Articles by Rob Ashlar

Rob Ashlar

Rob Ashlar is a Third Worldist analyst and researcher of Jihadism and political economy. Their main theoretical inspiration is Arghiri Emmanuel. His main work has been an in-depth study of the Sunni Iraqi Insurgency.

Photo of a proletarian neighborhood in Tehran.

The Aban Human, Part 1: A Marginalized Worker

Kaveh DadKhah, Rob Ashlar, January 29, 2022

Kaveh Dadkhah and Rob Ashlar introduce Dadkhah's translation of Farangis Bakhtiari's analysis of the 2019 Uprising of Aban. Read Article.

The Class Struggle in Afghanistan and its Future

Rob Ashlar, August 26, 2021

In light of the Taliban's consolidation of power in response to U.S. withdrawal from the region, Rob Ashlar predicts not the foreclosure of class struggle in Afghanistan but new beginnings. Reading: LC. Read Article.