The Fire Next Time

A quiet space in the noise — drifting thoughts,
small truths, and everything in between.

Siyavash Shahabi

  • Anti-Imperialism, Solidarity, and the Question of Society

    These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are explained. Each reading approaches the problem from a different angle, methodological, theoretical, and through concrete case studies, but together they build toward a specific argument: that genuine internationalism requires seeing societies in their actual complexity, not as geopolitical symbols or moral props for debates happening elsewhere. The readings are organized in three parts. The first establishes the methodological problem. The second tests it against three cases: Iran, Palestine, and Kurdistan. The third offers a synthetic…

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