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To Our Sisters In Sweatshops
of America
We are women from Iran
and Afghanistan
who refuse to accept our assigned place at the bottom of society as semi
slave workers, compassions, housewives, and intellectuals. We along with
comrades here in Los Angeles will hold a march
on the occasion of March 8 the
International Women’s Day to declare that we will fight for liberation of
women in Iran and Afghanistan
and world over till we achieve it. We invite you to join us so that we can
build a beautiful internationalist march—women from Mexico, China, Korea,
Thailand, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Iraq, proto Rico, Palestine, India,….
Let us all carry the red flag as a sign that we are all are of the
same nation: nation of fighters for liberation of humanity.
To introduce ourselves to you it is best to explain our political line
in this fight. This is especially important because the US government is waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
and is occupying those countries and is threatening to make a war against Iran. We are
against this brutal war and want it to be stopped quickly. The present
election in the US
is strengthening the war moves. We also warn against any other kind of US
interventions in Iran
-- things such as coups or so called velvet “revolutions”.
Many of us belong to the revolutionary generation in Iran who
fought against the regime of the Shah and toppled it in 1979. But that
revolution failed and the power was seized by a group of reactionary
religious fundamentalists. They drowned revolutionaries in blood by police
suppression campaigns and prison and torture and finally consolidated a
reactionary state in Iran.
This regime pushed back women into a semi slave situation. They passed an elaborate Islamic Punitive
Laws against women through their Islamic parliament and legalized women’s
slave situation. According to these Laws male relatives of women are allowed
to kill them without being punished by law if those women enter into sexual
relations outside Islamic marriage law. Yes, indeed it is horrific to subject
35 million Iranian women to such situation! The younger militants of our
organization grew up fighting against this reactionary Islamic fundamentalist
regime.
Today, at a time that the US
government is threatening to devastate Iran
with a war like the ones in Afghanistan
and Iraq, some people call
upon us to unite with the Islamic regime in order to resist against the US! And there
are some people who call us to unite with the US in order to get rid of this
medieval regime! Does any real woman think this is a choice? We categorically
refuse these choices. They are not choices for liberation. They are choices
for guaranteeing enslavement of women for many generations to come. Instead
we fight tooth and nail to forge a “third pole” which is a revolutionary front
against both US
imperialism and its war as well as against the reactionary Islamic Republic of Iran. A lot of people think women can
not do it and instead they should beg their liberation from powers that be. But
we think women are exactly the ones who can do it! Deep oppression turns them
into formidable fighters.
Come on sisters! Let us hook up together and march on the
International Women’s Day to declare that women of the world will fight for a
world without imperialism and reaction; for a new world without exploitation
and race and sex and class oppression.
March 8 Women’s Organization (Iran-Afghanistan)
March
2008
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