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Thursday, 18 June 2009 Many youths in Iran have voted for Mousavi in order to change society. Mousavi himself, however, is a man of the regime and merely wishes to patch up the Islamic Republic and not bring about fundamental change in Iranian society. Here we publish...
Interview with Hamid Taqvaee (Worker-Communist Party of Iran) on the presidential ‘election’ in Iran Kazem Nikkhah: You have said that elections in Iran are a farce though things do happen during each election. Why? Hamid Taqvaee: Calling these events an election is a...
Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud reviewed by Sarah Sachs-Eldridge Based on a graphic novel memoir written by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is a treat. An animated film, it is unlike anything I've ever seen before, mainly, but not entirely, in...
Wed, 17/06/2009 Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward? Thirty years after the Iranian revolution, which saw the creation of the...
Was the defeat of the working class inevitable? No, argues Rebecca Anderson, it was because of the disastrous mistakes and betrayals of the various left-wing parties. How was it that despite the vanguard role the Iranian working class, the left played in events...
Socialist Web Site 22 June 2009 The protests in Tehran over the weekend have served to highlight the limited social base of the political opponents of the dominant faction of the Iranian clerical regime. The opposition movement has not only failed to draw in broader...