Alastair Crooke
Essay: Red Shi’ism, Iran and the Islamist revolution October 2009From the Iranian revolution to the Palestinian struggle, it has often been Islamic ideas that have inspired resistance to imperialism. Here, Alastair Crooke argues that the left needs a more complex understanding of the thinking, critical forms of political Islam
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