Students support teachers' strike

Submitted by Janine on 11 March, 2004 - 9:29

Pupils in a school in Hamedan, west Iran, joined ranks with their striking teachers and repelled the Islamic Law Enforcement Forces (LEF).
The LEF had targetted the Kothar school in Hamedan, and wanted to intimidate the striking teachers to go back to the classrooms, but the pupils who were outraged by watching the way their teachers were being treated, attacked the LEF and drove them out of school.

The protests soon spread outside the school and the pupils targetted government buildings. LEF anxious about the protests spreading and in fear of more people joining the pupils retreated and were content on containing the protests inside the school.

Iran's teachers are now in the third day of their strike and have vowed not to teach until their demands are met.

This morning, there are reports of more students protesting in support of teachers in Jomhouri Ave. Tehran.

In Ardebil and Isfahan the strikes are reported to be solid, and there are irregular classes in the rest of the country.

Yet despite all the calls for civil disobedience by the opposition expats, who are hell bent on "teaching" the Iranian population what to do and show them how other nations have done it, there is hardly any news coverage of the strikes on the LA based Persian satellite stations, there are no strike committees to raise funds and help the striking teachers.

It all reminds me of a group of Anarchists who were having a meeting on how to involve the masses into an uprising back in the eighties in London, but they were unaware that right outside their meeting place, the famous Brixton riots of the 1980s was going on and while they were seconding amendments on how to bring the masses on the streets, the masses were throwing cocktail molotovs at the police :))

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