US-Iran escalation

I thought with all the sabre rattling going on and the leftist condemnation, this interview was a useful read

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/04/whats-really-going-us-and-iran

“Ironically, before the most recent US attacks, tens of thousands of Iraqis were demonstrating against Iran’s presence in Iraq. In November, protestors even burned the Iranian consulate in Najaf, Iraq. Recent Trump administration actions, however, have swung Iraqi popular opinion against the US, and the anti-Iran demonstrations have stopped…The people of the US have no national interest in protecting oil company profits. Recent events have shown that people in the region don’t want to be dominated by any foreign power, whether the US or Iran.”

In the meantime, with no official media committee to issue press releases, the SPGB blog had to suffice with this statement.

https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-socialist-declaration-of-peace.html

I've been a bit frustrated by

I've been a bit frustrated by how hard it's been to find proper internationalist class takes, rather than just standard geopolitical ones, on this.
There's a short statement from Iranian anarchist comrades here: https://asranarshism.com/1398/10/14/the-anarchist-era/

Slightly unexpectedly, I have to admit that this politician from Virginia has given one of the best succinct summaries I've seen so far.

Oh, and there's this: Oppose

Oh, and there's this: Oppose U.S. and Iran War by Showing Solidarity with Uprisings in the MENA Region

WSPUS statement on the

WSPUS statement on the prospect of war

https://www.wspus.org/2020/01/war-with-iran-teetering-on-the-brink/

Many seem to forget that Iraqi's were burning down the Iranian consulate and protesting against both US and Iran's presence in Iraq.

https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/11/iraqs-protests-persist.html
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/10/revolution-of-hunger.html

Also forgotten were the Iranian protests.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/11/iran-ignites-in-protest.html
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/11/iranian-protesters-murdered.html

Trump has now effectively silenced those, for any expression of dissent will now be viewed as pro-American and anti-patriotic.

And now, we wait..

Another article: Killing

Another article: Killing Sulaimani - How The Butcher of the People Became an Anti-Imperialist Hero

Statement from Black Rose

Statement from Black Rose Federation https://blackrosefed.org/statement-on-us-aggression-against-iran-2020/

And from the ACG:

And from the ACG: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/01/07/neither-washington-nor-tehran/

Will you be doing that as a

Will you be doing that as a leaflet? Also, Crimethinc have done a couple of poster designs:
No War With Iran
and
Against All Wars, Against All Governments

IMO, you could make a pretty decent internationalist leaflet with one of those for the front, and the ACG statement, or at least an extract the right length to fit on one side of A5, on the back. Or indeed extracts from the Black Rose or Middle East Socialists statements.

ETA: oh, Crimethinc also have their own statement here: https://crimethinc.com/2020/01/08/against-all-wars-against-all-governments-the-real-danger-of-the-conflict-with-iran

From the ICT: The US Attack

From the ICT: The US Attack on Baghdad

R Totale wrote: IMO, you

R Totale

IMO, you could make a pretty decent internationalist leaflet with one of those for the front, and the ACG statement, or at least an extract the right length to fit on one side of A5, on the back. Or indeed extracts from the Black Rose or Middle East Socialists statements.

...you want anything doing properly, you have to do it yourself: http://libcom.org/library/internationalist-leaflets-against-war-iran Apologies to internationalist comrades everywhere for my boring (lack of) layout/graphic design skills, but if people want to make better ones they should feel free to do so.

Many thanks for that, R

Many thanks for that, R Totale.

Oh, and another statement

Oh, and another statement from exiled Iranian feminists: Liberation Comes From Below

The revelation that the

The revelation that the Iranian military shot down flight 752 and tragically killing 176 people has resulted in a surge of protests in Iran.

A friend of mine has been translating the chants at several protests throughout the country.

The thread is here
https://twitter.com/dogwhobites/status/1216071859772493824?s=20

And with their permission I compiled them into a video with English subtitles
https://youtu.be/7E90FkyTwkQ

Article on these events from

Article on these events from the ICC: https://en.internationalism.org/content/16790/middle-east-escalation-military-barbarism

If you have time, I think it

If you have time, I think it might also be worth compiling that thread as a short blog-type article, because twitter/social media in general is terrible at preserving stuff over time, and it'd be good to have that information somewhere people will be able to find it months/years down the line.

R Totale wrote: If you have

R Totale

If you have time, I think it might also be worth compiling that thread as a short blog-type article, because twitter/social media in general is terrible at preserving stuff over time, and it'd be good to have that information somewhere people will be able to find it months/years down the line.

Your not kidding, trying to add more than one tweet wiped half the entry.

This is the best I can do for now

http://libcom.org/blog/iranian-protests-over-shooting-down-flight-572-12012020

Estes also signed the bad Iran letter mentioned in https://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/bombs-over-diyala-drones-over-hajin-a-response-to-joshua-clover-on-iran/

It's not grayzone/Marcyite level, but smells a bit like Trotskyism to me.