To His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Email: [email protected] To His Excellency Hassan Rouhani President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Email: [email protected] Brussels, 4 July 2015 Sirs, REQUEST FOR...
Urgent Action: In Support of Teachers in Iran The Iranian government’s authorities arrested Mr. Esmail Abdi, the general secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, on June 27, 2015. Mr. Abdi was invited by the Education International (EI)...
Companies, in their quest for ever greater profits, expand their operations internationally by integrating their production, distribution and commercial divisions at a global level. To be effective in confronting this new reality, workers also need to organise and take actions...
Translator’s Note: The following joint resolution by seven independent Iranian labor unions and organizations has been issued amidst a growing wave of strikes by workers, protests by teachers and nurses, and arrests of union leaders. The resolution specifically...
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Urgent Action needed: Imprisoned Iranian labour activist, Yousef Abkharabat, is going blind in jail, but authorities deny his request for medical leave! A plea from Yousef Abkharabat’s spouse Urgent Action needed: Imprisoned Iranian labour activist, Yousef Abkharabat, is going...
Today, we have come together in solidarity at a time when a large and united movement of workers, teachers, nurses and other toiling masses in Iran is in the process of formation around the issue of subsistence and ending poverty...
we strongly condemn the unjust persecution and sentences against these labour activists. we also denounce ongoing persecution and arrests of labour activists in Iran including the repression of May Day organizing efforts. we demand the immediate and unconditional freedom of...
There is mounting evidence that the Turkish regime has been colluding with the ISIS in order to facilitate the defeat of Kobane. The Turkish government has been blocking and persecuting thousands of people who have been willing to volunteer...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.