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Appendix: Who are Hizballah?
Aufheben give an overview of Lebanese organisation Hezbollah, or Hizballah.
The recent Israeli assault on Lebanon has thrust the Lebanese group Hizballah back into the spotlight - denounced by the right as a 'terrorist organisation' and defended by many on the left as a 'legitimate national liberation group'1
- 1. For example the slogan 'we are all Hizballah' featured prominently and fairly uncontroversially at the national Stop the War Lebanon demo, while George Galloway ce
Two Iranian trade unionists briefly imprisoned
Two more Iranian trade unionists were detained today while a third continues to be imprisoned.
December 3, 2006 - According to a news release issued by the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), two other members of the Board of Directors of the union were arrested today, December 3rd, 2006 in Tehran's Khavaran bus terminal but were released late this evening. They are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow morning, December 4, 2006.
Paris airport workers may strike
Workers at Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport in Paris may strike after over 70 Muslim workers were stripped of security badges.
Security clearance was removed due to suspected links with Islamic extremist and other fundamentalist groups, and seven of the workers were in court on Wednesday, having demanded to see the evidence against them from the French Government, which has refused to detail any of the evidence against the workers stripped of clearance since it might compromise security sources.
Update on Iranian workers' struggles
A round-up of recent struggles going on in Iran, including textile and petrochemical workers' strikes and opposition to new changes in labour law.
Security forces kill a worker and wounded others
Security forces opened fire on workers and drivers in Bandar-e Daylam’s (Persian Gulf Port Daylam) custom, killing one worker and wounding a few others in November 5, 2006.
Armed gunmen attack Palestine Workers' Radio
Armed gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades attacked the offices of the Palestine Workers' Radio for inciting "internal conflicts" in Palestine.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns an attack launched on offices of Palestinian Workers Radio, which falls under the scope of repeated attacks on media intuitions by armed Palestinian groups. PCHR calls upon the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), represented by the Attorney-General, to investigate this crime and bring its perpetrators to justice.
OIC support Iranian nuclear program at UN
Foreign ministers of member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on Tuesday called for disarmament and expressed support for Iranian peaceful nuclear program.
The foreign ministers held their annual coordination meeting on the sidelines of the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The foreign ministers studied the problems facing Islamic states and called for solidarity of the Islamic nations to deal with the challenges.
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.
Iraq: New government, maximum force
After more than five months of negotiations, Deputy Leader of the Islamic Dawa Party Nouri Al-Maliki was named as the new Iraqi Prime Minister last month, immediatedly promising to end the insurgency
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Recently the Iraqi security services have been condemned for the widespread employment of death-squads, targeted assassinations and torture, with 1,000 bodies a month now appearing regularly at Baghdad morgue.
Class war in the Middle East
Capitalism and Islam are twin parasites in the ‘Arab states’ – but workers are fighting back hard reports John Shute
The Gulf city-state of Dubai is, according to recent estimates, the fastest-growing city on earth, and is, after Shanghai, certainly the world’s biggest building site.
Anti-gay Muslim forced out by protests
A gay rights group are claming victory after anti-gay Muslim leader pulled out from speaking at a anti-fascist conference after gay protests.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie was to have been a keynote speaker at a trade union-sponsored Unite Against Fascism conference at the weekend; however his views on homosexuality were widely condemned as echoing the anti-gay hatred of the BNP.
