Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’ A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer. The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has [...]

By Bornak When I think of all that’s happened in the past few months, I can’t sit still. One can no longer live a normal carefree life, continuously waiting for something to happen. There is a wave of excitement in everyone everywhere. Let me explain the things I’m thinking of. The things we should have [...]

From: The Bridge Journal #4 Lead Article By:Saeed Valadbaygi New circumstances have arisen from the civil disturbance towards the repressive rule and inhumane policies in existence. Both national and international attention on the fundamental and class movement has increased. Perhaps the people’s war with the government on the streets is not in the manner of [...]

By :Ramin Rahimi Translated by: Behrooz Navaii In the last days of the initial period of Anti Coup demonstrations (June 12th to August 17th, 2009) the slogan, “Independence, Freedom, Iranian Republic” began to echo in the demonstrations. This slogan of the people was a direct response to the reformists, whom by forming the “Green Path [...]

Tehran Bus Workers’ Union has issued a statement condemning the charges by which labourers of Haft Tappeh have been sentenced to prison, and requested their immediate release. The statement by Tehran Bus Workers’ Union explains that following the demonstration of labour workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company, in 2007 for overdue wages – their [...]

By Amir K. Khiaban #48 / Wednesday, September 23, 2009 The university has never been a warm and comfy house of learning. At least not in Iran. Here, it has been a long alleyway shaped by various struggles and fights paving its path; a compact arena of struggle between despotism and freedom, between dictatorship and [...]

Some claim that the 40 million participants in the election were those who believe that reforming the Islamic Republic is possible and therefore the chanting of slogans against the Islamic Republic is unacceptable. Not all those who participated in the elections believe that reforming of Islamic Republic is possible or believe that reform of the [...]

By Saeed Valadbaygi After a long silence the discussion over Iran’s atomic program is now hot. New facilities have been discovered in the mountains of Qom, or previously discovered facilities have now been revealed. Talks and negotiations are once again underway, together with the guesswork and predictions and anxieties. And of course as usual the [...]

Shirin Ebadi in a recent speech at the Naropa University of Colorado announced that the only way for Iran and other Islamic countries to be relieved of authoritarian governments is with the correct interpretation of the Qur’an and that especially among the Iranian people the phenomenon of refuge in “Secular Islam” does not have any [...]

Tehran’s underground music scene is explored in a number of documentaries at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, including Amir Hamz’s “Sounds of Silence” and Bahman Ghobadi’s “No One Knows About Persian Cats” From forerunners like rock band O-hum to innovative stars like Mohsen Namjoo, the stories of a few musicians who have gone mainstream once [...]