When protests serve the West, they are "revolutions". When they challenge it, they are "violent riots"

By Nikos Mottas

The Western ruling classes have developed a remarkable ability to distinguish between a “revolution” and a “violent riot". The criteria have little to do with the demands of the demonstrators or the methods of their struggle. 

What matters is whose power is threatened, whose interests are served and whether the existing capitalist order is being challenged or strengthened. After all, democracy has never been independent of class interests.

Ahoo Daryaei and the hijab of capitalism

It isn't the first time that there have been righteous protests against the obscurantist treatment of women by the regime in Iran. However, the rush of the “West” to make the young woman who was protesting the “strict Islamic dress code” at her university go viral in global broadcast, is everything but innocent. The video that captured her protest was promoted with a lighting speed to millions of social media accounts, through official and unofficial “west” governments and embassies, NGOs, “rights' supporters”, etc.