“Today’s retirees are yesterday’s workers, still on the streets; why?” / Amir Javaheri Langroudi

The above question prompts us to take a look at the various social categorizations of retirees, recognize their problems and demands, and discuss a way out. Without a doubt, today in the midst of confrontations over demands on the streets, retirees are considered to be the awakened conscience of the class movement in Iran. I […]...

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Will artificial intelligence take our jobs? / Amin Ghazaei

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the progress of technology and mechanization of production processes, or automation, has caused waves of unemployment in the job market. Marx and other social theorists show that due to the reliance of production on the profits of capitalists, machines instead of reducing the workload of workers, lead to […]...

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The struggle for survival revolves around the wage line / Amir Aghaei.

A look at the minimum wage of workers in 1402. Every year at the end of the budget season, the discussion of increasing wages for the next year becomes a concern that occupies the minds of both workers and employers. This concern is especially serious and important in recent years, when inflation rates have been […]...

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The workforce is not a productive institution; inefficiency of minimum wage policy in Iran / Saeideh Shafiei.

The discussion of workers’ rights and wages in different parts of the world is of special importance. This importance is highlighted during economic crises, especially now that the global economy is facing the COVID-19 pandemic. In Iran, the thirteenth government has increased the minimum wage for workers by fifty-seven percent for the year 2022, which […]...

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New century, new poverty; how does Iran begin the new century?/ Sun of barley.

Iranian rice: 100,000 tomans per kilogram. Lamb meat: 180,000 Tomans per kilogram. Chicken: 1 kilogram for 7000 tomans. Pride: One hundred million tomans. Inflation rate: Forty-one percent. “These and dozens of other shocking figures show the conditions that Iran has entered with in the new century. Just one month after the start of the fifteenth […]...

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The month of Ordibehesht and equal opportunities for workers, teachers, and other demanding groups/ Amir Javaheri Langroudi.

“We enter a situation in the month of Ordibehesht, after the Nowruz holidays, where day after day, the wave of protests, strikes, and street gatherings opens its wide mouth, ready to take on the glorious uprising on the eve of the 11th and 12th of Ordibehesht, 1401, known as “International Workers’ Day” and “Teachers’ Day”. […]...

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“Social justice” remains a burning silver slogan of the 1957 Revolution even after four decades/Amir Javaheri Langroudi.

1- Notes: 1. Hamshahri newspaper, agreed-upon salary… Green light from the legal deputy of the presidency to employers, Tuesday 20 Bahman 1399, news code 583885. 2. Mehr News Agency, for determining the cost of living basket… Workers are waiting, Tuesday 27 Bahman 1399, news code 5147438. 3. Andisheh Blog, statement of independent organizations of workers, […]...

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The struggles of the sugar workers of Haft-Tappeh and the current situation of the protest movement / Amir Javaheri Langroudi.

The final words. Continuous protests in our society today, above all, are met with strategizing for the survival of the striking workers and breaking the imposition of hunger on them by employers and the government. This is often accompanied by media siege, intimidation, and suppression of the striking workers in order to exacerbate the effects […]...

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All labor laws are anti-worker; in conversation with Javanmir Moradi, a labor activist / conversation with Mari Mohammad.

Retirees, as a part of the working class, have always been discriminated against and deprived of their rights. Retirees, who were once active workers, are now being exploited both during their employment and in retirement. The written laws in the Islamic Republic provide a situation where a powerful minority, who have no understanding of the […]...

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If the union is not independent, the laws will also be ineffective; in conversation with Dr. Ahmad Alavi / Conversation with Ali Kalaii.

He emphasizes that “if appropriate laws are to be created for the workforce, the workforce must have political power.” He considers Iran’s economy to be oil-based and sees the numbers and figures announced for reducing Iran’s dependence on oil as deception and manipulation. He argues why he believes this economy is still oil-based and, of […]...

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“Review and Analysis of Legal Aspects of Labor Investment in Iran/Mehran Mosadeghnia”

Introduction According to legal standards, exploitation or investment is when certain individuals or groups unfairly take advantage of the efforts and services of others, through various means such as forced labor, inadequate payment of wages, and taking them as slaves, and exploiting them through difficult and exhausting tasks. Due to the destructive consequences of exploiting […]...

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Historic protests of November 98 as a rebellion of the working class against exploitation and tyranny/Reza Shirazi

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