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The main problem isn't that Western states are attacking countries in the Middle East and killing civilians (or that states like Canada and Ukraine made statements supporting those attacks), it's that sub-state leftists have bad ideas.

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The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran | Heatwave The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of ant...

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The Islamic Republic’s position in the Axis of Resistance makes many US leftists reluctant to take a critical eye to this history or to Iran’s contemporary internal dynamics. Yet we must ask the fundamental question: Who are our comrades in the struggle against capitalism?

Surveying Iranian history since the 1960s, Zahedi demonstrates that the discourse of anti-imperialism was a crucial tool by which the Khomeinists consolidated power and that it remains an important way for the current regime to maintain labor discipline and stifle unrest.

The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of anti-imperialism is an incredible obstacle to building a renewed internationalism.”

In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread across Serbia beginning in late 2024. (Link at the end of this thread)

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“Pumping Up” the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents | Heatwave In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread ...

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L.P. traces this history and the forms of struggle that have emerged in response, from grassroots movements for local control to student organizing. These organizational structures set the stage for the uprising, feeding into both its initial intensity and longevity.

While the uprising was a response to the collapse of a train station in Novi Sad, this tragedy was only the latest instance of a long trend of privatization, corruption, and reaction since the 1990s.

In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread across Serbia beginning in late 2024. (Link at the end of this thread)

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What Was Recession Pop? | Heatwave 'Recession pop is so back.' Such was the reaction when Lady Gaga released 'Abracadabra,' the second single for her new album Mayhem. On TikTok and across social media, a consensus began to form: the l...

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Hurricane Season | Heatwave Jean Maro demonstrates that climate change has serious implications for Country music by teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's

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This climate denialism, fused with Country's existing anxieties, preemptively excuses the climate devastation that will only continue to worsen and disproportionately impact the most marginalized strata of the populace.

The climate imaginary of country music assumes a stable cyclicality that mirrors the genre’s fantasy of a resilient white rural lifestyle, despite both agricultural employment and stable weather patterns increasingly becoming a thing of the past

Climate change has serious implications for Country music, Jean Maro tells us, teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's "Hurricane," a resuscitated hit that takes on an entirely new significance in the face of increasingly severe hurricane seasons

Movie poster for Belkî Sibê: a journey through the Syrian War and the Revolution in Rojava. October 19th, 5PM at The Beacon. Hosted by Heatwave Magazine, Emergency Committee for Rojava, and Puget Sound Libertarian Socialist Caucus. The image shows the silhouettes of fighters hoisting firearms from the top of a ruined building.

After a full weekend of books, @htwvmag.bsky.social is hosting a documentary by Alexis Daloumis about the Syrian Democratic Forces' 18 month fight against I$I$, the coinciding fight for women's liberation, and the general social transformation in Rojava!

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The Red Thread of Black Power in Jamaica: The Case of Abeng | Heatwave Abeng, a short-lived newspaper, offers a window into Jamaica's revolutionary currents in the late 60s. Acting as a theoretical nexus between communism and black power, it also served as a means of pra...

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...quick to see the paper as addressing their most prominent concerns and who, in turn, spoke through the newspaper to one another. This reciprocity by and large designated Abeng’s self-conscious approach to revolutionary organization"