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The ever-excellent Weekly Worker has some of the best reports on the unfolding crisis in Iran. 

In the latest issue (after the break for the Communist University) Yassamine Mather reports,

Misogynist Torturers Cling to Power.

Over the last few weeks, following the show trials of ‘reformist’ personalities and the imposition of even more severe forms of repression in Iran, the nature of protests has changed considerably.

However, demonstrations continue on a daily basis in Tehran and most other Iranian cities, with numbers attending ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Reports from the working class neighbourhoods of Tehran, such as Ekbatan, Apadana and Karaj, and from the white-collar suburbs of Tehran Pars, indicate that anti-government demonstrations take place every night and often lead to confrontation between protesters and Bassij militia.”

Full Story here.

In the same issue is a thoughtful review by comrade Dave Osler of some heavyweight books about Iran.

He comments, “The Islamic Republic is a theocratic dictatorship sui generis, and we should earnestly desire its downfall; while we would like to see that job achieved by the Iranian working class, we should acknowledge that even bourgeois democracy would be an advance.”

The Weekly Worker, essential reading.

 

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