[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
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Juneteenth in Chicago
Summary: Participant’s account from a longtime Iranian-American activist — Editors
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…
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…
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
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…
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”…
Anti-Immigrant Hysteria and Islamophobia
Summary: Islamophobia and anti-immigrant hysteria in the U.S. are compared to George Wallace’s racist candidacy of the 1960s, and to the rise of Nazism. Today’s Trump campaign is taking place in an er…
ISIS Crimes and the Imperialist Response, in France, the US, and the Middle East
eatures our correspondent Ali Reza’s conversation with Faramaz Raffie on Daricheh TV (Montreal) about the ISIS massacres in Paris, San Bernardino, and elsewhere and concerning the imperialist response…