Author: Frieda Afary
Frieda Afary is an Iranian American librarian, translator and author of Socialist Feminism: A New Approach (Pluto Press, 2022). She produces Iranian Progressives in Translation and Socialistfeminism.org.
Frieda Afary recommends two critical works on AI, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna’s AI Con and Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI.
Below are excerpts from Frieda Afary’s presentation to a webinar entitled “How to Be Anti-War in a Multipolar World” sponsored by the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for
Below is the revised text of a presentation by Frieda Afary to the South African organization, Zabalaza for Socialism on March 15, 2026. You can also listen to the article by clicking on this audio file
The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic
Frieda Afary recommends Nancy Holmstrom’s From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View, an edited collection of her philosophical essays.
Frieda Afary argues that Trump is a fascist, and calls for a multi-faceted, broad-based resistance against the Trump regime.
This article analyzes the vote breakdown, the pundits’ views, argues that Trump is a fascist and offers perspectives for the needed anti-fascist
Frieda Afary calls for voting for the Democrats for President, in order to protect the basic freedoms and human rights in the United States.
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In a poll conducted by Zamaneh in June 2024, Iranians overwhelmingly said that the presidential election will not improve their lives. 69% wanted a fundamental transformation of the political
In a poll conducted by Zamaneh in June 2024, Iranians overwhelmingly said that the presidential election will not improve their lives. 69% wanted a fundamental transformation of the political
If the current crisis within the Democratic Party does lead to Biden’s withdrawal from the race and a period of open debate and discussion to pick a viable presidential and vice-presidential team of candidates at the Democratic National Convention, that
At this time, international solidarity with women in Iran is critically important in order to help the continuation of the current courageous wave of protests in defense of women and against state brutality.
Frieda Afary reviews a collection of interviews with 12 women political prisoners in Iran.
The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world.
How should anti-imperialists relate to the coming to power of the misogynist Taliban regime in Afghanistan?
Iran is experiencing another wave of mass protests and strikes as economic, social, political, environmental and health problems make it impossible for the large majority of the population to have the bare minimums needed to live.
Why is so little explicit connection being made by activists between the Black Lives Matter uprising in the U.S., the current mass uprising in Myanmar, and the ongoing struggles in Iran?
On December 21, 2020, the Iranian government sentenced Parvin Mohammadi, in absentia, to a year in prison on charges of “sedition.” She has refused to go to prison, continues to challenge the authorities, and has now gone into hiding.
Thousands of women and some men have started to speak publicly on social media about their experiences of sexual harassment, abuse, assault and rape.
