bricolage
21st February 2011, 23:07
(Note: I'm well aware Iran isn't part of the 'Arab World' but I thought this might still be worth posting here.)
Anyway... I'm a bit confused as it says Feb 25th at the beginning, a date which hasn't happened yet. Does anyone know any more about this?
I think one other important question would be to what extent people think this can be seen as interlinked to the events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and others or whether it is an economic grievance unrelated to them?
A strike at Abadan’s oil refinery is no inconsequential event. This is the largest gasoline producing plant in Iran which also happens to be the oldest oil refinery plant in the Middle East. The strike of its workers in 1978 was consequential for the 1979 revolution that toppled the monarchy in the country. Now, in the third decade of the same revolution, we are witness to a strike by the refinery’s workers of the third phase of the refinery upgrade. The strike began on Monday, February 25th, the day Iran’s Green Movement leaders had called out the public into the streets to show their solidarity with the people’s uprisings in the Middle East, but which also turned into an anti-Iranian regime rally, leaving at least two dead. The workers says that they have not been paid their pays for the last six months.
http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/archive/2011/february/20/article/strikes-begin-at-abadan-refinery.html
Anyway... I'm a bit confused as it says Feb 25th at the beginning, a date which hasn't happened yet. Does anyone know any more about this?
I think one other important question would be to what extent people think this can be seen as interlinked to the events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and others or whether it is an economic grievance unrelated to them?
A strike at Abadan’s oil refinery is no inconsequential event. This is the largest gasoline producing plant in Iran which also happens to be the oldest oil refinery plant in the Middle East. The strike of its workers in 1978 was consequential for the 1979 revolution that toppled the monarchy in the country. Now, in the third decade of the same revolution, we are witness to a strike by the refinery’s workers of the third phase of the refinery upgrade. The strike began on Monday, February 25th, the day Iran’s Green Movement leaders had called out the public into the streets to show their solidarity with the people’s uprisings in the Middle East, but which also turned into an anti-Iranian regime rally, leaving at least two dead. The workers says that they have not been paid their pays for the last six months.
http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/archive/2011/february/20/article/strikes-begin-at-abadan-refinery.html