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.
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Black Banners on the Two Rivers: The Story of the Iraqi Insurgency (2005)

Rob Ashlar, August 23, 2024

In the second installment of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar continues a survey of the history of the Iraqi Insurgency, this time recounting the events of 2005. Read Article.

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Monotheism and Struggle: The Story of Iraqi Insurgency (2003-04)

Rob Ashlar, January 29, 2024

In the first of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar surveys the history of Iraqi Insurgency from 1990 to 2004. Read Article.

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In Defense of Unequal Exchange: Critique of Paul Cockshott’s First Worldist Ignorance

Rob Ashlar, July 19, 2023

Rob Ashlar offers a rebuttal to Paul Cockshott's attack on the theory of unequal exchange. Read Article.

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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.

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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.