Join Us for a Meeting and Discussion
7PM Thursday, July 2
UMass Campus Center Room 803
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian workers, students, and activists took to the streets in the days following a rigged election which saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returned to power. While the ruling regime has recently intensified its bloody crackdown against demonstrators, Iranian “people power” has not been defeated; trade unionists, women’s rights activists, and masses of ordinary Iranians have vowed to continue the struggle for justice in their country.
This great outpouring recalled the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran, the hated U.S.-backed dictator. Many protesters revived the anti-Shah chant, "Down with the dictator." Video and photos of the great mobilization inspired people around the world who support democracy and social justice--and set off alarm bells for despots in the Middle East. The Iranian protests began over a stolen presidential election, but their increasing size and intensity raises the possibility of revolutionary change in Iran and beyond.
Join us as we discuss the popular upheaval in Iran--from a socialist perspective.
