Yassamine Mather is an Iranian socialist in exile in the UK. Her political activities on the Iranian left started in the 1980s in Tehran and later in Kurdistan with the Organisation of Iranian People’s Fedayeen (Minority). In exile, she has been editor of Jahan (a monthly political journal) and a member of the coordinating committee of Workers Left Unity Iran. She is a member of the Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements (Glasgow University), an activist on the British left and the deputy editor of the widely influential journal Critique. She has been a prominent activist in the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign since its formation in 2007.
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