The repression against student activists in Iran follows hard of the healls of the Islamic state's clamp down on trade unionists and workers movements. Many placards called for the freeing from prison of the bus worker's leader Mansour Ossanlou and the baker's union activist Mahmoud Salehi.
The Islamic regime has been able to use to the threat of attack by the US and allies, including Britain to legitemise itself and justify the intensifing repression against workers, women's groups, queers and cultural minorities. The demonstrators today were overwhelmingly Iranian leftist exiles, many of whom expressed their disappointment with hostile attitudes of the British left, which has for the most part adopted an attitude of supporting or at least not criticising the Iranian states's repressive actions out of some kinda simplistic anti-US stance instead of supporting Iranian activists in their struggle against the dual threats of US militarism and theocratic - capitalist oppression.
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