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Analysis

BACKGROUND: Bob Avakian on the global clash between imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism

Some of us working on the Campaign have been inspired by the ground-breaking analysis of the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian on the global clash between imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism.  We find this analysis to be an accurate framework to understand the global dynamics and symbiotic relations between these two contending oppressive powers.  We wanted to share this with IEC supporters and activists, and others fighting on behalf of Iran’s political prisoners even as it has bigger applicability in our current world (e.g. US vs Afghanistan, Russia vs Chechnya, etc).  

In BAsics – from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian (1:28), he writes,

What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade [increasingly globalized western imperialism] on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these "outmodeds," you end up strengthening both.
While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these "historically outmodeds" has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system, and in particular the U.S. imperialists.

A New and Dangerous Wave of Repression

December 12, 2020

Below is a letter from a participant in the new campaign to free Iran’s political prisoners Burn the Cage, Free the Birds, which was launched by their call “Let Us Unite and Fight Together against Waves of Suppression in Iran.”

In the last 42 years, the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has ruled by waging campaigns of terror and suppression against any sort of opposition. But we are facing a new wave of continuous two-pronged mass arrests. This intensified in October 2020—right before the anniversary of November 2019 rebellion. This violent repression is still going on with new people arrested every day, even as we enter the height of COVID deaths and the deadly flooding of major Southern cities of Iran.

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Let Us Unite and Fight Together against Waves of Repression in Iran - Call from Burn The Cage, Free the Birds

November 1, 2020
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History

Larry Everest - History of Iran and US-Iran Relations

September 25, 2021

Presentation from "Heroism for Our Times - An Afternoon of Solidarity and Resistance

at Revolution Books, Harlem, co-sponsored by the IEC.

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Coup 53 Trailer

January 14, 2021

Trailer to acclaimed documentary about US CIA coup in Iran in 1953

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American Crime: CIA coup overthrows elected government of Iran, 1953

May 16, 2016

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