Support for the People’s Struggle: A Statement on the Developments in Iran

During the current uprising in Iran, the perspectives of labour activists should have been central. Instead, because they ran against the dominant currents of warmongering and Pahlavi monarchist nostalgia, their voices were marginalised in both Persian-language and international media.

As usual, attention was lavished on Iranian figures who openly justify war and are funded by the United States and Israel, or on those who—offering no principled opposition to foreign intervention, monarchist reaction...