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Although there is now an unprecedented need for socialism, the lack of a socialist ideology and practice is an expression of the crisis of socialism at least as much as of a crisis of capitalism. The crisis of socialism is not based on objective causes, but on subjective factors, a lack of a consistent awareness…

Written by Rahim Hamid — All of us have heard over and over official statements from occupier’s Iranian theocratic regime officials that Ahwaz region which is located in the south and south west of so-called” Iran” is “Heart of Iran economy”. The main natural resources in Ahwaz is oil, natural gas, fertilized land, metals such…

According to a report from Associated Press, Iran’s official news agency says the official in charge of the country’s prisons have been removed from the post. The development follows reports of alleged abuse of inmates at a Tehran penitentiary. Gholamhossein Esmaili has been transferred to a similarly high-ranking position as prosecutor and head of the…

According to report from HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency), on Sunday 20th April Ebdulrehim Chane 37 years old, Soran Fethi 32 and Ebduhadi 27 three Kurdish religious activists from Mehabad were detained by the Iranian Intelligence Office and taken to unknown location. At the time this report, these three residents of Mehabad have not been…

Mines buried during the 8 year war between Iran and Iraq, killed several people every day in the border areas of Kurdistan. Meanwhile, the Iranian government has done nothing, despite statements promising mine clearance (demining) in Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan). A 10 year old Kurdish child was injured in a mine explosion in Salas Bawecani (Kirmashan…

Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) held a conference in the Swedish city of Västerås to discuss the situation of Rojhelat (East Kurdistan) and the strengthening of internal alliance as part of works for national unity. The two-day conference on 19-20 April was attended by the representatives of many political parties, non-governmental organizations and independent individuals, intellectuals and…

On Saturday 19th of April, Adnan Hassanpour (Ednan Hesenpur), the Kurdish imprisoned journalist has been transferred from the central prison of Zahedan to Meriwan prison, HRANA News Agency reported. An informed source told HRANA’s reporter, “he has been taken out of the ward with all of his personal accessories, in order to be transferred to Meriwan”. On the 25th…

In a message sent to the Eastern Kurdistan Conference taking place in Sweden, KCK Co-chair Cemil Bayik outlined his outlook for Iran and the region. A summary of Cemil Bayik’s message: The Middle East is passing through a particularly violent time. The peoples of the region are struggling against this war. The Middle Eastern peoples want…

According to Karim Dahimi, the Ahwazi human rights activist, Eighty-four Ahwazi Arab youth citizens have been arrested since 6 April, 2014by the regime security forces while the reason of their arrest and their whereabouts is still unknown. He said that the police security forces have not shown any authorization for the arrest of these Ahwazi…

Huge Ahwazi demonstration on the ninth anniversary of the Ahwaz popular uprising of April 2005 before the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, Apr 16th, 2014 condemns the never- ending crackdown perpetrating against Ahwazi Arabs people in the south and south west of Iran. The member of EU’s Ahwazi community held this demonstration to voice…

Kurdish political prisoner Hebibulla Letifi is still threatened with death row at central prison in Sine (Sanandaj). 27 year old Hebibulla Letifi, engineering student at the University of Ilam has been in Sine prison since 2007 after being accused of aiding PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan). A revolutionary court imposed the death sentence on…

Heval Kwestani, a member of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament for the Gorran (change) movement, has nominated Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Kwestani’s application has been accepted by the Nobel Committee. The Member of Parliament for Sulaymaniyah said that “Ocalan’s 2013 Newroz message emphasised peace and democracy, it was a manifesto…

ANF, SINE — Workers in Rojhelat (East Kurdistan) city of Sine (Sanandaj) and in other Iranian cities have gone on to the streets to demand their unpaid wages. On Sunday April 6 Zagros metal workers in the city blocked a major street in anger at bad working conditions. The workers resisted security forces who attempted to…

Groups of Kurds planted trees on the 4th of April in correspondence of a large civic movement. In Sine (Sanandaj), a numbers of ‘Mothers of Peace’ planted trees on the occasion of Abdullah Öcalan’s birthday. According to reports, civilians continued their self-organized activities despite repression and pressures from the Iranian government against the Kurdish nation.…

Kurdish youth hanged himself for not joining army A Kurdish youth hung himself in Meriwan in order to not join the Iranian army. According to Firat News Agency (ANF), a Kurdish youth named Ebdullah Wahidi hung himself in the Filqus mountain in Meriwan. It is said that the 19 year old Ebdullah killed himself as a…

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), officials from the Kirmaşan (Kermanshah) women prison have transferred the Kurdish political prisoner Zeyneb Celaliyan to the prison infirmary to treat her eye disease while she still was in handcuffs and shackles and treated in humiliating manners. Six months ago the women’s ward of Dizel…

The KNK has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Erdogan and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ calling for the release of hundreds of critically ill prisoners who are languishing in Turkish jails without proper medical attention. As the letter explains, despite recent changes to the law that would allow for seriously ill prisoners to be…

Counter-Guerrilla is a force used by the devious Iranian regime to eliminate the fight and hope for freedom that the struggle of the Kurdish Guerrilla is giving the Kurdish population in Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan). Counter-Guerrilla are groups that are hired by the Iranian military force, which cloth themselves as the actual Guerrilla (Freedom Fighters) of Kurdistan, which enables them…

I congratulate the Kurdish New Year 2714 (Newroz) to dear people, political prisoners and their families, human rights activists, human rights organizations and all freedom fighters. I would like to express my thanks and to the mothers of political prisoners to all those who have tried in the last year to inform the media of…