Profiles

Saeed Peyvandi (born 1956) is an Iranian sociologist. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sociology from the University of Tehran and a doctorate in the sociology of education and educational sciences from the University of Paris.

Dr. Saeed Rahnema, professor emeritus of political science and former director of the School of Public Policy at York University in Canada, is an Iranian leftist theorist and activist. With a background in pre-revolution labor movements, his research expertise lies in the political economy of the Middle East, the socialist left, and Islamic fundamentalism, and he has published numerous books in this field.

Mohammadreza Nikfar (born 1956) is a prominent Iranian philosopher, researcher, and writer living in Germany, who mainly works in the fields of political philosophy, political theology, and intellectual critique. He is a lecturer at Iran Academia University, and his lecture series are very popular among interested students. Until July 2023, he was the editor-in-chief of Radio Zamaneh, and after resigning from this position, he has focused his attention on writing and theoretical analyses.

Mohammad Maljoo (born 1972) is a prominent Iranian economist, political economy researcher, and translator. He is known for his critical analyses of Iran's post-revolutionary economic structure and his focus on issues such as workers' rights, capital accumulation, and social inequalities.

Mehrdad Darvichepour holds a PhD in sociology, is an associate professor of social work, and is a researcher in gender and ethnicity.

The Union of Republicans of Iran is a political organization of republicans with diverse intellectual horizons and different political backgrounds, who struggle to achieve freedom, democracy, and the establishment of a republican system based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Iran. The Union of Republicans of Iran strives to advance and realize its political platform and to achieve the broadest possible unity among republicans.

The Provisional Preparatory Council for organizing and founding the Progressive Iranians Party and the designers of the Transition Media, whose ultimate goal is to prepare the initial mechanisms of the party and media and to hold the party's first general assembly.

Our perspective is the organization of these organized activists around an action program, in the form of clandestine revolutionary socialist cells. With the realization of this objective, namely the creation and organization of cells as the foundations of the revolutionary vanguard party, the grounds for the committee's dissolution will be provided, and it will transition into a party form. A party that, upon the judgment of the organized socialist vanguard within the committee itself, having i

The September 16 Group is comprised of individuals who, following years of regime crimes and the passivity of opposition groups, have gathered together to prepare Iran—with the help and collaboration of the people—for fundamental change and comprehensive transformation.

The Solidarity of Iranian Republicans (SIR) is an Iranian pro-democracy political organization that defines its goal as the non-violent transition from the entirety of the Islamic Republic of Iran regime to a secular democratic republic committed to the principles of democracy, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and its supplementary conventions.

The Bidarzani website is the media outlet of a group of feminist activists who work to raise public awareness about gender equality, intersectional oppressions, and the struggles of the women's movement and other social movements. History of the Bidarzani website: Previously launched under the title 'Towards Equal Family Law' by a collective of feminist activists in the winter of 2010. In the spring of 2014, after […]

A number of the revivalists of this syndicate faced open judicial cases, suspended sentences, or dismissal in order to dissuade them from continuing their trade union activities, but these individuals, including Mansour Osanloo and Reza Shahabi, have continued their trade union struggle.

The Coordinating Council of Iranian Cultural Associations is an assembly of trade associations representing teachers and employees of the Ministry of Education across the country. In its statute, it introduces itself as a trade, non-political, and non-profit assembly, stating its goal is to create coordination, cohesion, and uniformity in all activities of the country's cultural trade associations.

Path Studio is the title of a platform launched by Mehdi Mahmoudian, an imprisoned civil activist in Evin, and Hossein Razaghpour, by dedicating their life savings. Both the studio and their capital were confiscated by the Islamic Republic.

A Persian-language theoretical-critical platform in the fields of radical politics, Marxism, socialism, and democratic discourse.

“Zamaneh” is a media foundation that operates in the fields of news reporting, publishing reports, analysis, theoretical discussions, online book publishing, education, and holding discussion and dialogue sessions. The “Zamaneh” website is the axis of the Zamaneh Media Foundation's activities.

In contrast, "Critique of Political Economy" signifies a resistance that refuses to settle into the false festival of market relations, but instead seeks to go beyond it. For this very reason, rather than becoming a decorative commodity to fill the display cases of various neoliberal publications and media outlets—and serving as proof of their false claim to pluralism—we prefer to provide a space for critique and rethinking, however limited yet independent.

The Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), also known as the Human Rights Activists, is a non-governmental organization working to protect and promote the status of human rights in Iran. Since its establishment in 2005, despite significant challenges, the organization has tirelessly worked to defend human rights, provide educational content, offer legal services, and conduct field activities.

"House of Awareness" is a school of humanities that operates with a focus on dialogue, deep thinking, and education in fields such as the humanities, mental health, ideology, and Iran's social issues. This organization holds educational meetings and discussions, and offers services such as training courses and analysis of current social issues.