El Rojo Mosca (Aranguren), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts mass organisations, trade unions, feminist movements and student bodies, extending further to undermine coordination among the forces of the left themselves. This is not a purely Iraqi pre