Leaflet
Number 1
On 8th
of March 2007, International Women’s Day
united and in harmony let us call for
‘another world’!
Do you hear
the screams of Iraqi women, crying out against honour killings of
Islamic
groups or against being raped by American/British troops?
Do you hear
the protests of Afghan women whose body and soul is the battleground in
the
rivalry between Taleban, other Islamic forces and Western occupiers and
their
protégés?
Do you hear
the screams of that Iranian woman who has suffered from whip lashes,
was forced
to wear a veil and is now facing death by stoning?
Do you hear
the protests of American women who face the rape of one of their
sisters every
6 seconds?
Are you a
witness to the rise in patriarchal violence against women in European
countries?
The
perpetrators of repression against women are on the one hand
patriarchal
imperialist powers who try and justify their aggressive wars by
claiming to
defend ‘women’s rights’ and ‘human rights’ in the region as well as
reactionary
Islamic fundamentalists who have enslaved women.
The murder
of thousands of women and children under napalm, phosphor and cluster
bombs,
the rape of Iraqi women by US soldiers, the imposition of misogynist
Islamic
constitutions by fundamentalist forces, helped by US and Western
advisors in
Iraq and Afghanistan are only part of the ‘women’s liberation’ heralded
by
imperialist forces. Reactionary Islamic forces, on the other hand,
increase
repression and destitution on women using their political programme.
Legislation
confirming inequality as well as Islamic punishments against women and
the
forced veil are all manifestations of the masculine Islamic power
structure.
Rape and execution of women and young girls in
All these
events teach us, women of the
We, Iranian
women, will continue on the path we started last year, seeking to
establish
‘another world’ based on the participation and authority of all human
beings,
those who have no interest in maintaining the
power structures based on exploitation and injustice. We seek a
world
where maiming women is considered a crime not a tradition.
We seek a world where no female child will go
to the ‘matrimonial’ rape scene, where no woman will face ‘honour
killings’ ,
where no woman is forced to commit
suicide or to set fire to herself to escape patriarchal violence, a
world where
no woman is punished or faces stoning by death for loving someone or
for sexual
relations. We seek a world that does not consider homosexuality a
crime, a
world where a woman’s identity is not determined by her marriage or
motherhood.
We are fighting for a world where no one can force women to stay in the
kitchen
or indoors, where no one can deprive women of the right to participate
in
social production and in politics. In such a world women will control
their own
bodies and will make their own decision on whether they want children,
a world
in which men and women are truly equal in all aspects of life.
These are
some aspects of the horizon for our
liberation,
a horizon that must be within the reach of millions of oppressed women,
A
horizon that gives us hope, a hope that gives us courage and strength
to
continue our struggles for emancipation from all forms of sexual and
class
oppression.
On the 8th
of March 2007 we will raise the slogan “No to reaction, No to
Imperialism, we are
in the process of creating another world!” to unite and widen our
ranks. In the
current world situation, women’s emancipation sets a clear demarcation
line
between the world’s oppressed and an assortment of imperialist and
Islamic
fundamentalist reactionaries.
Our march
will take place
On 8th
March 2007, 10 am in
The Campaign for Abolition of all
Misogynist Gender Based legislation & Islamic Punitive Laws in
9th Jan 2007
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