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All out for the Iranian movement!
Hands Off the People of Iran is launching a week of action in solidarity with the grassroots opposition movement in Iran, running from February 13-20 2010.
This will see fundraising events, protest actions and meetings. Comrades around the country are coming forward with ideas for activities that range from pickets and petitions, to benefit meals for a few comrades and friends. We want to mobilise every Hopi supporter to participate in the week, at whatever level their circumstances and time constraints allow. For more information and the first confirmed events, please click here
The video on the left explains the politics behind the activities.
Support for the mass protests against Ahmadinejad’s re-election!
But we should have no illusions that Massouvi would have been any better
Click for video of the protests
Yassamine Mather, chair of Hands Off the People of Iran, assesses the highly fluid situation in Iran:
It is no surprise that the highly contested results of the presidential elections in Iran have sparked unrest in Tehran and other cities across Iran. The level of cheating on display seems crazy even by the standards of Iran’s Islamic Republic regime. Clearly, the results are the final proof that confirms that the whole electoral process is deeply undemocratic and rigged from top to bottom. Read full article
Iran – a society in rebellion
This was recorded at a meeting organised by Hands Off the People of Iran in London on July 4. The speakers are John McDonnell MP and Yassamine Mather (chair, Hopi)
Video: What’s the behind the crisis in Iran?
Click here for the footage, filmed at a Hopi meeting on June 2009 in London
Sign the petition: Protest against repression in Iran
| Support for the mass protests against Ahmadinejad’s re-election! But we should have no illusions that Massouvi would have been any betterYassamine Mather, chair of Hands Off the People of Iran, assesses the highly fluid situation in Iran: It is no surprise that the highly contested results of the presidential elections in Iran have sparked unrest in Tehran and other cities across Iran. The level of cheating on display seems crazy even by the standards of Iran’s Islamic Republic regime. Clearly, the results are the final proof that confirms that the whole electoral process is deeply undemocratic and rigged from top to bottom. Read full article |
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This was recorded at a meeting organised by Hands Off the People of Iran in London on July 4. The speakers are John McDonnell MP and Yassamine Mather (chair, Hopi)
Click here for the footage, filmed at a Hopi meeting on June 2009 in London |
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| Iran, Protests 18 June 2009 The dramatic events in Tehran and other major cities following the June 12 presidential election in Iran are clear manifestations of the anger and frustration of the majority of Iranians with political Islam. The election campaign of the four presidential candidates was largely ignored by the majority of the population until early June, when a series of televised debates triggered street demonstrations and public meetings. Ironically it was Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s fear of losing that prompted him to make allegations of endemic corruption against some of the leading figures of the religious state, including former president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, former interior minister and adviser to supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei. . Read full article |
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Iran, May Day 2009 On May Day, workers and their families who had gathered at Tehran’s Laleh Park, following a call by the May Day Organising Committee (made up of Iran’s independent labour organisations), to voice their demands and to commemorate this day, were attacked by the police and security forces and plain clothes officers. A number of people who were in the park were also attacked. Using various brutal means and instruments, the security forces seriously injured a large number of people and arrested and put in jail over 150. Of these, around 100 are still in prison. Click here for more information on how to protest March 21 2009 But we should take a closer look at Obama’s project in the Middle East and what he is looking to gain from Iran.  March 25 2009, Manchester Students’ UnionHopi members in Manchester co-organised a demo in solidarity with imprisoned Iranian students belonging to the group Students for Freedom and Equality. These students have been arrested and imprisoned for protesting against the Iranian regime, and are facing torture and even execution.
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Hands Off The People Of Iran fights against the threat of any imperialist intervention, war or sanctions against Iran. It looks to build active, practical solidarity with grass-roots radical secular forces in Iran, the militant women’s, workers and students movements. We want regime change, both in Iran and in the imperialist countries. But we know that change must come from below – from the struggles of the working class and social movements – if it is to lead to genuine liberation.
Our campaign demands:
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March 16 2009: National launch of HOPI’s ‘Smash the Sanctions’ campaign
The Iranian Revolution is often portrayed as an uprising led by Islamic fundamentalists against the discredited regime of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. This is a misconception. Read three articles that outline the genuine social dynamics of the mass democratic movement that rose against the Shah and the leading role of progressive women’s and workers’ organisations within it. In the video below, filmed on February 25 2009, Torab Saleth speaks about the betrayal of the revolution and the failures of the left. |
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| Protest January 31 2009 Labour activist Behzad Sohrabi arrested |
Leaflet January 2009 Gaza: End the siege! No to Zionism’s onslaught! |
Video December 2008 John McDonnell MP launches Hopi’s anti-sanction campaign |
Israeli socialist Moshe Machover spoke at the occupation of King’s College in January 2009 on the question of ‘Gaza: what’s going on?’ This is a 10 min extract from his talk. Moshe is a member of the steering committee of Hands Off the people of Iran |
