Student Protests in Tehran 6^th Dec 2006

Around 1500 Iranian students  protested in Tehran on Wednesday 6^th Dec on the eve of Iran’s national student day. 
Although some news agencies have tried to portray the demonstration as a pro‘reform rally, the students slogans/placards  were clearly  more radical :

 
Socialism is our way, it is the way to emancipation

Socialism or Barbarism

Students , Workers, Teachers – Unite and Fight

Freedom for political prisoners

We don’t want war- We don’t want nuclear weapons, we just want a better life

The way to human salvation, annihilation of the Taleban ( a reference to the Islamic regime in Iran , students often refer to it as the Taleban )  

True Emancipation, humanist Socialism

Sexual Apartheid shows contempt for human beings

Taleban Republic ( Reference to Iran’s Islamic Regime)  is denial of human rights

Equality, Freedom, these are the people’s slogans

Students fight, reactionaries tremble

Execution must be abolished today

Free all student activists in prison

Students are awake, they despise reactionaries

The University is alive and will remain alive

Freedom for independent student organizations

(all slogans from Commite Sarassari Daneshjouyan Keshvar – National Committee for Iranian students)

 Police blocked off roads surrounding the campus. Thousands of students angry with  repression within the university, broke the doors of the Faculty of Science during clashes with the security forces. Student activists say that since Ahmadinejad's election 181 students have been summoned to university disciplinary boards and 105 of them were suspended as part of a crackdown against politically active students. We want all students to be able to register. We want political groups to act freely at universities,' said Mehdi Aminzadeh, who is among a handful students who activists say are still barred from registering. 
In the university campus, students condemned new suppressive measures and up coming elections by chanted “Down with tyranny,” “Down with dictatorship,” “free all political prisoners,” and “Freedom, equality, election boycott.”

Workers Left Unity Iran

7^th Dec 2006

http://www.etehadchap.org/english/students2006.html

 

 Student Movement Ally of Workers Movement and Women's Movement

Equality- Freedom
University is not a garisson

Socialism or Barbarism