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Push for Socialist Policies & Workers’ Liberty SoFor lsociail owdnership oaf the banrks anid indtustry y No 524 6 November 2019 — general election campaign issue 50p/£1 Special general election VOTE LABOUR issue Featuring briefing pa - pers on the big issues, designed for voters not regularly involved in political debate. The briefings are: THEN REMAIN » Why socialism? » Scrap anti-union laws! » The EU: Remain and Push for socialist policies transform » Why free movement? » Housing is a right! » Restore the NHS! » A National Education Service » A Socialist Green New Deal » Why public ownership? » Replace Universal Credit! » High finance: Take back control! » Johnson’s Trump- Brexit » Why not tactical voting? » Labour and antisemitism » The Berlin Wall and socialism 2 More online at www.workersliberty.org Bakhshi and Gholian freed from jail From the Shahrokh Zamani Sepideh Gholian (left) and Esmail Action Committee Bakhshi after being released on bail smail Bakhshi, a leader of the Ha ft Tappeh sugar cane work - Eers in Iran, and Sepideh Gholian, an activist who supported the work - ers’ dispute, have been released from jail. They were sentenced in Septem - ber – to 14 years and 18 years re - spectively — on all sorts of trumped up charges, including en - dangering “national security” and “the Islamic system”. Because they put up resistance while in jail, Sepideh’s brother was arrested in January and Esmail’s mother in February! Then in Au - gust Sepideh’s defence lawyer was threatened with arrest. Now they have temporary re - leases on the basis of eye-watering “bail” payments, with the money raised through putting up the deeds to houses and so on. Sepi - deh’s bail is 1.5 billion tomans (about £300,000) and Esmail’s 750 million tomans (about £150,000) Yet they could be back in jail at any charges against them and all Haft its are made. Right now there are 1988), became the Chief Justice in jail for nearly 190 days and her time. Tappeh supporters to be dropped attempts to break-up the Haft March 2019. He has made a big court hearing is on 13 November. The temporary releases have • All of their fired workmates to Tappeh land, which includes huge show of fighting corruption, in - There also many teachers in jail, been won by a combination of soli - be reinstated and the three remain - plantations of sugar cane, and to cluding corruption within the including Esmail Abdi, Moham - darity action and struggles by the ing workmates be released sell it off. regime’s judiciary (e.g., declaring mad Habibi and Mahmoud Be - Haft Tappeh workers themselves. • Privatisation to be revoked, the that 60 unnamed judges had taken heshti Langeroudi. The embassies and consulates of company to be taken over by the TIMING bribes). In the past six months hundreds the regime have been picketed in state and supervised by independ - Still, these are basically token ac - of labour and other types of ac - many European countries. There The exact timing of the releases, ent representatives of the Haft therefore, might be due to possible tions against some officials, and tivists have been summoned, ar - have been letters, petitions, social Tappeh workers or the workers’ co- they are treated very leniently com - rested and jailed. In total their media campaigns and so on by conflicts within the regime and operative. how its elite responds to these bla - pared to workers and political ac - sentences include 1027 years in cus - many exiled Iranian opposition It should also be mentioned that tivists. tody and 1500 lashes. groups and their supporters in the tant violations. The fact that capi - protesting workers involved in talists get away with colossal Of the around 50 people arrested There are other strikes and international labour movement. other struggles can often be seen on May Day 2019 all – except Neda protests being planned as the work - Most importantly, the Haft corruption – while workers are with placard bearing slogans like jailed and tortured over their basic Naji – have now been released. To ing class regains its confidence. For Tappeh workers have not given up. “Thieves go free, workers end up in begin with she was in Evin Prison example, on Sunday 10 November On 24 October, the 32nd day of demands – is now in the open. jail!” Ebrahim Raisi, who has held var - and then after being interrogated pensioners from across the country their latest strike, their demands Privatisation often is the means was transferred to Gharchak. Then will be demonstrating outside the were: ious positions in the judiciary (in - through which asset-striping is cluding a high position during the after being beaten up there she was Majles and the Pla▉nning and • the release of Esmail Bakhshi done and other types of quick prof - sent back to Evin. She has been in Budget Organisation. and Mohammad Khanifar, and all execution of political prisoners in Bernie Sanders backed by America’s Muslims Linda Sarsour, a leader of the ident in the history of this country.” Israel to exist, but the right to exist raelis and Palestinians. As Israel is Sanders Women’s March, and newly elected He then went on to explain what in peace and security. That’s not a currently the stronger side, and as congresswomen Ilhan Omar and being Jewish means to him, and it question.” the lives of Palestinians – especially campaign Rashida Tlaib, have endorsed him is by understanding his message The crowd roared its approval. in Gaza – have become unbearable, By Eric Lee and gone out to campaign for him. that we can grasp why Sanders’ And then he continued, saying that it is natural to take the Palestinian So far, there is little to distinguish campaign has been able to success - he also believes that “the Palestin - side. But as the Corbyn-led Labour his success from that of left politi - fully bridge the divide between the ian people have a right to live in Party has discovered in the last n recent months, Bernie Sanders cians in the UK and elsewhere who two communities. peace and security as well”, adding couple of years, this can open the has become an enormously pop - have also reached out with some “As a people who have suffered that it is not “antisemitism to say door to a rise of antisemitism on the Iular politician among Muslim success to Muslim communities. for century after century, not to that the Netanyahu government left, and a weakening of the party Americans. But as one journalist recently mention the horrors of the Holo - has been racist.” overall. He was one of only two Demo - pointed out, “a 78-year-old Jewish caust in which my father’s family The Sanders campaign shared It didn’t have to be that way. cratic presidential candidates to ad - socialist from Brooklyn isn’t an ob - was wiped out, as were many of that video widely because it sums Sanders is both pro-Palestinian dress the Islamic Society of North vious favourite among Muslim your families, if there is any people up so clearly his message of build - and pro-Israel. He understands the America Convention in August, the Americans, whose relations with on Earth who understands the dan - ing alliances against the racists and needs of both sides for peace and largest annual gathering of Muslim US Jews have often been compli - ger of racism and white national - antisemites, for Jewish-Arab recon - security. His is a vision that is Americans in the country. He is the cated by differences over the Is - ism, it is certainly the Jewish ciliation, and for a vision of better, rooted in the universalist tradition first major presidential candidate to raeli-Palestinian conflict.” people,” he said. fairer, more equal society for all. of the socialist movement. And it is appoint a Muslim, Faiz Shakir, as In a video released by Sanders He then applied his view to the There are lessons here, I think, for not only doing the right thing his campaign manager. He was the last week, he addressed a progres - most contentious of all issues – the left politicians in Britain and else - morally but as his popularity first American politician to visit a sive Jewish audience, drawing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “As a where. among both Muslims and Jews mosque after the attacks on Mus - cheers when he said “I am very kid I spent many months on a kib - Most seem to think that the are show▉s, it is a winning message as lims in New Zealand. Prominent proud to be Jewish and look for - butz in Israel,” he said. “I believe obligated to choose sides in the well. Muslim Americans including ward to being the first Jewish pres - absolutely not only in the right of decades-old conflict between Is - Workers’ Liberty @workersliberty 3 Free our unions! We struggle at the workplace so Rebellion cost the economy around we can have a say in those deci - £12 million — but a single day’s Briefing sions. There are good reasons strike on the Tube would hit the bosses and right-wing govern - London economy by £300 million. s long as there have been capi - ments fear strong union organisa - No wonder the laws forbid work - talists (employers running tion and seek to attack unions’ ers taking political action to save Abusiness for private profit) and ability to organise. Across the the planet. workers, there has been a struggle world and across history, trade The laws also make it difficult to between them. union struggles and mass strikes organise even around our work - About how long the working day have brought down dictators, place issues.
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