Esmail Bakhshi’s daughter holding a “Free my dad Esmail” placard, February 20th.
Shahrokh Zamani: 1963-2015
Khuzestan Vanguard Socialist Workers’ Cell
Khuzestan Vanguard Socialist Workers’ Cell. Organiser: Comrade Martin.
Category Archives: Campaign
Urgent: Labour rights activists risk torture in Iran
Amnesty International launches petition for the immediate release of Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian.
Send an email to President Rohani from the Amnesty International UK website.
Posted in Campaign, Haft Tappeh, Workers' struggles
Free all Ahvaz steelworkers!
The following is a statement by the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Workers’ Union on the arrest of around forty Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) workers in Ahvaz. It was published on the union’s Telegram channel on December 19th 2018.
Posted in Campaign, Political prisoners, Workers' struggles
Upsurge of workers’ struggles in Iran
Interview with The Clarion on the Iranian regime’s repression against leading activists from the Haft Tappeh strike.
Posted in Campaign, Haft Tappeh, Workers' struggles
Solidarity with Haft Tappeh and other strikes in Iran (SZAC Canada leaflet)
The following is a leaflet distributed by the Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign activists in Vancouver, Canada. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign, Haft Tappeh, Workers' struggles
TUC lobby
Today activists of the Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign were joined by members of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty outside Transport House, the Headquarters of the Trades Union Congress.
We were holding a friendly lobby of the TUC to bring to its attention the many strikes and workers’ struggles in Iran and demanding its support and class solidarity.
The following is the text of the leaflet that was distributed to TUC workers and passers-by.
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Third anniversary of Shahrokh Zamani’s death
Today, September 13th 2018, is the third anniversary of Shahrokh Zamani’s death in Rajai Shahr prison. When his family demanded that an autopsy should be carried out they were threatened by the Iranian regime’s authorities. To this day no satisfactory explanation has been given about Shahrokh’s death. Below we reproduce the first statement of the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network (our predecessor) on receiving news of Shahrokh’s untimely death.
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