Tag: Iran
Feminist Struggles for Life
Two comrades look to Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.
Toward an Iranian Socialism
Robab Vaziri traces the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of imperial intervention, arguing for a democratic and socialist Iran.
Who speaks for Iran?—and from where?
Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven and unequal geopolitical landscape. What does it mean to speak for “the Iranian People?”
The Middle East on a Knife-Edge
Joseph Daher analyzes the Israeli-Iranian conflict in the context of US imperialism and the assault on Gaza. What should the left’s priorities be?
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.