We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand resolutely in support of the open letter published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026,
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The problem with the critics is not that they insist on the imbalance of power. The imbalance is real. The problem begins when the imbalance is used to give the Iranian state political priority over Iranian society. . . Once
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Nuclear power is a dangerous diversion from sustainable mitigation of climate ruin.
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Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.
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Faced with war and escalating domestic instability, the Iranian government has pursued military responses, engagement in diplomacy, and intensifying repression at home.
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Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some
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