June 28, 2009 The morning after Iran’s June 12 presidential election, Iranians booted up their computers to find Fars News, the online mouthpiece of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus, heralding the dawn of a “third revolution.” Many an ordinary Iranian, and...
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Iran protests need a new direction – general strike now!
By Simon Hardy Tue, 23/06/2009 - 21:41 Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win For a workers and peasants government in Iran Mass protests against election result in Iran - the time has come Over the past two weeks hundreds...
International issues in the Iranian crisis
25 June 2009 President Obama’s declaration, in his June 23 press conference, that he was “appalled and outraged” by the Iranian government’s reaction to protests over Iran’s presidential election results represents an escalation of US pressure on the clerical regime...
Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived
Obituaries for the Islamic Republic of Iran appeared even before it was born. In the hectic months of 1979—before the Islamic Republic had been officially declared—many Iranians as well as foreigners, academics as well as journalists, participants as well as...
What is the true character of the demonstrations
Monday, June 22, 2009 Imperialists do not embrace true revolutionary movements The eyes of the world have focused on Iran since the June 12 presidential election. The turnout was exceptionally high, with 42 million people, 85 percent of the electorate, going to the...
Wishful thinking from Tehran
Since the revolution, academics and pundits have predicted the collapse of the Iranian regime. This week, they did no better guardian.co.uk Saturday 13 June 2009 I have been in Iran for exactly one week covering the 2009 Iranian election carnival. Since I arrived, few...
Open letter to Mir-Hossein Mousavi
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...
Mass protests erupt in Iran
Mass demonstrations have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime. According to reports over one million people have demonstrated in the capital Tehran and over a dozen have been killed in...
On the Iranian ‘election’ – They must be prosecuted!
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...



