On 16 September 2022, the Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini died as a result of injuries inflicted on her by the so-called morality police during her arrest and in detention through brutal mistre Read more...

For months, the Islamist regime has been trying to drown in blood the mass protests and uprisings that have shaken the country since the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini. Read more...

伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利？
马丁·苏查内克 2022年11月4日 08：57

伊朗革命已经到了临界点。几个星期以来，成千上万的人，可能总共数百万人走上街头。在库尔德地区，总罢工使公共生活陷入瘫痪。大学是抵抗运动的大本营，罢工也蔓延到全国各地。 Read more...

The depth of the current movement in Iran can only be properly understood if we look at the social and economic developments of recent years and the regime's connection to capitalism.

Stagnation Read more...

As the movement against the Ayatollahs' regime spread across Iran, the League for the Fifth International interviewed Ali Rezaei, an Iranian socialist. Read more...

The Iranian revolution has reached a critical point. For weeks, thousands, probably millions in total, have been taking to the streets. Read more...

We mourn the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. She was not the first, many a woman before her died silently. Read more...

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
Freedom to be who I want Read more...

Iran now ranks fourth in the world for total number of deaths from coronavirus. The death toll currently stands at over 2,700, with each day bringing hundreds of new victims. Read more...

When government officials belatedly admitted that Iranian missiles were responsible for downing a Ukrainian airliner taking off from Tehran, university students who had gathered to mourn the victims t Read more...

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The assassination of Iran’s General Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad at the command of US President Donald Trump has opened a dangerous new chapter for the Middle East. Read more...

ایران: عوامی بغاوت کے ساتھ یکجہتی Read more...

For several days now, the internet and social media have effectively been closed down in Iran. Read more...

"Bread, work, freedom!" Since December 28, a new movement of workers, the poor, the youth and impoverished sections of the petty bourgeoisie has been gathering in Iran against the dictatorship of the Read more...

The growing chorus of international voices which are demanding action against Iran points to a drive to war and an urgent need to begin to prepare resistance, writes Martin Suchanek Read more...

Tehran is rocked by anti government protests as the pro democracy movement emerges for another fight against the hated regime Read more...

امیدهای زیادی در داخل ایران وجود دارد که روزهای پایانی رژیم فرا رسیده است. اعتراضات خیابانی با خشونت پلیس و سربازان اسلامی روبرو می شود. اما در بین حاکمان داخل حکومت بر سر شیوه و مسیر ادامه اختلاف وجود دارد. Read more...

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There is hope in Iran that the days of the regime are numbered. On the streets the protests are met with violence from the police and the Islamist militias. But in the government the ruling powers are split - what is the way forward? Read more...

اعتراضات دانشجویان ایران با واکنش بسیار خشن پلیس و سپاه پاسداران مواجه گشت. Read more...

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Student protests in Iran have met with serious violence by the police and Revolutionary Guard. Read more...

Thirty years ago a huge movement of workers and the poor overthrew the despised and hated dictatorship of the pro-American Shah of Iran. The mass workers’ uprising and the high level of organisation achieved in the revolution, illustrated the revolutionary socialist potential that existed in the situation. Jens-Hugo Nyberg looks at how the appalling betrayal of the mass struggle by the Stalinist leadership led to the formation of Iran’s reactionary theocratic state. Read more...

گسترش اختلافات عیان داخل نظام دیکتاتوری ایران موجب ظهور موجی جدید از تظاهرات خیابانی گشته است. رسانه های جهانی در توصیف این موج جدید از کلمه خود جوش استفاده می کنند. اما همانطور که تروتسکی در مورد انقلاب فوریه 1917 روسیه گفت این بدان معناست که آنها فقط نمی دانند که چه کسی برنامه ریز آن بوده است. در جامعه و شهرهای کل کشور، فعالین، هزاران نفر را حول خواست دموکراسی سامان می دهند تا به دیکتاتوری پایان دهند. این نامه خطاب به این فعالین و طرفداران آنهاست. Read more...

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The increasingly public divisions within Iran's dictatorial regime have prompted a new wave of demonstrations. Read more...

سیمون هاردی
ترجمه ژاله سهند Read more...

The character of the current movement, the role of imperialism in the crisis and Leninist-Trotskyist strategy for the Iranian Revolution. Read more...

The struggle that has taken place in Iran over the last two weeks is rich in lessons for all socialists, workers and youth. Read more...

Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win
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This is an article received from a reader of fifthinternational.org who is in Tehran, sent on the 21st June. We publish it here to provide eyewitness accounts of what is going on in Iran Read more...

Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward?
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