Iran: The background to the protests is poverty, unemployment, rising prices and the ending of subsidies. The price of fuel has increased by 50%, and eggs and chicken by 40%. alf of Iran's 80 million inhabitants, live below the poverty line. 21 million people live in slums that lack healthcare and community services.
7 million children are child workers.
Youth unemployment amounts to 40 percent in a country where a large proportion of the inhabitants are under 30 years old.
There is also a great deal of anger that young Iranians are sent to fight and die in Iraq and Syria, while their families are starving at home.
Throughout Iran, protests, which have now grown to be the largest since the uprising in 2009, continued to be violently fought by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic. This is very different from the protests in 2009 when mainly the middle class and the youth protested, while the working class waited to see what happened. Then the fighting was perceived as a conflict between the two conflicting parts of the regime, reformists and conservatives. Today the working class plays an active role, albeit at individual level and not yet collectively.
Women are playing an important role in the protests, and more and more seem to defy the strict laws of veil, which shows that the fear of the regime gradually begins to dissipate .46% of Iran's young women aged 15-24 are unemployed, and those who have a job are worst treated by employers.
In order for the movement to progress forward, the best experiences of the 1979 Revolution must be utilized, as well as lessons learned from the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 and the newly acquired experiences from today's struggle.
Iran is a key country in the Middle East. The working class must take the lead in the movement, not just becoming part of it. Committees should be established at workplaces and in residential areas and linked across the country.
Workers, young people and the oppressed can only trust their own strength and solidarity from workers internationally. Imperialist hypocrites may be promising"support", but Trump supports dictatorships and the EU would like to do business with the dictatorship in Iran. (approximately translated from an article by Kristofer Lundberg)

If Liberals were fascism or communism people would disappear for saying the 'wrong thing'.

Or to be more accurate....extreme authoritarianism...... As there are as many versions of an ideology as there are ideologies.

While not disagreeing with your general thrust here it is also true that the definitions of what qualifies as 'wrong think' worthy of a sacking has become more narrower. You might or might not view that as acceptable and preferable but I definitely don't view it as healthy for society going forward.

Ideas must be expressed.....the marketplace of ideas decides what society should want....not overbearing elites.

The only protections should be that no group can restrict that dynamic or implement policies that restrict opposition to freedom of expression (within the law).....in other words that secularism can't be overthrown.

Religion which brainwashes its children must never be allowed to touch these principles.....outside of that....boo hiss to those looking to 'shape' society into what they think people should think or behave.

Let people vote for their current preference and let other political groups campaign against it.....a meritocracy of ideas.

Edited by Stirlingsays (03 Jan 2018 1.31pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I will give you an example of liberal fascism. Julie Bindel, hardly a neo-con, and someone whom has admirably campaigned against domestic violence her whole life, is ‘no platformed’ at universities for expressing her view about transgender people. The liberals got her silenced at universities for voicing her opinions.

There are other examples. I am not saying that I share her views.

Fascism isn’t just the extreme version you highlight above. It is also a ‘creep’, forcing people to think and act in a certain way if they dare challenge liberal orthodoxy.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

If you are asking me to defend the Daily Mail, I won’t.

Ask them, if you want that clarified.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Interestingly Julie Bindel believes that its anti-feminists that are the problem not ultra liberals. In her explaination of the ban, she was due to speak alongside Milo Yanniapolis.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Not quite how you put it.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02