Nominations to Hopi steering committee
Vicky Thompson, Manchester
I am an independent Libertarian Marxist based in Manchester. Ever
since the shameful exclusion of Hands Off the People of Iran from Stop
the War Coalition, I have been helping to build HOPI in the North
West. I am the co-founder and Treasurer of the University of
Manchester HOPI student society and on the provisional North West
committee. I have helped to co-ordinate HOPI interventions at meetings
and demos and in November I chaired HOPI's Manchester launch meeting,
which, in spite of an SWP-organised counter-meeting, managed to
attract an audience of over 40. Additionally, I am the secretary for
Manchester University Unite Against Fascism, an activist in Action
Palestine and an officer in the Stop the War Coalition's student
society. I am also the Treasurer of the Manchester branch of
Industrial Workers of the World (a registered Industrial union).
 Ben Lewis, London
A gap-year student living in London, I am a well-known student
activist with much political experience. I have been politically active since the famous Stop The War march on February 15th 2003, after which I joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. I have been an active member of the Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Germany and am on the National Executive of Communist Students. I have spoken for HOPI at numerous meetings both across the
country and also in Germany and have helped to bring HOPI's message
onto campus at numerous Freshers' Fairs. I am in regular contact with
radical anti-war students in Iran, allowing me to gain an insight into
the nature of their struggles and to express active solidarity with
their actions, such as the demonstrations on December 4. I believe
HOPI has the potential to become a campaign with significant roots in
society and I believe that my experience and commitment could help to
do this.
Yassamine Mather, Glasgow
Yassamine Mather is an Iranian socialist in exile in Scotland. Her political activities on the Iranian left started in the 1980s in Tehran and later in Kurdistan. In exile, she has been a member of the coordinating committee of Workers Left Unity Iran. She is a member of the Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements (Glasgow University) and the deputy editor of the journal Critique. Recently she has been active in the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign and a member of the Faslane academic blockade.
 Peter Tatchell, London
Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy and global justice since 1967. He is a member of the queer human rights group OutRage!, and the left-wing of the Green Party. Peter is the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East, and the Green Party’s spokesperson on human rights.
Tami Peterson, London
I am a 30 year old female who moved to England from the US in late 2004 where I was an active participant in the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. I joined the Labour Party in early 2007 to support the John McDonnell campaign for Labour leader and am currently on the editorial board for Labour Briefing as well as the National Committee for the Labour Representation Committee. I am currently a member of the student union council at Birkbeck College, Univeristy of London where I am an active member of Birkbeck Against the War. At the last Stop the War Conference I voted as a delegate against the denial of the affiliation of HOPI.
 Steven Monaghan, Manchester
I am a Syndicalist from Manchester and Chair of the
Hands off the People of Iran Student Society at the University of Manchester,
as well as a member of the local HOPI steering committee.
I have been an activist for many years within such organisations as Stop the War, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Industrial Workers of the World
(Co-Secretary) and Palestine Solidarity Campaign. I am also very active within
university student politics, notably within Action Palestine (for which I am
both Treasurer and Events Co-ordinator) and Stop the War (in which I am an
Officer). I am also heavily involved in LGBT and Trade Union politics both
nationally and locally.
Tina Becker, London
Tina has been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain for over 10 years, since moving to London from Germany. She is also a member of the German party Die Linke. She has been heavily involved in the European Social Forum movement and has written extensively on the subject. She has also helped to set up Hopi in London.
 Moshé Machover, London
Moshé Machover is an Israeli socialist, founding member (1962) of the Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen). In the 1970s and 80s, he was co-editor of Khamsin, Journal of revolutionary socialists of the Middle East. He is on the Editorial Board of Middle East Forum (formerly Iran Bulletin). He is author of many articles on the Middle East and socialist theory, as well as of several books, including Laws of Chaos: A probabilistic Approach to Political Economy (co-authored with Emmanuel Farjoun), Verso, 1983.
Torab Saleth, London
Torab Saleth is an Iranian Socialist who was a member of the International Executive Committee of the USFI (United Secretariat of the Fourth International) at the time of the Iranian Revolution and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party of Iran. He was very critical of the USFI's line on Iran and left that organisation in 1984. In exile he was the editor of the journal 'Socialism and Revolution', he is currently on the editorial board of the journal Critique and a prominent member of Workers Left Unity Iran.
 Mark Fischer, London
Mark is the national organiser of the CPGB and a member of its leadership. He has been centrally involved in all of Hopi activities thus far and in the preparation of this founding conference.
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