers from the oil, gas and petrochemical plants, as well as several mines and heavy industrial plants, … have gone on strike.
The coordinated strike action across so many oil and gas plants has trembled the foundations of the whole capitalist system in Iran and its Islamic state. This is the section of the working class in Iran that delivered the final blow on the Shah’s regime in the 1979 uprising and led to the popular slogan of “Our oil workers, our resolute leaders” echoing throughout the country. This is the sector that by merely deciding to call “tools-down”, can halt the supply of gas, making it impossible to even do the household cooking.
Four representatives and speakers of Haft Tapeh workers, Youseff Bahmani, Ebrahim Abassi, Mohammad Khanifar, Moslem Cheshm Khavar were arrested on their way home, as they left today’s protest action, according to the workers’ syndicate. The workers in the city have demanded their immediate release.
Thousands of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers have been on strike for a month now, demanding the immediate payment of all unpaid wages, reinstatement of sacked workers, and the return of the embezzled funds to the workers.
Following the murder of George Floyd, protest actions have been taking place across the world. These protests have not only shown the support for the mass actions in the USA, but also against the injustices that are raging in all corners of the globe.
The first reaction of the US Administration was to despatch the National Guard, imposing curfews, and arresting the protesters, branding them as “trouble makers”, “thugs”, “terrorists”, etc. But the protests have not ceased and have grown in scale.
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (1).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (2).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (3).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (4).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (5).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (6).jpg")
.jpg "Click to enlarge image 1 (7).jpg")