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Campaign: Hands off the People of Iran
No to imperialist war! No to the theocratic regime!

   

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Mehdi Kia

Yassamine Mather

Ardeshir Mehrdad

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Aziz Al Azmeh

Hamid Dabashi

Bridget Fowler

Khalil Hindi

Mansour Khaksar

Moshe Machover

István Mészáros

Nasser Mohajer

Younes Parsa Benab

Simon Pirani

Haifa Zangana

 

 

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Garrisoning the global gas station

Michael T Klair  June 15

 

Iran and the American elections

Paul Rogers        June 12

 

Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'

Muhammad Cohen
                            
May 28

 
Donkey economics and Islamic martyrdom Yassamine Mather
                            
May 25
 

Iran: Declaration by  sugarcane workers at Haft Tappeh

                      May 24

 

Israelis deny Cannes Festival filmmaker entry into Palestine

Press release      may 1

 

US and Iran find common ground in Iraq's Shiite conflict

James Glanz        Apr 21

 

Fallujah five years on

Ali Al-Fadhili     Apr 19

 

Survey of Arabic literature

Guardian Saturday Review                April 12

 

Iran and US hold secret talks on nuclear program

Anne Penketh   Apr 16

 

Iraq: Basra assault threatens trade unionists

Naftana               Mar 30

 

Book review: Laptop Jihadi

Adam Shatz        Mar 29

 

March 20: US ultimatum on Iran

John McGlynn   Mar 28

 

Open letter to all feminists

Piya Chaterjee  Mar 24

 

Anti-empire report

William Blum      Mar 12

 

Malaysian elections: an interview

Max Lane            Mar 11

 

International Women's Day in Jakarta, 2008

Max Lane            Mar11

 

Bush won't let facts stand in the way of regime change in Iran

James Harris      Feb 16

 
Pakistan: After the Emergency Farooq Tariq      Feb 9  

My heart bleeds for Pakistan

Tariq Ali             Jan 2

 

Destabilisation of Pakistan

M Chossudovsky

                             Dec 30

 

Pakistan: refusing to break with feudal traditions

Farooq Tariq      Jan 2

 

The Pakistan Peoples' Party will survive Ayesha Ijaz Khan
                             Dec 28 
 

Who killed Bhutto

Murtaza Shibli    Dec 27

 

A tragedy borne of military despotism and anarchy

Tariq Ali              Dec 28

 

Daughter of the West

Tariq Ali             Dec 28

 

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto

Alan Woods      Dec 28

 

Islam, Islamisms and the West - Socialist Register

Aijaz Ahmad      Dec 27

 

Political Islam in the service of imperialism

Samir Amin         Dec 16

 

Afghanistan today: six years of a war of terror

Tariq Ali             Dec 1

 

When Che's children went to Iran: Exit on the left

Reza Fiyouzat    Dec 1

 

Iraqi Freedom Congress: No to US war on Iran

                             Nov 30

 

Iraq: It's the oil

Jim Holt               Nov 26

 

Iraq: Seizing destiny for US capital

Bonnie Weinstein

                             Nov 26

 

Turkey: Trying to stop the other Iraq war on

Cam Sylvester    Nov 23

 

Turkey: NATO's Islamists

Cihan Tugal        Nov 20

 

Pakistan: workers' rally demands general strike

                             Nov 13

 

Iran anti-war activists clash over intervention strategy

Jerome Taylor    Nov 10

 

How to respond to threats against Iran

Yassamine Mather

                             Oct 29

 

Rights and wrongs: boycott of Israeli academic institutions

Moshe Machover

                             Oct 29

 

US attack on Iran - Closer to reality

Spiegel on line   Oct 27

 

US firms in Middle East buying spree

Andrew Ross Sorkin

                             Oct 18

 

Iran: Of banality and burden - a meeting of minds

Hamid Dabashi  Oct 14

 

War with Iran: probable (and disastrous)

Ervand Abrahamian

                             Oct 10

 

Iran: thousands of hungry workers go on strike

Hamid Tehrani   Oct 8

 

US Senate advocated ethnic cleansing in Iraq

 AlterNet            Oct 5

 
US Administrations' plans for Iran Seymour M Hersh
                            
Oct 8
 
Neocon 'godfather' advises bombing Iran Sarah Baxter       Sep 30  

Baghdad spin, Tehran war

Paul Rogers        Sep 10

 

Iraq: government death squads ravaging Baghdad

Dahr Jamail         Sep 5

 

Do we have the courage to stop war with Iran

Ray McGovern  Sept 4

 

No nukes for Iran

Reza Fiyouzat    Aug 30

 

Iran: Clear distance

Yassamine Mather

                             Aug 14

 

Turkey: Textile firms demand wage freeze, layoffs

                      Aug 14

 

Fifty-five years after founding, Turkish union confederation a bureaucratic shell

Sinan Ikinci         Aug 13

 

"For Cultural Purposes Only": Curating a Palestinian Film Festival

Annemarie Jacir Aug 6

 

Campsfield detention centre - private

Charlie Pottins    Aug 5

 

Iran's Forgotten Anti-Nuke Movement

Reza Fiyouzat     Aug 2

 

Turkish elections and after

Cigdem Cidamli   Aug 2  

Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary elections

Sinan Ikinci and Justus Leicht                   Aug 1

 

Washington, EU welcome AKP victory in Turkish elections

Stephan Steinberg

                              Aug 1

 

Turkey: Workers' struggle

Sungur Savran   Aug 1

 

Anti-imperialism and Tehran

Yassamine Mather

                              July 16

 

US soldiers in Iraq: widespread brutality to civilians

The Nation          July 13

 

Iran: Mansur Ossanlu kidnapped

Andisheh Nicko, Roja Bamdad               July 13

 

How the Pentagon Came to Own the Earth, Seas, and Skies

Nick Turse          July 12

 

US Middle East Wars: Social Opposition and Political Impotence

James Petras       July 12

 

Ossanlu: Trade union leader kidnapped in Iran

                      July 11  

In princes' pockets

Tariq Ali              July 11

 

New clashes in Islamabad

Tariq Ali              July 11

 

Obituary: Sahar Hussein al-Haidari - Iraqi journalist

Anthony Borden June 30

 
Honour killing sparks fear of new Iraqi conflict   Sahar Hussein al-Haidari                 June 30  

Why boycott Israel? Because it is good for you

Gabriel Ash         June  30

 

Iraq by numbers

Tom Engelhardt  June 30

 

Iraq Union Leaders Speak Out Against Occupation

Ben Terrall          June 23

 

Shiroro, Kainji workers join Nigerian strike

                              June 22

 

David Usborne   June 21

 

How war was turned into a brand

Naomi Klein        June 16

 

Will Sudan be re-colonised?

Stephen Gowans Jun 15

 

The Turkish elections

Susan Erm and Paul Durrenberger      June 15

 

Iraqi government threatens to arrest oil strike leaders

The Observer   June 10

 

journalist against honour killing in Middle East

Milon Nagi          June 11

 

Iraq oil strike-strikers face troops

                              June 11

 

Can Lebanese army fight America's was against terror

Robert Fisk         June 11

 

Women in the Shadows of Democracy

Huda Ahmed      June 10

 

Pipeline Strike Reaching Crisis Point

                              June 8

 

Iraq oil strike: interview

Antonia Juhasz  June 8

 

Iraqi unions fight to keep oil out of corporate hands

David Bacon       June 8

 

Oil strikers surrounded by Iraqi troops

Ben Lando          June 8

 

Fatah al Islam ... against their Arab brothers

LL Alvarez          May 31

 

"Sharpened interrogations"

Andrew Sullivan May 31

 

Talk on Iraq at Hay Festival

Patrick Cockburn

                             May 31  

 

US and Lebanon

Seymour Hersh interview             May 28

 

World Bank exposes the blatantly obvious

Sonja Karkar       May 14

 

Syriana: a film review

Mike Wagstaff   May 13

 
Interview with labour leader Mansour Ossanlou Iranian Labour News
                             
May 1
 

Open letter of students of  Babolsar University, Iran

 

 

Double standards in London and Tehran

Yassamine Mather

                              Apr 12

 

Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and resolution

Moshe Machover
                             
Apr 2
 

Gift for militarist action

Yassamine Mather

                              Mar 30

 

60,000 sing: arrest the president

 

 

Obituary: Pouran Bazargan

Yassamine Mather

                              Mar 11