Stopping as Protest: The Political Practice of Truck Drivers on the Margins of Iran’s Formal System/ Mina Javani

In recent decades, strikes—as one of the main forms of collective action in contemporary societies—have become more than merely a professional response. They have transformed into powerful tools for expressing demands in contexts where institutionalized and formal participation is limited or blocked. In Iran, too—where structures for labor and trade union organization face legal, political, […]...

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A Look at the Recent Strike of Workers at the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company / Hirad Pirbodaghi

Unity. The strike of retired and employed workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company in the final days of the month of Ordibehesht this year is so important for the labor movement in Iran that we cannot allow it to be overshadowed by the daily events and protests that we pass by so easily. […]...

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