This episode features an interview I conducted with Maryam Namazie that was recorded on September 17, 2024. Maryam is an Iranian-born human rights activist, free speech advocate, women's rights activist and blogger. She is the spokesperson of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain. In our we talk about how the term The West can obscure more than illuminate how to understand the world, and how the term can be used to divide people and create an Us versus Them framework that serves the identify politics practiced by Far Right Nationalists. She discusses how Identity Politics problematically treats people of the same religion, skin color or ethnicity as homogenous, instead of as heterogeneous groups full of within-group differences and disagreements. Maryam also discusses how anti-Westism is used by patriarchal and authoritarian forces in so-called non-Western countries to suppress and demonize those challenging their rule. She discusses her opposition to blasphemy laws, and how people can oppose patriarchal forces within minority communities while also opposing ugly anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric practiced by Far Right Forces in the Europe. Maryam also talks about the legacy of the Women Life Freedom Movement in Iran that was launched in September 2022, and she discusses the Far Right protests in Britain in August 2024, and how she was heartened by the much larger counterprotests opposing the Far Right, welcoming refugees and opposing racism.