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12:20-12:35 15.45-16.00 11.30 - 12.30 On Saturday-Sunday, 14-15th June 2008 the Campaign Hands Off the People of Iran will hold a weekend school, in University of London Union, Malet Street to discuss issues regarding the threat of war, sanctions and various aspects of the opposition to the the rule of the theocracy, inside Iran. The weekend school will hold a session War, human rights and ‘humanitarian interventions’; with two speakers , Professor Bill Bowring from the School of Law, at Birkbeck College London University and Dr Mike Macnair, lecturer in law at Oxford University. Professor Bowring who is an a active supporter of the Campaign, practises and teaches law and is the author of many books including: The
Degradation Of The International Legal Order: The Rehabilitation Of
Law And The Possibility Of Politics, Social Legislation in Russia and
Great Britain, Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium,
Prisons Law and Human Rights as well as numerous academic journals.
He is a practising barrister at Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn,
Executive Committee Member of the Bar Human Rights Committee of
England and Wales; President, European Association of Lawyers for
Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) since 2005; Founder in 2002 and
Chair of the International Steering Committee, European Human Rights
Advocacy Centre (EHRAC); Trustee of REDRESS (reparation and
compensation for victims of torture) since 1997; Member of the
Council of Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties) . On the same day the 'weekend school' will hear from Professor Christine Cooper. She is Professor of Accountancy at the University of Strathclyde , she is a Marxist and acts on the Editorial board of a number of academic journals , including , accounting and the Public Interest (Journal of the American Accounting Association)., On editorial board of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, on editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, On editioral board of Accounting Forum and Joint editor of the Journal of the Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs. She is the author of a major article on the administration of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq : US Imperialism in Action: An Audit-Based Appraisal of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. She will be talking about the extent of the current sanctions against Iran and the role of sanctions in imperialist strategy. The
session on women, entitled ' Can imperialism liberate women in the
Middle East? ' by Azar
Majedi
who is Chairperson of Organisation for Women's Liberation – Iran. The session session 'The working class movement in Iran and its response to the economic crisis' will start with an introduction by David Mather who lectures in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the author of many articles on Iran and Afghanistan , including:Making Cars in Iran: Working for Iran Khodro, The Islamic republic and the Iranian left , Invading Afghanistan. He will be looking at the neo liberal economic policies of the Islamic Republic Regime, including privatisation and casualisation and will give examples of workers resistance to these measures. Given the illusions of many on the International left about the nature of the Islamic regime, the weekend school will have a session on : The 1979 revolution and its aftermath lead by Torab Saleth . 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. The organisers hope the two day event will be informative and there will be plenty of time for debate. |
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