Iran-Update 23.06. 2009

Weitere Artikel zum Thema auf dieser Seite unter http://entdinglichung.wordpress.com/category/iran/

1.) Liveticker zum heutigen Tage auf der Webseite des Guardian

„10.40am:
There are reports that 30% of employees in Iran are taking part in a general strike. If you have more information please us verify this.“

2.) Weitere Filmberichte von den Demonstrationen und der Repression vom 20.06. sowie ein Update zum heutigen Tage u.a. mit einem Bericht von der Repression gegen Studierende an der Mazandaran University in Babolsar, der Ermordung einer Studentin durch Repressionskräfte in Bandar Abbas sowie von einer Protestversammlung von Familienangehörigen von Inhaftierten vor einem Gerichtsgebäude in Tehran auf Revolutionary Road

3.) Ein Bericht von der gestrigen Demo in Tehran auf dem Blog von Ali Schirasi

4.) Inzwischen ist die vierte Ausgabe der Tehraner Untergrundzeitung Khiaban (Die Strasse) erschienen, hier einige Auszüge aus einem übersetzten Artikel auf Iran in the Gulf:

“In Mousavi’s manifesto #5, he asked the people to protest…but in this manifesto he implicitly states that… he is not able to be fully with the people in their revolutionary stance, for he is also of the same regime, and in the same manifesto he counted the Basij as brothers and the Sepah guardians of the revolution and of Islam. People with their own eyes saw armed and club-wielding motorcycle-riding Basiji kill and oppress the people… The truth is these rabid regime dogs were made for internal warfare. The words of Khamanei made the people determined to fight the coup d’etat. The great protests of people in Azadi square Saturday and Meidan Vali Asr on Sunday showed the world that the smell of revolution is coming from Iran..”

“The slogan “Death to the dictator” showed that this was not just an opposition to the election fraud, but effective opposition to the fascist regime called the Islamic republic…also that participation in the elections also was in opposition to the totality of the regime…”

“Saturday and sunday were an important turning point for the history of Iran…from then on, everyone knew that the hope of change and reform of the regime is not the reformist wing, and that there is only one price for bread and freedom: Revolution.”

5.) Das Statement der Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers (übersetzt von den GenossInnen des IWSN) vom 18.06.:

„Message of the Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers to Iranian workers

Forty-eight days have passed since the suppression and arrests of the workers’ gathering on International Labour Day – May Day. During this time important events have taken place and have caused widespread and amazing changes in the social movement of the country.

During their televised debates the presidential election candidates accused each other of violating the citizens’ rights, embezzlement, theft, mismanagement, and incompetence. But none of them had any objection to the laws that have allowed the disastrous events affecting the majority of the population. None of them had any objection to the law that takes away a worker’s right to strike, sets his wages at a quarter of the poverty line, takes away his right to [form] organisations, allows mass lay-offs, the signing of blank contracts and forces a one-month temporary contract on him.

On the issues of the freedom of speech, the freedom to dress [as you choose], and tens and hundreds of inhuman case that today govern society, they did not say a word, and if they did point to cases in a superficial way, every one of them was an attempt [by the candidate] to clear himself and accuse the other, as if his opponent has been more strict than himself. In all those debates, clearly and in confronting each other, the candidates themselves proved that they accept all the present laws and conditions and that their only quarrel is on snatching power from their opponent.

Therefore, we workers, under the present conditions, when social protests have taken the form of a mass and huge movement that has come on the scene to achieve its demands, it is our right to turn the leaflet with the demands of our fellow working class people, into our banner and to raise it. These demands are as follows:

1- Immediate increase in the minimum wage to over 1 million tomans [$1010] a month.
2- An end to temporary contracts and new forms of work contracts.
3- The disbanding of the Labour House and the Islamic Labour Councils as government organisations in the factories and workshops, and the setting up of shoras [councils] and other workers’ organisations independent from the government.
4- Immediate payment of workers’ unpaid wages without any excuses.
5- An end to laying-off workers and payment of adequate unemployment insurance to all unemployed workers.
6- The immediate release of all political prisoners including the workers arrested on May Day, Jafar Azimzadeh, Gholamreza Khani, Said Yuzi, Said Rostami, Mehdi Farahi-Shandiz, Kaveh Mozafari, Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, and an end to surveillance and harassment of workers and labour leaders.
7- The right to strike, protest, assemble and the freedom of speech and the press are the workers’ absolute right.
8- An end to sexual discrimination, child labour and the sacking of foreign workers.

Workers! Today we have a duty to intervene, to pose our demands independently and by relying on our own united strength, together with other sections of society, to work towards achieving our human rights

The Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers, 18 June 2009″

6.) Weitere Nachrichten und Texte zum Thema:

- Extraits d’ une dépêche de l’agence Reuters auf Révolution en Iran zu den Ereignissen des gestrigen Tages in Tehran
- Iran: the people clash with the State – Now a general strike is needed auf In Defence of Marxism
- NPA: Avec la population et les travailleurs d’Iran ! (hier als Flugblatt (pdf-Datei))
- Iran-Berichterstattung auf La Bataille Socialiste
- GenossInnen der Worker-communism Unity Party (WUP) berichten von Flugblattverteil-Aktionen in Tehran und Sanandaj

7.) Die BRD hat Jürgen Elsässer und in Britannien gibt es Yvonne Ridley:

„I’m quite a fan of Mahmoud Admadinejad who is adored by the common man and woman in Iran. Anyone who vows to narrow the gap between rich and poor can’t be all that bad… unless you’re one of the rich!“

Yvonne Ridley ist immerhin reich genug, um ihre Tochter auf ein privates Internat zu schicken

8.) Internet conspiranoids betray Iran (left and right) auf World War 4 Report:

„Conspiranoids and freedom-haters of the left and right alike are rushing to betray the Iranian protest movement. On the supposed „left,“ the retro-Stalinist Workers World and its International Action Center as well as (disappointingly) Monthly Review and the World Socialist Website have weighed in for Ahmadinejad and dissed the protesters as dupes or pawns of US imperialism. How interesting to see these supposed „leftists“ making common cause with right-wing cheerleaders for authoritarian regimes…

It’s all too telling that many of these right-wing conspiranoids are being promoted by the ostensible „left“—such as Reagan admin veteran Paul Craig Roberts on Alex Cockburn’s Counterpunch. Echoing a familiar theme, Roberts asks „Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution?’“

Stellungnahme des „Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations“ zu den Protesten im Iran

Quelle: International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI)

Statement # 1 by Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations about Presidential Election and recent unrest

Iranian people have witnessed the presidential elections in Iran. During the debates between candidates there was never any mention of destitute conditions of the working class, non-payment of wages, temporary-work contracts, medieval sentences of floggings, killings and incarceration of workers and labor activists, suppression of May 1st events….

The reality is that these candidates themselves are collaborators in creation of such impoverished conditions facing working class and majority of the population in Iran. That is exactly why amongst hundreds of candidates only these four were hand-picked.

In the election process all resources of capitalists, familiar and unfamiliar liberals, media networks of world capitalism: BBC, VOA, was utilized to convince people of elections as an arena for change. In various styles they attempted to convince people that their votes held some power and value. After the election it became obvious that all their propaganda were naught.

Voters discovered that their votes were misused. And now they are protesting in hundreds of thousands. People should have defended their rights by a boycott of the election, but in any instance the votes tossed into ballot boxes are being utilized by the regimes officials. People have a right to protest such mistreatments. While condemning all the attacks on protesters we remind all that such protests should not be led by likes of Mousavi, Khatami, Kahroubi, or any other executives or elements of the capitalist order. These protests shall become a part of justice seeking by workers and toiling masses against the capitalist order.

Iranian working class has been struggling for its basic rights for years and in the process has been vigorously attacked by the protectors of Capital. In the 80’s simultaneous with execution and incarceration of hundreds and thousands of activists of social movements, especially labour movement, they executed Jamal Cheragh Vaisi, the speaker for May 1st event in Sanandaj. In the era of so called “political reforms,” labor activists in Saghez were arrested and incarcerated for participating in May 1st events, egalitarian and freethinking writers were portrayed as hired pens, and some of them were killed in a process of chain murders.

In the past few years we have also witnessed Khaton Abad workers getting riddled with bullets, Mansour Osanloo, president of the executive board of Vahed Syndicate getting his tongue cut and incarcerated, Mahmud Salehi being jailed and denied medical attention while in confinement, flogging of labor activists on charges of participating in May 1st ceremonies, and arrests and incarceration of tens of labor activists in this year’s May1st event.

Student protesters were viciously attacked and their dormitories ransacked. Women’s movement and their activists asking for their basic rights were also beastly attacked, and incarcerated. The just rights of teachers and nurses were also violated, by firing from jobs and confinement in prisons.

Now the protectors of Capital are facing a dire crisis and reproaching each other. Working class and noble liberated people of Iran should expose such demagoguery. Bourgeoisie in whichever shape from or color cannot and will not guarantee the just rights and demands of Iranian workers and toilers. At best the desperate attempts of capitalist class and their representatives are to turn workers into a reserve force that could be used to maintain their dominance. Working class and liberated people of Iran shall not trust them.

Workers, liberated and noble people of Iran!

Major tribulations for workers and all exploited masses are: exploitation, extensive unemployment and lack of any rights, inflation and unbearable high costs of living, lack of basics rights to from workers organizations, the right to strike, freedom of expression, and other civil liberties. Such obstacles could be overcome only by relying on the power of the working class as the main and most powerful societal force.

Workers and brave, justice seeking people of Iran and throughout the world, in their extensive, and freedom seeking protests could and should demand: the identification, arrest and prosecution of all those who ordered and implemented the recent suppressions and killings of people, and demand freedom of all those imprisoned during the recent workers’ and people’s protests. We also demand the annulment of all sentences against workers and labour activists as well as activists of women’s movement and students’ movement.

Capitalist order is an order of barbarism, suppression and exploitation, an order of corruption, poverty, prostitution, and deprivation. Let’s unite and call for the eradication of the capitalist system.

Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations, June 18, 2009

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* Translated by the IASWI

Gutes Wetter = 141% Wahlbeteiligung?!

Quelle: Guardian:

Kamran Daneshjou, the head of the ministry’s election commission has attributed the reported 141% participation in the town of Taft to the good weather in Yazd province, where the town is situated.

Daneshjou’s explanation was given on an interview on state TV, according to Ayende News, a centrist website. What is interesting is that the authorities no longer seem to be trying hide the fact that there were „irregularities“.

Ein Statement aus der Frauenbewegung im Iran

Quelle: Change for Equality

Statement in Protest Against Recent Events, Signed by Nearly 250 Members of the Women’s Movement

Monday 22 June 2009

This statement was circulated among women’s rights activists in the current conditions of a near complete communication shut-down. Therefore, many women’s rights activists [interested in signing] might not have yet seen this statement at this point. Zhila Bani-Yaghoub and her spouse, Bahman Amouiee, are among the undersigned but have since been arrested and are currently among the detainees.

Stop the Repression of Iran’s Women and Men

Release All Detainees

Although the non-democratic tenth presidential election was one of the most promising elections for bringing about peaceful change, what ensued afterward gave rise to widespread protests by the public.

Alongside civil and political rights activists, labor activists, students, journalists, and ethnic rights activists, a large spectrum of women’s rights activists from several campaigns and tendencies also participated in the election in order to say „no“ to a government with a discriminatory orientation and to demand an end to gender discrimination.

A hope for change brought millions of women and men to ballot boxes, but the official results transformed this hope into despair and led to widespread demonstrations by the population. The response of the establishment to these protests has been blatant violence, beating, bloodying, injuring, and killing innocent citizens, and the arrest of human rights lawyers and activists, civil and political activists, journalists, students and ethnic rights activists.

Repressive forces, including those who give and those who carry out the orders, once again assaulted universities and dormitories in bloody fashion calling to the minds of all Iranians tired of violence the bitter memories of the events of July 9th 1999 in [Tehran] University dorms. Reports indicate that a significant number of female and male students have been killed, injured, arrested, or are missing across several Iranian cities.

In addition, the blocking of phone and internet communication channels has minimized access to information and and has distressed and disrupted the public psyche. Through complete control of the media, especially all radio and television broadcasting, the establishment is whipping up anger in the population by portraying those who protest and criticize its totalitarian behavior as hooligans and rioters. Meanwhile, without paying any heed to their rights, the state is subjecting people to various forms of brutal violence.

We, the undersigned activists of the women’s rights movement, condemn the violence and humiliation that has continued to be perpetrated against Iranian women and men in recent years and which is aimed at repressing them. We emphasize our continued commitment to achieving the demands of the women’s rights movement, which has had a profound role in educating the public and in civil struggles in recent years, and we express our solidarity with those who protest the results of this election. We demand that those arrested in recent days be released without condition and we call for securing and protecting civil and political freedoms.

Zwei weitere Gewerkschafter in Kolumbien ermordet

Quelle: ITUC-CSI

ITUC OnLine
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Colombia: Two More Trade Unionists Murdered

Brussels, 22 June 2009: The ITUC once again strongly condemns and denounces the murders of two more trade unionists in the Arauca region. Pablo Rodríguez Garavito and Jorge Humberto Echaverri Garro, teachers affiliated to the Arauca teachers’ association Asociación de Educadores de Arauca (ASEDAR), were brutally murdered by unknown gunmen.

The ITUC has joined with its regional organisation TUCA, its Colombian affiliates, and ASEDAR, in their resounding condemnation of these murders, mourned by working people and the national, regional and international trade union movement.

The two murders took place during the same week as the 98th International Labour Conference that has been held every year in June, in Geneva, for almost a hundred years. The Colombian government was once again questioned by the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards over the lack of guarantees for the exercise of trade union rights, the increase in violence against trade unionism, the scant progress in bringing an end to impunity and the stigmatisation of trade union organisations.

In a letter to the Colombian authorities, the ITUC called on President Alvaro Uribe to urgently take every step necessary to guarantee the free exercise of trade union rights, in conformity with ILO Conventions 87 and 98, which Colombia has ratified. The ITUC also called for an immediate and exhaustive investigation aimed at identifying both those who ordered these crimes and those who carried out them out and bringing them to justice. „The chain of impunity prevailing in Colombia must be broken,“ insisted Guy Ryder, general secretary of the ITUC.

Iran-Update 22.06. 2009

1.) Iran in the Gulf berichtet von der ersten Ausgabe der Untergrundzeitung Khiaban (Die Strasse) und liefert einen Teil des Inhaltes in englischer Übersetzung

2.) Berichte auf Révolution en Iran zu einer Demonstration von Familienangehörigen von Inhaftierten (der Artikel geht von mindestens 300 Inhaftierten vom 20.06 aus) und zu Demonstrationen in Tehran am gestrigen Tag, welche trotz der blutigen Repression vom Sonnabend stattfanden.

3.) Weitere Berichte auf Revolutionary Road vom heutigen und gestrigen Tage in Tehran und in anderen Orten:

„More than 4,000 students and youths in Shiraz on Sunday afternoon protested in Daneshjoo (Elm) Junction and Namazi and Chamran streets. They resisted attacks that ensued by suppressive forces.

People and suppressive forces also clashed in other parts of Shiraz, including Afif-Abad and Motehari.

In Shahcheragh people protested and chanted “Death to the dictator” and “I will kill those who killed my brother”.

Chants by protestors and gun-fire can be heard and pepper spray smoke can be seen in many parts of the city.

In Mashhad, on Sunday morning, protestors clashed with suppressive forces and special anti riot forces in Rahnamaii Junction, Taqi-Abad Square and Ahmad-Abad Street. They were protesting against the brutal crackdown that took place on Saturday. Suppressive forces attacked the protestors using water cannons, with high-pressured hot water, and truncheons, injuring a number of people.“

4.) HOPI berichtet ebenfalls von einer Demonstration am gestrigen Tage und dokumentiert eine Soliadresse der ägyptischen Schriftstellerin und feministischen Aktivistin Nawal El Saadawi:

„This is a revolution of the Iranian people against internal and external dictatorships and exploitation, against local and global powers, political , economic and religious powers. Iranian men and women, young and old, are fighting against oppression, inequality, injustices and domination. This is the voice of Iranian people. It is heard clearly all over the world. No power can stop them before they achieve their goals, No power can erase their blood.

Nawal El Saadawi, 21 June 2001″

5.) Aus dem gemeinsamen Statement von US Marxists-Humanists und Hobgoblin:

„But there is the rub. For the movement’s rootedness in the clerical opposition also runs the danger of some type of rotten compromise with the regime, losing the best chance in a generation for a real uprooting.

One encouraging sign was a set of seven demands reportedly circulated at the mass rally of June 15: “1. Dismissal of Khamenei as an unjust leader. 2. Dismissal of Ahmadinejad for his illegal acts. 3. Temporary appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri as the Supreme Leader. 4. Recognition of Moussavi as the President. 5. Forming the Cabinet by Moussavi to prepare for revising the Constitution. 6. Unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners. 7. Dissolution of all organs of repression, public or secret.” Such demands, which stay within the parameters of Islamic Reformism, could nonetheless weaken the foundations of the theocratic state established in 1979.

As Marxist-Humanists, we urge anti-capitalists the world over to solidarize with the Iranian people in their hour of struggle. Support the Iranian youth, women, workers, and other citizens in their freedom struggles! Do not be taken in by the reactionary anti-imperialism of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei!

To the Iranian people, we pledge our firmest solidarity, rooted in three decades of support for Iran’s independent revolutionary forces – feminists, socialists, workers, and ethnic minorities – who were shunted aside in 1979 as the theocratic regime took shape, but whose struggles continue through to today. To our Iranian comrades on the Left, we express the hope that they will neither isolate themselves from the masses nor stop short at the mere reform of the reactionary regime.“

6.) Eine Stellungnahme (pdf-Datei) der Tudeh=Partei, welche anders als die meisten Gruppen der iranischen Linken offenbar Mussavi & Co. kritisch unterstüzt und immer wieder die gleichen Fehler macht

7.) Eine nützliche Linkliste, v.a. zu linken Organisationen aus dem Iran auf dem Blog Rustbelt Radical

8.) Eine Reihe interessanter Artikel auf dem undogmatisch-maoistisch orientierten Blog Kasama: Interview: Revolutionary Lives in Theocratic Iran, A Question Over Iran: Can the People Make History or Not? und Maliah on Iran: The 1979 Revolution Was Lost — Start the Next One, der letztgenannte Artikel resümiert:

„Our role right now is NOT to sit back and criticize, it is to amplify the voices of the Iranian left… to offer hope and possibility for those looking for a direction to build a different world. We have failed to bring down the imperialist USA. This is as much our fault as anyone else’s. As the left, lets take some responsibility for that. Don’t hold back the people’s ability to organize and fight just because of some sentimental feelings for a revolution gone by. Unleash the people. Lets see what they can come up with. It may wind up being an oppressive neoliberal regime and will need to be overthrown again. But perhaps perhaps they will come up with something better — or something out of which something better can come. History isn’t over. Let it loose.“

9.) Eine (leider notwendige) Stellungnahme auf Cosmoproletarian Solidarity zu den unschönen Vorfällen auf der Soli-Kundgebung in Hamburg am 20.06.

10.) Eine Zusammenstellung von Filmberichten auf Youtube

Marg Bar Jomhuriye Eslami!

1.) Berichte und Augenzeugenberichte zu den Massakern an DemonstrantInnen am gestrigen Tag in Tehran gibt es auf Revolutionary Road, dem Blog von HOPI (hier und hier) und auf Révolution en Iran (hier auch ein Bericht zu der Demo in Shiraz am gestrigen Tage), Bilder auf dem Blog der WPI

2.) Berichte von Demonstrationen ausserhalb von Tehran erreichen die Aussenwelt teilweise mit einigen Tagen Verspätung, hier der Hinweis von der Webseite Human Rights Activists in Iran auf Demonstrationen und Repression in Ahvaz, Amol, Yazd und Mashad

3.) Aus einem offenen Brief an Mussavi von einem Genossen der Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency:

„Mr Mousavi, the question the youth put to you is this: what happens if the main cause and architect of the electoral fraud and the subsequent repression is the velayat-e faghih himself? How can you resolve this contradiction between your words and your deeds? With Khamenei’s position in support of Ahmadinejad, and his premature and illegal positions on confirming Ahmadinejad’s presidency, today it is not a secret for anyone, including you, that the vali-e faghih is himself the person who is the cause of these events. How can you now write a letter of complaint to the person who has committed the crime and expect him to investigate these events? In the opinion of the youth who voted for you, this action by you is nothing but a joke. How can you, on the one hand, criticise the velayat-e faghih and, on the other, demand democracy in Iran? These two are clearly contradictory. Destroying one will lead to achieving the other.“

4.) Die Juni-Ausgabe (pdf-Datei) der Worker’s Voice der Communist Party of Iran ist online:

„City of Sanandaj, 24/05/2009

Miss Ronak Safar-Zadeh was tortured by officials of a prison recently. Ronak is a woman activist, whom has been sentenced to six years imprisonment on charge of some activities against the national security!!!“

5.) Anregungen, die GenossInnen im Iran mit dem eigenen Computer zu unterstützen, auf Cyberwar guide for Iran elections und auf Deutschland von der Karte streichen

6.) aus einem Artikel auf entwicklungspolitik online zur Nutzung sozialer Medien durch die Bewegung im Iran:

„Entgegen der Darstellung vieler westlicher Mainstream Medien werden soziale Medien wie Twitter weniger zur dezentralen Organisiation von Protesten als zur Außendarstellung und als Plattformen für „Bürgerjournalisten“ genutzt. „The role of citizens with regard to social media is as citizen journalists, using YouTube and Twitter to report on what is happening, rather than to organize the protests“, so Tehrani. „Since this activity is intended for an international audience (and is in English) it is no wonder that this use of social media is more visible to a Western audience than the online tactics actually being used to organize the protests.“

Unterschätzt werde hingegen die Mund-zu-Ohr“-Methode der Verbreitung von Informationen, die „keine Regierung abschalten kann“. Lediglich Gholamhossein Karbaschi, einer der Berater von Karoubi, kommuniziere über Twitter (@gkarbaschi, in Farsi) mit dem Ziel, iranische Aktivisten im Land zu erreichen. „

Musik zum Sonntag … Bad Terrorists

Mark E Smith ate my Squirrel

In my bin (G20 mix)

Zu den heutigen Protesten in Tehran:

Live-Berichterstattung auf Revolutionary Road sowie auf der Webseite des Guardian … das Mullah-Regime hat wie nicht anders zu erwarten seine Drohung wahr gemacht und geht mit roher Gewalt gegen die Demonstrationen vor, die Ermordung von Menschen billigend in kauf nehmend.

Berichte von den Angriffen der Repressionorgane des iranischen Staates auf Studierendenwohnheime in den vergangenen Tagen gibt es auf dem Blog von HOPI unter Students beaten, tortured, raped and killed in Iran – Statement of surviving students arrested in Tehran University Dormitory

30 Jahre Islamische Republik sind mehr als genug – für die Revolution, zerschlagt die Islamische Republik!

Literaturhinweise zur iranischen Zeitgeschichte

Einige ältere aber immer noch lesenswerte Bücher, … in gut sortierten Bibliotheken oder in den Grabbelkisten linker Buchhandlungen und Antiquariate zu finden: