January 30th, 2026 
29th January 2026 Press release – For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today issued a call to the trade union and peace movement in Britain to back the international outcry against the […]
Archive for January, 2026
Statement by the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Condemning the Massacre of the Protesting People
The oppressed people of our country are once again mourning their children. This time, the killing of protesters opposing the Islamic Republic’s economic and social policies is even more widespread and horrific than the street massacres of the 1980s, as […]
NEU strongly condemns the brutal repression of protests in Iran
The National Education Union (NEU) strongly condemns the brutal repression of peaceful protestors in Iran by the country’s security forces with thousands killed and hundreds arrested. The Iranian regime has intensified its crackdown on human rights and on trade union activists. We stand in solidarity with all human rights defenders, with Iranian trade unionists, and with […]
Human and labour rights under attack in Iran
22 January, 2026 IndustriALL Global Union condemns the escalating violence against largely peaceful protesters in Iran, alongside the total shutdown of the internet and social media that has cut the country off from the outside world. The communications blackout is […]
Iran: Caught Between Popular Protest and Foreign Threat
20 January 2026 While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a […]
UNISON statement on Iranian protests
Union stands in solidarity with workers and independent trade unions in Iran UNISON condemns the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown against mass protests in response to the economic and social crisis in Iran. According to reports many hundreds of people, possibly […]
Why nothing will ever be the same again in Iran
While the fog of repression has not yet completely lifted, Iranians are counting their dead. From several hundred reported in the early days of the protests, the number quickly rose to thousands. The testimonies we are receiving are unequivocal. But […]
Iran’s Right to Choose: No Shah, No Theocracy
STATEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT Freedom from theocracy, freedom from the Shah, freedom from US intervention! In a world in continuous upheaval, the situation in Iran demands a clear vision. The massive protests sweeping the nation, which have already seen […]
Inside the forces driving Iran’s nationwide protests
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal HOW do you assess the deeper socioeconomic forces that have driven people into the streets, […]
