The Iran War and International Women's Day

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It is March 8, International Women’s Day, the date that also marks the start of the February Revolution of 1917, spear-headed by the working-class women of Petrograd, who toppled the tsar and effectively initiated the revolutionary process that would culminate in Red October. So solidarity with the sisters out there, all around the world, who continue to fight for dignity and equality in their homes, their workplaces, and society in general. 

Of course, I talked about the current imperialist war against Iran last week, and there are numerous reactionary rogues and scoundrels, some of whom claim to be Iranian, who would have you believe that this war of aggression, which slaughters schoolgirls in their classrooms and has killed over 1000 civilians across the country, is somehow in defence of Iranian women. They said the same thing about Iraq and Afghanistan and they were lying through their teeth back then too. Women did not benefit from the wholesale destruction of those two countries, women’s lives were destroyed, completely torn apart, by those invasions by the forces of American Empire. There was no liberation. 

Imperialism does not liberate, it either exploits what it can take or destroys what it can’t take. And Trump, Netanyahu and the Epstein Class have made it very clear that they want to destroy Iran in its entirety.

Links:

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, "US and Israel attack more countries, as Iran War chaos spreads." 

Dimitri Lascaris, Reason2Resist, "My Apology to the People of Iran." 

Michael Parenti, University of Guelph 2011, "The Face of Imperialism." 

Gabriel Rockhill, The Critical Theory Workshop, "Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti." 

 

Solidarity with Iran

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The war is on. Donald Trump, Bibi Netanyahu, the morally and sexually depraved ruling class of the US, Israel and the entire Western World, the Epstein Class basically, has pulled the trigger on Iran. The Empire struck Iran without provocation on February 28, in the midst of Ramadan, and murdered its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei along with hundreds of others in cities throughout the country. At least 148 school girls in the southern Iranian city of Minab were slaughtered when US-Israeli bombs struck their school. How’s that for “liberating” the women of Iran or whatever BS the Empire’s trying to sell us these days? 10 Pakistanis were killed by US troops while protesting the war outside the US consulate in Karachi, how’s that for colonialism? Speaking of colonialism, now Trump expects the Iranian people to rise up against their government on his behalf and put his puppet, the former crown prince, into power as the new shah – just deliver their country to him on a silver platter. Trump, like the other leaders of the American Empire, see the Iranian people as their playthings. But modern states don’t collapse when you kill their leaders, this isn’t feudalism, this isn’t Khal Drogo. This is a corrupt global empire putting its bigoted, racist contempt for the Iranian people on full display – treating them like a flock of brainwashed sheep rather than the citizens of a 5000 year old nation and civilization.

Resistance to US-Israeli aggression began immediately. Iran has hit the US bases in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar and hit them hard. Just like last June during the 12-day war, Israel is getting pounded. US ships have also been hit and the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, through which much of the world’s oil passes, has effectively been closed. The Iranians are defending their country. There are mass protests outside US embassies throughout the region now – from Lebanon to Pakistan, even India, as the people stand up against their real enemy.

Links

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, "The US-Israeli war on Iran is based on lies."