STOP SUPPRESSION OFD IRANIAN WORKERS

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Stop the conspiracies against Iranian Militants! By Babak Kasrayi In order to harass left activists, members of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran-Hekmatist, the Iranian regime's "courts" have declared 12 members of this party as common criminals. Scandalously, INTERPOL has accepted this verdict as valid and has put these left activists on its "wanted list". USA: What Does the Massachusetts Election Mean? By Tom Trottier and John Peterson This article takes note of the effects of the recession on workers in the USA (high unemployment, low wages, threats of losing homes, etc.) and how Obama is continuing Bush's program of spending billions of dollars bailing out Wall Street. The union leadership told workers that voting the Democrats into Congress and the White House would change things, but where is this change? As the Workers International League explained, voting for the "lesser evil" in a system dominated by two corporate parties would bring about an immediate "evil." People then get tired after no real change and end up bringing the "greater evil" back into power. This is precisely what happened in Massachusetts. USA: New Leadership Elected for NYC Transit Workers By Tom Trottier in the U.S. An opposition group recently won the election and will become the new leadership of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100. Even though the election was held last June, the ballots were not counted until December! This was one of the many tactics used by the incumbent Toussaint leadership, which was seeking to install its handpicked successors. Unemployment—Use resources for people not sabotage them for profit By Ted Grant in 1971 Unemployment was rising in Britain. The Tories saw it as a useful tool to hold down wages, while the Labour leaders had no clear answers. Ted Grant explained what could be achieved by simply taking over the commanding heights of the economy.
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