General shutdown in Iran’s Kurdish areas
Farzad Kamangar and three other Kurds executed!
Hamadan Rolling and Aluminium Industries
Stockholm: Picket in solidarity with Iranian workers
Statement on the plight of Iranian workers in the New Year
London picket in defence of Iranian workers
Alireza Saghafi arrested by intelligence officers
Free the Mothers in Mourning!
2009
Pedram Nasrollahi freed from capitalism’s prison
Comrade Farzad Ahmadi’s release from capitalism’s prison
Free Pedram and Farzad now!
Pedram Nasrollahi
Farzad Ahmadi
[Updated list of supporters: 4 Dec.]
Farzad Ahmadi arrested!
Pedram Nasrollahi rearrested!
Abadan oil refinery workers protest against unpaid wages!
Strike by over 1000 Haft Tapeh cane cutters ends in victory!
IWSN meeting in Madrid
Sanandaj bakers win pay rise!
Labour news from Kurdistan
Haft Tapeh trade union leader sacked
Haft Tapeh executive committee members sentenced
Crepe Naz workers go on strike
Wagon Pars workers stage sit-in over unpaid wages
New protest by Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers
Vahed trade union activists’ dismissal sentences quashed
4000 brick kiln workers win pay rise after a 17-day strike
Boycott Nokia Siemens Networks for helping the Iranian regime
Copenhagen picket
Vienna picket
Mainz protest
London picket
Brussels picket
Vancouver picket
Said Yuzi and Kaveh Mozafari (May Day detainees) released
Sanandaj Communication Office workers go on strike
Message of the Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers to Iranian workers
London and Newcastle pickets - details
Borhan Saidi, a labour and women’s rights activist, summoned to Sanandaj court
Enthusiastic welcome for released May Day detainees
Nearly all women activists arrested on May Day in Tehran released
Hands off Shiva Sobhani!
The glorious strike of the Iran Khodro workers to get their unpaid wages and convert temporary contracts to permanent ones ends in victory
Free all May Day detainees now!
Five of the women activists arrested on May Day have finally been released
Over 80 workers and labour activists still under arrest since May Day gathering in Tehran
May Day in Sanandaj
Around 50 workers and labour activists arrested in Tehran on May Day
National teachers' strike for wage parity with other government workers
Iran Aluminium in Sanandaj sacks a group of workers
Protests by sacked Ahvaz Pipe Manufacturing workers continue
A report from Tikoshin Plastics in Sanandaj
Pedram Nasrollahi has been freed!
Three Kurdish labour activists jailed for defending workers
Nushab drinks factory workers go on strike
The IWSN handbook - out now!
Free Abbas Hakimzadeh! Free all political prisoners!
Thousands of Esfahan Steel workers start symbolic food boycott
Second stage of attack on Amir Kabir University students has begun
Over 70 students arrested after clashes at Amir Kabir University
Two more labour activists flogged!
Labour activist Taha Azadi tried for “acting against national security”
Mohsen Hakimi free!
Two female labour activists flogged!
Countdown to the teachers' strike! [Updated list of supporters: 22 Feb.]
An injury to one is an injury to all!
Condemnation of the killing of workers at the Mitsubishi plant in Venezuela
Free all political prisoners in Iran!
Zeynab Jalalian: Kurdish female activist sentenced to death
2008
Iran's Labour Code amendments: a double whammy aimed at workers' livelihoods
'Traditional' Christmas arrests of labour activists in Iran
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan workers banned from working in Iran
Free Farzad Kamangar now!
Around 800 Alborz Lastic workers protest outside the President's Office in Tehran
Iran Khodro workers demand an inflation-proof pay rise
Workers seize the machinery at Ashkan China factory
Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers elect their trade union's Steering Committee
Hundreds of Alborz Lastic workers protest in front of the Labour Ministry
Alborz Lastic workers outside the Labour Ministry - 5 October 2008
Nine Vahed bus drivers sacked
Riot police bring Shiraz telecom workers' strike to an end
Flogging sentences passed against four labour activists in Sanandaj
Yaghoub Mehrnahad executed!
Kurdish teachers protest against Farzad Kamangar's death sentence
Twenty-one students arrested in five cities across Iran
Striking Alborz tyre workers set alight part of the factory
Alborz Lastic - April 2008
Supreme Court upholds Kurdish teacher's death sentence
Another Vahed bus drivers' leader arrested in Tehran
Over 8000 people protest in Mashhad against inflation and the government
Mansour Osanloo admitted to a coronary care unit
Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers form their own trade union
Almost 5000 students continue with their protest near Tehran
Over 1300 student protesters surrounded by security forces near Tehran
Statement by workers of Ahvaz Pipe Manufacturing Company In the defence of the workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Plantation and Industrial Company ...
Kurdish teacher's death sentence confirmed
Let us prepare for general anti-capitalist united action
Kriegsrecht in Schusch und Massenverhaftungen in der Rohrzuckerfabrik Haft Tapeh (auf Deutsch)
Attack and arrest of twelve Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers
Effective martial law in Shush city and widespread arrest of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers
Demonstration by Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers in Shush
Widespread support for Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers' protests from youth and shopkeepers
Sadra workers go on strike and cut off the shipyard's electricity
Privatisation wave stalks Iranian workers
Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers go on all-out strike
Over 3000 workers go on strike in Haft Tapeh!
Five Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers to appear in court
Esmail Jafari has now been freed!Free Esmail Jafari!
Kurdish teacher facing execution
Firefighters ordered to douse Alborz Lastic tyre workers with boiling water!
Special forces bulldoze their way into Alborz Lastic and abduct 1000 workers
Sadra shipbuilding workers go on strike again
Mahmoud Salehi freed!
Mahmoud Salehi on hunger strike
Open letter to President
Hugo Chavez from Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network Carta abierta al presidente Hugo Chávez de la Red de Solidaridad con los Trabajadores Iraníes
Offener Brief der Netzwerks Iranische Arbeitersolidarität an Venezuela Staatspräsident Hugo Chávez
International action day - 6 March 2008 protests in defence of jailed Iranian trade unionists in around 40 countries.
Three labour activists lashed and fined - with eight more to follow! auf Deutsch - en español
Abolfazl Abdini Nasr freed Journalist accused of "media support" for workers has been released from jail
Open letter to President Chavez from Iranian labour and student activists
2007
Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers in southern Iran go on strike
London picket in defence of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmood Salehi
EDM 1846 submitted by John McDonnell on the general repression against labour activists and Mahmoud Salehi's situation
The new Iranian labour movement stands at a crucial turning point: with your support we can help it move forwards in restoring its previous gains. Click to enlarge the image
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IRAN ON THE BRINK Rising Workers and Threats of War
Questions and comments on the book and the situation in Iran. From the book launch at Housemans Bookshop, London 06 March 2007. Part 1 Part 2 Middle East Panorama on Resonance FM
More photos of the book launch.
Workers shut off Iran Sadra's Bushehr shipyard's gate
2006
Job classification system comes into effect in Iran Khodro Company
The job classification system, one of the Iran Khodro workers' demands, has now been officially implemented. Its coming into effect raises the company's workers' wages by about 10 percent. More >>
International appeal for the release of all Vahed workers, their families, students and other supporters
We are launching an appeal for the release of everyone arrested by the security forces in Tehran. Here is a
model letter that you can send to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On behalf of the 17,000 workers of the Vahed Bus Company of Tehran we inform the workers' organisations of the world and all those who have been moved by the suppression of the most basic human rights, that today, 28 January, our widespread strike was confronted by the unprecedented attack of the agents of the Islamic Republic. More...
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2005
I demand the immediate release of my husband, Borhan Divangar!
Dismissals of 17 trade unionists at Vahed Bus Company
Letter of Iran Khodro car workers to the ILO protest against the presence of Hassan Sadeghi and Parviz Ahmadi Panjaki at the ILO annual conference
'Labour House' hands off Iranian workers
By an activist of Workers' Action Committee
In French:
2004
In Spanish:
We
condemn the sacking of Iran Khodro workers
2003
This campaign has been
launched to highlight the plight of Iranian workers and to raise
solidarity with their struggles against the oppressive Islamic
regime. Its initial sponsors are Jeremy Dear (General Secretary
of the National Union of Journalists) in Britain, and Ahmed
Manzoor, the President of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign
and a member of Parliament in Pakistan.
Model
resolution on Iran's labour conditions and support for IWSN Information
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