TV International programmes on International Women's Day

News and events for International Women's Day inside and outside of Iran



Manifesto of Liberation of Women



Women's struggle in Iran and its international effects

WPI International Women's Day across the world

USA

Washington DC

Sunday 7 March, 1pm

Embassy of Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Iran is represented here)

Dallas

Sunday 7 March, 2pm

Picknick

Russell Creek Park, Mc Dermot Road – Plano

Canada

Toronto

Saturday 6 March, 11am – 1pm

Bloor St West OESI Building

Subway Bedford Station 252

Rally 1pm

Ryerson University 1.30-5pm

Vancouver

Saturday 6 March, 1 to 3 pm
South side of Art Gallery, Robson & How street

Germany

Bremen

Monday 8 March, 12:00 – 14:00

Universität Bremen

Frankfurt

Monday 8 March, 17:00
Demo

Hauptwache (Zeil)
Kontakt:015781688732

France

Lyons

Saturday 6 March, 17:00 – 19:00

City Centre

Monday 8 March, 20:00

Meet-up

at Patooq (socialising) space

Besancon

Monday 8 March, from 9am

Marketplace

Norway

Oslo

Saturday 6 March, 12:30

Parliament

Monday 8 March, 18:00

Rally

Youngtorget – Oslo

UK

London

Saturday 6 March, 12-4pm

Trafalgar Square, North Terrace

Sweden

Stockholm

Monday 8 March, 15:00 – 17:30

Södermalmstorg

Gothenburg

Saturday 6 March, 15:00

Folket House

Monday 8 March, 16:00

Rally

Brunnsparken

Malmo

Monday 8 March, 17:00 – 21:00

Kronetorpsgatan 1

Rally 18:00

Gustav Square

Contact: +46 70 36 38088

Holland

Den Haag

Monday 8 March, 15:00

Parliament

Rotterdam

Monday 8 March, 14:00

Astedhouse

For information on any of these events please contact your local WPI branch or email:

hasan_salehi2001@yahoo.com

WPI 22 Bahman protest Norway

Watch a clip of WPI's protest on 22 Bahman in Norway in front of the Islamic regime's embassy which was filmed by Norwegian Nett TV here.

February 11: another defeat for the Islamic Republic of Iran!

Today, Iran and the world - from Tehran, Esfahan, Mashad, Ahvaz to Stockholm, Frankfurt, London and The Hague - were the scenes of powerful and impassioned protests by the revolutionary people against the departing regime of the Islamic Republic.

The regime had summoned all its brutality and mobilised its entire machinery of murder, intimidation and media in the hope of surviving this day. Nevertheless, shouts of ‘Death to dictator’, ‘Khamenei is a murderer’, ‘Political prisoners must be released’ and other radical slogans of the people reverberated in Tehran and many other cities.

Film clips showing the pulling down and stepping on the billboards of Khamenei and Khomeini were shown on the world’s media. Some neighbourhoods of Tehran fell into people’s hands for hours, and some women threw away the Islamic headscarf. Groups of people marched towards Evin Prison, and were only stopped after an attack by the regime’s brutal security forces. Only by unprecedented control and extreme savagery, by turning the state Radio and TV headquarters, Khamenei’s residence and government ministries into virtual fortresses was the regime able to pass the day. In European cities, too, only the heavy presence of the police was able to prevent the Islamic Republic’s embassies from being taken over by massive angry crowds.

The world witnessed the tug of war between the revolution and counter-revolution in Iran. It saw once again how pathetically and viciously the Islamic Republic is fighting for its life in the face of a mass and radical revolution. The journalists who the regime had invited to relay the words of the head of its “dead state”, nearly all made fun of its clumsy attempts in putting up the show rally. Despite the regime’s plans, the international media reported on the repression, brutal crackdown and hired mobs bussed in to the state rally, and the resolve and determination of the people to see the regime off to its end.

February 11 also revealed the absurdity and hypocrisy of the admonitions of the pro-regime ‘opposition’ asking people “not to use force”, and how these appeals practically serve Khamenei and the regime. It was proven once again that the only genuine and the least costly way before Iranian society is the toppling of the barbaric Islamic regime by the power of people’s revolution. After February 11, we shall no doubt see a further polarization of Iran’s political scene, the radicalization of the revolution and a more earnest preparation by the revolutionary people to put an end to the Islamic Republic by their direct revolutionary action.

The Worker-communist Party of Iran sends its greetings to all the women and men who heroically came out on the streets today. WPI fights with all power for the victory of this revolution, the total overthrow of the Islamic Republic and the building of a free and equal society.

Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!

A human revolution for a human rule!

For a socialist republic!

Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)

February 11, 2010

WPI 22 Bahman protest London Islamic regime's embassy

See footage of WPI's protest in front of the Islamic regime's embassy in London.

WPI TV on 22 Bahman

This week's WPI TV, the English language TV programme of WPI, on the anticipated protests in Iran and abroad on the anniversary of the fall of the Shah's regime, 22Bahman (11 February).

WPI 22 Bahman rallies across the world

Rallies against the Islamic Republic of Iran on the occasion of the anniversary of February 11 (22 Bahman) in Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Norway, USA, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Turkey, and Finland

We are approaching the anniversary of 1979 Iranian Revolution. Both in Iran and abroad, people are getting ready for massive protests on this day. This is another opportunity to come down to the streets unified in order to organize massive rallies and protests all around the world to topple the Islamic criminals that rule Iran.

In whatever city you live, get ready to join the rallies in front of Iranian embassies and central squares. Every city should be made a scene of the struggle to overthrow the Islamic regime. The larger our rallies abroad the less will be the cost for Iranian people in their struggle to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Here is the list of the rallies and demonstrations around the world:

France - Paris :
Place : Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time, 11 February, 15.00 / 17.00

France - Lyon :
Place : Bellecourt Square
Time, 11 February, 18.00 / 20.00

Germany-Frankfurt
Place: Consulate of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 11.00-17.00
Contact number: +49 157 816 887 32

Germany-Cologne
Place: Dom Cathedral
Time: Friday, February 12, 2010, 15.00
Contact Number: 01 77 3600 963

Germany-Berlin
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Tuesday, February 10, 2010, 12.00
Contact Number: 01 72 403 70 35, 01 76 248 663 17

Germany-Hamburg
Protesting “Iran Conference” (Iranian ambassador will be present)
Place: Atlantic Hotel, 72-79 An der Alster
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 17.00
Contact Number: 01 72 404 43 23

Canada-Toronto
Place: Mel Lastman Square
Time: Thursday February 11, 2010, 17.00-19.00

Canada-Ottawa
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12.00-14.00


Canada-Vancouver
Place: Art Gallery (Robson and Howe intersection)
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 17.30
Contact Number: +1 604 727 89 86

Canada-Montreal
Place: Philips Square
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 17.00

Norway-Oslo
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 13.00-14.00
And
Place: Norway Parliament
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 14.30-15.30
Contact Number: +47 98 69 40 01

Sweden-Stockholm
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time; Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12.00

Sweden-Gotenborg
Place: Bronz Parken, by the side of Johannes’ Statue
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 16.00-18.00
Contact Number: 46 73 71 78 819

Australia-Canberra
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Time; Friday, February 12, 2010, 11.00-13.00

UK-London
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Time; Thursday, February 11, 2010, 14.00-17.00
Contact Number: 44 79 50 92 44 34

USA-Washington DC
Place: Interest Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Embassy of Pakistan)
Time: Time; Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12.00

Belgium-Brussels
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 17.00-19.00

Denmark-Copenhagen
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 16.00
Contact Number: 45 40 54 39 92

Switzerland-Bern
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 13.00-15.00
Contact Number: 41 76 30 60 723

Holland-Den Hague
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 13.00-15.00
Contact Number: 65 12 73 261

Austria-Vienna
Place: Iran Air Office-Kartner Strasse
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 17.00

Turkey-Ankara
Place: Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 14.00-19.00

Finland-Helsinki
Place: Parliament
Time: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 13.00

We call upon all to participate in these protests.


Worker-Communist Party of Iran-Organization Abroad
February 4, 2010

10th October - International Day of Protests

On the International Day of Protests against the Death Penalty, 10th October, members of the WPI staged a protest in Trafalgar Square, London. The WPI highlighted the case of 8 child offenders that are currently on death row in Iranian prisons. People were asked to sign the petition in the form of a red banner to stop executions in Iran and over 1000 signed it.

WPI protest in Trafalgar Square, London

Here are some photos from the WPI demonstration in London, Trafalgar Square. The WPI protests Ahmadinejad's attendance at the UN General Assembly in New York today and calls for his prosecution.

WPI demo in memory of Neda, London UK

Iranian regime's survival tactics

In the WPI Press Centre's briefing of 8 July Patty Debonitas interviews Hamid Taqvaee on the survival tactics of the Islamic regime in the face of ongoing protests and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the bloody repression of student protests in Iran.

On Ahmadinejad's confirmed re-election and the response

In the 1 July Daily Dispatch from the WPI's press centre Patty Debonitas asks Hamid Taqvaee to comment on the statement and demands made by Mousavi in response to Ahmadinejad being confirmed as president and whether this will have any impact on the protests and the demands of the demonstrators. Watch here

The protests in Iran are continuing

The Daily Dispatch from the WPI's press centre: Ahmadinejad has been confirmed as president and the media reports that protests are going down in Iran. Does this mean the end of the protests? Hamid Taqvaee gives a different view, speaking about the changing form of the protests and the defiance of the protesters, in his interview with Patty Debonitas. Also the statement from the EU meeting discussing Iran, the forthcoming G8 summit and the US. Watch it here

Ten immediate demands of the people of Iran

To further strengthen the people’s revolutionary movement, secure its gains and facilitate its advance for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Worker-communist Party of Iran declares the following immediate and minimum ten demands:

1. Arrest and public trial of those responsible for current killings and all of the crimes committed in the last 30 years
2. Release of all political prisoners
3. Abolition of the death penalty
4. An end to compulsory veiling and sexual apartheid
5. Abolition of all misogynist and discriminatory laws against women and the establishment of complete equality between men and women
6. Complete separation of religion from state, judiciary, education and complete religious freedom and atheism as a private matter
7. Unconditional freedom of expression, thought, organisation, press, demonstration, and strike
8. Recognition of equality for all citizens, irrespective of religion, language, ethnicity or nationality
9. Public trial of Ayatollahs, and government officials and its functionaries for embezzlement of the people’s funds and reclaiming the public's stolen wealth
10. Provision and guarantee of suitable welfare according to the most advanced standards in the world for all citizens; immediate increase of the minimum wage to one million Tomans ($1000.00).

This is the decree of the people’s movement for freedom in Iran and the minimum and immediate demands of the people who have come to the streets and called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. These are the minimum conditions that anyone who claims to be on the side of people’s protests should stand for.

The people of Iran will vigorously continue their struggle until the Islamic regime is overthrown.

Worker-communist Party of Iran

26 June 2009

Iran, Obama & the WPI

The daily dispatch from the WPI's Press Centre looks at the recent statements of Barack Obama about the protests in Iran. Patty Debonitas discusses with Hamid Taqvaee the strategy of the US for the current and a future government in Iran. Will the US support the WPI in power in Iran? Watch here

TV International: Evolution or revolution in Iran?

TV International is looking at the claims that the current events in Iran are just a stage in the evolution of the Islamic Regime. Maryam Namazie interviews Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on Neda becoming the symbol of the protests in Iran and the impact that New Channel TV has had in Iran with its phone-in live broadcasts. Watch it here

TV International: Remember Neda! 26 June

TV International's call to remember Neda and stand in solidarity with the protesters in Iran. The commemoration of Neda coincides with the planned actions that union organisations had already planned for 26 June 2009 at 12:00 in front of Iranian embassies around the globe. Maryam Namazie interviews Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on how people can actively support the Iranian protesters. Watch it here

TV International on the 10th day of protest in Iran

TV International with the latest news from today's ongoing protests in Iran.

Maryam Namazie interviews Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya on the protests and the link to the elections. Also on the issue of Mousavi offering no viable alternative as the 'opposition' leader. Watch it here.

Mousavi and Khamenei are against the people's revolt

Watch the WPI's Press Centre daily dispatch today with Fariborz Pooya interviewing Hamid Taqvaee on Mousavi's recent statements, the news about the killing of Neda Soltani in Tehran and international solidarity with the people in Iran, here.