Haft Tappeh workers push forward
Morad Shirin from the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency responded to questions from Solidarity . Inflation, unemployment, and inequality remain high in Iran. There have been big working-class fightback in recent years. And now? In addition to the long-term dire economic situation, corruption, repression and sanctions, the incompetent and callous handling of the Covid pandemic has led to even more stark social inequalities. These have sparked off hundreds of struggles and protests by pensioners , teachers, medical staff , steel workers, oil workers and so on. (But the regime keeps...