**** URGENT – PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY AND SEND TO LISTS **** PICKET TOMORROW IN PROTEST AT VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO 6pm Wednesday 30th September South African High Commission South Africa House Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DP Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers' movement in South Africa who sent representatives to the UK a couple of weeks ago, is under violent attack and fighting desperately to save their homes and their organisation from ANC supported "development" (ie demolition)- physical and political annihilation.

Hearsay suggests that the Iranian middle class never step out en mass unless the working class are already out the streets already, so why no mention of this from Zizek - only a vague sideways reference to 'ordinary people'? The Tehran bus workers are one of the more organised visible sections of the Iranian working class - frequently stopping the city through widespread strikes and protests over the last few years

from: http://libcom.org/library/iranian-bus-workers%E2%80%99-statement-demonstrations

Thanks to Infinite Th0ught [http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/]

Link to the French translation in Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2009/06/27/teheran-en-crise-ou-le-retour-aux-sources-de-la-revolution-de-1979-par-slavoj-zizek_1212498_3232.html

Link to the Greek translation in Eleftherotypia: http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.kosmos&id=58062

WILL THE CAT ABOVE THE PRECIPICE FALL DOWN?

Slavoj Zizek

http://supportiran.blogspot.com/2009/06/slavoj-zizeks-new-text-on-iran.html

| 21.06.2009 09:28 | Migration | Workers' Movements
A look at the results of the occupation of SOAS which took place in response to the immigration raid against cleaners employed by ISS. Produced collectively by some of the activists who took part in the occupation.

Detailed account: http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/free-artem-loskutov/

http://www.demotix.com/news/artists-hunger-strike-drags-international-economic-forum-looms

On May 15, the young contemporary artist Artem Loskutov was arrested
in his native Novisibirsk and charged with possession of a narcotic
substance (marijuana) by the local branch of the Interior Ministry's
notorious Center for Extremism Prevention (Center "E"). Loskutov and
his supporters claim that the police planted the marijuana in his bag
in order to incriminate him. As one of the organizers of the annual