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Soheil Arabi with his daughter
by Mina Ahadi

JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND SOHEIL ARABI AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IN IRAN

July 29, 2019

  17th August 2019 has been announced as the international day for the freedom of Soheil Arabi, critics of Islam, and all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran by the “Atheist Republic” organization. […]

Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran start fresh protest to free their leader, Esmaeil Bakhshi
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Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran start fresh protest to free their leader, Esmaeil Bakhshi

March 16, 2019

On 14th March 2019, sugar cane workers of Haft Tapeh in Khuzestan province, Iran, circulated a petition in support of their jailed leader, Esmaeil Bakhshi. Many workers signed the petition and started a fresh protest […]

Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran march with Esmaeil Bakhshi's mother for his freedom
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Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran march with Esmaeil Bakhshi’s mother for his freedom

March 15, 2019

On 11th March 2019, Esmaeil Bakhshi’s mother, along with dozens of workers held an assembly in front of the security office of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Corporation. They then marched towards the office of […]

Worker-communist Party of Iran condemns heinous sentences of imprisonment and flogging against Nasrin Sotoudeh
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Worker-communist Party of Iran condemns heinous sentences of imprisonment and flogging against Nasrin Sotoudeh

March 12, 2019

Human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes by one of the Islamic Republic’s bogus courts, without the presence of her lawyer. The judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, one […]

Jafar Azimzadeh director of the Free Workers Union of Iran sentenced to 30 lashes and 6 years in prison
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Workers in Iran continue with strikes and protests as the regime sentences workers’ leader to 30 lashes

March 7, 2019

On 6th March 2019, Mohamdali Jedari Foroughi, lawyer of Jafar Azimzadeh, stated that the Islamic Republic’s judiciary has sentenced him to 30 lashes on top of the six years in prison. The excuse for such […]

Teachers in over 100 cities in Iran hold 3-day national strike over poverty, injustice and oppression
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Teachers in over 100 cities in Iran hold 3-day national strike over poverty, injustice and oppression

March 7, 2019

On 5th March 2019, teachers in Iran held their last day of a 3-day national strike which had expanded to over 100 cities. As the striking teachers shared pictures of their sit-in, Mr Amir Ali […]

Iran- Workers’ activist Parvin Mohammadi has been released on bail
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Iran: Workers’ activist Parvin Mohammadi has been released on bail. Jafar Azimzadeh is serving 6 years in prison

March 5, 2019

We are pleased to report that Parvin Mohammadi, vice president of the Free Union of Iranian Workers and well-known workers’ leader, who spent over one month in custody, was released on bail on 4th March […]

family and friends of Esmaeil Bakhshi protest
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Iran: Esmaeil Bakhshi and his family under pressure to fire his lawyer

March 1, 2019

On 27th February 2019, relatives and friends of Esmaeil Bakhshi gathered in front of the governor’s office in Shush city and demanded his release. The protesters held banners that read “Esmaeil Bakhshi must be freed”. […]

When Political Power is in Our Hands - Worker-communist party of Iran
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When Political Power is in Our Hands

February 20, 2019

With the toppling of the Islamic regime of Iran: 1. We will declare the end of any religious state forever. We will put an end to the interference of religion in the lives of the […]

family of Esmaeil Bakhshi protest in Iran
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Iran: mother of Esmaeil Bakhshi, the jailed workers’ leader, has been arrested

February 20, 2019

On 17th February 2019, the family of Esmaeil Bakhshi (the jailed workers’ leader of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Corporation in Khuzestan province, Iran) went to Shush prison to ask about Esmaeil but the authorities aggressively […]

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  • Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran start fresh protest to free their leader, Esmaeil Bakhshi
  • Widespread strikes and protests in Iran in answer to epidemic non-payment of wages
  • Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran march with Esmaeil Bakhshi's mother for his freedom
  • Petrochemical workers in Khuzestan, Iran, shut down the factory over non-payment of wages
  • Fearless retired steelworkers in Isfahan, Iran, protest against non-payment of pensions despite heavy police presence

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Open letter to President of PEN America, Ayad Akhtar – On the honoring of imprisoned Iranian writers with the Freedom to Write Award

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News

  • Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran start fresh protest to free their leader, Esmaeil Bakhshi
  • Widespread strikes and protests in Iran in answer to epidemic non-payment of wages
  • Haft Tapeh sugar cane workers in Iran march with Esmaeil Bakhshi's mother for his freedom
  • Petrochemical workers in Khuzestan, Iran, shut down the factory over non-payment of wages
  • Fearless retired steelworkers in Isfahan, Iran, protest against non-payment of pensions despite heavy police presence

Support the Ukrainian people by calling for an immediate end to the war!

Latest
March 10, 2022

Leaders of Iran’s Islamic regime should be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity

Latest
January 16, 2022

12th Congress of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI): The gathering of the party and society

Latest
December 16, 2021

Open letter to President of PEN America, Ayad Akhtar – On the honoring of imprisoned Iranian writers with the Freedom to Write Award

Hamid Taqvaee
September 19, 2021

The world must defend the people of Afghanistan

Latest
August 19, 2021
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