Alireza Kia

Alireza Kia has been an Iranian socialist activist since the 1979 Iranian revolution, after which he became a member of the Iranian Marxist-Humanist organization, Anjoman Azadi. Currently, he is a member of the Iranian Left Committee in Chicago.

Articles From This Author

Alireza Kia

Women’s Resistance Touches Off a New Uprising in Iran

Summary: Examines the size and the social base of the September uprising as a possible turning point in the struggle against the Islamist regime — Editors

Read more
Ali and comrades hold a blue banner that says "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Alireza Kia

In Memory of Ali Kiani (Kambiz Rafie)

Summary: We mourn the passing of an Iranian Marxist, revolutionary, and true humanist — Editors

Read more

Alireza Kia

[Video] Marx and Democracy

Summary: Interview with Alireza Kia by Rahe Kargar, an Iranian left democratic group, on Alexander Chrysis’s ‘True Democracy as a Prelude to Communism: The Marx of Democracy (62 minutes) — Editors

Read more

Alireza Kia

Juneteenth in Chicago

Summary: Participant’s account from a longtime Iranian-American activist — Editors

Read more

Arash Kamangir,
Alireza Kia

The Black Lives Matter Uprising and the New Liberation Movement in the U.S.

Summary: This interview by Arash Kamangir with Alireza Kia, which appeared on Barabari TV (Toronto), covers COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Uprising as a turning point and in light of the history…

Read more

Alireza Kia

On Iran and the Middle East

Summary: On popular struggles inside Iran, the stakes in Israel and Palestine, and the responsibilities of Marxist-Humanists. Excerpted from a presentation to the Chicago Convention of the Internation…

Read more

Alireza Kia

Iran’s New Uprising in the Historic Mirror

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

Read more

Alireza Kia,
Faramarz Rafiei

100 Years after the Russian Revolution

Summary: Alireza Kia in conversation with Faramarz Rafiei about issues related to 1917, such as Lenin, Luxemburg and Marx on the national question in relation to class, Lenin and dialectics, and the M…

Read more

Alireza Kia

Thoughts about the U.S. Presidential Election and Its Consequences

Summary: On the danger represented by the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant Donald Trump, how economic hardship is driving some white workers toward him, and the need for a total uprooting of the system”…

Read more