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The Sinking Middle Class is a political history of debt, misery, and the drift to the right by David Rodegger. Another world won't be built by pollsters or slick election strategies aimed at saving the middle class. We have to grow a movement. This episode begins in 1941, with the two World War allies and longtime imperial powers in Iran, Britain and the Soviet Union occupying the country. That allied occupation deposed Reza Shah and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah,. The same repressive Shah would seize total control after the US and British orchestrated coup in 1953.

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