The US and Israel have waged an unprovoked, barbaric war on Iran for over a month. The country’s regime, which recently repressed a mass popular uprising, has responded by firing missiles on countries throughout the region, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off the flow of oil and natural gas, and thereby paralyzing the world economy. Russia has reaped the benefits, raking in profits on its fossil fuel exports and using them to bankroll its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Join us for this discussion of Trump’s war and its catastrophic consequences for the people of Iran and Ukraine.

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Speakers:

Frieda Afary is an Iranian American librarian, translator and author of Socialist Feminism: A New Approach. She produces Iranian Progressives in Translation and Socialistfeminism.org.

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian, co-editor of Spilne/Commons journal, winner of the 2024 Daniel Singer Prize for his article “The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left,” and currently a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Alexandra Zapolskaya is the coordinator and editor of Posle and a member of the French association Solidarite FreeAzat and the Radical Democracy Network. A sociologist by training, she is a Russian antiwar activist now living in exile in France, where she works with others to build the Russian émigré left and solidarity with political prisoners in Russia.

Ashley Smith is a member of the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Tempest Collective. He is the co-author of China in Global Capitalism.

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