Tehran regime repression fails to stop protests and strikes in Iran

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Striking workers at Isfahan iron smelting factory Nov. 26. Unionists have waged a series of strikes against boss, government attacks alongside widespread protests sweeping Iran.

Despite the death of more than 400 protesters and the arrests of thousands, the bourgeois clerical regime in Iran has not been able to stop working people and youth from joining protests and strikes that have swept the country since…


Book fair marked by solidarity with Iranian protests

Vol. 86/No. 46 - December 12, 2022
Book fair marked by solidarity with Iranian protests

SULAYMANIYAH — While browsing at the Pathfinder booth at the book fair, student Nwa Abdullah described a Sept. 28 demonstration here, above, in solidarity with protests in Iran, shortly after the killing of Jina Amini. The demonstration was attacked by…


Protests, strikes spread across Iran despite attacks by regime

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Miles de manifestantes en Mahabadi, Irán, en funeral de Kamal Ahmadpour 19 nov., un día después que lo mató la policía. Corearon, “¡Kurdos, baluches, azeríes, libertad e igualdad!”

In a failed attempt to quell massive protests by working people and youth, the Iranian regime sent convoys of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops and paramilitary Basij thugs to the predominantly Kurdish northwestern region of the country over the Nov.…


Workers, youth call new strikes, protests in Iran

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Thousands of Iranian students, shopkeepers and workers heeded the call for protests Nov. 15-17 against the reactionary capitalist regime’s trampling on democratic rights. “The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions once again honors the memory of the young people,…


Two months in, support grows for Iran protests

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

In the face of the “nationwide protests and uprising of the people of Iran for almost two months,” the Teachers’ Union in Kurdistan province stated Nov. 7, the Iranian government’s “use of naked violence has so far resulted in hundreds…


Gov’t violence fails to stop Iran protests, int’l solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

“Do not come to the streets. Today is the last day of riots,” Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, said Oct. 29, threatening protesters across the country that continuing their actions “will bring no happy…


Iran protests expand, win support, challenge regime

Workers’ strikes add momentum to the protests
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
Huge crowd Oct. 26 at cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdish region of Iran, hometown of Mahsa Amini, 40 days since her death in the hands of Tehran’s “morality” police. Protests keep growing.

Teachers across Iran joined three days of mourning and then held “sit-ins” at elementary and high schools across the country Oct. 23 and 24 in response to the call by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Union Associations “to…


Iran protests keep growing as students, workers join

Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
Workers at Haft Tappeh sugar cane mill meet Oct. 18 to demand higher wages, reinstatement of a dismissed union representative. The sugar cane workers union has also called for release of imprisoned union members and protesters.

Despite brutal attacks by police, the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij thugs, and the arrests of thousands, daily protests across Iran have continued for more than 30 days and are still going strong. The protests began…


Students, oil workers join protests against Iran’s rulers

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022
Strike by oil workers in Asaluyeh, southern Iran, Oct. 10. “Oil workers will not be silent and passive in the face of the suppression and killing of the people and will protest together and in unison with the people,” wrote Organizing Council of Oil Contract Workers.

In face of attacks by government thugs, protests have spread across Iran since the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested three days earlier by the regime’s hated “morality police” for allegedly violating…


Protests in Iran grow over death of Mahsa Amini, gov’t repression

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Teachers involved in school sit-in in Shiraz, Oct. 4 supporting sweeping protests over death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman, after her arrest by Iran’s “morality police.”

Despite brutal repression by government forces, protests against the police killing of Mahsa Amini have spread to all of Iran’s 31 provinces, and among working people from the country’s main nationalities and religions. Amini, a Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16,…