What's at Play in the Current Uprising?

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Women for equality, dignity, bodily autonomy and ultimately liberation at the very much at the heart of the uprising that we've been seeing. A full throated rejection of this corporatist crony capitalist system which has really taken root in recent decades. An increasingly casualized middle class who have been suffering as a result of an increasingly casualized labor market. We're amongst the first to be cracked down against following the revolution so you know it's by no means an accident that both those groups are being targeted.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our vast archives and the rest of this series at thedigradio.com Buy Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win by Helen Shiller haymarketbooks.org/books/1952-daring-to-struggle-daring-to-win