Iranian revolution
The working class in Iran: some background - class struggles from 1979-1989 - Mostafa Saber
Some excerpts from A Brief Look at the Situation of the Working Class in Iran, a short description of workers' history and conditions - and their struggles during and following the 1979 Revolution.
Of particular interest is the observation that "in practice the [workers'] councils, due to their complete accordance with workers' direct and immediate exercise of power, won an indisputable victory vis-a-vis the unions. The few attempts at creating unions remained irrelevant to the real workers' movement."
1978-1979: The Iranian Revolution
A history and analysis of the revolution in which socialists aligned themselves with Islamists to overthrow the West-backed Shah.
Following the success of the revolution, the Islamists instituted a theocratic dictatorship and wiped out the workers' movement and the left.
Women and revolution in Iran
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Women and revolution in Iran
Grave Contradictions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
