Illustration: Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi, Firebird of the Screaming Forest, By the late Iranian-Assyrian Marxist painter Hanibal Alkhas, 1986, Berkeley. In a shocking act that has gone viral, a male monarchist desecrated the grave of Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi (the pen name: Gohar Morad), the iconic Iranian leftist writer, by urinating on it in Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery. Draped in an Israeli flag, the individual symbolically weaponized Sa’edi’s final resting place—a site sacred to Ira...| Lefteast
The U.S. state has a history of interventions against Iran to set up a pliant regime for imperialist ends. An examination reveals that the U.S. state wishes to impose a neo-colonial dictatorship on the Iranian people.| Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a new generation of fighters
A decade before the 1979 revolution, Indo-Pakistani author Qurratulain Hyder visited Iran to accompany the Pahlavi royal family as she prepared a biography of former Empress Farah Pahlavi. The text she prepared was lost forever; but an article she wrote years later in the throes of the uprising casts a harsh light on her journey through the royal family's curated image of modernity and progress.View Post| Ajam Media Collective