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Volume 3, No. 125, January 24, 2008 An injury to one is an injury to all Volume 3 No. 125 24 January 2008 S& WoORlKiEdRS’a LIBrERiTtY y 30p/80p CAPITALISM IS CRAZY Private profits, social CREDIT CRASH PAGE 3 NORTHERN losses ROCK PAGE 4 2 NEWS Iranian regime murders student activist: protest to free our comrades! BY SOFIE BUCKLAND, NATIONAL UNION OF When the authorities informed the family of of 37 universities have protested, issuing a have been against not just the sharp edge of his death, they added that he had already been joint statement in which call for an end to theocratic repression, but the regime itself; STUDENTS NATIONAL EXECUTIVE buried; when the family visited the grave, they harrassment against the student movement. against a US-Iranian war and the militarisation found that it had been covered with concrete - Almost seven weeks have now passed since of Iranian society; for the liberation of politi- N December last year, several dozen left- to prevent exhumation and autopsy. the initial arrests; in that period, families have cal prisoners; and for the unity of students, wing Iranian students were arrested for There are similarities between this case and been permitted only one short visit with their workers and women in the struggle for politi- Iorganising or taking part in action on 16 that of another student, Zahra Bani Yaghoub, children; a number have also had their houses cal and social democracy. Socialists in the Azar (7 December), Iran’s traditional “Student who died in prison last October after the raided and searched and family members west who hesitate before an idiotic fear of Day” of protest. Since then, many more morality police arrrested her for taking a stroll questioned. weakening the struggle to prevent a US attack activists have been arrested in a continuing with her boyfriend. Officials also claimed that Solidarity with the Iranian students is vital on Iran should be reminded as sharply as crackdown, and one of the detained has now she committed suicide, but her family say that for the left, for two reasons. necessary: these are our comrades and they been murdered by the police of the Islamist her body was severely bruised and that there As consistent democrats, socialists should need our support! regime. was blood in her ears; they are convinced that make solidarity with these brave fighters for • For more information, see the website of On 6 January, 27 year old law student she was murdered. democratic and human rights (their slogan: the “Seeking Committee to Free the Ebrahim Lotfollahi was arrested in front of In the last two weeks, repression against “nothing can stop us”), regardless of their University Students” 13azar.blogspot.com Payame Nur University in Sanandaj, the capi- student activists, and in particular members of politics. What good is the socialist internation- (though the English section is not as well tal of Iranian Kurdistan, minutes after finish- the left-wing Azadikhah va Barabari-talab alism if it does not mean raising a storm of updated as the Farsi one) ing an exam. Nine days later his family were (For Freedom and Equality) alliance, has been protest against the Islamic Republic’s brutal • Workers’ Liberty students are campaigning informed that he committed suicide in prison, stepped up, with dozens of new arrests bring- repression of the students — if we do not do to free our Iranian comrades. Part of our dying due to “suffocation”. ing the known total to more than fifty. everything we can to prevent other Iranian campaign is an attempt get one of them, Ebrahim’s brother, Esmail, saw him two (Meanwhile, three students from Tehran activists suffering Ebrahim Lotfollahi’s fate? Anoosheh Azaadbar, elected as Honorary days after his arrest and reported that he was Polytechnic have been acquitted by a court These general considerations are strength- Vice-President of NUS. For more information in good spirits and expecting to be released and formally cleared, but security and prison ened by the fact that most of those under the or if you want to help us campaign, get in shortly. He says the idea that Ebrahim officials have refused to release them.) Even knife are not only democrats but socialists, or touch: [email protected] committed suicide is simply not plausible. the officially tolerated “Islamic associations” at least influenced by socialism. Their protests The arguments for Nottingham students nuclear don’t add up fight for free speech BY CHARLIE SALMON If students wish to circulate a petition, BY STUART JORDAN leaflet or hold a campaign stall they must seek TUDENTS at Nottingham University are authorisation. The criteria for accepting or AVING already announced his plans to calling a demonstration for 23 February refusing requests is not published and no build a new generation of nuclear against attempts to quash their rights to reasoned explanation offered to students. But S even if such information were available, the Hpower stations in November 2007, protest and organise. One student has been Gordon Brown has just completed a “consul- arrested and others banned from the library for very idea that students should seek permission tation” on the issue and officially announced failing to ask permission to demonstrate and to protest is grotesque. the “new” energy policy! A policy which, circulate petitions. Activists are planning a firm response. surprise, surprise, proposes up to twenty Shortly before the Christmas holidays, About 900 students have already pledged nuclear power stations, which will start administrators called in the police after support for the campaign and a recent organis- coming on line around 2017. students from the Palestinian Society refused ing meeting agreed on a number of measures The government plan is for the power to disband a small protest on campus. One to overturn these rules culminating in the stations to be financed through private enter- student was arrested (see protest on 23 February. Students from prise but there will be plenty of public money www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZLwtit8GXM Manchester and Sheffield universities have to bail out the companies if they get into diffi- for a video of events). But this is just the most already pledged support along with local trade regimes, with fossil fuel prices escalating. culty. While New Labour tries to make a busi- extreme example of the bureaucratic measures unions and activists in Nottingham. By 2017 there should already have been ness case for nuclear, they are finding it hard. deployed against voices of dissent — with the • For more information contact ENS activist massive cuts in our carbon emissions if the In reality there is not a single nuclear power effective consent of the right-wing-dominated Teodora Todorova at planet is to avoid irreversible climate change. station in the world run by a private company. student union. [email protected] In his announcement to the Commons, John That has to mean a massive investment in Hutton, argued that public money had to be renewables, energy storage and carbon available to nuclear providers in order to capture technology. For this technology to be create a “level fiscal playing field” with other effective we would need a giant international NO SWEAT STUDENT WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SWEATSHOPS energy providers in the fossil fuels and renew- supergrid spreading throughout Europe and able sectors. Not for the first time, public North Africa, to offset fluctuations that occur 11-18 FEBRUARY money will top up the profit margins of with weather changes and which would cause private shareholders. a smaller grid to collapse. Why is the government so keen on nuclear? The current nuclear policy runs very much against the internationalist logic. If everyone Take action for workers' rights! According to Hutton, nuclear power is the key to staving off climate change: “The entire life- followed Britain’s lead and went nuclear, cycle emissions of nuclear — that’s from global uranium deposits would run out in less This is the third annual No Sweat campus week of action, with an anti- than 10 years. Sadly, the climate change issue uranium mining through to waste management sweatshop speaker tour and meetings, actions and events in towns, — are only between 2% and 6% of those from is being used to shore up narrow nationalistic gas for every unit of electricity generated,” he sentiments at the expense of an international universities and colleges across the country. Whether you want to solution. says. Apparently we also need “energy secu- organise a mass meeting or a mini-picket, a film showing, fashion rity” to reduce our dependence on Islamist or The nationalism inherent in the nuclear Russian regimes. And we also need to plug policy is further revealed when we focus on show or anything else, get active in this week of action! the “energy gap” that is likely to occur with the maniacal element of Brown’s nuclear the decommissioning of several power programme — the £70 billion Trident replace- Supersize My Pay stations. ment project. Remind ourselves of the family Leaving the specific problems of nuclear connections involved — Brown’s brother is a In New Zealand, since 2005, thousands of mainly young fast food major lobbyist for the French nuclear aside (see Solidarity 3/119) these arguments workers have waged an innovative campaign called Supersize My Pay. do not really add up. While the “energy gap”, company, EDF — and we see public policy “energy security” and “climate change” are guided by self-interest, short-sidedness and Low-paid Starbucks workers organised in the Unite union nepotism. like noble causes, the planned proposals do (http://www.unite.org.nz) walked off the job and formed a picket little or nothing to solve them.
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