Exclusive | New School professor clamors to bring down US empire as she defends incredible role of IRGC at NYC DSA meeting: grotesque

A controversial Israel-and-US-hating NYC college professor defended the murderous Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as she clamored to bring down the US empire “by any means necessary” at a meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America.Corinna Mullin, a radical political science prof once arrested for leading anti-Israel protests that resulted in $3 million in damage to the City College of New York’s Harlem campus, lauded Iran’s “phenomenal” military for depleting US weapons stockpiles in the Middle East, as she urged support for its armed forces.“Iran has won this war..

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its indigenous military industry has produced phenomenal results,” she claimed during an unhinged hour and a half “Islamic Revolution Teach-in” she gave to the NYC chapter of the DSA.“This is having a huge toll on the capacity of the US empire to impose its will..

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We need to bring the empire down by any means necessary,” she raged.Mullin, who specializes in teaching anticolonialism, was fired by CUNY in 2025 after eight years on the job.The termination came after she led an April 2024 encampment at the City College of New York.She fought the move and was reinstated this year, though her name didn’t appear on CUNY faculty pages and it’s unclear if she taught any classes there this spring semester.

She also teaches at The New School.Speaking to more than two-dozen comrades Wednesday evening, she painted Iran’s murderous Islamic regime in a socialist light to justify funding its military — while making zero mention of the riches Iran’s ruling elite has famously amassed through the control of oil and state-owned resources.“I’d love to see a world with no militaries.But we can’t have peace without justice,” she said.

“And so, a state like Iran needs to divert a significant portion of its surplus into military industrialization, so it can defend its workers.”“The state itself is working on behalf of the working class,” she insist...