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The Red Thread
The Red Thread is a podcast from Left Voice where we explore workers’ struggles, union organizing, socialist theory, social movements, imperialism, climate change, and the ongoing fight for socialism. We thread the needle from historical struggles of exploited and oppressed peoples to today's fight for socialism and liberation in short episodes every week.
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The Red Thread
Imperialist Bombs on Iran Reverberate Around the World
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This month, we saw one of the most alarming escalations in the Middle East in years: the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, murdering hundreds of civilians in the process. This situation gives us a glimpse at the “Trump and J.D. Vance doctrine:” not stepping back from war, but using military power to bully other nations into submission — or to force them into war on U.S. terms.
Trump and Netanyahu’s attacks have nothing to do with peace or democracy. This is about U.S. and European domination of the region — and defending their imperialist outpost: Israel, a state built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.
As Lenin wrote more than a hundred years ago, imperialism, as a stage of capitalism, opens the gates for crisis, war, and revolution. And when we look around us, it’s clear that we are living through great upheaval. The ruling class is gearing up for more war. And we need to gear up for more resistance.
Read more:
https://www.leftvoice.org/permanent-revolution-in-iran/
https://www.leftvoice.org/trumps-attack-on-iran-resonates-beyond-the-middle-east/
Hosts: Emma and Melanie
Producer: Luigi Morris
Music: Griffin Brown
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