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b'Join a panel of analysts to discuss the current protests and class struggle in Iran and the political dynamics of the region.\\n\\nPlease join Internationalism from Below, Haymarket Books, and New Politics Magazine for this forum on the current protests rocking the Islamic Republic, class and labor politics in Iran, gender and ethnic minorities in the country, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary dynamics in the Middle East, the myth of the \\u201cAxis of Resistance\\u201d \\u2014 and how progressives and internationalists should make sense of these critical developments.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nFrieda Afary is an Iranian American librarian, translator, and activist. She produces the blog Iranian Progressives in Translation and writes about the Middle East and the politics of solidarity for a variety of publications, including New Politics magazine. Her essay \\u201cThe Iranian Uprising of 2019-2020\\u201d appeared in the recent book A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, edited by Jade Saab and published by Daraja Press.\\n\\nLatest article:\\n\\n\\u201cIran: A New Wave of Mass Protests and Strikes\\u201d (New Politics): https://newpol.org/iran-a-new-wave-of-mass-protests-and-strikes/\\n\\nKaveh Ehsani is associate professor of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include Social History of Oil in Iran (in Persian) and Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry. He has worked as a regional planner at the World Bank and the UNDP. As a development planner in Iran he worked on water resources planning, drought, urban governance, and post-war reconstruction in Khuzestan Province. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and is a contributing editor of the journals Goftogu (based in Tehran), Middle East Report, and Iranian Studies.\\n\\nLatest article:\\n\\n\\u201cThe Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests\\u201d (Jacobin): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/iranian-protests-revolution-rouhani-ahmadinejad\\n\\nDanny Postel is Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University and a member of Internationalism from Below. He is co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran\\u2019s Future, The Syria Dilemma, and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East. Formerly Senior Editor of openDemocracy magazine, he has written for Boston Review, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Democratic Left, Dissent, The Guardian, In These Times, Middle East Report (MERIP), The Nation, New Politics, and The Progressive, among other publications.\\n\\nLatest article:\\n\\n"The Other Regional Counter-Revolution: Iran\\u2019s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East" (New Politics): https://newpol.org/the-other-regional-counter-revolution-irans-role-in-the-shifting-political-landscape-of-the-middle-east/\\n\\nModerator\\n\\nSam Salour is a member of the Tempest Collective and a sociology PhD student at UC Santa Barbara.\\n\\nLatest article:\\n\\n\\u201cStriking echoes in Iran: A report from the oil and gas strikes\\u201d: https://www.tempestmag.org/2021/08/striking-echoes-in-iran/\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThis event is co-sponsored by Internationalism from Below, Haymarket Books, and New Politics.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/97kbenZHuSU\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'