Wednesday, 2 November 2011

5 November 2011 International Day of Solidarity with Iranian Workers

EN/FA

31 cities in 14 countries so far...Join us on this day of action

Currently in prison:
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, sentenced to 6 years in prison
Reza Shahabi in prison since June 2010
Ebrahim Madadi, in prison since December 2008, sentenced to a 3.5 year prison
Rasoul Bodaghi sentenced to 6 years in prison
Ayat Niyaafar was arrested on Monday 17 Oct.

Their "crimes"
Fighting for workers rights including rights to union activities without fear of being persecuted
Demanding to be paid their wage for the work they have done
Demanding the right to strike and freedom of expression
Organising May Day
Establishing labour organisations

The attack on labour activists must be stopped!

We demand:
• the immediate and unconditional release of all jailed workers in Iran
• the expulsion of delegates of the Islamic regime of Iran from International Labour Organisation (ILO)

We call on all trade unions, concerned organisations and individuals to join us in this campaign. We need to show our solidarity with these jailed workers and their families.




SWEDEN

Stockholm
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Göran Gustavsson 0704009033 & Faramarz Ghorbani 0765647616

Gothenberg
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Brunnsparken
Contact: Abe Asadi 07317178819

Borås
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2-4pm
Place: Stora torget
Contact: Esmail Mardokhi 0 737 59 85 66

Helsingborg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2.30-5pm
Place: Stortorget
Contact: Gabi Hosseini 0760879874

Sävsjö
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 11am-1pm
Arian Mirzolfaghari 0700773423
zolfaghariarian4@gmail.com
Details forthcoming

Malmö
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Triangeln
Contact: Hasan Salehi  0703171102
Farideh Arman 0703638088

Karlskrona
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2-4 pm
Place: Ronnebygatan 43 till 47 i Centrum
Contact: Amir Kamrani; amir_ung@yahoo.com  0046704 53 10 47      
nasserkhassaee@yahoo.com   0046762835308     

UK

London
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 2-4 pm
Place: Trafalgar Sq., North Terrace, in front of the National Gallery
Then at 5pm we will gather outside the offices of the BBC Persian Service, Broadcasting House, 2-22 Portland Place, W1A 1AA
Contact: Behrooz Bahari 07838156819
Alireza Rashidi 07712810675

 CANADA

Toronto
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Yonge St & Dundas Intersection
Contact: Yadi Mahmoudi 416-471-7138
hkki.vca@gmail.com 

Vancouver
Time: Saturday 5th November, 3-5 pm
Place: Art Gallery, Robson side
Contact: Masoud Arjang 001-6046495453
Vancouver District Labour Council also supports this call
  
HOLLAND

Amsterdam
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Beursplein
Contact: Bahman Khani 0651273261      

Norway

Oslo
Time: Saturday 5th November, 1-2 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Saber Rahimi 0798694001      
Abolghasem Kardar 04133-3268      

GERMANY

Frankfurt
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 11am-1pm
Hauptwache Rathenauplatz
Contact: Shahnaz Moratab  015774650186

Berlin
Time: Saturday 5th, 2-4 pm
Place: Joachimstaler platz, am U-Bahnhof Kurfürstendamm
Contact: Farzaneh Derakhshan 017624866317

Cologne
Time: Saturday 5th, 4 pm
Place: In front of Dom
Contact: Mohamad Nemati 01635522356

Hannover
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011 4-6pm
Place: Kropke
Contact: Naser kashkooli 0177 8348592

Würzburg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2.30-5 pm
Abdolbaset Soleimani,  baset_marx@yahoo.com
fetails forthcoming

Hamburg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 1.30 pm
Place: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Glockengießerwall
Contact: Nazanin Borumand  0172-4044323, Pedram Rezazadeh
017648325613 

Dortmund
Time: Saturday 5th November
Contact: Maryam Jabbarzadeh  01786703944
daryagermany@yahoo.de
Details forthcoming

Leipzig
Time: Saturday 5th Nov
Contact: 017629319819
Details forthcoming

USA

Washington DC
Time: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 1pm
Place: 2209 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC (offices of the Islamic regime at the Pakistani Embassy) with march down to Georgetown to hand out flyers.
Contact: maria.rohaly@gmail.com
Organizers: Mission Free Iran & Unity for Democracy and Justice

Philadelphia
Time: Saturday 5th, 1 pm
Love Park, Broad and JFK Street
Contact: Soheila Nikpour 267-439-7185

FRANCE

Lyon
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 4-5 pm
Contact: Payam Azar     
Details forthcoming

FINLAND

Helsinki
Time: Saturday 5th, 2- 4 pm
Place: At 14:00 hours we will gather in Helsingin rautatientori and at 14:20 we will start our march towards Narinkkatori behind Kamppi building.
Contact: abroadcommittee@gmail.com
  
CYPRUS

Nicosia
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 10-11 am
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com

Limassol
Time: Saturday 5th November
Location forthcoming
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com
  
Larnaca
Time: Saturday 5th November
Location forthcoming
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com

JAPAN

Tokyo
On 5 and 6 Nov, Jamal Saberi, Worker-communist Party of Iran's cadre and an activist of the "Free Jailed Workers Campaign", will be speaking at the Railway Union meeting. Labour union representatives from Brazil, USA and South Korea will be present in the meeting, and the topic of the meeting is jailed workers in Iran.

GREECE

Athens
Time: Saturday 5th November, 5 pm
Place: Athens Polytechnic in Patission Street
Contact: Naser Aghbashloo 00306957954975 
  
DENMARK

Copenhagen
Time: Saturday 5th November, 2-3 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of Islamic Republic
Engskiftevej 6 - 2100 københavn 

TURKEY

Ankara
Time: Saturday 5th November, 2-4 pm
Place: At 14:00 hours we will gather in Kugulu Park (Swan Park) and then we will start our march towards Tehran Street in front of the Embassy of Islamic Republic
Contact: Pari Neshat 00905370158957

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This list is regularly updated. For the latest info, please see:
http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/   www.iranpoliticalprisoners.com  http://on.fb.me/oWSQb8   www.missionfree iran.org



شنبه٥ نوامبر
تظاهرات سراسری برای آزادی کارگران زندانی و کلیه زندانیان سیاسی در ایران
٣١ شهر در ١٤ کشور (لیست در حال تکمیل است)

از همگان دعوت ميكنيم كه در هر کجای جهان هستید با ما همراه شوید و به این اعتراض بپیوندید. یا اینکه در فرصت كوتاهي كه باقي مانده است، خود دست به کار شوید و با تشکل ها و فعالین سیاسی و کارگری شهرتان تماس بگیرید و برپایی اجتماع اعتراضی در پنجم نوامبر را برعهده بگیرید و خواست آزادی فوری و بی قید و شرط کارگران زندانی و همه زندانیان سیاسی در ایران را پر طنین تر کنید.

سوئد:

استکهلم:
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ١ تا ٣ مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی
تلفن تماس:
Faramarz Ghorbani 0765647616
Göran Gustavsson 0704009033

گوتنبرگ
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ١ تا ٣ در برنز پارکن
تلفن تماس: عبداله اسدی 07317178819

هلسینگبوری
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ٢ و نیم تا ٥ بعدازظهر
در استور توریت
تماس: گبی حسینی 0760879874

بوروس
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر
استورا توریت
تماس: اسماعیل مردوخی 0737598566

سوخو
روز شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ١١ تا یک بعدازظهر
تماس: آرین میرذوالفغاری0700773423    
emil:zolfaghriarian4@gmail.com
جزئیات بعدا اعلام میشود

مالمو
روز شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ١ تا ٣ بعدازظهر
در Triangel
تماس: حسن صالحی 0703171102، فریده آرمان  0703638088

کارلزکرونا
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر
محل: Ronnebygatan 43 till 47 i Centrum
تماس:  Kamrani;amir_ung@yahoo.com  0046704 53 10 47   
nasserkhassaee@yahoo.com   0046762835308     

انگیس:

لندن
شنبه پنج نوامبر، ساعت ٢ الى ٤ عصر
ميدان ترافالگار در مقابل نشنال گالرى
و از ساعت ٥ مقابل بی بی سی فارسی
تلفن های تماس:
بهروز بهاری 07838156819
علیرضا رشیدی 07712810675 

نزدیکترین ایستگاه قطار به میدان ترافالگار: Charring Cross
آدرس: بی بی سی فارسی Broadcasting House,
2-22 Portland Place,
London   W1A 1AA
نزدیکترین ایستگاه قطار Oxford Circus

کانادا:

تورنتو
زمان: شنبه ۵ نوامبر ساعت ٢ تا ۵ بعد ازظهر
مكان: تقاطع خیابان یانگ و دانداس (مقابل ایتن سنتر)

تماس:
یدی محمودی: 4164717138
hkki.vca@gmail.com
hkki.vca@gmail.com

ونكور
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ٣ تا ٥ بعدازظهر
Art Gallery, Robson side
شوراي كارگران ونكوور و حومه (Vancouver district Labour council) حمايت خود را از اين فراخوان اعلام کرده است
Masoud Arjang
001-6046495453


هلند:

آمستردام
شنبه ٥ نوامبر از ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر  
مکان: امستردام- بورس پلاین
تماس: بهمن خانی 0031651273261      

آلمان:

فرانكفورت:
شنبه ٥ نوامبر از ساعت ١١ تا ١ بعدازظهر
محل: Hauptwache Rathenauplatz
تلفن تماس: شهناز مرتب
015774650186 

برلین:
روز شنبه ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر، در محل
Joachimstaler platz, am U-Bahnhof Kurfürstendamm
تماس: فرزانه درخشان 017624866317

کلن
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ٤ بعدازظهر
مقابل کلیسای دوم
تماس: محمد نعمتی 01635522356

ورتسبورگ
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٢ تا ٤ عصر 
اطلاعات تكميلي بعدا گزارش ميشود.
تماس:   Abdolbaset soleimani baset_marx@yahoo.com 

هانوفر
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٤ تا ٦ بعدازظهر
محل: Kropke
تماس: ناصر کشکولی  0177 8348592

هامبورگ
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت یک و نیم بعدازظهر
محل: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof
Glockengießerwall
تماس: نازنین برومند  01724044323
پدرام رضازاده 017648325613 

دورتموند
اطلاعات بعدا تكميل ميشود
تماس: مریم جبارزاده  01786703944
daryagermany@yahoo.de

More
لایپزیک
اطلاعات بعدا تكميل ميشود
تماس: 017629319819


آمریکا:

فیلادلفیا
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ١ بعدازظهر
در Love Park, Broad and JFK Street
تماس: سهیلا نیکپور  2674397185

واشنگتن
یکشنبه ٦ نوامبر ساعت ١ بعدازظهر
محل: 2209 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC
دفاتر جمهوری اسلامی در سفارت پاکستان و از آنجا بطرف Georgetown
تماس: ماریا روحالی maria.rohaly@gmail.com

نروژ

اسلو
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ١ تا ٢ بعدازظهر
محل: مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی
تماس:صابر رحيمي:   098694001
ابوالقاسم کاردار: 042316278
حزب کارگران نروژ و اتحاديه کمون واحد کونگسوينگر، در پيامي به تشکیلات خارج کشور حزب کمونیست کارگری، پشتيباني خود را از کارزار ٥ نوامبر براي آزادي کارگران زنداني و کليه زندانيان سياسي در ايران اعلام کردند.


فنلاند

هلسینکی
شنبه ٥ نوامبر از ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر
مکان: تجمع ساعت ٢ بعدازظهر در میدان راه آهن هلسینکی ﴿Helsingin rautatientori﴾ و راس ساعت ٢ و ٢٠ دقیقه راهپیمایی به طرف میدان نارینکا ﴿Narinkkatori﴾ واقع در پشت ساختمان کامپی ﴿Kamppi﴾ 
تماس: abroadcommittee@gmail.com


فرانسه

لیون
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٤ تا ٥ عصر
اطلاعات تكميلي بعدا به اطلاع میرسد


ژاپن

توکیو
روزهاي ٥ و ٦ نوامبر سخنراني جمال صابري کادر حزب كمونيست كارگري ايران و از فعالين كمپين براي آزادي كارگران زندانی درمورد كارگران زنداني در ايران در جلسه  اتحادیه كارگران راه آهن دورو چیبا که با حضور نمایندگانی از اتحادیه‌های كارگری برزیل، آمریكا و كره جنوبی برگزار میشود.


قبرس

لیماسول
شنبه ٥ نوامبر
تماس: امیر مسعود خاقانی 96484292
جزئیات بیشتر بعدا به اطلاع میرسد
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com
jonbeshhoghoghpanahjo.cyprus@gmail.com

نیکوزیا
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ١٠ تا ١١ صبح
مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی
تماس: امیر مسعود خاقانی   96484292

لارناکا
شنبه ٥ نوامبر
تماس: امیر مسعود خاقانی 96484292
جزئیات بیشتر بعدا به اطلاع میرسد


یونان

آتن
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٥ بعدازظهر
محل: دانشگاه پلی تکنیک آتن- واقع در خیابان پاتیسیون
تماس: ناصر آقباشلو  00306957954975    
ناصر آقباشلو

دانمارک
کپنهاگ
شنبه ٥ نوامبر ساعت ٢ تا ٣ بعدازظهر
مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی  
Engskiftevej 6 - 2100 københavn 

ترکیه

آنکارا
شنبه ٥ نوامبر، ساعت ٢ تا ٤ بعدازظهر
در مقابل سفارت جمهوری اسلامی ایران
تجمع در پارک قو، سپس حرکت به سمت خیابان تهران مقابل درب اصلی سفارت جمهوری اسلامی ایران
برگزار کننده: انجمن همبستگی فعالان تبعیدی – ترکیه
تلفن تماس: پری نشاط    00905370158957 


لیست در حال تکمیل شدن است.

از همه آزادیخواهان، از همه نهادها و فعالین حقوق کارگر و زندانیان سیاسی دعوت میکنیم که فعالانه در این آکسیون ها شرکت کنند و یا خود آکسیونی را در شهری که هستند سازمان دهند و اطلاعات مربوطه را برای ما بفرستند که به این لیست اضافه کنیم.

 براى اطلاعات بيشتر میتوانید به فيس بوك و سايت ها و وبلاگ های زير مراجعه نمائید:
www.missionfree iran.org
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TV International with Hamid Taqvaee on the Arab Spring

TV International's Maryam Namazie interviews Hamid Taqvaee on the Arab Spring.



Below is the transcript of the interview.


On Arab Spring

Maryam Namzie: Hi! You’re watching TV International with Maryam Namazie.   In this week’s program we’re going to be discussing the Arab spring. We’ve got the brilliant Hamid Taqvaee in the studio with us this week to discuss this issue. Welcome Hamid Taqvaee.

Hamid Taqvaee: Thank you.

MN: Last week we talked about the 99 Percent in the protest world wide. Is the Arab Spring linked to what we’re seeing in Wall Street, in London, and across the world?

HT: Of course it is linked! First of all because the root of both movements is the same, and that’s the whole economical situation in the world: the economical crisis. One of the main slogans of the revolution in Egypt was bread, was the question of unemployment, the question of poverty and you see that the same thing is happening in the West now. That’s one thing that connects those two, the other thing is that even the form and the method of protest is very similar. I mean the whole idea of occupying Wall Street comes from Al-Tahrir Square in Egypt. And it’s not only Egypt and New York, of course. Every other places in the world we had that idea of occupying streets and claiming that streets belongs to us, you know. With idea of occupying comes idea of controll. We have to take controll, we people, we 99%, we have to take everything in our own hands, you know. That idea is a new idea you can say, and it is the basic idea in the Arab Spring, in the Middle East revolutions and in protests in the West. In Spain we had the same thing three months ago, in Paris we had the same thing, in Sol Square, people of Spain said streets belongs to us. It’s not simply a demonstration, it’s not one day protest and go home. It’s going out, come to the street and remain there. Take controll of the whole situation.

MN: It’s interesting when you talk about the similarities. There’s also been a lot of opposition to parliamentary democracy in protest that we see from Wall Street and across the world. Whereas the Arab Spring protesters often being portrayed in the media as pro-democracy movements and that’s often the lable that given to protesters...

HT: Yes, I know...

MN: Would you agree that the protesters are pro-democracy...?

HT: No, I don’t. I don’t think that you can call them pro-democracy as such. They are against dictatorship for sure, but it doesn’t mean necessarily that they are pro-democracy. They are pro-freedom. People want to be free but these days democracy identifies itself with parliament and elections. It’s not a very attractive idea overall, you know, because people in the Middle East think that: ok, say in Greece they had parliament, there was election, and you see the situation. Even in the West, in the US, in the Western Europe, parliaments are very busy with passing laws against people, you know, with the policy of cutting all the social services, and so on and so forth. So it’s not very attractive. Every Egyptian would think: parliament for what? Parliament to do what? Something like Greece? Spain? We want unemployment? We need austerity measures? Of course not. Fifty years ago we couldn't say that. In uprisings against dictators, like in the revolution that we had in Iran thirty something years ago, people wanted democracy as such. It made sense somehow. But these days nobody is for democracy.

MN: It seems though if you are not for parliamentary democracy then you’re not for people’s participation in society. That’s the image that’s been given. What would be an alternative then? iIf people aren’t able to vote what else they could do?  

HT: The alternative is taking shape already. The alternative is people with their committees, with their counciles. People are gathering in these sort of organizations in their protests everywhere. As I said before, with the idea of occupaying streets comes the idea of controlling the society. People saying we can do this. It’s possible. Especially with the new technology, with the Internet, with the social media, and so on people think that it’s doable, it’s possible. We can do that. We can take the controll in our own hands. As one of those activists in Sol Square in Madrid said “Our dream doesn’t come out from the ballot box”. It means that people know that it is not just the question of free election. Its a question of beeing free in every days life to decide about everything and to take controll of everything. And people know that parliament is not going to do that for them. Parliament is busy with saving bankers and do something with the capitalist bancrupsy in everywhere. So that situation brings with itself the idea of taking controll, taking everything in our own hands...

MN: But the right to vote is still important, doesn’t it? I mean people have died for the right to vote and even in the sense where they’re occupaying Wall Street, people are still voting .?..

HT: Yes, the right to vote. But look, there’s a difference between the direct democracy and parliamentary democracy. I mean you vote and you elect somebody to do something and you  think you are in charge or having control. That’s the second part which is missing, you know. In every parliamentary democracy, you elect some people for four years and you have no control whatsoever. They gone; they do what ever they want for four years...

MN: They do exactly what they said that they’re not gonna do...

HT: Yes, because they need your vote they say whatever you want and after election they do whatever they want! Election promises are equivalent with lies. They just lie or do whatever they need to do to just take your vote and then they go on with their own policies, the policies of those one percent. 99% elect some "one percent" parties or parliament members or whatever, and then they go on with their own policies and after four years people come out with that ok, it didn’t work, go for the other party which is the same almost with just new faces...

MN: Going back to this issue of people’s participation, revolution is one way in which people do participate. Some people though believe that its a failure. Revolutions are failure. They failed and they’re helping to actually bring Islamism to power, even in places where they didn’t have power in the Middle East and the Northern Africa. What would you say to that?

HT: Actually I think those revolutions are against Islamism as well, because Islamists have no role in them. You know, Islamism is a very well known movement and everybody knows what it is about. After September 11, we had Islamism in one pole, in one camp, and we had Neo-Cans and the militarism on the other, and everybody knows what they stand for. Islamism is for going back to Sharia laws, anti-Western values, or in fact anti-civilization tendencies, going back to "our own" culture, Arab culture or Islamic culture, women with Hijab with no rights at all, anti-Semitism ... that sort of thing. That’s Islamism. Political Islam is based on those goals and those values. But in those revolutions in Egypt, in Tunisia, in Syria there is no trace of such goals and tendencies. In Syria for example you have an uprising totally against Islamism, because Beshar al-Asad is a leader and a symbole of political Islam in the region. In Syria Islamism is in power. In Egypt, in Tunisia, in everywhre, in Lybia even, we have revolutions that are not about those values. Those revolutions have already declared that they are for freedom, they are for bread, they are for human dignity. So they have nothing to do with Islamism. I know that some Islamic groups, like the Islamic Republic of Iran, they try to say  these are an Islamic revolutions or revolutions in Islamic countries, revolution against the West, and that sort of thing. But people in the street don’t say that. We don’t see any slogan against the "Great Satan"  for example...

MN: But there’s a danger of Islamism taking power...

HT: Yes, always there is a danger. As far as Islamism is there as a political power, of course they do whatever they can to take power in those new situation that is created by revolution. But they had nothing to do with the revolution. Do you know what I mean? Moslem Brotherhood which was a very strong party in Egypt, even they had members in parliament in Mobarak’s time, in that revolution they are nowhere. You don’t see them at all. Of course, sometimes they make some comments or something, but people are not for, say, Sharia law in Egypt. You don’t see that trend, you don’t see that movement.

MN: Thank you very much. We will going to end here. If you have any comments on this, do contact us. I just want to end with something that a Tunisian was saying in a rally for secularism. They said we didn’t overthrow Bin-Ali who told us we couldn’t say a lot of things to have someone come on and tell us that the rule of God doesn’t allows to say other things, and that secularism is an important value that they fighting for, as Hamid Taqvaee says. Send us your comments. Hope to see you again next week. Until then have a good week.


october 28, 2011


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