MR and Iran was Re: [Marxism] The AFL-CIO etc.

["Erik Carlos Toren" <ectoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis:

> From looking at that article and the web page, is it safe to assume this 
debate you are having between yourself and Yoshie is not just w/i this 
confines of this forum? But. Rather a debate that seems be at least between 
MR and members of the Iranian Left?

> From the web page:

http://www.iran-bulletin.org/Attack%20on%20Iran/Open%20Letter%20to%20Monthly%20Review%20Editors.htm

Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors

Dear friends,

In a recent posting on your web site, Rostam Pourzal uses an anonymous 
email by a 'witness' in Tehran to deny the extent of the repression of women 
demonstrators by vigilante Islamic police on 12 June  2006 
(http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pourzal180606.html )

[....]

It is regrettable that your  web site has recently become so apologetic 
about Iran's Islamic regime. Many of us consider this to be in total 
contrast to the radical traditions of Harry Magdoff , Paul Sweezy , Ellen 
Woods. who considered anti-imperialist struggle as inseparable from 
anti-capitalist struggles and the battle for democracy.

[...]

Ardeshir Mehrdad -Co-editor Iran Bulletin Middle East Forum
Shahrzad Mojab -  Professor and director of the Women and Gender Studies 
Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada
Haideh Moghissi - Professor of Sociology - York University, Canada
Cyrus Bina - Professor of Economics and Management - University of 
Minnesota, USA
Yassamine Mather- Center for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements- 
Glasgow University, UK
Torab Saleth - Editorial board journal Critique
Saeed Rahnama - Professor of  Political Sciences - York University, Canada
Younes Parsa-Benab - Professor of Political Science at Strayer University- 
Washington
Mehdi Kia- Co-editor Iran Bulletin Middle East Forum
Mansour Khaksar - Poet, Literary critic
Sulmaz Moradi - Socialist , feminist  activist
Borzu Fuladvand -  Socialist activist
Fereshteh Shoja -   Socialist,  feminist activist
Faramarz Dadvar - Center in Defense of Freedom & Democracy in Iran-Chicago
Dr Morteza Mohit - Political Commenattor, writer
Sadegh Tehrani - Socialist activist
Hassan Hessam - Poet
Azar Sheibani - Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan 
University

por el socialismo,
Erik Toren

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>

> In the Iranian bus driver's strike, the cutting edge was directed against 
> the clerics who have been hostile to any working class demands for decades 
> now. For background on this, check this article from the Iran Bulletin:
>
> http://www.iran-bulletin.org/labour/labour_27.html



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