Open source archives are important because they are the memory of revolution and counter-revolution. They allow future generations to recollect fragments of resistance so they can stand up tall against regime propagandists and snooty Western intellectuals. These tenacious memories might just be what it takes to prevent the world from sinking into fatalistic notions of futility.
Read MoreAs to what kind of Iran the movement wants to see, that is unclear for the moment. Adopting the language of “regime change” would make the movement even more vulnerable to the kind of accusations of foreign imperial involvement Khatami and other establishment figures voiced.
Read MoreThe protests presently gripping Iran are proving as difficult for the mainstream media to
pigeonhole as they are for the Iranian state to pin back. Dynamic and evolving, they defy easy
explanations and go-to conspiracy theories.
What we need are forms of organizing which exceed and override the nation-state, state-violence, warfare, imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, colonialism and so forth. These are the issues that the nuclear negotiation cannot, nor desires, to take into consideration.
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