Canadian G20’s Shock and Awe, a preemptive act for ending the Welfare State (I)

It was a ‘perfect’ occasion used as a pretext for a whopping $1 billion dedication on the upgrade of the armed forces for future suppression of public resistance. If the events were happening in its ‘natural course’, eg austerity attempts first and suppression next, we wouldn’t probably feel a shock. However, the precedence of suppression displayed itself in form of Shock And Awe.

Attack on aid flotilla, is that the beginning to the end of Israel-Palestine conflict?

As much as we must use the current power balance, that is, the objections to Israel – be it the condemnations by EU governments and by various other states in the world + the masses on the streets – to remove the blockade on Gaza, expecting an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict out of this [...]

Bombing Iran by Israel is to keep IRI in power & to defeat the revolution against the IRI

NOTE: The following in Italic was a short explanation to a posting on my wall re Israeli & Suadi Arabia’s cooperation for a possible Israeli assault on Iran. The posting generated a great discussion that I have now reformatted to flow as a standalone note. If US fails to manipulate the uprising against the IRI via its [...]

The Great Wall in women’s movement – Feminism vs Women’s movement

The following paragraphs in italic were my status statements on Facebook. They generated a debate around women’s movement and feminism in particular. Considering the limitations for a thorough debate on FB, consider the following as an outline of my points. It requires a lot of elaboration. I’ll make this outline available just as a reference [...]

Sign petition: Stop Ahmadinejad from entering United Nation

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to visit New York and attend a United Nation conference in mid-September 2009. During the past two months, the people of the world have had a glimpse into the atrocities of the Islamic Republic of Iran committed in its thirty years lifetime: murder, torture, rapes, and violations of basic human rights. We, [...]

Welcome aboard Noam Chomsky, Robert Redford and Sean Penn!

As observed by the mainstream media in West, there are two different types of attentions to the events in Iran, a) by the Western governments b) by the people in West. As much as the Western governments would like to put a pressure on the Islamic regime of Iran because of its conflict with the [...]

What does Akbar Ganji want?

Akbar Ganji, like his counterparts outside Iran, i.e. Mohsen Sazegara, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Ebrahim Nabavi, was among the founders/co-founder and/or assistant of the most vicious organs of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). He joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shortly after its founding by Mohsen Sazegara and later on joined the Ministry of [...]

It all started by that damn cop stick!

Some of my fellow WPI (Worker-communist Party) comrades are actually too young to remember the 79 Revolution. To me, the 79 Revolution was the link to my involvement in politics. A 16 year old who was ‘told’ about politics via a hit by a cop stick while passing an intersection! Really. I was minding my [...]

Occasional notes on a Revolution – 1

This writing is more of an introduction and might lack factual references. I hope it could be of some use for those of you interested in this form of analysis. ********************************************** The revolution that has started in Iran has very quickly gathered an enormous supportive movement around it. Just the reflection of this support in [...]

Political Islam in a nutshell – Shari’a Court in Canada

I wrote the following while in a successful campaign against the Sharia Law in Canada, in 2004. It still might be helpful to understand one side of the two sided terrorism in Middle east. ******************************************************************* Abbas Goya – March 15, 2004 There are a few dimensions to “Islamic Institute of Civil Justice”, the so called [...]

Peace in Iran = Ousting the IRI via a socialist revolution

A revolution is an objective phenomenon. We don't decide about it. A general rule for the revolutionary era is "when the lower class don't want it and the upper class can't rule it". It's not about the 'steps' that we need to take in order to 'make a revolution' but it's rather about seeing that it's coming. Whether it's going to be a socialist revolution or not, well, again it's not all arbitrary. The very existence of the socialist movement is objective. Although debatable, but an organizational body, a political party to represent that movement, is also another objective factor that

Overthrow of the IRI the only solution

Abbas Goya June 6, 2007 Overthrow of the IRI the only solution I would like to think that the writer of the article in the May 30, 2007 edition of the Record “Let the talks with Iranians go on”, was naive as to the nature of the May 28 meeting at the University of Waterloo. [...]