Iran

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support  of Mahsa Aminiin Tehran on September 22.

Women, Life, Liberty: A protest promising a revolution to end all oppression and exploitation

Kamran Nayeri - The slogan “Women, Life, Liberty” offers the political maturity of the current movement compared to the 1979 revolution. Not only it places the oppression of women in Iran front and center, but it also provides a framework to think about the kind of society we need to build after overcoming the current regime. 
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Rhythm of revolution in Iran: In the name of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini

Aidin Torkameh - A collective front of a movement of a conscious people seeking self-determination, and recovering Iranian socialisms of the past and making new ones today, is urgently required.
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Asian left in solidarity with mass protests in Iran

A collection of statements by left parties in Asia in solidarity with mass protests in Iran
Students of Amir Kabir university protest against Hijab and the Islamic Republic

The life uprising in Iran, imperialism, and international solidarity

Soheil Asefi - Zhina’s death has sparked hundreds of protests across the country while “Zhen, Zhian, Azadi,” the Kurdish slogan that means “Woman, Life, Freedom,” has spreads beyond Iranian borders.

The Kurdish movement for radical change in Syria and the broader Middle East

By Chris Slee A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State

Afrin between the claws of the major powers

By Cihad Hammy February 2, 2018

The threat of wider wars in the Middle East and the responsibilities of socialists

By Frieda Afary June 24, 2017
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Alliance of Middle East Socialists — On June fifth, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt suddenly cut off diplomatic and trade ties  with Qatar and closed their borders to it. The reason stated for this decision was Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood  movement as well as Qatar’s friendly relations with the Iranian government. Donald Trump subsequently sent out a tweet in which he took credit for this move: “So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the king and 50 countries already paying off.” Turkey immediately announced its support for Qatar and accelerated legislation to send more troops  to its military base in that country. It also called on Saudi Arabia to end this crisis. The Iranian government announced that its air space and land borders were open to Qatar in order to prevent a blockade against it.  Subsequently, on June 11, the Iranian navy sent two battleships to the coast of Oman.

Syria: Our starting point must be solidarity

 
Mark Boothoryd (left) alongside Syrian activists 

Devotion and resistance: Bizhan Jazani and the Iranian Fedaii

Historian Doug Enaa Greene's lecture on the Iranian Marxist theorist Bizhan Jazani,