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Iran-Update 20.07. 2009 – Marg Bar Jomhuriye Eslami!

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

1.) Seiten mit regelmässig aktualisierter Berichterstattung: Revolutionary Road, News from the struggles in Iran (HOPI), Révolution en Iran, Rise of The Iranian People und LabourStart.

2.) Weitere Filmberichte von den Demos in Tehran vom Freitag gibt es hier, von den gestrigen Protesten in Shiraz hier … für den morgigen Tag ist wie Ali Schirasi berichtet, eine weitere Protest-Stromausfall während der Abendnachrichten des Regierungssenders um 21 Uhr geplant:

„Am 30. Tir 1388 (21. Juli 2009) um 21:00 soll im Iran das Licht ausgehen. In Gedenken an die Opfer der Unterdrückung vom 30. Chordad (Sa, 20. Juni 2009), zu denen auch die junge Iranerin Neda Agha-Soltan(i) gehört, sollen mindestens drei Millionen iranische Familien am Dienstag, den 21. Juli, Punkt 9:00 zum Ertönen des letzten Zeitzeichens vor den staatlichen iranischen Nachrichten ein stromfressendes Gerät (Bügeleisen, Staubsauger, Fön, Warmwasserboiler) in die Steckdose stecken und für 3 Minuten in Betrieb nehmen. Bei einer Leistung des iranischen Stromnetzes von 3000 Megawatt und einem zusätzlichen Verbrauch von 1000 Watt pro Familie (1000 Watt mal 3.000.000 Geräte macht 3000 Megawatt) dürfte dies ausreichen, das iranische Stromnetz zum Zusammenbruch zu bringen, selbst wenn das Regime, das ja von der Aktion weiß, sich startklar macht, um zusätzliche Anlagen in Betrieb zu nehmen.“

3.) Die bekannte Feministin Shadi Sadr wurde am Freitag von Regierungsschlägern verschleppt und wird weiterhin im Evin-Knast festgehalten

4.) Zur Situation der Gefangenen in den Knästen:

* The Possibility of Widespread Typhoid Fever and Meningitis Among the Inmates in Evin Prison (Human Rights Activists in Iran)
* Ahmadineschad fordert schärfere Haftbedingungen (Ali Schirasi)
* The Unknown Condition of Mr. Dadkhah a prominent Human Rights Attorney (Human Rights Activists in Iran)

5.) Speziell in den als „unruhig“ geltenen „Minderheitenregionen“ wie Kurdistan und Belutschisten ist die Repression derzeit besonders scharf wogegen sich auch bewaffneter Widerstand regt:
* Kaboudvand put on trial again by Iranian regime (Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan)
* Yunes Aghayan, member of „Ahl-e hagh“ was hanged in Iran on July 12 (Iran Human Rights, bei den Ahl-e hagh handelt es sich um eine heterodoxe schiitische, den AlevitInnen ähnelnde Glaubensgemeinschaft, welche in kurdisch- und lurischsprachigen Gebieten im Iran 500.000-1.000.000 AnhängerInnen zählt)
* Exile, torture of a young Kurdish in Orumiyeh and Tehran (Eastkurd)
* Kurdish rebels kill four Iran policemen: report (Eastkurd)
* A Kurdish teacher was killed in Orumiyeh prison (Eastkurd)
* Iran: A member of the Kurdish Teachers Association Arrested in Saqez (Eastkurd)
* Iran:3 people will be executed soon in Zahedan (Eastkurd, laut Regierungsangaben handelt es sich um u.a. um ein Mitglied der belutschischen sunnitisch-islamistischen Jundallah)
* Iran cracks down as Baluch rebels (Eastkurd)

6.) Zur Situation in den Repressionsorganen:

* English translations – Meeting of Iran Sec Forces Commanders farsi audio! (Revolutionary Road)
* Thirty-six army officers arrested in Iran over protest plan. Officers planned to attend sermon by former president Hashemi Rafsanjani in military uniform (The Guardian)

7.) Ein Aufruf der Worker-communism Unity Party zur Bildung revolutionärer Basisstrukturen:

„1. Once again the Iranian society is at the verge of a magnificent and historic development. People have given their verdict to overthrow the Islamic regime and are in the process of doing just that. Any progress of the mass protest movement to overthrow the regime in the most organised and least painful fashion is dependent on the formation of people’s organisations, the councils in the country.

2. One aim of the councils is for people and the workers to seize power. The councils are tools for uniting, organising the revolutionary and libertarian struggle of the workers and toilers in negation of capitalism and the Islamic Republic. Councils are also the organs of uprising against the Islamic Republic. Councils should be formed everywhere, locally and nationally in the neighbourhoods and work places.

3. Councils are the most efficient, suitable and simplest organisation to unite and implement people’s power. They safeguard the direct and consistent intervention of people and must replace the power of Islamic reaction.

4. The working class must build its councils with haste. Councils facilitate the unity of worker’s ranks, their class independence and implementation of worker’s control. Councils provide the possibility of the emergence of the working class as the suitable leading force of the movement to overthrow the regime. Socialist workers must be in the forefront of formation of the councils at work and neighbourhoods.

5. Neighbourhood councils are of great importance at this crucial time. Even the practical experience of recent events has shown that local gatherings and protest organisations are the basic organising force in the protest movement, especially in setting up demonstrations at nights. The control of all areas must be taken over from the Islamic Republic and its suppressive forces.

6. Worker-communism Unity Party calls upon workers and the people to build councils.“

Fourth International: Positive Action and Party Building Among Women (1991)

Positive Action and Party Building Among Women (pdf-Datei, 3,14 mb), ein Dokument der Vierten Internationale aus dem Jahre 1991 (erstmals publiziert im International Marxist Review, Nr. 14, 1992) welches selbstkritisch die Probleme der Organisation und ihrer Sektionen bezüglich der Fragen von Feminismus und Frauenbefreiung und der ungenügenden Überwindung patriarchaler Strukturen in den eigenen Reihen bilanziert. Leider hat diese Selbstkritik nicht immer die erhoffte Wirkung gehabt, der Text selbst ist seither nicht wieder aufgelegt worden.

Homophobe Repression in Honduras

Offenbar scheint die honduranische Rechte die Situation nach dem Putsch auch dafür zu nutzen, die Lage für die ohnehin schon in einem Zustand permanenter Drangsalierung lebenden LBGT-Communities in Honduras weiter zu verschärfen (Quelle: ESSF):

Honduras: IGLHRC Expresses Outrage at Human Rights Abuses After Military Coup

IGLHRC, Press Releases, 07/17/2009

(New York, July 17, 2009) The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) strongly condemns the recent murder and arbitrary arrests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Honduras. IGLHRC has learned that these human rights abuses have occurred as a direct result of the military coup on June 28, 2009, which ousted that country’s democratically elected government. The coup was apparently precipitated by now-exiled President Manuel Zelaya’s attempts to amend the constitution and seek an additional 4-year term in office after his original term expired in 2010.

“The recent coup in Honduras is an illegal assault on democracy that violates the rights of all Honduran citizens, including those who identify as LGBT,” said IGLHRC executive director Cary Alan Johnson. “We especially deplore the vicious murder and arbitrary arrests of LGBT people in the wake of this crisis.”

The transgender activist’s murder occurred on the night of June 29, 2009, after she went to work during the military-imposed two-night curfew. She was found dead in the morning of June 30, 2009, one block away from San Pedro Sula’s Gay Community Center, with two gunshot wounds: one through her head and one in her back. Local activists in Honduras claim she was killed by military police patrolling the streets. Representatives from Colectivo TTT/REDLACTRANS have protested the murder.

Five other LGBT activists—Hector Licona, Donny Reyes, Patrick Pavon, Claudia Cervantes and Lizeth Ávila—were arrested, detained and then beaten while in custody on June 29. The arrests occurred while the activists were participating in a demonstration in support of the democratically elected government. All of the activists are well-known public figures, known to be leaders in the LGBT movement.

Honduras has a checkered history on LGBT rights. IGLHRC contributed to a 2006 report about human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in Honduras. The report emphasized that the Honduran government engages in widespread discrimination against the LGBT community. It documented over 200 murders of transgender people and sex workers by state and non-state actors, as well as numerous incidents of police brutality. In 2007, IGLHRC issued an action alert after four transgender people were arbitrarily arrested and physically, verbally and psychologically abused in police custody.

“Human rights and fundamental freedoms are being challenged in Honduras in the aftermath of the coup,” said Marcelo Ferreyra, coordinator of IGLHRC’s Latin America and Caribbean Program. “Under such circumstances, there is always danger for those whose sexual orientation or gender identity does not conform to social norms. We ask for the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in Honduras.”

Repression gegen ÖlarbeiterInnen im Iran

Quelle der nachfolgend dokumentierten Meldung: News from the struggles in Iran/HOPI:

Crackdown on Iranian oil workers

Hopi activists have heard that a number of oil workers and employees at the Tehran Oil refinery havee been arrested – a clear sign that the regime fears a strike.

The oil workers’ militancy is in part due to their anger about Ahmadinejad’s silly attempts to artificially create a better price of oil per barrel (looking like double the world market price) by suggesting that 200-litre barrels should be used instead of 100-litre ones.

In other news, there has been a demonstration by Protest by Parris Rissandighi (textile) workers in Sanadaj in front of the government offices. They are demonstrating about the closures of plants and widespread job losses.

Worker’s Voice Nr. 24

Die Juli-Ausgabe der Worker’s Voice (Nr. 24) des Auslandskomitees der Kommunistischen Partei Iran, hier als pdf-Datei (208 kb), mit zwei Statements der CPIran zur derzeitigen Bewegung im Iran und Meldungen aus der iranischen ArbeiterInnenbewegung und zur staatlichen Repression gegen diese:

 

Musik zum Sonntag … Razors

Subway (1980)

No Life (1981)

Iran-Update 17.07. 2009 – Marg Bar Jomhuriye Eslami!

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

1.) Seiten mit regelmässig aktualisierter Berichterstattung: Revolutionary Road, News from the struggles in Iran (HOPI), Révolution en Iran, Rise of The Iranian People und LabourStart.

2.) Zur Predigt von Rafsanjani anlässlich des Freitagsgebets und den heutigen Ereignissen gibt es ein laufend aktualisiertes Update auf Revolutionary Road, die (hier in englischer Sprache zusammengefasste) Ansprache Rafsanjanis (der immerhin zur Freilassung der Gefangenen aufgerufen hat) wird die Spaltung unter den Eliten eher noch verbreitern, offenbar sind während bzw. nach der Predigt an verschiedenen Stellen in Tehran Riots ausgebrochen (Nachtrag: offenbar auch in Mashad und Tabriz), laut einem Bericht der Worker-communist Party of Iran finden auch in Shiraz, Yazd und Esfahan zur Zeit Demonstrationen statt. Eine erste Interpretation der Predigt Rafsanjanis findet mensch auf Revolution in Iran

Auf der gleichen Seite findet mensch auch Updates zu den Ereignissen von gestern und vorgestern:

„Families of more than 30 political prisoners rallied in front of the Islamic Courts in Tehran, asking for the immediate release of their loved ones. The Mourning Mothers group has asked on the people of Iran to join them in their upcoming rally which is to be held next week. On Thursday, prayer sessions will be held across Iran for the safe return of detained protesters across Iran.“

3.) Eastkurd zur Repression in kurdischsprachigen Gebieten:

* Sufi hanged in Orumieh
* Wild Iranian regime forces killed 4 young Kurdish
* Six young Kurdish residents were arrested in Oshnavieh

4.) Zur Situation in Chuzistan berichtet die British Ahwazi Friendship Society:

„A number of Ahwazi Arab organisations have reported on recent clashes between the ethnic Arab population and the Iranian authorities.

Jaffar Abdulzahra Khantaf, a resident of Borwayeh village and a lecturer at Chamran University in Ahwaz City, was shot dead in Tehran while taking part in opposition protests there, according to the Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz, a pro-federalist group allied with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. He was studying for his doctorate in Tehran. Jaffar was shot in the head by the Bassij in the Tehran Metro and later died in hospital. His family was forced to bury him privately and without mourning, under the direction of the security forces.

Meanwhile, two members of the Revolutionary Guards were shot dead by Arab militants on 4 July, according to the separatist Ahwazi Arab People’s Democratic Popular Front. The first was killed in Ariashar district close to Padadshahr district and second in Yousefi district close to Abadan junction. The same group quotes a report from the ‘Ahwazi Voice Agency’ that claimed three armed Arab militants clashed with security forces in Ma’shor (Mahshahr) on June 22, leading to the death of a 26-year-old Arab militant from Falahiya and two members of the Revolutionary Guards.

On July 5, dozens of Ahwazi Arabs were arbitrarily arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in the Arbaa-Asood area (Charshir and Korush areas), according to the separatist National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz (NLMA). The security forces had attempted to raid the restive Arab districts of Hay Al-Thawra and Malashiya, which have been the focus of Ahwazi Arab resistance in recent years, were forced back by Arab ‘resistance’, although no casualties were reported.“

5.) Iran Women Solidarity dokumentiert ein Interview mit einer Aktivistin aus der Frauenbewegung zu den alltäglichen organisatorischen Problemen:

„It is a kind of (impossible) wish in Iran, because you cannot even count on tomorrow’s situation. But I think despite this, we should have a plan about what we want to do in different times and stick to it as much as we can, even if only 20% of the time. We usually collect money for special events or publishing, for example: about 2 months ago my friends wanted to publish a collection of articles about ’polygamy in Iran’. They estimated the expenditure and made sure that they could publish it (we usually cannot receive permission for publishing from the government so you have to do it in a semi-illegal way and with higher costs!). Then they came to a meeting and asked for help. One says „I can pay for 20″. The other „I can pay for 50″ and so they understand that they can, for example, publish 1000. By a „detailed plan“ I mean that we should collect the money for „publications“ at the beginning of the year and then disburse it little by little. Even if we could not publish anything in that specific year, we could spend the money in a different way. It is hard in Iran but I think we should start something like it.“

6.) Mehr zum Wahlbetrug auf dem Blog von Hopi

7.) Einige weitere Nachrichten zur derzeitigen Hinrichtungs-/Mordwelle:

* Three people were hanged in Isfahan, yesterday July 14 (Iran Human Rights)
* Execution of a Prisoner in Naqadeh (Human Rights Activists in Iran)

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen Linken

ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika„:

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Anarchist Workers Alliance: Anarchist Worker, Oktober/November 1979

Projekt Gutenberg:

* Carl von Ossietzky: Sämtliche Schriften – Band II (1922-1924)

Big Flame 1970-1984:

* EPISODES IN BIG FLAME HISTORY: No 13. Education
* The Crisis in Education (1977, pdf-Datei)
**The Crisis in Education: front-p12
** The Crisis in Education: p13-back
* Notes on Being a Red Teacher (1980, pdf-Datei)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Artikel aus dem Socialist Appeal, Juni 1936
** From Our Viewpoint
** Albert Glotzer: The French Elections – To Socialism or Fascism?
** Hal Draper: The Case Against Sanctions and “Neutrality Legislation” [Part II]
** Rudolph C. Olson: Convention of Socialist Party of Illinois
** Proposal for a Socialist Party Election Platform for 1936
* Artikel aus der New International, Mai 1941
** The Editor’s Comments,
** Joseph Arnold: Counter-Revolution in Mexico
** M. Wilson: Anarchism in Spain
** Hal Draper: Hook Purges Marxism
** Joseph Carter: Stalinism and the War
** T.N. Vance: Features of U.S. Imperialism
** Albert Glotzer: German Society and Capitalism – II
** Dwight Macdonald: Fascism – A New Social Order
* Ernest Mandel: Actualidade da Teoria Leninista da Organização à Luz da Experiência Histórica (1975)
* Ernest Mandel: Uitgelezen moorden. Een sociale geschiedenis van het misdaadverhaal (1987)
* Rob Lubbersen: De Vierde Internationale tot 1950 (1983)
* Louis de Brouckère: Hoe arbeiderscontrole invoeren (1924)
* Louis de Brouckère: Het Socialisme – Praktijk en theorie (193?)
* Léon Delsinne: De Belgische Werkliedenpartij van haar oorsprong tot 1894 (1952)
* Pierre Broué: Trotskisterna i Sovjetunionen (1929-1938) (1980)
* H.M. Hyndman: Irish Needs and Irish Remedies (1880)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Radicals and Socialism (1885)
* H.M. Hyndman: The English Workers as they Are (1885)
* H.M. Hyndman: Social-Democracy and Peace (1915)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Armed Nation (1915)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Awakening of Asia (1916)
* Georges Etiévant: Declaration Before the Assize Court (1897)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a James P. Cannon (1940)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a William F. Warde (1940)

Trend:

Mehr zu den Septemberstreiks 1969

* Eberhard Schmidt: Die Chronologie der Streiks. Der erste Tag: 2. September 1969 (1971)
* Gerhard Armanski, Boris Penth, Jörg Pohlmann: Die spontanen Streiks 1969 (1975, Auszug aus Staatsdiener im Klassenkampf)
* IG Chemie: Die hauptsächlichen Streikarten
* Urs Jaeggi: Reform oder Revolution (1973, Auszug aus Kapital und Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik)

LibCom:

* Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921)
* Eric Hobsbawm: Socialism and the Avant-Garde, 1880-1914 (1980)
* Eric Hobsbawm: Birth of a Holiday: The First of May (1994)
* Letter of América Scarfó to Emile Armand (1928)
* International Bolshevik Tendancy: Criticism of internationalist anti-war statement (2003)
* Red and Black Notes: Red and Black Notes reply to the International Bolshevik Tendancy (2003)
* Internationalist Perspectives: The Gulf War of 2003 (2003)
* Internationalist Perspectives: Don’t talk about the danger of war – unless you are prepared to speak about capitalism! (2003)
* Red and Black Notes: What’s Going On – Iraq: Two Years after the ‘End’ of the War (2005)
* International Bureau for a Revolutionary Party (IBRP): Iraq: Oil, Blood and Class (2003)
* From Bloody Sunday to Trafalgar Square (1991)
* A brief history of the Red Menace (1990)
* The Red Menace: Demolish Fortress Britain (1989)

La Presse Anarchiste:

* L’en-dehors n°196/197, 15. Dezember 1930
* weitere Texte aus Iztok n°18/19, Le déclin dela dynastie Deng, Juni 1990

Collectif Smolny:
* Friedrich Engels: Englische Ansicht über die innern Krisen (1842)
* Friedrich Engels: Stellung der politischen Parteien (1842)
* Friedrich Engels: Die innern Krisen (1842)

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP): Juramento de los combatientes y oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas del EGP (1983)
* Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR): Culminar dos años de solidaridad con Chile a través del aislamiento total de la Junta (1975)
* Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN): El Ejército de Liberación Nacional y el Derecho Humanitario (1995)
* Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB): Acerca da luta antiimperialista (1973)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Sean Matgamnna: Chris Bambery’s „Ireland’s Permanent Revolution“ (1987)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF)

* Pierre Rousset: Lean Alejandro – Disparition d’un militant (1987)
* Pierre Rousset: L’armée philippine défie ouvertement les institutions démocratiques (1987)
* Pierre Rousset: La gauche militante face au projet de Mme Aquino (1987)
* Labour Party Pakistan (LPP): Origin of Labour Party Pakistan (2000)

Sanhati:

* Porichoy Patrika, 1/1960, 2-3/1960 und 12/1960

Revolución Sandinista: La Ofensiva Final – 30. Jahrestag des Abganges von Somoza

Zum 30. Jahrestag der sandinistischen Revolution in Nicaragua ein Dokumentarfilm … ein Land, welches heute von einer Partei regiert wird, welche nur noch dem Namen nach sandinistisch ist … Dokumente des historischen revolutionären Sandinismus (u.a. auch der Tendencia Proletaria der FSLN) kann mensch hier finden