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.
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.
The genocidal Israeli assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023, is the latest development in the ongoing process of dispossession and erasure aimed at Palestinians since the Nakba of 1947–48. People around the world have mobilized in solidarity with Palestine
We are told that to change the future, we need to understand the past. In Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza, Wasim Said compels us to witness, feel, and understand the present to change the now.
A song honoring Refaar Alareer, a Palestinian writer and poet in Gaza, murdered by the Israeli military in 2023.
Gilbert Achcar argues that the Gaza genocide is a watershed in world history, representing the demise of the liberal illusion of a rules-based international order.
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
Lipstadt is a died-in-the-wool Zionist and that’s completely colored and warped her thinking.
Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa’s government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected.
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
Making sense of the different forces in Iran
The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic
We are in the 102nd week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign, while the execution government of Iran, over the past year (2025), has hanged more than 2,200 of our fellow citizens on the
December 27 marks one year after the abduction of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical workers from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
These days, when criticism of Israel is labeled by many as “antisemitism,” it is an effective antidote and enlightening to read a 112- page booklet full of documented and thoroughly researched and well- supported criticism of Israel by a scholar, a professor of history at the University of Montreal, and a devout Jew.