Word: anti-imperialist
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...early June, the Soviet Union urged Iran to make peace with Iraq under some of the terms Iran had demanded but with "modifications." The Soviets even proposed that the two countries join them in establishing an "anti-imperialist front." Had the Soviets brought about a peace agreement, it would have enabled them to retain close relations with both Iran and Iraq, and would have greatly bolstered their position in the region. Khomeini said no. On June 21, he made a speech in which he not only rebuffed Moscow's peacemaking efforts but denounced the whole Soviet role in the Middle...
...fight the militarism. I do believe that people in general move, struggle, and fight based upon how policies or conditions affect their material well-being. The fact that militarism objectively touches the lives of the American people in a negative way establishes the basis for broad acceptance of an anti-imperialist analysis of U.S. foreign policy...
Meanwhile, police experts were analyzing copies of a photograph distributed by the Red Brigades showing Dozier with a bruise under his left eye and holding a placard inscribed with leftist slogans. It read, in part: "The crisis of capitalism generates an imperialist war. Only an anti-imperialist civil war can end the war." A communiqué, the second that authorities have received from Dozier's captors, and a separate 188-page document accompanied the photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO...
...more than two dozen visits have been exchanged between Khomeini aides and high-level Cuban officials. An Iranian parliamentary delegation attended a large meeting in Havana in September with top Cuban leaders, including Fidel Castro. One delegate later told the Iranian parliament how Castro had praised Khomeini and his "anti-imperialist struggle." The Cubans reportedly urged Iran to open an embassy in Havana...
...that is all right; he speaks, of course, only for himself. And when we differ, both sides are better off knowing precisely where the other stands. It is not as if an activist presidency would be a break with Harvard's past; at least from the days of anti-imperialist President Eliot, Harvard's leaders have been involved in the world around them...