Summary: At a moment when Israeli society continues to move ever further to the right, the need to solidarize with Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian woman anti-war activist from the West Bank, takes on critical importance. This article views her resistance to Israeli policy as part of a legacy of activism, struggle and thought by women reaching back to the work of such figures as Eleanor Marx — Editors

Summary: Speech at Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice’s January 26 banner drop over the freeway in downtown Los Angeles marking “Year 2 of Trump: LA Rise Up!” This was first published on the CPRSJ website, here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/behind-turkeys-attack-on-the-afrin-kurds-imperialist-machinations-in-the-middle-east-by-ali-kiani/ –Editors

Summary: A look at the challenges posed by today’s uprising inside Iran. [Image from Ferdowsi Square, Tehran, December 30, 2017] — Editors

Analysis of the social grievances behind the protests, including environmental degradation. Based on a presentation on January 21, 2018 at a meeting of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization in Los Angeles on “Iran 2018: Facing a Poor People’s Uprising and Deadly Threats from Trump’s USA” — Editors

[Photo is of drought-stricken Karun River in Ahvaz.]

Summary:  Statement by Los Angeles-based Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice about Turkey’s attack on the Syrian Kurds in Afrin [Efrin] — Editors

Summary: Adapted from a speech to the Women’s March in Santa Barbara, which drew several hundred people on January 20, 2018 — Editors

Summary: Presented at a forum, “Responding to Capitalism’s Wars at Home and Abroad,” in Los Angeles on January 14, sponsored by the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice and first published on the CPRSJ website, here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/new-uprisings-in-iran-a-preliminary-analysis-by-ali-kiani/  — Editors

Summary: Presented at a forum, “Responding to Capitalism’s Wars at Home and Abroad,” in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice and first published on the CPRSJ website — Editors

Summary: A look at migrant workers in many countries, their experiences and struggles and the organisations they are building. Originally published by LabourStart, 2016 — Editors

Summary: This assessment from inside Iran during the uprising has just reached us. For this author’s earlier assessment, also published by us, see “Is Iran Moving Toward a Real Revolution”  — Editors

Summary: A brief preliminary assessment of the situation in Iran in the first days of the revolt from a longtime Marxist inside the country, where youth have risen up against unemployment, poverty, and theocratic dictatorship. Translated by Ali Kiani — Editors

(Original Persian Version)

Summary: Gyorgy Szell and Ottokar Luban at the Rosa Luxemburg Blog remember the contributions and accomplishments of Professor Narihiko Ito. This article, translated into English by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, was originally published in the Rosa Luxemburg Blog, December 11th, 2017.

Summary: Demands release of an Iranian labor activist whose medical condition has deteriorated — Editors

(Persian Translation)

Summary: Discussion of 1917 in terms of Lenin’s concepts of state and revolution, imperialism/national liberation, and the need to uproot capitalism. Also looks at Lenin’s and Trotsky’s differences with Luxemburg and the relevance of the experience of 1917 for today, in the era since Occupy and the Arab revolutions. Originally appeared as part of an international symposium, “The Bolshevik Revolution, One Hundred Years After,” Crisis & Critique 4:2, Nov. 7, 2017 — Editors