BAAM #29 Released

 nice to see this is still going on...

re: iran, i've actually been reading up on the situation a bit lately in working on utopia//emergency #2, and unfortunately the BAAM article seems to have written by someone who looked no further than the mainstream media and its tale of the "supporters of the pro-reform, opposition candidate". the accounts given by radical leftists and anti-authoritarians in iran (as you can see at http://revolutionaryflowerpot.blogspot.com/) paint quite a different picture - one in which the "greens" (mousavi supporters) do not  represent nor constitute the entire movement, but, as they are only supporting one faction of the theocratic regime against another, are involved in trying to control the demonstrations. (hamid dabashi has some good pieces debunking certain myths that are circulating about the political perpsectives and class composition of the disorders, which are portrayed as being homogenously middle class and pro-mousavi in the western media.) make no mistake, this is in its greatest dimension a proletarian revolt in a country with 30 percent unemployment, and this dimension has a will to become generalized. but as always, the liberal reformists are there to perform their classic function, and may well become the state's only chance to retain power in this continually escalating situation.

also, i don't understand what the point is in describing greece as "a revolution waiting to happen". what the hell? since when do anarchists still believe in a singular, capital-R revolution? this millennarian focus on an ideal future only gets in the way of our understanding the present.