Iran Solidarity on January 25, 2010 3 Comments
Manifesto for the liberation of women in Iran
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Hired Hands — Part 2
David Edwards — July 12, 2009 0 Comments
George Monbiot got it right: mainstream journalists, quite simply, are “hired hands defending a corporate or institutional position”.
Politics
Iran Fantasies
Max Ajl — July 2, 2009 21 Comments
It’s of course a question of solidarity. But solidarity is different from cheer-leading, the Party Line isn’t always the correct one, and leftists seem to have gotten taken for a real ride. Not the outcome anyone wished
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Will the cat above the precipice fall down?: Slavoj Zizek on Iran
Slavoj Zizek — June 25, 2009 3 Comments
Whatever the outcome, it is vitally important to keep in mind that we are witnessing a great emancipatory event which doesn’t fit the frame of the struggle between pro-Western liberals and anti-Western fundamentalists. If our cynical pragmatism will make us lose the capacity to recognize this emancipatory dimension, then we in the West are effectively entering a post-democratic era, getting ready for our own Ahmadinejads. Italians already know his name: Berlusconi. Others are waiting in line
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Why are the Iranians dreaming again?*
Ali Alizadeh — June 20, 2009 2 Comments
Iran is currently in the grip of a new and strong political movement. While this movement proves that Ahmadinejad’s populist techniques of deception no longer work inside Iran, it seems they are still effective outside the country. This is mainly due to thirty years of isolation and mutual mistrust between Iran and the West which has turned my country into a mysterious phenomenon for outsiders. In this piece I will try to confront some of the mystifications and misunderstandings produced by the international media in the last week