March the 8^th, International Women’s Day, is a day when women and freedom seeking people across the world put forward their claim against the lack of right of women in the “modern” world. This year, however, this claim has taken a much more extensive and powerful dimension in Iran and across the world, following the onset of the feminine revolution in Iran.

In a world that half of its whole population is still denied their most basic rights even as human beings, where the ruling classes safeguard and continuously reproduce and reenforce this lack of rights of women, the demand for freedom of women and abolishment of gender discrimination have become ever more entwined with that of decent welfare, justice and equality. The onset of the feminine revolution in Iran has made this fact ever more evident in its ongoing struggle.

In Iran, this year’s 8^th of March certainly bears the signs of the struggle of freedom seeking men and women of Iran against inequality, discrimination and organised state violence, superstition and gender apartheid. This is a deep-rooted struggle which has been taking place in parallel with the over four decades of struggle for adequate welfare, justice, equality and freedom in Iran.

This year, the victims of four decades of gender discrimination, the half of the society who has not given in to the gender apartheid, have stood tall and have been demanding complete freedom, complete equality, and to be rid of shackles of institutions of discrimination and inequality of a fascist regime. Moreover, they have announced that they will continue until the complete freedom of women is achieved. The victims have become heroes, recognised for their bravery across the globe, and have put their stamp on the movement for the rights of women on this year’s March 8th.

This is a movement that has turned the page not only in Iran, but in the whole region. A movement whose claim for the universality of women’s right has become a source of hope, inspiration and social Renaissance against the lack of rights of women, and for freedom and equality in all countries that are affected by Islam, from Iraq, Afghanistan to Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia and ..

 This is a movement that has not only shaken the foundations of gender apartheid in Iran with its demand of liberty of women but has also been paving the way for freedom and equality with its demand for the society to control its own fate, with the rule of people through their own councils.

The movement for the rights of women in Iran and the social-cultural Renaissance which in essence stands against all that is religious and anti-women, has undoubtedly taken the question of women to the heart of all happenings in Iran and the world. This year’s 8^th of March certainly cannot but reflect this reality.

The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement with its maximalist demands for equality of women for liberation of women and a world rid of oppression, has brought afore a movement as broad as the whole of Iran. This is clearly a major shift that has given a feminine look to the third revolution in Iran. A revolution that topples the Islamic Republic with the power from below, and with the distinct role of women and its maximalist demands will provide a clear horizon for freedom and wellbeing of the humanity to the world.

The banners of liberation of women, of a future rid of discrimination and inequality, of “we can do it with our own power”, is carried by a movement in Iran that seeks equality for women. This is a movement that will set a solid base for the liberation of women across the world.

This is a mass movement of people that for the first time ever has taken the banner of the right of women, freedom and equality, has shaken the foundation of an anti-woman, anti-humane, and exploiting state and has pushed it to ever so closer to being toppled.

Happy International Women Day to all women in Iran, to all men and women who are imprisoned for standing in defence of freedom and equality, to the movement that has returned the spirit of liberty and freedom of women to the 8^th of March.

 

Long liver liberation of women

Long live freedom and equality

 

Hekmatist Party (Official line)

27 February 2023