Watch The Iranian Revolution has begun (2009) Documentary Online


A revolutionary situation is unfolding in front of our very eyes. Hear Alan Woods, editor of marxist.com speak to a meeting in London on June 25, 2009. The Iranian Revolution has begun.

Millions of people marched through Tehran and several other cities in the last few days to protest Iran’s disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest anti-government demonstration in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

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More about Alan Woods:

Alan Woods (born in Swansea, Wales in 1944) is a Trotskyist political theorist. Alongside Lal Khan, he is one of the leading members of the International Marxist Tendency and editor of the “In Defence of Marxism” website, Marxist.com. In response to the United States-backed coup attempt of 2002 in Venezuela, he was an important figure in founding the Hands Off Venezuela campaign*.

Early Life

He was born into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. At the age of 16 he joined the Young Socialists and became a Marxist joining the Militant tendency within the Labour Party. He studied Russian at Sussex University and later in Sofia (Bulgaria) and at the Moscow State University (MGU). He his wife and two small daughters, moved to Spain in the early 1970s, where he participated in the struggle against the Francisco Franco dictatorship,[citation needed] and speaks several languages, including Italian, English, Spanish, French, German and Russian.

The split in the Militant

In the early 1990s Woods and his mentor, Ted Grant, were expelled from the Militant tendency and its parent organization, the Committee for a Workers International, over what they considered to be the ultraleft turn of this organisation when it decided to split from Labour. Grant and Woods and their supporters internationally formed the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992, which was later to be known as the International Marxist Tendency, and remained active in the Labour Party.

Recent activies

He was the editor for some years of the Marxist journal Socialist Appeal, published in London, which is now edited by Mick Brooks. Alongside Lal Khan, he is currently a leading theoretician in the International Marxist Tendency and editor of the website In Defence of Marxism. His writings on the current revolution in Venezuela and the tasks to be carried out by revolutionaries elsewhere are followed around the world. At the political level he has had meetings with Hugo Chávez repeatedly and defends the idea that the Bolivarian Revolution is the germ of the World Revolution, and he also travels and supports other revolutionary processes in Pakistan, Bolivia and Cuba.

Woods is a friend of Trotsky’s grandson Vsievolod Platonovich “Esteban” Volkov, who regards Woods’ work as closest to Trotsky’s theories.