Puya Gerami is a distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. He has worked as organizer and education director at SEIU 1199 New England and serves on the organizing committee for Iranian-Americans for Peace and Democracy.
After this war ends, Iranians will carry on their struggle for democracy, but against even steeper odds in a society gutted by US and Israeli bombs, under a regime that will use the horror of this foreign intervention to justify more domestic repression.
The number of infections and deaths that have swept through US nursing homes is staggering. Organized nursing home workers are crucial to ending this devastation.
To win, fighting back on a citywide and national level isn’t enough. We need a strategy to build working-class power on a statewide level.