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US Left Must Link With Progressive Forces in Middle East to Stop Regional War
By Frieda Afary, Originally published in TRUTHOUT Published February 8, 2024 Progressives in Iran and the US must connect horizontally to resist militarism as our leaders escalate their threats. There has been much talk of the possibility of a regional war in the...
اپوزیسیون دموکراسی‌خواه ایران باید به مساله الغای اعدام و الغای زندان بپردازد
https://www.radiozamaneh.com/800586 گفتگوی زمانه با فریدا آفاری، 5 بهمن 1402 نویسنده، مترجم و کنشگر سیاسی ساکن ایالات متحده در پاسخ به «زمانه» با اشاره به ضرورت پیوند بین اپوزیسیون دموکراسی‌خواه ایران و کنش‌گران الغای اعدام و زندان در دیگر کشورها می‌گوید: «جنبش زن...
Feminism and Humanism Revisited through Two Anniversary Books
The thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Rosemary Hennessy’s Materialist Feminism & the Politics of Discourse, and of Judith Grant’s Fundamental Feminism: Radical Feminist History for the Future, prompts a reexamination of their contributions. Materialist...
Opposing Rape & Gender Violence Internationally
We can learn from how Narges Mohammadi in Iran and our Afghan sisters struggling under the brutal rule of the Taliban, are declaring their opposition both to Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza and Hamas’s misogyny and authoritarianism. Frieda Afary December 11, 2023...
Israel and Palestine War: Analysis, Historical Perspective & Bibliography for Ethical Action
The following presentation was given by Frieda Afary to the Current World Events Series program of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association on November 4, 2023. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a terrorist assault on Israeli...
Iranian Progressives Respond to Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Palestinians
Frieda Afary October 17, 2023 Originally posted in IranianProgressives.org A majority of the Iranian public who oppose their own government know that for the past four decades the Islamic Republic has instrumentalized the plight of the Palestinians for its own...
