Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Iran, Imperialism, and the Left’s Dangerous False Equivalence

by Vijay Prashad, published on the LA Progressive, August 24, 2026 The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and neighbourhoods have been struck. The 168 schoolgirls killed in Minab[…]

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Response to Guardian Letter on Iran: Which Side Are You On?

OpEd by Workers World, published August 25, 2026 In Workers World’s opinion, the task of progressive activists and organizations, especially those in the imperialist countries, is to promote, in both theory and in practice, united strategies to weaken and defeat imperialism. The enemy is the ruling class of the U.S. or the other imperialist countries in the Global North. That[…]

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We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords

by Susan Fayazmanesh, published on CounterPunch, July 17, 2026 Maybe it’s not just that Trump and his staff are crazy.  It turns out we did this to Iran before.    “The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s[…]

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Some Thoughts on the Congressional Democrats’ Response to the US Iranian MoU

By Judy Bello, July 1, 2026 Margaret Kimberly wrote a thoughtful and well researched piece showing a vicious response by many congressional Democrats to the U.S. Iran MoU and the negotiations to end the war.   I’m glad Margaret followed up since  I had not had a chance to listen to Congressional responses to the current disaster in the Middle East,[…]

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Democrats and Trump are In Sync on Iran

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 24, 2026 The bipartisan consensus for regime change against Iran hit the wall of Iranian resistance. But Trump is forced into talks while democrats attack him from the right and expose themselves as partners in crime.  The United States began its latest attempt at regime change against the Islamic Republic of[…]

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Tehran Publishes Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding Between Iran and U.S.

from IRNA, published on Workers World, June 21, 2026 The memorandum, which was exclusively provided to IRNA, states that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the U.S. and their allies in the current war, by signing this document, declare the immediate and permanent cessation of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and pledge not to start any war[…]

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Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, May 11, 2026 This is an interesting perspective on the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis.  All the more interesting with Trump going to China this week.  [jb] Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are[…]

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Trump’s Standoff With Iran Fuels Mounting Economic, Political Strain Across Europe

from PressTV, published on Workers World, May 2, 2026 European leaders are increasingly concerned that tensions arising from the U.S.’s unprovoked aggression under President Donald Trump against Iran, which has resulted in the Islamic Republic’s retaliation, could escalate from an economic shock into a broader political crisis for the European Union, a report says. Reporting on Monday [April 27], the[…]

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U.S. War on Iran has Worldwide Deleterious Effects

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, May 7, 2026 The war which President Donald J. Trump, with assistance from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, blithely began Feb. 28 with a decapitation strike on the leadership of Iran, has had deleterious effects on billions of workers, particularly in Africa, Latin America and East Asia. Workers in Europe and North America[…]

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