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Iran, December 27

2009-12-28T17:19:00.000-08:00

Turning point in the Revolutionary movment of Iranian People

2009-12-28T17:13:00.000-08:00

Two important events happened last week which forward another step the revolutionary movement of Iranian people last week. They were as follows:First: People in the city of Sirjan attacked the stage set up for the execution of two people and released the two men after they were hung. People vote with their feet against execution. Watch this heroic act at the following link:http://rowzane.com/fa/

Revolutionaer Sozialistischer Bund/Vierte Internationale (RSB): Towards a broad International at any price?

2009-12-16T06:55:00.000-08:00

Source: Radical Socialist, the Webpage of the RSB (one of the two member groups of the Fourth International ("USFI")) can be found here Towards a broad International at any price?RSB political secretariat, 12 November 2009.Why we reject the "Role and Tasks of the FI" draft resolutionAs we have explained during different International committee meetings, we have at least six major differences with

Iraq: The leather workers’ strike enters its sixth week

2009-11-30T11:36:00.000-08:00

By the Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI)The militancy of the Iraqi leather industry workers is forcing management to make concessions, but the workers have been holding out until they get all their demands. The strike, the longest since 1931, is having an impact on other groups of industrial workers who are looking to the leather workers as an example to follow.The

Iraq Ministry of Industry Launches Massive Layoff Campaign - Moves to Privatize Public Sector Work

2009-11-27T17:47:00.000-08:00

by Amjad Ali, General Federation of Workers Councils & Unions in IraqIn an unprecedented but expected decision, the Ministry of Industry lays off more than 800 workers in a plan to laying off more than 7000 workers. These workers were originally expelled from their work under Sadam's regime and returned to work after the fall of Sadam in 2003.This massive lay offs coincides with the government

Independent Sugar Union Leaders in Iran Now Behind Bars

2009-11-17T01:51:00.000-08:00

The leaders of Iran's independent sugarworkers union are now in prison in the city of Dezful, serving sentences for their trade union activity. In a drive to destroy the union established last year by workers at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex, a court on October 12 sentenced 5 union leaders to immediate prison terms on charges stemming from October 2007. Three leaders

France: Abolish Airport Limbo for Migrant Children

2009-11-01T12:56:00.000-08:00

From Human Rights Watch‘Transit Zone’ System Threatens Unaccompanied Children’s SafetyFrance's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children who arrive in Paris by air puts them at serious risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The conclusions are based on the 60-page report, "Lost in Transit: Insufficient Protection for Unaccompanied Migrant Children at Roissy Charles de Gaulle

Freedom for Iran's Sugar Union Leaders!

2009-10-29T06:47:00.000-07:00

From International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) :In a drive to destroy the independent union established last year by workers at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex in southern Iran, a court on October 12 sentenced 6 union leaders to immediate prison terms on charges of 'endangering national security'

FWCUI Solidarity with the Mexican Electricians’ Union

2009-10-19T18:05:00.000-07:00

We, members of Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) strongly oppose the liquidation of the public electricity company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (...LyFC) and its trade union, the Mexican Electricians’ Union (SME), an organization which has existed for nearly a century and which has stood out for its firm opposition to plans to privatise the public industries, and is an example

Iraqi armed forces shoot at peaceful demonstration of the industrial workers

2009-10-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

While the workers of the Industrial Sector marched peacefully towards the Parliament building, security forces subjected us to heavy gunfire, threatened our lives, and beat up many of us on October 6thOn October 6th at about 11 a.m., the Iraqi armed forces that guard the Green Zone directed heavy gunfire at demonstrating industrial sector workers. The demonstration had acquired a permit from