From Iran to Minnesota
For Tehran-Minneapolis solidarity! Down with all tyrants!
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Iran
When Do Villains Become Heroes?
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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“Iran is about to explode.”
The discontented segments of the Iranian populace are reacting very quickly at the moment. It only takes the slightest instigation and they’re back out in the streets. It is obvious that the Iranian state can’t simply go on as before without facing massive organized resistance.
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“The politics of the moment are open.”
Iranian politics and society surprises all of us over and over again, so why limit the options and the possibilities for a bottom-up protest to only two possible narratives?
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“Excuse us, now we have to stand up.”
The protesters’ grievances have been reasonably clear: price hikes, unemployment, and poverty—and in a dictatorship this inevitably evolved towards more political slogans against corruption and against the dictator.
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Iran: Workers Movement Statement on the Death in Custody of Shahrokh Zamani
This untimely death will naturally appear suspicious to any unbiased person. But even without any such suspicions, the conditions in prisons – especially for worker activists and political prisoners – are already murderous enough, for a thousand and one reasons.
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Democratic Self-Administration Also For Iran
Considering the danger of a true third world war, the opportunity to take a serious, radical step in the struggle for democracy in the Middle East must be recognized and seized.
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Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran
Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
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The Radical Pessimist on Iran
The poorer countries of the world are getting a cold because the United States sneezed. It’s unfair and it shows how the balance of power works in the world economy, but it also shows what came out of the 2008 crisis.
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Iranian Refugees Begin Hunger Strike
Over seven million people from Iran have had to leave their country and seek refuge in signatory countries to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many of them are unknown activists whose names will only become known if they are killed or sentenced to long prison terms.
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