An Iranian communist speaks out against Ahmadinejad AND Moussavi

When a revolutionary points out that reformist movement in a foreign country isn’t worth the participation of that country’s working class, the invariable reaction of the leftist is to dismiss the revolutionary’s arguments with snide comments like “that’s easy for you to say.” The leftist assumes she is taking the side of the poor [...]

The good war? The greatest generation? Myths of World War II

In a previous post I mentioned how the peculiar bourgeois logic of anti-fascism leads leftists to a position of support for the Allied imperialist camp during the Second World War (and for all other capitalist parties, states and movements who oppose “fascism”). In that post I discussed briefly the left’s uncritical support for the [...]