Correva l'anno 2001 in Afghanistan. Le forze armate inglesi e statunitensi iniziarono a bombardare il paese dietro il paravento della "lotta al terrorismo". ... read full story / add a comment

Il 13 marzo 2008, il parlamento del Canada votò il prolungamento della sua “missione” militare in Afghanistan fino al luglio  2011. La mozione presentata dal governo conservatore di minoranza venne votata anche dall’opposizione liberale. I guerrafondai avevano correttamente calcolato che se si fosse stabilita una data per il ritiro delle truppe, si sarebbe indebolita l’opposizione alla guerra che stava montando nell’opinione pubblica e si sarebbe guadagnato tempo per una partecipazione continuativa del Canada. Da allora, la situazione politica e militare in Afghanistan non ha fatto che peggiorare per le forze di occupazione ed i dirigenti politici stanno ora facendo balenare proposte per prorogare la data del ritiro per una missione militare che già costituisce una grave violazione della sovranità nazionale e dei diritti umani del popolo afgano. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

On March 13, 2008, Canada's Parliament voted to extend the country's military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The warmakers correctly estimated that fixing an exit date would deflect mounting opposition to the war among the Canadian public and buy time for Canada's continued participation. Since then, the political and military situation in Afghanistan has continued to deteriorate for the occupying forces, and leading politicians are now floating proposals to extend Canada's claimed exit date for a military mission that already constitutes a gross violation of the national sovereignty and human rights of the Afghan people. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment

AFRIN, Syrian Kurdistan,— According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Mohammed Musto Rashid from Mabatli, Afrin, died as a result of torture in Aleppo Central prison. He had been in detention for nearly four months, and had been subjected to severe torture, and was taken to hospital in Allepo where he stayed for four days. He was then sent back to prison and his death was announced on 19 January 2010. The reason for his arrest and detention is not known, nor if this was in connection with any political activity.
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The revolution in Iran is also a women's revolution. Women are playing a key role in attempts to cast off the feudal regime of the Islamic Republic. ... read full story / add a comment

La Compagnie de l’Acier d’Ispahan (Isfahan Steel Company, ISC) est une des plus grande entreprise industrielle d’Iran. Pourtant, malgré de nombreux efforts petits et grands des travailleurs pendant des années pour améliorer leurs conditions de travail, ils ont été fortement privés du droit d’avoir une organisation dirigée par les travailleurs eux-mêmes pour défendre leurs droits et leurs justes revendications.

Aussi, face à un avenir incertain et à la dégradation générale des conditions de travail et compte-tenu du poids écrasant de la crise économique sur les épaules des travailleurs, nous, groupe d’ouvrier d’ISC, avons décidé de former le « Conseil Ad Hoc des Ouvriers de l’Acier d’Ispahan », dont la mission est d’unifier les rangs ouvriers et de défendre leurs droits.

De toute évidence, comme le Conseil a commencé son travail dans les conditions de l’activité clandestine et que ses membres, par nécessité, n’ont pas été publiquement élus par les travailleurs, il a décidé de se qualifier lui-même d’Ad Hoc. Cependant, le Conseil s’engage à mettre en place une élection libre et ouverte impliquant l’ensemble des salarié dès que les conditions permettront une activité au grand jour. Jusqu’à ce jour, le Conseil, en tant que seul représentant existant des travailleurs d’ISC, ne ménagera pas ses efforts pour défendre les droits de chacun et de tous les travailleurs, tout en informant tout le monde de ses décisions avec des communiqués périodiques. ... read full story / add a comment

The Isfahan Steel Company (ISC) has been one of the largest industrial enterprises in all Iran. Nevertheless, despite many small and large efforts by workers throughout the years to improve their working condition, they have been strenuously deprived of the right to have a workers-led organization of their own to defend their rights and just demands.

In this connection, faced with an uncertain future and generally worsening conditions, and mindful of the crushing weight of the economic crisis on the workers’ shoulders, we, a group of ISC workers, have decided to form the “Ad Hoc Council of the Isfahan Steel Workers”,whose mission it is to unify the workers’ ranks and defend their rights.

Clearly, since the Council has commenced its work under conditions of underground activity and its members are by necessity not openly elected by the rank and file, it has decided to qualify itself as ad hoc. However, the Council pledges to have an open and free election encompassing the entire labor force the moment conditions allow for open activity. Up until that day, the Council, as the only existing representative of the ISC labor, will spare no effort to defend each and every worker’s right, while keeping everyone informed of its deliberations with periodic statements. ... read full story / add a comment

Iranian teacher trade unionist and Kurdish activist Farzad Kamangar is facing the threat of imminent execution, and the TUC has joined the campaign led by international teacher union organisation Education International (EI), and teacher trade unions in Britain and around the world, to call on the Iranian authorities to lift that threat and commute his death sentence. Please add your name to the email protest. ... read full story / add a comment

The revolution that has started since June 2009 is the outburst of the repressed anger of the people against the criminal Islamic regime of Iran. This is a revolution for liberation from a corrupt system, for smashing a machine of murder, plunder, ignorance and lies which has been wrecking the lives of the people for thirty years. This revolution will not stop until it has crushed the entire inhuman system in power. ... read full story / add a comment

Kurdish community in Ireland goes on a protest on Wednesday 18 November at 14.00 outside of Iranian Embassy to condemn the execution of Ihsan Fattahina and to stop execution of another 11 Kurdish human right activists including Sherko Moarefi. ... read full story / add a comment

The Kurdish Student Union in Ireland has organised a protest outside of Iranian embassy on Thursday 20the August at 1 o’clock to remember 1979 invasion of Kurdistan by the Iranian regime.

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La crisis tras la publicación de los resultados de las presidenciales del 12 de junio es en realidad un juego de espejos que oculta una pugna descarnada en la cúspide del poder en la República Islámica. Cada actor, local o extranjero, mueve sus fichas mientras el pueblo iraní paga su precio en sangre y en una desestabilización que tendrá sus consecuencias, en Irán y en el ámbito internacional.

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On December 27, the Israeli army intensified its military campaign against the Palestinian people. From that date until the writing of this declaration, approximately 750 Palestinians have died, many of them non-combatant women and children, and the number of wounded has risen to more than 3,000. ... read full story / add a comment

« Si tu ne sais pas coudre avec de l’or, frappe avec un marteau »*. Proverbe russe.
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L’armée géorgienne a lancé vendredi 8 août une offensive d’envergure contre une de ses provinces sécessionniste, l’Ossétie du Sud. Cette attaque, qui a surpris plus d’un observateur, intervient dans le contexte tourmenté post-URSS de la Géorgie. Quels sont les enjeux derrière cette guerre ?
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to prepare to demolish the home of the Palestinian who killed three Israelis in Jerusalem. ... read full story / add a comment

Few would argue with the proposition that democracy is almost always preferable to dictatorship; but it is often forgotten the degree to which Bhutto is the person who has done more than anything to bring Pakistan's strange variety of democracy - really a form of elective feudalism - into disrepute. ... read full story / add a comment