Iranian Solidarity Events

[bellyscratch]

Just thought it might be a good idea to list any solidarity events here.

I'll start.

Newcastle, UK
Monument
Friday 19th June, 12 noon
Facebook event page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=226150525472#/event.php?eid=119189660305)

[ArabRASH]

Here's a good site with a list of a bunch of events: www.whereismyvote.org

[bellyscratch]

There's a facebook event page calling for global protests here
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=91376554583

These are the places listed
USA
- Washington
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Boston
- Philadelphia

CANADA
- Toronto
- Montreal
- Ottawa

EUROPE
- EU Parliament in Brussels
- London
- UN in Geneva
- UN in Vienna
- Paris
- Berlin
- Delft
- Sweden
AUSTRALIA
JAPAN
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE

[RHIZOMES]

Something should be organized in NZ. A lot of the left here are way to complacent about it (Using "anti-imperialism" to justify theocrats clamping down on protestors) though.

[L.J.Solidarity]

There was a solidarity event in Hamburg today. Mousavi supporters had banned leftists from having speeches or banners at their demonstration, so the Worker-Communist Party and SPI organized their own rally with the main slogan "Down with the Islamic Republic" that began an hour earlier on the other side of the central station. This event was supported by some German left groups and attracted about 50 people, while the pro-Mousavi demonstration had 2500 participants.
A group of about 100 monarchists waving pre-1979 Iranian flags had their own opening rally, but joined the pro-Mousavi march afterwards.
I'm quite surprised and disappointed by the tiny size of the socialist rally, apparently the Iranian left's influence among the exile community is very small here (even more so as half of the participants today weren't Iranian).
Also unfortunately our rally nearly split when members of the local group of stalinists tried to violently attack some antigermans (supporters of US- and Israeli imperialism) who were just standing there expressing their solidarity, the stalinists were held back by other participants and most of them left soon, while the antigermans stayed, but stood some meters away looking pissed off.

[Honggweilo]

Also unfortunately our rally nearly split when members of the local group of stalinists tried to violently attack some antigermans (supporters of US- and Israeli imperialism) who were just standing there expressing their solidarity, the stalinists were held back by other participants and most of them left soon, while the antigermans stayed, but stood some meters away looking pissed off.Lol i dont blame them, they should have joined the pro-monarchist/pro-mousavi marches, since they fit their disgusting pro-imperialist ideology much better. And who do you mean by the "stalinists" ? Iranian ML'ists? DKP? MLPD? or what?

[L.J.Solidarity]

It's SoL (Sozialistische Linke), a group that only exists in Hamburg. They aren't entirely stalinist, but some of their members certainly are and they have friendly relations with some maoist/hoxhaist KPD/ML splinters, e.g. they make common leaflets for some demonstrations.
The antigermans present (mostly) weren't of the diehard "Nuke Iran" Bahamas-reading kind (those obviously wouldn't take part in a "solidarity with Iranian workers" rally), but rather more moderate "antigerman communists"

[chebol]

AUSTRALIA
* Canberra, Friday June 26 - Demonstrations will take place outside Iranian embassy in Canberra to protest the ongoing denial of rights and arrests of trade unionists in Iran. The MUA is bussing members to Canberra from the union rooms in Sussex Street, Sydney. The bus leaves at 7am. Unions in Melbourne are also organising busses.
Details: 12pm, Iranian Embassy, 25 Culgoa Circuit, O'Malley

* Melbourne, Friday June 26 - Rally at Parliament station, Corner Burke & Spring St, 7:30am-9am. Contact Victor Moore, RTBU 0475 512 494

* Sydney, Sunday June 28 - Town Hall this SUNDAY at 4 30 for a 5pm start.

Click here for campaign website (http://www.justiceforiranianworkers.org/)

[ls]

London and Newcastle 26th of June

http://www.iwsn.org/campaigns/pickets-26jun09.htm


Global Solidarity Action Day - Justice for Iranian Workers

26th June

London

In London, the TUC, Amnesty International and ITF will be holding a gathering at the Iranian Embassy between 12.30 and 13.30 to demand the release of imprisoned unionists and ratification of ILO core conventions. Trade unions and Amnesty will deliver 16,000 individually signed action cards for Mansour Osanloo and workers’ rights in Iran.

Newcastle

Friday 26th June at the Monument, Newcastle upon Tyne at 12:30pm in support of trade union rights for Iranian Workers. Download flyer [TUC site] for further details.

[bricolage]

Iran 2009: Society in Rebellion – Meeting this Saturday!

Solidarity meeting hosted by Hands Off the People of Iran
Saturday July 4, 17.10
Room 3B University of London Union, Malet Street
Speakers:
John McDonnell MP
Yassamine Mather (HOPI Chair)
Socialist Workers’ Party (invited)
Socialist Party (invited)

Iranian society is convulsed by a political crisis on a scale not seen for over a decade. Masses of Iranian people have taken to the streets since the results of the rigged elections. Their outrage is justified. The levels of blatant vote-rigging on show was crazy even by the standards of Iran’s Islamic Republic regime. The masses are continuing to defy the crackdown and to come out onto the streets and urgently need our material and ideological solidarity.

If the left can come together on this question then we can win hegemony over the solidarity movement, which is currently dominated either by Moussavi supporters and/or groupings which are silent on the role of imperialism in the Middle East.

With this in mind, Hopi is hosting this meeting and has invited speakers from the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party. We are urging the SWP to incorporate the event into its Marxism event, and if not then to send along a speaker to try and discuss the way forward for solidarity action on this crucial question.

http://hopinewsfromiran.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/iran-2009-society-in-rebellion-meeting-this-saturday/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114107278775&ref=mf

[noway]

I partially support these guys... marxism and islam dont quite go hand in hand :S

[Buffalo Souljah]

There is no inherent contradiction between Islam and Marxist dialectics. The two, in fact, have a rich history of dialogue. Read some of the philosophy of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam for some interesting correlates.

[Serge's Fist]

THE REVOLUTION IN IRAN
February 13 at 1PM
University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road, Manchester

Day School and Fundraiser

Meetings:-

Imperialism and Iran with David Mather HOPI and Glasgow University

The mass movement and worker struggles in Iran with Yassamine Mather HOPI and CPGB and Gayle O'Donovan Green Left

[Wolf Larson]

I heard Bob Avakian is pro US imperial policy when it comes to Iran.