Jane Green
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jane Green
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World
Protest wave continues to engulf Iran
July 29, 2022The Committee for Defense of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has called upon the labor and trade union movement internationally to rally around, and stand in solidarity with, the detained Iranian trade unionists and teachers.
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Labor
Oil workers’ strike spreads across Iran; unions appeal for international solidarity
July 9, 2021Oil bosses are skipping paychecks and trying to pit full-time workers against contract workers, but so far solidarity is holding strong.
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World
Iran – give diplomacy a chance
February 3, 2021A major challenge facing new President Joe Biden is the U.S. relationship with Iran and how this will affect Middle Eastern geopolitics. Jane Green considers the prospects for establishing a new balance in the region.
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World
The ‘trampling of humanity’ continues in Iran
September 10, 2020The human rights abuses in Iran’s prisons, the ongoing strike wave, the protests on the streets, all underline the continuing disaffection with the regime in Iran.
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World
Worker’s death sparks historic oil and gas strike in Iran
August 10, 2020The strike action was triggered when Ebrahim Arabzadeh, a contract worker at Mahshahr petrochemical complex, died from heat exhaustion at work.
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Iran erupts in protest; over 100 killed in security crackdown
November 19, 2019A nationwide internet blackout and Khamenei’s warning to stay away from demonstrations indicate a violent crackdown may be looming.
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World
Trump’s drive to war with Iran intensifies by the day
July 1, 2019Photo-ops on Korean peninsula don’t reduce the dangerous push by the US toward war in the Middle East.
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World
U.S. sanctions against Iran step up the threat of war
August 13, 2018New U.S. sanctions on Iran are not about acting in the interests of the Iranian people and freeing them from an oppressive regime. They're entirely about the power balance in the Middle East.
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