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Article from Alliance of Middle East Socialists on the strikes in Iran: What Are Iran’s Labor Protests/Strikes Demanding? What Are the Barriers to a Revolutionary Socialist Direction? What Kind of International Solidarity Is Needed? Jun 13, 2018 | 0 comments <https://www.allianceofmesocialists.org/what-are-irans-labor-protests-strikes-demanding-what-are-the-barriers-to-a-revolutionary-socialist-direction-what-kind-of-international-solidarity-is-needed/#respond> Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of international labor activists on June 10, 2018. The mass protests that began in Iran on December 28, 2017 and have continued in the form of smaller nationwide protests and strikes, have been unprecedented in scale since the 1979 Iranian revolution, a revolution that was soon transformed into its opposite, the Islamic Republic. The December protests that were started by mostly unemployed youth in smaller cities demanded the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the withdrawal of Iran’s military and paramilitary forces from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. They were preceded by over a year of persistent protests among workers, teachers, nurses, retirees, as well as hunger strikes by political prisoners and years of various forms of women’s struggles against gender discrimination. They were caused by economic, political and social reasons and were the product of the dissatisfaction of a young, literate population that is connected to the world through the Internet and is fed up with poverty, repression, gender and ethnic discrimination as well as discrimination against religious minorities. read more: https://www.allianceofmesocialists.org/what-are-irans-labor-protests-strikes-demanding-what-are-the-barriers-to-a-revolutionary-socialist-direction-what-kind-of-international-solidarity-is-needed/?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
