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	Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
		This development has in a way deceived the leaders of Iran’s reformist movement who erroneously believe that the overall votes cast for Khatami are indicative of the mental maturity and social awareness of the Iranian people.
		Iran’s reformist leaders have not, nevertheless, been able to realistically analyze the essence of the votes cast in Khatami’s favor during the 1997 elections.
		The sentimental writings of a large segment of the reformist press are marked by buttered-up respect for and veneration toward the reform movement leaders, making the latter inordinately prominent, falsely aggrandizing them, putting them in the spotlight, and thus subjecting them to conservative diatribe and attacks.
	www.geocities.com /dariushsajjadi/englishmaterial/CIRA.html (1708 words)

	Strategic Insights -- Iranian Politics After the 2004 Parliamentary Election
		Moreover, despite some talk of boycotting the parliamentary election, the main leaders of the Reformist movement announced in the fall of 2003 that they would participate in the election as long as it was conducted fairly.
		Reformist members of parliament began a sit-in and declared that they would continue their protest until their colleagues were reinstated.
		After this stunning announcement, 125 Reformist members of parliament declared that they would boycott the election and resign their seats, and the Reformist interior minister declared that the election would not be held on the scheduled date, February 20.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2004/jun/gasiorowskiJun04.asp (2775 words)

	The Islamic Reformation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To date however, a comprehensive framework for the reformist agenda has not been established by the reformers their organizations, and this is a partial reason for the marginal effect of the discourse.
		Spencer has rightly argued that until a reformist movement tables coherent and irrefutable evidence that the version of Islam envisioned by reformists is the "correct Islam", then the movement will never have mass appeal in the Ummah.
		While the reformist movement’s detractors have scoffed at the notion of Islamic reform, these men have provided the proof that Islam is certainly capable of reform.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16610 (1609 words)

	anarchism in australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Movement politics are probably responsible for the disillusionment of tens of thousands of genuine, concerned rank and file activists.
		As such they are reformist actions and often unproductive at all as they do not challenge the real interests of the capitalists, the military or the state.
		Of course there are a handful of movement politics groups that do have a broader analysis, that aren't compromised by government funding, that are genuinely democratic and that take empowering direct action, but these are not characteristic of movement politics groups in general.
	www.spunk.org /library/places/austral/sp001620/movement.html (676 words)

	The Mass Line: Chapter 9 - The Spontaneity of the Masses
		The Turin movement was accused simultaneously of being "spontaneist" and "voluntarist" or Bergsonian.
		Reformist struggle only becomes completely good, and gains lasting importance, when revolutionary ideology is brought into it, when gains in the revolutionary struggle are made by linking up Marxism with the spontaneous movement, and in the process changing the spontaneous reformist movement into a conscious revolutionary movement.
		The "spontaneous movement" considered as the sum-total of the admittedly reformist struggle of the workers is the school for revolutionary work, its starting place—and a very good, indispensable thing; the "spontaneous movement" considered as a treadmill, as the path of trade-unionist strivings, is a bad thing, a thing to be changed or diverted.
	members.aol.com /TheMassLine/MLch09.htm (7645 words)

	Middle East Institute: Policy Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unfortunately for the liberals, this movement ran out of steam and people were left wondering when the fight would be taken up again.
		After 1997, the year, which was marked by the election to the presidency of the republic of reformist Mohammed Khatami, citizens began infiltrating the corridors of power through the ballot box.
		Consequently, the reform movement is being undermined through a decline in public support, opinion, and activity.
	www.mideasti.org /articles/doc20.html (701 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Reformists are counting on them to again win an overwhelming popular mandate with which to confront the conservatives.
		Reformist leaders also have said that any unrest plays into the hands of the conservatives, who frequently have tried to undermine the reformists' popularity by insisting that political reforms will inevitably bring chaos and violence.
		The reformists' own fears of unrest have led many observers to conclude that the hard-liners' continuing crackdown may be more likely to lead to greater cohesion and purposefulness within the reform movement than to any immediate eruption of discontent.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/08/02082002162224.asp (1333 words)

	World Press Review - Iran's Reformist Press
		When reformist President Mohammad Khatami came to power on May 23, 1997, the stringent laws restricting the issuance of new publishing licenses were relaxed and more than 500 new licenses were issued in less than six months.
		In public, the "reformist" journalists targeted the conservative clergy, their old opponents in government, who by that time completely dominated the courts and the security forces.
		The most important reformist publication today is Norooz (New Day), which is published by Mohsen Mirdamadi, one of the students who took American diplomats hostage in 1979 and currently a reformist MP from Tehran.
	www.worldpress.org /mideast/0122iran.htm (1232 words)

	The Scottish debate: Reformism and Reformist Ideology
		In other words, reformist ideas remained as part of the labour movement after the end of the economic upswing after the ruling class was forced to move from reform to vicious counter-reform.
		The International Socialist Movement majority are one-sided when they state "in a context of economic crisis and big class struggles various political forces will undertake to propose reformist solutions in order to defend the system" (paragraph 148).
		The International Socialist Movement majority use the example of 1968 to try to justify the idea that reformist illusions are either not inevitable or not particularly important.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/aug2000/CWI/3.htm (4008 words)

	Takis Fotopoulos - The End of Traditional Antisystemic Movements and the Need for A New Type of Antisystemic Movement ...
		This type of antisystemic movement, which ecplicitly or implicitly challenged a particular form of power, was the inevitable consequence of the one-dimensional conception about the ‘system’ adopted by these movements—a conception which, in fact, expressed their world view about the defining element within the system that creates the fundamental social divisions.
		The decline of the feminist movement in general, (which was inevitably accompanied by the collapse of antisystemic feminism), as a result of the change in the systemic parameters, was evident at the end of the 1980s.
		In this problematique, it seems that the antiglobalisation ‘movement’ in the form it has today will not be able to transcend its present character as an organised ‘resistance movement’ of the ‘multitude’ against the ‘empire’ on the basis of a set of reformist demands—as described by Hardt and Negri[102].
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol7/takis_movements.htm (10361 words)

	"The Origins of Iran's Reformist Elite" (April 2003)
		This reformist elite has forged its overall strategy outside the realm of public scrutiny and is not directly influenced by the disenchanted masses.
		The embryonic reformist elite had set upon the course of reforming the political and religious culture of the Islamic Republic through a revaluation of the set of revolutionary and religious values, which they themselves had helped to consolidate in the first decade of the Islamic revolution.
		Hajjarian's reluctance to deduce the obvious conclusions from his innovative approach to analyzing the theoretical incongruities of the Islamic regime was symptomatic of the security-intelligence elite's inability to irretrievably break with the core ideological premises of the Islamic revolution.
	www.meib.org /articles/0304_iran.htm (3784 words)

	"Iran after the Elections" (February-March 2004)
		Saeed Hajarian, the chief reform strategist, declared that the primary aim of the reformist movement was "to turn the enemies of the system into critics and critics into supporters." In short, the people wanted massive change, while the reformers were careful not to violate the political and cultural norms of the Islamic revolution.
		This lack of organic connectivity between the reformists and the wider public did not pose problems in the first few years as both parties were buoyed by the retreat of the regime's hardliners.
		Those reformists who chose to boycott the election were still discredited by the fact that they had been unwilling to take such strong measures until the four-year-old conservative onslaught finally threatened their own re-election.
	www.meib.org /articles/0402_iran1.htm (2138 words)

	Takis Fotopoulos - Globalisation, the reformist Left and the Anti-Globalisation 'Movement'
		I will call ‘reformist Left’ all those intellectuals, movements and political parties in the Left which adopt a ‘non-systemic’ approach to globalisation according to which globalisation is due to exogenous changes in economic policy and, as such, is reversible even within the system of the market economy.
		Their advice to the anti-globalisation movement is to exert maximum pressure on the elites, so that the nation-state is forced to resist the neoliberal globalisation.
		In this problematique, the reformist Left’s explanation of the rise of neoliberal globalisation in terms of the ‘conversion’ of the old socialdemocratic parties and their betrayal of the socialist ideals, or in terms of the ‘historic defeat of the Left’ after the collapse of ‘actually existing socialism’, gives a distorted picture of reality.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol7/takis_globalisation.htm (10002 words)

	Middle East Report Online: On the Eve of Iran's Presidential Elections: Report from Tehran, by N. Sohrabi and Arang ...
		They were asked to write down their questions and hand them to the organizers, who busily sorted them into two piles: one for permissible questions and the other for questions beyond the pale.
		The greatest number of questions, all of which were placed in the pile of questions not to be asked, concerned the legitimacy and role of velayat-e faqih (rule of the clerics).
		For some who voted in 1997 and fall into the reformist camp, one hears talk of responsibility to and solidarity with the movement, especially with those who have paid a high price for their involvement.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero060701.html (1225 words)

	INDIA: Social Reformist Asghar Ali Engineer attacked
		The Bohra reform movement advocates for the democratization of the community management (Jamaat) and accountability of the funds collected from the community.
		The reform movement is requesting the government to ban the priest from using "social boycott" to silence any democratic opposition from within the community and also to stop the heavy taxes payments make by the community to the priest.
		The Reform movement is also demanding that the priest should not have any control over the secular affairs of the members of the community.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2000/365 (420 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Price of reformist victory? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hajjarian, who was hit by two bullets on Sunday in central Tehran, is perhaps a singularly key figure in the reformist movement -- the liberal press did not exaggerate when its headlines screamed that the "heart and mind" of the movement had been struck.
		A member of the city council, a close presidential adviser, and editor of the daily Sobh-e-Emrouz, Hajjarian was the strategist who not only led the reformists to their electoral victory, but also directed a savvy and sophisticated political campaign without precedent in Iranian politics.
		Because of Hajjarian's strategic role in the reform coalition, the attempt on his life can be viewed as a blow to the movement, a possible hard-line retribution for the reformists' resounding electoral victory.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/473/re3.htm (684 words)

	Revolution or reform? : LA IMC
		Reformist misleaders will seek to distract and divert the movement from any truly effective action against the system, into impotent hand wringing and pleas for peace.
		The rapidly developing movement has already progressed from purely peaceful, legal demonstrations to the second stage of non-violent civil disobedience.
		An effective anti-war movement must seek to mobilize the working class to militant action against the war, including general strikes, political strikes, and militant mass demonstrations.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=20648 (449 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Elections May Prove to be Turning Point for Iran
		The resounding victory for reformist candidates in Iran’s recent parliamentary elections may prove to be the turning point in Iran’s nascent democracy movement.
		After the elections, reformist newspapers gloated with headlines such as: "Freedom Defeats Dictatorship." The new Parliament is expected to institutionalize some of the press freedoms permitted by the liberal Minister of Culture, Ataollah Mohajerani.
		However, reformists like Abbas Abdi, who took part in the United States embassy hostage-taking in 1979, say that the conservatives may be able to stem the tide, but they won’t be able to stop it.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav030100.shtml (996 words)

	Contemplating Evil: Western Media's Portrayal of Iran - Amber Pawlik - MensNewsDaily.com™
		The Ayatollah thugs are known as “hardlined conservatives.” In very recent years a “reformist” movement led by President Khatami promised the Iranians to change the situation in Iran.
		All Western media believes they can pay lip service to the reformist movement, as opposed to the students, and be comforted in the idea that they don’t support oppressive brutes.
		Let’s assume the reformist movement was legitimate, and that Lyons was saying we need a “collaboration” between those who wanted liberty and those who wanted oppression.
	mensnewsdaily.com /archive/p/pawlik/2004/pawlik020704.htm (863 words)

	The New Yorker: Online Only: Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The movement for democratic change in Iran is far from dead, but it has undergone a crushing setback, and it is now casting about for new methods and strategies.
		That’s the gritty and complicated backstory of the reform movement: it may not have produced the sweeping changes that many Iranians desired, but it created pressure points within the regime, a sort of variegation that allowed for the possibility that, when things were flest, there was some responsible person to whom you might turn.
		Perhaps Ahmadinejad won’t roll back the reformists’ gains in social and political freedom—he’ll just freeze the situation as it is. Or maybe he’ll clamp down on political freedoms, which affect activists far more than they do ordinary people, but either leave social freedoms alone or tighten the screws on them very slowly.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content/articles/051121on_onlineonly01 (1819 words)

	The Islamic Reformation?: Free Muslims Coalition
		This past year, as Islamist terrorism seemed to turn inward in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia, the phrase "Islamic reformation" has become a popular buzz word within the domestic and, to a lesser degree, the global Muslim community.
		The terrorist atrocities in Madrid and Beslan had a further positive effect on the re-emergence of a reformist discourse that has largely existed throughout pockets of Muslim history in smaller intellectual circles within Muslim communities to the wider Muslim audience.
		Several Muslim reformist organizations have used this as a platform, including the Free Muslim Coalition against Terrorism and the opaque Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
	www.freemuslims.org /document.php?id=48 (1609 words)

	IranExpert:Iran’s reformists not dead despite defeat in polls
		Experts in Washington assess full implications of Islamic Republic’s ongoing political crisis Iran’s beleaguered reformists suffered a crucial blow in last week’s elections, which gave the conservatives decisive control of Parliament and widened the gap between the reformist movement and the state.
		He said a long-term strategy for the reformists to build a solid movement was to build opposition from within society by securing alliances with the youth who, although disillusioned, might not be interested in politics.
		Gerecht said Iran’s reform movement was still in its infancy, and the world had yet to see its “silver or gold age.” To a certain extent, Iran’s internal and external threats had been eliminated with the reformists out of power and Iraq no longer constituting a threat, Brumberg suggested.
	www.iranexpert.com /2004/reformist28february.htm (750 words)

	Aksener resigns from Erdogan's movement Seventh ANAP General Assembly to determine party's fate today Former RP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The reformist wing of the defunct FP were expected to found a party that appealed not only to those voters with Islamic values but also to a broader segment of society and that was to be a liberal party.
		In her statement she wrote: "I had planned to join the political group known in public as the reformists in the belief that there was a need for a party that would embrace the nation and state, that would open the way ahead for politics and society and that would prepare Turkey for the future.
		Despite the fact it was Merve Kavakci wearing a headscarf that led to the FP being banned, those that got her elected and tried to get her sworn in at Parliament wearing a headscarf are still in the reformist movement, which has led to more question marks still.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=24451 (1650 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Fighting For Reforms Without Becoming Reformist
		Long before the century was over social democratic parties and movements throughout the world had renounced the necessity of replacing private enterprise and markets with fundamentally different economic institutions, and pledged themselves only to pursue reforms geared toward making a system based on competition and greed which they accepted as inevitable more humane.
		Whereas the labor movement and unions fight corporate power primarily as it adversely affects employees, and the consumer movement seeks to protect consumers from corporate abuse, the anti-corporate movement opposes corporate abuse principally from the perspective of citizens.
		By "the movement" I mean the community of progressive activists devoted to winning funamental social change, which in the case of the economy means replacing capitalism with a system of equitable cooperation.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7520&sectionID=41 (11025 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Islamic Reformation? by Thomas J. Haidon
		These fake reformers and their representative organizations say one thing and mean another.
		But again, this movement has faced criticism from both Muslims and non-Muslims.
		Reformist movements will fade away into insignificance and obscurity.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16610 (1617 words)

	The Hindu : `Setback for reformist movement'
		A reverse trend was witnessed vis-a-vis the social reformist movements in the State after the formation of State, according to the former Kerala High Court judge, C. Rajan.
		There has not been an incident of reformist nature that can be termed as milestones for the last half a century.
		He pointed out that it was the duty of those who uphold humanism to stick steadfastly to reformist achievements and battle for more success.
	www.hindu.com /2002/05/20/stories/2002052002130300.htm (369 words)

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