April 30, 2023
The Long Haul of the Iranian Left
by Susie Day
Protest outside US Embassy in Tehran. Photograph by Abbas, dated 1979, from the Iran Diary series.
During the chaos of government overthrow and shifting alliances, Ghamari developed into a popular campus speaker, writer, and organizer. He was such a good revolutionary that Iran’s new regime, now apparently hijacked by Islamic rightists, arrested him on charges of betraying the revolution – a revolution that had begun when its leaders proclaimed that finally, there would be no more political prisoners. It’s brutally absurd ironies like this one that course through Ghamari’s history.
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susie day writes about prison, policing, and political activism. She’s also written political satire, a collection of which, Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, was published in 2014. In 2020, her book, The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution was published by Haymarket. She lives in New York City with her partner, the infamous Laura Whitehorn.
