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Iran: scope for solidarity – and for engaging workers

Iran’s Green movement must broaden its demands to expand support amongst the country’s poor and working families, says opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The movement has been accused of being unrepresentative, and arguably too focused on constitutional issues that hold little appeal beyond university students and the middle class.
“The fate of the movement should be tied [read full story]

Pakistan’s perpetual transition – to democracy or failed state?

Pakistan’s perpetual transition – to democracy or failed state?

Good governance and the development of robust democratic institutions are vital if the Pakistani state is to roll back the Taliban. Under former president Pervez Musharraff, “a coterie of political loyalists” was empowered in areas like the Swat valley at the expense or locally accountable institutions that had maintained law and order.
The Taliban insurgency has [read full story]

Change in Iran – an internal affair?

Further to yesterday’s discussion, an interesting article on whether engagement would help to change Iran. “The idea that you can gradually change the Islamic Republic into something better might be popular inside Western circles and with Mr. Obama, but it’s not really so in Iran,” argues Arash Azizi, an exiled Iranian journalist.
But York University professor [read full story]

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