Introduction As another May Day comes and goes, we at IranPolitik continue to be astounded by not only the worsening economic condition faced by Iranian workers, but also by the continued failure of the so-called opposition, particularly the Reformist and Green Movement political currents, to support and cooperate with the Iranian labour movement. This movement is potentially one of the most powerful of its kind in the Middle East, which according to Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani numbers over six million workers as of 2006 and many times more if their families are included. Yet no mainstream Iranian political current has even seriously attempted to incorporate the labour [...]
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