Download as PDF Dear professor Harvey, We are a number of socialist political and social activists, writing to share with you our concerns regarding your scheduled speech in Iran and urge you to cancel it. You have been invited to give a talk at the “Women & Urban Life Conference” from December 11th through December 12th in one of the most neoliberalized cities of the world, namely Tehran, in which public spaces are highly controlled by the state and widely privatized over the recent decade. The conference is organized not by a university or an academic association, or even a non-governmental or people-based organization, but rather by the Tehran Municipality and will be held at the International Center for Conferences in the Tehran Milad Tower, which is one of the ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download as PDF “The corpus of the truths" has gathered us again in another corner of this world of exile. Same as the corpses lying silently under the ground, still voicing out a sharp and clear truth. A truth without borders, which has spread its omens over entire regions of cruel land; From blood-red Khavaran to Kobane and to glorious Cizre. While we held the "The Sixth Seminar about the Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran in the 1980´s", the blood of the Middle East was still running fresh in its streets and alleys. There are still women and men which, steps by step, in search of truth, are fighting for utopian ideas, the same ideas which authorities and sovereign regimes had thought they have suppressed to death forever. Yesterday ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download as PDF [A statement from workers committees in Iran] Shahrokh Zamani, the brave and tireless fighter of the Iranian workers movement has died in Gohar Dasht prison. The news was received with total disbelief and utter shock for all. In our view, whatever reasons the authorities may offer, the responsibility for his death lies completely with those have imposed conditions of slavery on the workers of Iran and have taken away their rights to organise and struggle for a better life and on those who throw honourable and valiant human beings such as Shahrokh Zamani into dungeons. The shocking news of his death in jail, without any prior history of illness, is not the first news of a loss of life by a prisoner, and given the current conditions ادامه‌ مطلب …

Class Nature of the Iranian Regime1 Torab Saleth, Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2007 Download PDF version The current Iranian regime which has been in power in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 revolution against the Shah, continues to confuse many observers as to its true nature. The intrinsic confusion lies precisely in the fact that it is indeed a post-revolutionary regime. The usual common sense of the “stagists”, from which we suffer a great deal within the anti-imperialist left, leads them to make the great discovery that anything post Shah must be a step in the right direction. This is as if there is no going back in human history. It is as if we have not seen, time and time again, that ادامه‌ مطلب …

Praxis: Republishing the following statment is along with our committment to the struggles of people in Kobane. Thereby, this is to support the action of the "Global Rally" and calling the other people and comrades for taking part in it. Hence, this republishment does not mean that we are completely agree with the short analysis given in the statement. In the following you will see the English and German versions of the statement. Farsi version could be seen here.   *  *  *   URGENT CALL FOR ACTION: Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê – for Humanity! Date for the Global Rally: 1 November 2014, 2pm ISIS launched a major multi-front military campaign against the Kurdish region of Kobanê in northern Syria. This is the third ISIS onslaught on Kobanê ادامه‌ مطلب …

  Kobani, another World A Declaration of 209 Social Activists of Tabriz in Support of Kobani Resistance   The ISIS’s craving to massacre has besieged the small town of Kobani. World powers, the global masters are speechless, and the absurd melody of human rights is suffocated in this corner of the world. The allied forces, so-called harbingers of bliss and democracy to the people here, are the mere watchers of ISIS onslaught and its brutality. Never will we forget how these allied forces, in the apparels of NATO and led by USA and Britain, wiped out the Iraqi Government and its complicated political and security machine in less than ten days a decade ago. How on earth are these Allies unable to annihilate the ISIS? In the name of war ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download PDF version December 24, 2011 1) In a society in which the collective struggle for change – for any number of reasons – is on the wane, conditions are created for hero-worship. Heroes are those who, in their own way and with a particular approach, express and reflect a part of the people's grievances and demands. Lack of social movements and lack of the processes of collective dissent creates a situation, in which, faced with the significance of reflecting and expressing (a part of) the collective grievances, it is not noticed how this 'incidental representation' came about or what its effective content is. People, who consider themselves powerless in the face of the ruling system, see their own un-actualized subjectivity realized in the existence and the acts of a ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download PDF version Einleitung In den letzten 11 Monaten haben wir eine starke Protestbewegung Geflüchteter und Asylsuchender in ganz Deutschland erlebt. Diese Proteste laufen fort und haben bereits bemerkenswerte Erfolge erreicht. Die Bewegung hat eine neue Organisationsmethode angewandt, nämlich die Organisierung von unten. Dieser Ansatz hat kaum Vorläufer im sozio-politischen Raum der Bundesrepublik der letzten zwei bis drei Jahrzehnte und konnte über die Mauern hinweg wirken, die Asylsuchende und Gesellschaft trennen, und so erheblichen Einfluss auf Öffentlichkeit und aktivistische Gruppen nehmen. Die neue Welle von Geflüchteten-Protesten war mit vielen Herausforderungen konfrontiert und hat, trotz ihrer wichtigen Errungenschaften, Fehler gemacht und ist an manchen Stellen von ihren Zielen abgekommen. Durch eine kritische Abwägung des bereits gegangenen Pfades, kann die Bewegung über ihre derzeitigen Beschränkungen hinausgehen und eine effektivere und bedeutendere Rolle ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download PDF version Introduction During the last 11 months we have witnessed a strong wave of refugees and asylum-seekers' protests across Germany. These protests are still ongoing and have accomplished considerable achievements up to now. The movement has used a new method of organizing, namely organizing from below. This approach, has hardly any precedent in the socio-political sphere of Germany in the past 2-3 decades and could reach out beyond the walls separating asylum seekers and society, thereby considerably impacting the public and activist groups. The new wave of refugee protests has faced many challenges and notwithstanding its important achievements, has made some mistakes and in some instances has deviated from its goal. Through a critical assessment of the path taken, the movement can go beyond its current limitations and ادامه‌ مطلب …

Download PDF version Two years have passed since the intensification and diversification of sanctions against Iran; among which delimitation of Iran oil purchase, embargo on bank system and international financial transactions, sanctions against key industries such as petrochemicals, deterrence of imports of production raw materials and tools, and deterrence of specialty goods can be mentioned. Oil sanctions, decrease of Iran's foreign income, and restriction of access to the income from oil sales have left the country with barter trades in order to import its staples; what practically puts Iran in the road to the tragic destiny Iraqi people faced by "Oil-for-Food Programme" after the first gulf war. Sanction on the central bank of Iran and boycott on currency transactions through SWIFT have resulted in 90 per cent disorder in foreign ادامه‌ مطلب …