Solidarity

September 1, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Laborers Need Our Help

With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...

July 30, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How the West Can Use the Iran Deal to Foster Regime Change

Since the comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program was reached, technical aspects of the agreement have been discussed, but a crucially unremarked-upon topic deserves significan...

July 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Labor Unions’ Iranian Opportunity and Responsibility

Co-authored by Stuart Appelbaum On June 20, less than a week after the election of Iran’s new president Hassan Rowhani, the 42-year-old Iranian trade unionist Afshin Osanl...

July 30, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama Lost Poland

Can Romney win back America's old post-Cold War ally?

November 15, 2011 |

Belarus, the Land of No Applause

Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...

February 10, 2011 |

Trade Unions: The Revolutionary Social Network at Play in Egypt and Tunisia

Co-Authored with Eric Lee Perhaps the most overlooked factor in the demise of the authoritarian Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, and the weakening of Hosni Mubarak's grip on stat...

June 19, 2009 | Human Events |

How Should We Help Iran?

Suppose that President Obama decides to support the revolution in Iran. You may say it’s unlikely, but you’d have said that the revolution itself was pretty darned unlikely, wouldn&rs...

June 18, 2009 | The Fox Forum |

Obama Must Send Iran a Message — Reagan Showed Us How to Do It

President Obama, be careful what you wish for; it may come true. Two weeks ago President Obama's Cairo speech lit a spark in the Muslim world, which Iranian demonstrators are now fa...

June 17, 2007 | Claudia Rosett The New York Sun

Iranian Dissidents Gather To Discuss Regime Change

Regime change for Iran may be a dead letter in the loftiest councils of world affairs, but as a prime goal, it is very much alive in the plans of some 200 exiled Iranian dissidents who gathered h...

July 13, 2005 | Clifford D. May

What’s Left? Answer: A Few Liberal Hawks

The war in Iraq is a neo-conservative project, right?  Yes, in the sense that in the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and S...