Weekly Worker 775 Thursday June 25 2009
A different regime
Through his election coup Ahmadinejad has initiated a military-style government, argues Mehdi Kia
The Islamic regime in Iran has entered an irreversible turning point. In the first instance, on the morning of June 13 2009 it was fundamentally different from what existed before. At the same time the events of the last two weeks have freed the opposition from much of its illusions in the possibility of reform within the regime. The way is now open for moving toward new horizons... more
Letters
Simple terms; Kill them; Decent burial; Gulag calling?; National joke; Gunned down; Grown-up politics; Twisted sporran; No offence
Beginning of the end
The Islamic republic is internally divided and in terminal crisis, writes Yassamine Mather
Statement from FTUIW
Two days ago the Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers issued this text
Litmus test for the soul
James Turley welcomes the declarations supporting the masses in Iran but warns against fake anti-imperialism
Call for general strike
Rahe Kargar says the protest movement must not be limited to street demonstrations, but that it has to take other forms
Organise united action
Ben Lewis reports on Hopi’s assessments and calls for the SWP to coordinate principled solidarity
Shameful silence on imperialism
The action day for workers’ rights in Iran on June 26 falls seriously short, writes Peter Manson
Marg bar Ahmadinejad!
Hopi recently organised a picket outside the Iranian regime’s Dublin embassy. Anne Mc Shane reports
Lenin and the United States of Europe
Jack Conrad takes issue with Robert Griffiths and the attempt to recruit Lenin to the No2EU camp
Blueprint for tyranny or freedom charter?
Lars T Lih takes a closer look at Hugo Chávez’s proposed gift to the US president
Working class heroes
David Douglass reviews David Bell’s The dirty thirty: heroes of the miners’ strike Five Leaves Publications, 2009, pp108, £7.99
Wilful little press
The
right of the popular classes to
disseminate radical, oppositional ideas has
always been contested by the ruling elite, writes Howard Roake
Lindsey workers show the way
This is a dispute that goes directly to the heart of what trade unions must be made into, writes Jim Moody
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