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Marxist news highlights rage against Trump’s attack & Starmer's complicity (UK style) - C C - Mar 7, 2026
Iran demonstration rages against Donald Trump’s attack and Britain’s complicity
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/iran-demonstration-rages-against-donald-trumps-attack-and-britains-complicity/
INTRO: Tens of thousands of marchers raged through London on Saturday to oppose the murderous assault on Iran by the United States and Israel. A week into the war, there were huge explosions across Iran as Israel’s military announced a “broad-scale wave of strikes”. The escalating conflict is bringing chaos and bloodshed across the region.
Protester Atefeh told Socialist Worker, “I’m Iranian, and I’m 100 percent against this. There are some Iranians advocating for this. But they don’t represent us. We need to make sure our voices are louder than them. They think they can just overthrow Iran, we are going to stand against that.”
On the first day of the assault, US-Israeli missile strikes killed 165 schoolgirls in Minab, southern Iran. Julie told Socialist Worker, “I don’t know how grown men can murder children. It’s just awful. I don’t think many people in Britain want a war.”
Darius was at the protest with a cardboard sign saying, “Women, life, freedom”, the slogan of the protests in Iran during 2022 after Mahsa Amini’s murder by the police.
He told Socialist Worker, “I have family in Iran. I support the people of Iran. I don’t want them to be under an oppressive regime. But I don’t want them to be bombed into the ground by Israel and the Americans either. US imperialism does not help Iranians. They would seek to install a puppet regime and plunder Iran’s oil and gas. If the Israelis get their way they would fragment Iran into a number of failed states. I’m ashamed of the British government and Keir Starmer’s complicity with what is happening in Iran”, he added.
Faz, an Iranian living in London, explained, “I’m against the war and the Iranian regime. That’s why I’m here.” He argued that “the only result” of the war “is to benefit the powers of imperialism and the destruction of normal life. People aren’t winners in any war.” He added, “The regime is despotic. People don’t have basic normal life in Iran. Whether it is daily rations of food, water or basic political freedoms.”
Mike, an NEU union member, told Socialist Worker, “Hooligans are making callous decisions about the world, about which countries are next in terms of expanding the global US empire, with no regard for ordinary people on the ground. That is a time for us to stand up and say you don’t speak for us.” He said that trade unions are “absolutely crucial” to the anti-war movement.
The sixth form college teacher said, “We need to be out here in full force. The people who pay the greatest price are usually the workers when they see high energy bills and inflation. The trade unions should be here to stand up to the war criminals that we have in the world.”
Sophie Bolt, the general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament told Socialist Worker the war was built on lies about nuclear weapons... (MORE - details)
https://youtu.be/zUEWkfYnBUg