Danny Postel
Template:TOCnestleft Danny Postel is North America Co-Chair of the Iran Labor Support Committees and a member of Chicago’s No War on Iran Coalition. He is communications coordinator of Interfaith Worker Justice, a correspondent for LabourStart, and a contributing editor of Logos. He is the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded, a book on Iran’s Green movement.[1]
Danny Postel, a member of Democratic Socialists of America International Committee, is co-editor of The Syria Dilemma (2013) and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (2017).[2]
DSA member
In 2019 Danny Postel was a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
DSA’s Cuba Letter
Danny Postel signed an April 2003 Statement on Cuba, initiated and circulated[3] by prominent Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Leo Casey, calling for the lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba.
- “a statement circulating among democratic left/socialist folks, largely by members of Democratic Socialists of America, condemning the recent trials and convictions of non-violent dissenters in Cuba”.
The petition criticized Cuba's poor human rights record, but shared the blame for Cuba's problems with reactionary elements of the U.S. administration...
- The democratic left worldwide has opposed the U.S. embargo on Cuba as counterproductive, more harmful to the interests of the Cuban people than helpful to political democratization. The Cuban state's current repression of political dissidents amounts to collaboration with the most reactionary elements of the U.S. administration in their efforts to maintain sanctions and to institute even more punitive measures against Cuba.
Many of the petition's 120 odd signatories were known members of DSA.
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Postel is listed as an endorser of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, as of March 15, 2010.[4]