Internationally, women’s rights and freedoms continue to be
under attack by the instruments of patriarchy, organized religion and global capitalism.
Women’s right to equal pay, to education, to vote, to birth control and
abortion, to work and to own property, to be free from rape and sexual assault,
to have marital or parental rights, are still on-going struggles in many
countries around the world.
In the West, a woman’s reproductive rights and her right to
her body are still subjects for debate in elections and under attacks by right-wing
parties. In the Middle-East, the subjugation and domination of women in the
market and at home are the cornerstone of all domestic politics and
foundational characteristics of all Islamic regimes.
From Rouhani of Iran, Erdogan of Turkey, King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia, el-Sisi of Egypt, Hussain of Pakistan, to Islamic terrorist
groups such as Al-Qaida, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al-Shabaab, Boko
Haram, al-Nusrah Front: denominators of misogyny, gender apartheid and
gender-based violence are apparent. The Sharia of Islam is unparalleled in its dehumanizing
and degradation of women’s rights and freedoms. The oppression of women under
Islam is complete with patriarchal laws controlling how women can dress (the hijab),
laws on marriage, reproductive rights, sexual rights, parental rights, heritage
rights and educational rights.
Today, the struggle of women against organized and state religions,
such as Islam, is a fight against patriarchy and fight for women’s rights and
freedoms. Never has there been a time for anti-theist movements as today. Women
from around the world must fight for a secular state that guarantees actions
and actively pursues tackling all socioeconomic gender based inequalities.
By using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Instagram, Google+, people around the world must expose and publicize all
gender based violence wherever they occur. States that execute women’s rights
and freedoms must be humiliated publicly. These states, wherever they send
their representatives, must be reminded with protests and grand spectacle that
the feminists, socialists and humanists around the world will not forgive or
forget their crimes against humanity, their crimes against women.
In Iran, millions of women are prisoners of the Islamic
regime. Women in Iran are facing harassment for wearing improper hijabs, execution
(by stoning) for adultery, and are forced into prostitution due to widespread
poverty. Women are also not allowed
access to birth control or abortion clinics, forcing them to use dangerous methods
to terminate their pregnancies. However, despite the Islamic regime’s continuous
assault of their rights and freedoms, women in Iran are resilient. By secretly
dancing, listening to Western music, and removing their hijabs, they demonstrate
to the world that the Islamic regime does not represent them and they will
never be free unless the Islamic regime is overthrown.
The communist Youth Organization of Iran represents the
millions of women in Iran that are trapped within the walls of the Islamic
regime. We recognize women’s struggle as working-class struggle for social and
economic equality for all humanity. We also recognize that tomorrow’s socialist
revolution in Iran and all Islamic stricken countries must be a women’s
revolution. Only through a total, unequivocal and uncompromising gender
equality can a better world be possible!
We are the future and the future is socialism!
Communist Youth Organization
March 8th 2016
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