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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Fighting Fund

Keep you posted!

Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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