Place: Iran
The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy held this webinar on June 21, 2026 with Iranian American, Cuban, Ukrainian American socialist feminist speakers. It was moderated by MaryLinda Moss of the NELA Alliance for
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
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of
The wars against Iran are the product of American imperialism; Israel and global Zionism, and the clerical/military/economic oligarchy of the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. government spent more money attacking Iran in the first two weeks than it did on military aid to Ukraine over four years.
We, a group of Baluch abroad, while opposing this reactionary war and emphasizing the necessity of overthrowing the Islamic Republic, declare our solidarity with Iran’s progressive forces.
From our perspective of “No to war and no to the Islamic Republic,” this conflict is an absolute evil. It brings neither democracy nor security and well-being for the people.
DSA should enter into a coalition with the groups like Indivisible that have organized the No Kings protests, most of whom are liberal democrats and independents, and many of whom are progressive activists, while some are democratic socialists.
Why progressive Iranian exiles who oppose the Islamic Republic nevertheless reject the U.S._Israeli war.
President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with the working class for a democratic state that guarantees equal rights for all.
Iranians face attacks from both US imperialism/Israel and a brutally oppressive regime amid their struggle for democracy and social justice
It is time for Iranian and Ukrainian progressives to come together in solidarity and find ways to help each other on the basis of allegiance to human rights and democratic
The road to the rights and freedoms of the Kurdish people runs through the rights and freedoms of their Arab, Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian neighbors, in a state that does not question its citizens about their origins, that guarantees them bread and freedom, and that respects their human dignity.
The Islamic regime is a theocratic modern capitalist state that dominates the lives of Iranians through a military corporation, the IRGC. It came to power through a violent counter-revolution where autonomous networks of worker councils were systematically targeted.
Almost all Shi’a mosques host Basij centers. Basij is the popular arm of the IRGC, directly controlled by “the Supreme Leader.” These Basij centers are the primary reason Iranian protesters have been targeting mosques …Iranian protesters do not need Israeli instigation
Regarding the current catastrophic repression of the mass uprising in Iran, an urgent task is to stand collectively against further mass killings by the Islamic Republic, whether on the streets or in prisons. This must be aligned with a collective
The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic
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