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Yeah I am still very much forming my opinion on all of this. I just wanted to express that it’s too early for me to say “fuck these protests”.

I’ll believe it when I see it

and you know perfectly well what solidarity for protests is - someone will bomb them or sanction them even more, that’s the only thing the west does.

I meant our solidarity, i.e. mutual aid, monetary support, spreading their words, etc., from leftists, not the powers that be. I will never ever support more bombings or sanctions, and anyone who does oughta get 🧱🤯🔫👿 on the spot, doubly so for people such people who label themselves “leftists”, triply so for Westerners.

Like we can absolutely critique the utility of solidarity within leftist thought, especially in absence of other actions, but I’m not quite ready to throw away the baby (solidarity as practiced by anarchists and communists) with the bathwater (solidarity as practiced by nations and liberals).

Otherwise I think I’m with you here.

your responsibility as a westerner is to stay really far away from the factions that are attempting to overthrow that government.

I almost agree with this, but what about when we have communists on the ground who are trying to insert themselves into the protests? Why can’t critical support apply here?

I dunno, maybe some money given to the right people? Maybe eyeballs on the right people? I don’t have a lot to give to anyone. I can barely “manifest” food on my own plate. What’s your point?

I mean at the bottom of the page, they have four “urgent tasks”, one of which is “1- Reclaiming the political horizon of the protests from fascist and pro-capital currents”. So it seems to me like they need our solidarity now more than ever. And in the final urgent task:

Therefore, returning to the moment of the current protests, the most urgent current agenda is striving to connect and organize forces that empathize with the class content of the ongoing protests but, due to the fascist emergence within them, remain indecisive or avoid them; as well as the destitute who have nothing to lose and manifest in their radical protest form and uncompromising militancy against repressive forces, but due to the existing fascist emergence voice slogans contradictory to their class interests. These connection-makings must not be deferred to the day after the protests from an organizational outlook, but placed on the agenda today, with practical provisions provided for them. Practical provisions that both recognize this legitimate class rage and align with it, and embed the real fear of fascism’s ascendancy as an organizational operational agenda within those provisions, and in this sense do not succumb to the street. This, of course, is an agenda whose minutes and subtleties must be discussed within any organization, not in front of the eyes of strangers including security institutions and class enemies.

I.e., it sounds like communists are gonna be on the ground in Iran trying to at least make connections during the protests. So I still think it supports not dismissing the Iran protests outright since that would go against our comrades’ efforts, right?

Oof, cant believe I said hell yeah at first, and then I read the next day that there was for sure US involvement.

I mean just because there was/will be US involvement in some factions doesn’t mean that there aren’t also anti-imperialist and anti-regime factions including anarchists and communists opposing the regime who need our solidarity right now. E.g.: http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/iranian-anarchists-uprising-genuine-self-organisation-ordinary-people

I don’t want to be a US citizen since literally ever

Imagine still being a centrist on Palestine in 2026 💀

You are at peace now

Not quite but it certainly helps numb the pain 😆

Infinite death to AmeriKKKas forever