The Middle East in flames—yet again
by Imran Kamyana
Imran Kamyana assesses the social forces at play in Israel’s war against Iran.
So-called axis of resistance
Which way forward for Palestinian liberation?
by Joseph DaherIran has been attempting to achieve a regional balance of power against Israel and the U.S. as well as pursue its own military and economic aims in the region. The regime views any challenge to its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, whether from below by popular forces or from Israel, other regional powers, and the U.S. as a threat to their interests. Its policy is entirely driven by its state and capitalist interests, not some liberatory project.
The Israel-Iran theater show–a distraction from Gaza genocide
by Michael Karadjis
Michael Karadjis explains how the recent interchange of missiles between Israel and Iran was an episode of theater distracting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and leaving Israel more powerful.
The struggle for freedom in Iran
by Tempest Tempest is hosting along with New Politics an event on the ongoing protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Armini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman killed while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.”
When Iran is free
Ideological struggles within the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement
by FredAmid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition forces are situated in a future post-regime Iran.
So that the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement does not die!
A call for the freedom of the political prisoners of the Iranian regime.
by TempestTempest re-publishes a statement in solidarity with the political prisoners of the Iranian Regime.
Striking echoes in Iran
A report from the oil and gas strikes
by NasrinNasrin reports on the growing strike movement in Iran and analyze the historic dynamics and ironies in the strike, and what it means for the theocratic regime.
Iran’s Bloody November
by Nasrin
Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
Council power in the Iranian labor movement
by Nasrin
Nasrin discusses how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.