Solidarity with Iranian Workers: Free Labor Activist Jafar Azimzadeh
A group of scholars and activists have issue a statement to protest the flogging of Iranian mine workers and to call for the release of Iranian labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh. Azimzadeh has been on a hunger strike since April 29, 2016. Background information and...
Joint May Day Resolution of Independent Iranian Workers’ Organizations
Translator’s Note: The following joint resolution by seven independent Iranian labor unions and organizations was issued on May 1, 2015 amidst a growing wave of strikes by workers, protests by teachers and nurses, and arrests of union leaders. The...
Critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
Frieda Afary April 3, 2016 Abstract: This critical review summarizes the arguments and facts in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century and then discusses the main differences between this work and Karl Marx’s Capital: For Piketty, capital...