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Meeting on Iran Cork 28th January‏: “History of the new left in Iran, 1960 – 2010”

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The History Society UCC hosts a meeting on “History of the new left in Iran, 1960 – 2010”. It will be at Boole 3, Main UCC Campus, College Road at 7.30pm on 28th January. The talk will be given by Yassamine Mather, leading Hands off the People of Iran member and Iranian political activist. Yassamine was herself involved in the 1979 revolution in Iran and remains deeply involved in the Iranian left. Given the ongoing struggles and growing self confidence of the working class movement in Iran, this meeting comes at an important time and hopefully it will help to build the solidarity movement here.

For more details of Hands off the People of Iran contact Anne on 0862343 238 or [email protected]

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author by Chicherinpublication date Wed Jan 27, 2010 14:01author address author phone

UCC Historical Society hosts

“Siahkal 1971 - Tehran 2010 the history of the new left in Iran”.

Boole 3, Main Campus, University College Cork, College Road.

January 28th 7.30pm

Yassamine Mather, Iranian political activist and writer will trace the emergence of a movement of extraordinary significance in the struggle for democracy in Iran today.

“The take over of a gendarmerie in the small village of Siahkal on 8 February 1971 by a group of revolutionaries marked the beginning of the end for the despotic rule of the Shah. Nine members of the newly formed Fedayeen, a left-wing guerrilaist group launched an attack which sparked the creation of an armed revolutionary movement in Iran. While the attack itself was easily crushed, the event and the massive repression that followed proved to be a turning point in the struggle against the Shah. It inspired a new culture of poetry, song and art for a new generation and created a momentum of resistance that would result in the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.”

“Today again the movement is on the streets of Iran. Another generation is refusing to be silenced or cowed into submission, despite the overwhelming force used against them by the Islamic regime. The anniversary of Siahkal and the movement it created has become particularly significant for today’s opposition. There has been a renaissance of the music and poetry of the 1970s. The political parallels are obvious but today illusions in Islamic radicalism have gone. The revolution begun by Siahkal remains unfinished.”

Yassamine Mather, Glasgow
Yassamine Mather is an Iranian socialist in exile in Scotland. As a young woman in Iran she became a member of the Fedayeen. In exile, she left the group and became a member of the coordinating committee of Workers Left Unity Iran. She is a member of the Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements (Glasgow University) and the deputy editor of the journal Critique. She is in active contact with the left-wing and student movement in Iran today

Hands off the People of Iran (Hopi)
Hopi stands for solidarity with the current movement in Iran against Ahmadinejad’s government and the Islamic regime. But the campaign is also completely opposed to any interference, sanctions or military intervention from the US and its allies. The record of imperialism in supporting the Shah, and more recently in creating hell-holes in Afghanistan and Iraq, shows that it is not interested in liberation but in suppression. Real change can only come from below, from the students, workers and other activists in Iran. We call for solidarity from the working class here in Ireland to those in struggle in Iran. We believe that ours is a common struggle.

For more information about Hopi contact Anne on 086 23 43 238 or at [email protected] or at www.hopoi.org or www.Hopi-Ireland.org



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