كلمة للمؤرخ الإيراني بيمان جعفري: الانتفاضة دخلت في عملية ثورية

في 7 ديسمبر الجاري، تحدث مؤرخ الحركة العمالية الإيرانية بيمان جعفري في جلسة عُقِدَت عبر الإنترنت تضامنًا مع انتفاضة “النساء والحياة والحرية” في إيران. نظمت الجلسة شبكة التضامن مع الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا، بالتعاون مع اتحاد جامعة كامبريدج، وأطراف أخرى. نشكر موقع الاشتراكي لهذه الترجمة On 7 December 2022, Peyman Jafari, a historian of Iran’s…

خیزش ایرانیان جهت‌گیری انقلابی پیدا کرده است: سخنرانی پیمان جعفری در مورد قیام ایران

آنچه میخوانید سخنانی است که پیمان جعفری، مورخ جنبش کارگری ایران، در جلسهی آنلاینی که در 16 آذر 1401 توسط Cambridge UCU، Cambridgeshire NEU، اتحادیهی دانشجویی دانشگاه کمبریج، Cambridge and District TUC، و MENA Solidarity برگزار شد، در همبستگی با خیزش «زن، زندگی، آزادی» ایران ایراد کرد On 7 December 2022, Peyman Jafari, a historian…

Why are young people in Iran participating in the uprising?

This article is based on a contribution to the online teach-out “Solidarity with the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran” organised by Cambridge UCU, Cambridge University Students Union, Cambridgeshire NEU, Cambridge and District TUC and MENA Solidarity Network on 7 December. Watch a video and read another article from the teach-out here By Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani,…

“Down with the Oppressor:” Iranian activists on why the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ uprising is against the whole regime

Mass protests and strikes once again swept Iran in the week of 5 December. Middle East Solidarity interviewed women’s rights activist Parinaz Partow and social activist and former political prisoner Haydeh Ravesh about the uprising which developed after demonstrations escalated nationwide in the wake of the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini…

‘COP has produced 3 decades of empty talk’: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene

In response to the UN COP27 climate talks in Egypt 7-18 November we are publishing a series of articles previewing a special feature in the next issue of Middle East Solidarity on the struggles for climate justice and democracy.>> Get active, go to https://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/cop27toolkit/ – take action for political prisoners in Egypt, including British-Egyptian activist…

Speakers announced: Sudan Solidarity conference 6 November

For nearly four years, ordinary people in Sudan have been engaged in a remarkable struggle to overthrow military dictatorship and extend democracy. They have built popular revolutionary organisations in neighbourhoods and workplaces and started reorganising independent trade unions and workers’ committees to win social justice in the midst of huge attacks on their living standards.…

“We are part of an international movement” RMT’s Mick Lynch extends solidarity to struggles in Iran and Sudan on 1 October protests

Thousands of striking workers and activists fighting the rising cost of living in Britain heard a strong message of solidarity from Sudan for their struggles on the “Enough is Enough” day of action on 1 October. Mick Lynch, general secretary of the rail and port workers’ union RMT received a message of support from TAM,…