Waves of heroic protests have spread rapidly to towns and cities throughout Iran over the past two weeks. But, as Farshad Azadian reports, the rhetoric of Western leaders in support of the ‘Iranian people’ has nothing to do with concern for the suffering of the Iranian people and everything to do with assuring their own imperialist interests.

Gerry Ruddy explains the history of the border in Ireland, and discusses the contradictions facing the governments in Britain and Ireland as a result of Brexit.

As the New Year begins, Alan Woods looks back at the major political developments of the past year – and ahead to the turbulent and revolutionary events in store in 2018.