Hands Off The People Of Iran Weekend School
Saturday-Sunday, June 14-15, University of London Union, Malet Street| Host: | |
| Type: | |
| Network: | Global |
| Start Time: | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 11:00am |
| End Time: | Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 6:00pm |
| Location: | ULU |
| Street: | Malet Street |
| City/Town: | London, United Kingdom |
Description
Weekend school programme
- for more information on the speakers see further below -
Saturday 14th June 2008
11.00-11.10
Introduction: The threat of war
Mark Fischer, Hopi chair and Communist Party of Great Britain
11.10-12.20
The 1979 revolution and its aftermath
Torab Saleth, Workers Left Unity Iran
12:20-12:35
Message from Iranian students in Tehran
12.35-13.30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
The working class movements and their response to the economic crisis in Iran
David Mather
Amir Javaheri Langaroudi
15.30-15.45
speaker from inside Iran- Recent workers struggles in Iran
15.45-16.00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00
War, human rights and ‘humanitarian interventions’
Prof Bill Bowring, author and lecturer at School of Law, Birkbeck College London
Mike Macnair, lecturer in law at Oxford University and CPGB
18.30 onwards: Social at the Smugglers Tavern, 28 Warren Street, W1T 5ND
Sunday 15th June 2008
11.00-11.15
message from women activists inside Iran
11.15-12.30
Sanctions
Christine Cooper
12.30-13.30
Lunch Break
13.30-14.00
John McDonnell (MP)
14.30-15.45
Iran, Israel and the Middle East and the nuclear question
Moshe Machover
15.45-16.00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Can imperialism liberate women?
Azar Majedi, Hopi steering committee
17:00 - 18:00
Iran's national minorities- Baluchistan
Rahim Bandoui
- for more information on the speakers see further below -
Saturday 14th June 2008
11.00-11.10
Introduction: The threat of war
Mark Fischer, Hopi chair and Communist Party of Great Britain
11.10-12.20
The 1979 revolution and its aftermath
Torab Saleth, Workers Left Unity Iran
12:20-12:35
Message from Iranian students in Tehran
12.35-13.30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
The working class movements and their response to the economic crisis in Iran
David Mather
Amir Javaheri Langaroudi
15.30-15.45
speaker from inside Iran- Recent workers struggles in Iran
15.45-16.00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00
War, human rights and ‘humanitarian interventions’
Prof Bill Bowring, author and lecturer at School of Law, Birkbeck College London
Mike Macnair, lecturer in law at Oxford University and CPGB
18.30 onwards: Social at the Smugglers Tavern, 28 Warren Street, W1T 5ND
Sunday 15th June 2008
11.00-11.15
message from women activists inside Iran
11.15-12.30
Sanctions
Christine Cooper
12.30-13.30
Lunch Break
13.30-14.00
John McDonnell (MP)
14.30-15.45
Iran, Israel and the Middle East and the nuclear question
Moshe Machover
15.45-16.00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Can imperialism liberate women?
Azar Majedi, Hopi steering committee
17:00 - 18:00
Iran's national minorities- Baluchistan
Rahim Bandoui
