Armed revolution can be a political community’s use of lethal force to collectively defend its members from an oppressive government. Like acts of individual self-defense against criminals ...

Author George Orwell is perhaps best known for Nineteen Eighty-Four, his prescient vision of a future in which an oppressive government surveils its population and punishes independent thought.

It does not start with our exile. They don’t stuff the ballot boxes. It starts with the government making hints. It starts with overcomplicated red tape. With the law. With retribution.

Iran has been rocked by the biggest protests in years following the death of Jina Amini on the 16th of September. Since then, protests have been continuing here in Australia and around the world.