The Iranian Toil Is Party - Khalyam Maliki

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There's evidence that he has some suspicion of, you know truly mass politics. Khalyam Maliki is a very important figure who broke with the two day party in 48 over what he saw as its subservience to the Soviet Union. He knew German actually when he was in prison, he would actually be reading Marx's carpal and they would then be sort of translating it in prisons. There are an enormous number of challenges that are outside of just that that sort of history of his own political tendencies but certainly it's one worth flagging.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class