Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without
Three Perspectives

https://crimethinc.com/Iran2026

Starting on December 28, 2025, a new wave of protest broke out across Iran, triggered by economic distress and escalating to call for the toppling of the government. This is at least the fifth such movement in a decade, drawing on previous waves of labor unrest and feminist resistance. Yet within this uprising, the grassroots movement contends with reactionary monarchists, largely based outside Iran, who seek to win the backing of the United States and Israel to seize power.

The stakes are high. We owe it to grassroots movements in Iran to learn about them and support them, both because they are confronting a desperate situation and to ensure that a puppet regime serving the United States and Israel cannot come to power.

Here, we present three perspectives on the uprising from Iran and the surrounding region.

US Border agents just shot two people in Portland, Oregon today.

It's almost as if they are intentionally trying to desensitize us to their violence, to make us accept that they will kill whoever they want, whenever they want.

But if we do that, things will only get worse.

All around the country, we must flood the streets to show that we will not be intimidated. We have to build the capacity to defend our communities from the murderers and kidnappers in ICE. How we rise to this challenge will determine the future for all of us.

Smash ICE.

http://crimethinc.com/opsec

We've published an audio version of "An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without," our collection of perspectives from Iran and the surrounding region about the causes of the revolt there and the threat posed by monarchist groups who aim to co-opt it to seize power with the support of the US government.

Solidarity with the demonstrators in Iran—against all who desire to rule them!

https://crimethinc.com/exworker115

No Irã, uma revolta está em curso desde 28/dez, movimentos populares contra o governo, mas também monarquistas que buscam cooptar a revolta e tomar o poder.

Apresentamos três perspectivas sobre a revolta, tanto do ponto de vista interno do Irã quanto da região circundante:

http://crimethinc.com/Ira2026

#Português

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If you run a bookshop or community center and you want one of these to hang up, send us a message—we might be able to supply one.

Donald Trump is no friend to Iranians. He is a vicious, hypocritical liar who has his goons shooting protesters in the US this very week. He wants to take advantage of an authentic, courageous liberation movement to rob Iranians the way he aims to rob Venezuelans.

The US military cannot do anything to contribute to anyone's freedom, neither in Iran nor anywhere else on earth. If the US intervenes in Iran, it will only be to put another oppressor in power.

Whenever we fight off one oppressor, we must immediately contend with all the other scum who would also like to oppress us. From Minneapolis to Iran, solidarity with all liberation movements—against all politicians and governments.

https://crimethinc.com/Iran2026

Minneapolis risponde all’omicidio commesso dall’ICE

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/08/minneapolis-risponde-allomicidio-commesso-dallice

Il 7 gennaio 2026, l’agente dell’Immigration and Customs Enforcement degli Stati Uniti Jonathan Ross ha sparato e ucciso a sangue freddo la nostra compagna Renee Good. Quello che segue è un resoconto degli eventi dal punto di vista di un anarchico di Minneapolis dopo l’omicidio.

#Italiano

«Миром правит сила»
о Венесуэле

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/06/-o-vieniesuelie

Корпоративные СМИ выполняют свою классическую роль лояльной оппозиции: они задаются вопросами о законности операции, демонизируют Мадуро и одновременно заигрывают с его правой оппоненткой Марией Кориной Мачадо. Для анархистов и всех, кто стремится противостоять империализму, важно рассматривать нападение на Венесуэлу в более широком контексте, продумать, какой может быть действенная оппозиция, и определить формы ответа.

#Русский

伊朗：内忧外患中的起义运动
三种视角

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/yi-lang-nei-you-wai-huan-zhong-de-qi-yi-yun-dong-san-chong-shi-jiao

自 2025 年 12 月 28 日起，伊朗全国爆发新一轮抗议浪潮。抗议起初源于严峻的经济困境，随后迅速演变为要求推翻现政权的政治运动。这已是伊朗在过去十年中至少出现的第五次大规模抗议，其社会动员延续了此前的劳工抗争与女性主义抵抗传统。

利害关系从未如此之高。我们有责任去了解伊朗的基层运动，并给予它们支持：既因为它们正直面一种近乎绝境的处境，也因为必须防止一个服务于以色列和美国利益的傀儡政权上台。基于此，本文呈现了对过去一周半以来这场起义的三种不同视角。

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