Join the Solidarity with Iranian Political Prisoners & Oppose Imperialist War Threats Against Iran

Below are short biographies of three Iranian political prisoners who strongly oppose any imperialist intervention in Iran as well as internal state repression and any regional imperialist intervention by Iran or other Middle Eastern states.    Each of these prisoners symbolizes an important aspect of the struggle for social justice and against religious dictatorship, authoritarianism and militarism.


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Iran: Mass hunger strike by political prisoners to protest inhumane conditions

More than a dozen political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, have gone on hunger strike to protest  the cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions they have been forced to endure at a maximum-security prison in Karaj, Alborz province.



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The Particular Features of the Islamic Republic’s Capitalism and the Need for a Humanist Alternative to Capitalism/Militarism

There is no doubt that there are divisions within the Iranian ruling class concerning economic and political approaches.   There is no doubt that Iran’s capitalism is inefficient.  There is no doubt that the IRGC acts like a Mafia band.   However,  currently, it seems that the IRGC, the government (president and parliament) and the Guardian Jurist,  are all united around the goal of preserving a strong state with a smaller social welfare sector and a much larger military sector.



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The Threat of Wider Wars in the Middle East and the Responsibilities of Socialists

The coming together of Qatar, Iran and Turkey against Saudi Arabia and its allies, showed that coalitions now forming to compete with each other are not strictly based on the Shi’a-Sunni divide.  The alliances currently confronting each other are fighting over the control of the region, its capital,  and aim  to repress any movements for social justice.



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The Other Iran’s Views on the May 2017 Presidential Election

At a time when the Trump administration’s bellicose language about Iran is raising serious concerns, it is important not to equate opposition to U.S. imperialism with support for Iran’s repressive regime and its own regional imperialist wars. There is an Other Iran that needs to be defended.
 


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Alliance of Syrian & Iranian Socialists’ Statement on Assad’s Chemical Bombing & Trump’s Latest Airstrikes

The Trump administration’s  April 6 targeted missile strike on the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched, is not a reflection of any genuine concern for the Syrian people.  It will not help the struggle against the Assad regime, ISIS and Al Qaida.    Instead, this administration’s latest airstrikes are motivated by other aims.


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Trump’s Travel Ban Grants Iran’s Government Veto Power Over US-Bound Nationals

According to Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran,  If Trump’s “executive order had been in effect in 2009, it would have prevented Iranian dissidents, including Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, from entering the United States to speak about the Islamic Republic’s violent repression of pro-democracy protesters who disputed the results of the presidential election that year. . .This order has left those Iranians most vulnerable to persecution, at the mercy of the Islamic Republic,”   Below is the text of a press release from the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.



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