On June 2, a celebration of the life of Ayatollah Khomeini, close to the anniversary of his death, was held at the Islamic Centre of England, in Kilburn, London. Invitees included Ayatollah Moezi, the personal representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran in London.
Iranian exiles organised a protest at this disgraceful glorification of a dictator. The action was mostly made up of socialists, but also included some royalists holding Pahlavi-era flags.
The Worker-Communist Party of Iran (Hekmatist) provided many of the banners (including those showing secularists and trade unionists that have been killed by the Islamic Republic).
Those facilitating the event at the mosque included members of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, an organisation known for its pro-Khomeinist stance, as well as a man in a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of
Hezbollah, the Iranian-funded organisation that is currently sending soldiers to Qusair, Syria in order to support the Assad dictatorship and crush the Syrian opposition.
Workers’ Liberty stands in solidarity with the workers, trade unionists, secularists and women’s rights activists in Iran who are fighting the regime.
