Panta Rhei

Note: what you are about to read is part of Louise Baghramian’s prison memoir. Louise was a young leftist activist arrested by the Islamic Republic regime in Iran in the summer of 1981 as the regime unleashed its reactionary forces and waged an outright war on all social and political organizations in its way. This part of Louise’s memoir depicts her account of meeting Pari Roshani, a supporter of The Iranian People’s Fadaee Guerrillas, who was also arrested by the regime. Louise Baghramian spent a few days with Pari Roshani before she was executed. This writing chronicles those few days. Reading Baghramian’s memoir, one may vividly see and sense the…

The crushing weight of pain and human suffering involved in each and every war created for and by capitalism is unspeakable. It is backbreaking in fact for every nation and every community that is directly faced with it. One day, Iraq is bombed to smithereens, another day Afganistan, one day it falls upon Syria, another day upon Libya. And now, the ominous clouds of that ugly reality is forced upon the people of Ukraine. Ukraine is the latest episode of Capitalism At Work. This is the true and actual face of the profiteering system of capitalism by which the masses are being bamboozled into or injured by a war that…

Note: The essay “Stalinism and the Problem of Bureaucracy in Soviet Society” was written in 1974 in response to the questions posed by a group of political activists abroad who were in contact with The Organization of the Iranian People’s Fadaee Guerrillas (OIPFG). These activists at that time were operating as “the Iranian National Front Organizations Abroad (Middle East Branch) (INF-ME)”. The incongruity between this group and the OIPFG in 1976, and particularly after the regime’s major assaults against the OIPFG, heightened which led to the complete disaffiliation between the two. The Iranian People’s  Fadaee Guerrillas Stalin is the primary target of both the right-wing socialists as well as bourgeois…

“They Are Still Young” is a heart wrenching narrative which sheds light on one of the most bitter and gruesome acts of inhumanity committed by the the Islamic Republic regime in the summer of 1988: the genocide of the dissidents. Through the medium of Magical Realism, Ali-Ashraf Darvishian, the author, creates an incredibly powerful scene where the dead come to life and converse with one another and with their survivors. Although Darvishian is mostly known for his Social Realist style which depicts the cold hard facts of life in class society, here he utilizes the marvels of Magical Realism to bridge between the dead and the living, between the past…