The Alliance of
Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
Free Leila Hosseinzadeh and Other Iranian Students Who Are on Trial for Demanding Democratic Rights
It was the leftist students at Tehran University who stood in solidarity with the nationwide protests and chanted “Reformist or principalist, this story has come to an end!”, a powerful slogan that challenged party-centric establishment politics and immediately became...
Iran: Ongoing Labor Strikes, Women’s Protests and Ideas for International Solidarity
“The Free Union of Iranian Workers considers itself part of the movement for liberation from gender discrimination and any type of inequality in the social life of human beings. Thus we condemn the attacks on justice-seeking and freedom-loving women and men in front...
Victory of Assad Regime in Ghouta Is Major Defeat for Those Fighting Racism and Capitalist Authoritarianism Globally
Those who oppose both the Assad regime and the Jihadists and all the imperialist powers, need to focus on a glaring fact: Support for Assad and Putin has become a rallying cry for Western white supremacist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic organizations and...
Los Angeles Panel: New Directions for Socialist Feminist Resistance, An International Dialogue
Speakers: Arielle Concilio, Latina gender studies student and activist, member of Left Voice Julia Wallace, Black anti-racist activist, member of SEIU and Left Voice Ashleigh Campi, gender studies and political theory scholar and activist Frieda Afary, producer...
Statement from a group of international socialist feminists in solidarity with Iranian women
We the signatories of this statement, refuse to separate our opposition to U.S. imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the progressive and revolutionary social justice struggles of Iranian women, workers and oppressed minorities...
The Rise, Decline and Return of Marxist Feminism
In this introduction to the new Persian translation of Heather Brown’s Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Brill Press, 2012 and Haymarket Press, 2013), the translators situate Brown’s work in the context of the various tendencies within Marxist...
The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
We must support the right of self-determination for 28 to 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. We need to denounce these authoritarian regimes, as well as international and regional measures and pressures that prevent Kurdish populations from...
The Experience of Local Councils in the Syrian Revolution: A Critical Retrospective View
The original idea behind the councils became meaningless. Under the hegemony of weapons and conditional funding, the space for council work closed up. Thus, the possibility of building an alternative, democratic authority from below, which could lead the revolution...
Support Iranian Women’s Acts of Protest Against the Compulsory Hijab: Drawing Lessons from 1979 and Today
These are incredibly courageous acts in a country in which the hijab is compulsory, and where women who do not wear their headscarves properly can be arrested, assaulted, face fines, lashes and imprisonment. . . These acts of protest are part of a broader wave of...