این مقاله درباره وضعیت جنبش کارگری ایران ، فعالین کارگری و تاثیر تحریم ها بر اوضاع آنان است که برای نشریه ویووپوینت تهیه شده است.
Union leader Reza Shahabi has become a hero because of his refusal to cooperate with the prison authorities. After a month long hunger strike and international support, Shahabi finally received treatment in hospital
The international economic crisis has reached Iran too. The already oppressed working class is hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. But the Iranian workers at the same time face other problems too. They are dealing with a dictatorship that refuses them the right to organize, a dictatorship pushing the country into thorny international and regional conflicts.
The economic and political crisis in Iran has aggravated under the regime of Ahmadinejad making the situation for the Iranian people, especially the working and poor classes, even more difficulties. The Ahmadinejad regime has been busy implementing privatization and neoliberal structural-adjustment programs. In fact, the twenty-year-long process concluded under Ahamdinejad who has dutifully signed to the so-called Amendment to the Article 44 of the Constitution. This Amendment envisions a wholesale dismantling of the public sector and paved the way for its handover to the capitalists.