Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company: We demand the release of educational workers (teachers) from prisons and the annulment of judicial decisions against them. Educational workers (teachers) are among the most honorable and hardworking people in the...
July 28, 2017- Esmail Abdi, a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association (Tehran), who had been released on bail, was arrested without a prior notice on July 27, 2017. Abdi was leaving his home...
The Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate reported on July 29, 2017 that ten workers who had been arrested by the security forces following their protest actions in recent days were temporarily released on bail today. At this time, all arrested...
Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate issued a public statement condemning the arrest of 15 workers in the evening of July 25th. Highlights of the statement are as follows (the original text in Farsi is attached): We denounce the failure to...
Gathering in Geneva on 13 June 2017 Place des Nations from 12 pm to 2 pm In defense of workers' rights and trade union freedoms in Iran In Iran workers are deprived of essential freedoms: - the...
As previously reported by IASWI, Esmail Abdi was finally transferred to Khomeini Hospital in Tehran on Saturday, June 3, 2017. He had previously refused to be transferred to hospital with the prison uniform and in handcuffs. Prison authorities at last...
http://www.ctf-fce.ca/en/news/Pages/default.aspx?newsid=1983997915&year=2017 https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/news/urgent-action-appeal-for-release-of-hunger-striking-iranian-teacher-leader-esmail-abdi/ June 1, 2017 Urgent action appeal for release of hunger-striking Iranian teacher leader Esmail Abdi Presidents of provincial and territorial teachers’ organizations from across Canada, meeting in Vancouver, are unanimously calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and...
Esmail Abdi, a member of the board of directors of the Teachers’ Trade Association of Tehran (ITTA-Tehran), has been on hunger strike for 33 days since April 30, 2017. Teachers’ union activists in Iran have been launching a variety of...
Iran Urgent Action Appeal Education International reiterates its call for global solidarity and urges Iranian public authorities to immediately release imprisoned education union leader Esmail Abdi, whose hunger strike is taking a toll on his health. Education International (EI) has...
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.