Hooshang Tarreh-Gol

یکی از پسر عموهای "عباس آقا"

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Thank you, but all credit should go to Shamlo for publishing this gem of an article, thirty two years ago. Talk about historical resources.

Unfortunately now we have an entire genration without any appreciation or knowledge of Soltanpour's life: his works, his execution on his wedding night,...

HTG: Thank you for this

HTG: Thank you for this blog. I would have not known about this play if it were not for you.  Worth copy and pasting everytime. 

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis

آهنگ پیشگویی طوفان ناگهان

و ما 
این بامهای کوچک طوفان
آهنگ پیشگویی طوفان ناگهان ====================================

The Prison-house of Plateau

O friend
O imprisoned brother
Here in midst of slaughtered thought and hope
On the plateau of steel, blood, and labour
Over the shores of fish and pearl
In the military ports of Oil and battleship
On the fields of rice and tea
And next to the cattle and grain
Us
These small rooftops of hurricane
Prediction song of the sudden hurricane
In the cold cells of Evin, Ghezl Ghaleah, Hesar
We're not the weary prisoners of tis land
The weary prisoners are others
The weary prisoners of tis land
Are enslaved in factories
Labouring for tyrants
The red multitude of toilers in here
Are the weary prisoners of the country
And us
These small rooftops of hurricane
Prediction song of the sudden hurricane

SAID SOLTANPOUR 1388- Abbas agha kargar

This video has some great photos of one of the performances. There's also shots of the pamphlet they handed out to the audience, it contains some of the lines from the play. The reading is sort of a current update.

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Glad you liked it Rozbeh jaan.

When you get a chance, check out the site for the digitilized copies of Ketab Jomeh. It's simply a treasure trove, cheers

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دستت درد نکنه رفیق.

یاد رفیق سلطانپور، شاعر توده‌های زحمتکش ایران  به خیر

کیف کردم از خوندن این مقاله.

ادمین جان: حالا شما لطف کن، یک صلوات بفرست و یک کم کوتاه بیا. هوشنگ قول میده دفعه دیگه یک بلاگ در ستاییش "شهید" علی‌ شریعتی‌  بنویسه ، با چند تا فحش خار مادر، (اونم به نوع "روشنفکری") به یهودی ها.

OY, You were correct in regards to Auto workers being

some of the better paid membrs of the working class, back then. They still occupy a better position wage-wise, and have a solid tradition of militancy and organization.

This is the Auto workers website:

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HTG, I am sorry! I stand corrected!

:-)

With all due respect OY, this is about workers in IR after shah

Post-Revolutionary Iran: If you pay attention to the article it refers to a bus in the play, with everyone on it (that's suppose to personify the nation) and the bus instead of going to the workers' houses, ends up in Bazar!

The fact that Iranian workers after all these years still perform this play, Abas Agha... on May Days, and ..., is a sign of just how much this was an organic, accurate expression of workers' conditions thirty two years ago, and still now. Perhaps that's why it still resonates so much with the workers.

WIth all due respect Hooshang TG, this play is more

appropriate, depictive, and expressive of the plight of the American workers and manufacturers today in America whose jobs are being shipped overseas than those workers of the Paykan factory during the late Shah's, 35 years ago.

The workers of the Shah's era had had it made. I recall, many of them in the mid 70's made enough money to be able to afford flying to Europe, purchase a BMW, and drive it all the way to Iran!

I think, the late Soltanpour's views were too ahead of his time and too off-base in terms geographical proximity!

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The combination of brief intro and the article togehter should be very 'fresh' for all interested in that topic. Somehow a short two liner intro for you is not introductory enough. Not all billions of web's pages have the same value. For some, documentations of critical culture and resistant art stands a bit higher than others.

Fresh content

There's no question what you have posted is valuable. But it's not new, fresh, original.

There are billions of pages on the web, and a lot of it is very valuable. But we want our bloggers to add new content, not repeat them.

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Mere introduction of Saied Soltanpour in and of itself shall suffice for all substance. Pointing out to the continued legacy of this play, through workers playing it, in their factories, no small feat and acheivement, is basically all commentary and introduction this play needs. 

Of course the textof the play would be even better, and if anyone has a copy or access to the full text, or partial of the play please don't hesitate and post, cheers.

Substance

Your contribution to the blog should be equal or greater than what you are copy-pasting.

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How about:

An Introduction to Workers' Theater in Iran.

There's a two lines commentary about the article and the play. As it relates to the unknwon author, and the legacy of the play, after three decades. Hopefully that'll suffice for commentary, cheers.

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