Place: Middle East
Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.
Faced with war and escalating domestic instability, the Iranian government has pursued military responses, engagement in diplomacy, and intensifying repression at home.
Then, in October 2023, the war in Gaza began. Her dreams slipped away, not only the dream of buying that piece of land, but even the simple dream of living in peace, free from the constant fear of losing the people she loved.
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 Israeli death penalty law issued on March 30, 2026 is a brutal and racist law, a codified tool of ethnic cleansing, a war crime, and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
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.
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
On the morning of March 2, 2026, as Yanar Mohammed was leaving her home in Baghdad’s Al-Bunouk district, she was targeted in an armed attack. Two assailants on a motorcycle fired several shots at close range. Although she was immediately transferred
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.
The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy is part of the broader network of democracy and human rights activists in the
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.
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