Der 8. März, der Internationale Frauentag rückt näher. Dieser Tag ist der internationale Tag des Protestes gegen alle Formen der Unterdrückung und Diskriminierung von Frauen. Um diesen Tag zu markieren, fordern die Arbeiterkommunistische Partei Iran(API) und die Equal Rights Now-Organisation gegen Diskriminierung der Frauen im Iran(ERN) die Verurteilung der Islamischen Republik Iran auf Grund ihrer systematischen Frauenfeindlichkeit und Geschlechterapartheid. Wir fordern auch die politische Isolation des Regimes als eine solidarische Maßnahme zu der Bewegung der Frauenbefreiung und der Menschen in Iran.
Heutzutage ist Apartheid nicht länger mit Rassenapartheid identifizierbar sondern mit der Geschlechterapartheid der Regime wie das, der Islamischen Republik Iran. Dieses Regime hat die Unterwerfung der Frauen durch seine Gesetze und sein Rechtssystem intensiviert, legitimiert und gestärkt. Von Anfang an hat es die gesetzliche Verschleierung erzwungen als eine physikalische Barriere, um die Frauen von den Männern zu isolieren und abzusondern und hat dies mit brutalem Zwang getan. Dazu gehören das Werfen von Säure auf die Gesichter nicht verschleierter Frauen, das Inhaftieren und das Auspeitschen derer, die als Missetäter erachtet werden. Wie die damalige Rassenapartheid Südafrikas, hat es die Frauen auch in Bussen, auf den Arbeitsplätzen und an öffentlichen Plätzen abgesondert.
Zusätzlich zur Absonderung, zielt die Geschlechterapartheid darauf ab, die Frauen in das Heim zurück zu schieben. Frauen werden von vielen Beschäftigungen ausgeschlossen. Sie dürfen noch nicht einmal Sportstadien betreten. Nach dem Scharia-Gesetz sind Frauen das Eigentum von Männern und haben keine andere Aufgabe als ihrem männlichen „Beschützer“ zu dienen und für ihre Ehemänner und Kinder zu sorgen. Das Recht auf Erbe einer Frau ist die Hälfte eines Mannes. Die Aussage einer Frau vor Gericht ist halb so viel Wert wie die eines Mannes. Frauen können sich schwerlich scheiden lassen ohne Zustimmung ihres Ehegatten, doch Männer können sich von ihrer Frau scheiden lassen, sogar ohne ihre Anwesenheit. Frauen dürfen nicht ohne Zustimmung ihres männlichen „Beschützers“ verreisen, arbeiten, studieren und vieles mehr. Die Ehe einer erwachsenen Frau ist nicht gültig und wird nicht registriert ohne das Einverständnis ihres Vaters. Sexuelle Beziehungen außerhalb der Ehe können mit dem Tod durch Steinigung, der brutalsten Form der Hinrichtung, bestraft werden. Jeglichem Protest gegen die Geschlechterapartheid und die versklavte Position der Frauen wird mit brutaler Kraft begegnet. Außerdem haben der Propagandamechanismus des Regimes und dessen Beamten die Demütigung und das Versklaven der Frauen zu etwas gewöhnlichem gemacht.
Im Lichte dieser Realität muss die Islamische Republik Iran sich derselben öffentlichen Empörung stellen wie die Apartheid Südafrikas. Die institutionalisierte und legalisierte Frauenfeindlichkeit in Iran ist Grund genug für die öffentliche Meinung, die politische Isolation dieses mittelalterlichen Regimes international zu fordern. Die organisierte und brutale Schinderei und Unterdrückung der Frauen in Iran reicht aus, um zu fordern, dass die Köpfe dieses Regimes sich einem internationalem Gericht wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit stellt. Der entsetzliche Zustand der Frauen ist Grund genug, um ein Ende dieser Situation zu fordern.
Die Islamische Republik Iran muss verdammt und isoliert werden von der Menschlichkeit des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die politische Isolation der Apartheid Südafrika in den frühen 90er Jahren ist ein erfolgreiches Beispiel der gemeinsamen Bemühungen der Menschen auf der ganzen Welt, um ein unmenschliches Regime zu beseitigen. Die Islamische Republik Iran kann und muss dieselbe Verurteilung und denselben Ausschluss erfahren. Jede Beschwichtigungspolitik gegenüber diesem Regime hilft ihm nur, auf Kosten der Rechte und Leben der Menschen in Iran.
Die API und ERN rufen auf zu Solidarität am 8. März zu dem egalitären Kampf in Iran. Über die letzten 30 Jahre hat die Bewegung gegen die Geschlechterapartheid Form angenommen in den Universitäten und Schulen, in Fabriken und Arbeitsstellen, in den Familien und auf den Straßen. Diese Bewegung wird zunehmend ausdehnungsfähig und ist dabei sich zu verstärken. Offiziellen Statistiken zufolge, werden in Iran jährlich hunderte von tausenden von Jugendlichen und Frauen inhaftiert und bestraft, weil sie den Hijab nicht wahren. Manchmal werden sie ausgepeitscht. Dies zeigt nicht nur die Ungerechtigkeit und Unterdrückung, die von diesem Regime ausgehen, sondern auch das massive Ausmaß des Widerstandes und Kampfes. Die Beschwerde gegen die Situation der Frauen in Iran unter dem islamischen Regime in Iran ist eine Beschwerde gegen ein rückschrittliches Regime und die politisch islamische Bewegung, die auf Terror und Mittelalterlichkeit zurückgreift. Die Emanzipation der Frauen in Iran ist ein Aufruf zur Emanzipation der Frauen in Ländern und Gesellschaften, die von dem politischen Islam und der Scharia regiert werden, und wird die Bewegung der Frauenbefreiung international stärken.
Am 8. März rufen wir die öffentliche Meinung auf die Bewegung der Frauenbefreiung in Iran zu unterstützen indem sie ein Ende der politischen Beziehungen mit der Islamische Republik Iran und ein Ende der Geschlechterapartheid verlangt.
Equal Rights Now – Organisation gegen die Diskriminierung der Frauen in Iran
Arbeiterkommunistische Partei Iran- Auslandsorganisation
Januar 2009
http://www.equal-rights-now.com
http://www.wpiran.org/
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Lasst uns den Internationalen Frauentag zu einem Tag des Protestes gegen das Regime der Geschlechterapartheid in Iran machen!
Uluslararası Kadınlar Günü’nü İran’daki Cinsel Apartayd Rejimine Karşı Bir Protesto Gününe Dönüştürelim!
8 Mart Uluslararası Kadınlar Günü yaklaşıyor. Bu gün, kadına yönelik bütün baskı ve ayrımcılık biçimlerine karşı uluslararası protesto günüdür. Bu günü kutlamak üzere, İran Komünist-İşçi Partisi (İKİP) ve Hemen Şimdi Eşit Haklar – İran’da Kadına Yönelik Ayrımcılığa Karşı Örgütü – sistematik kadın düşmanlığı ve cinsel apartheid nedeniyle İran İslam Cumhuriyeti’nin kınanması çağrısında bulunuyor. Aynı zamanda İran’daki kadın kurtuluş hareketiyle ve halkla dayanışma yolu olarak rejimin siyasal izolasyonu çağrısında bulunuyoruz.
Bugün, apartayd artık ırk ayrımcılığı ile değil, İran İslam Cumhuriyeti gibi cinsel apartayd rejimleriyle tanımlanabilir. Bu rejim, yasaları ve hukuk sistemiyle kadının boyunduruk altına alınmasını şiddetlendirdi, yasalaştırdı ve pekiştirdi. Başından beri, kadınları erkeklerden ayırmak ve izole etmek üzere zorunlu örtünmeyi fiziki bir bariyer olarak dayattı ve bunu örtünmeyen kadınların yüzlerine asit fırlatmayı, günahkar olarak addedilenleri hapsetmeyi ve kırbaçlamayı içeren kaba güç yoluyla gerçekleştirdi. Önceki ırk ayrımcı Güney Afrika gibi, o da kadınları otobüslerde, işyerlerinde ve diğer bütün kamusal alanlarda ayrı tuttu.
Ayrı tutmanın yanı sıra, cinsel apartayd kadını eve geri göndermeyi amaçlıyor. Kadınlar, birçok meslekten men edilmiştir. Spor stadyumlarına girme hakları bile yoktur. Şeriat hukukuna göre, kadınlar erkeklerin mülküdür ve erkek “muhafızları”na hizmet etmek, eşlerine ve çocuklarına bakmaktan başka bir görevleri yoktur. Kadınların miras hakkı, erkeklerinkinin yarısıdır. Kadınların tanıklığı, erkeklerin yarısı değerindedir. Kadınlar, eşlerinin izni olmadan çok zor boşanabilir; ancak erkekler bir neden olmaksızın ve hatta onların hazır bulunması gerekmeksizin boşanabilirler. Erkek “muhafızları”nın izni olmaksızın, seyahat, çalışma, okuma ve daha başka şeyleri yapmaya hakkı yoktur. Yetişkin bir kadının evliliği, babasının rızası olmadan geçerli değildir ve tescil edilemez. Evlilik dışı cinsel ilişkiler en vahşi idam şekli olan taşlayarak öldürmeyle cezalandırılır. Cinsel apartayda ve kadınların köle konumlarına yönelik herhangi bir itiraz, kaba güçle karşılaşır. Üstelik, rejimin propaganda makinesi ve memurları kadınların aşağılanmasını ve köleleştirilmesini normal bir iş haline getirmiştir.
Bu çıplak gerçeğin ışığında, İran İslam Cumhuriyeti, Apartayd Güney Afrikası’nın karşı karşıya kaldığı öfke ve kınamanın aynısıyla karşılaşmalıdır. İran’da kurumsallaşmış ve yasalaşmış kadın düşmanlığı, kamuoyunun bu ortaçağ rejiminin uluslararası alanda siyasal izolasyonunu talep etmesi için yeterli nedendir. İran’da kadınların örgütlü ve vahşi şekilde ezilmesi ve bastırılması, bu rejimin başının insanlığa karşı suçlar için uluslararası bir mahkemede yargılanmasını talep için yeterlidir. Kadınların çok kötü durumu, bu duruma bir son vermek talebi için yeterli bir nedendir.
İran İslam Cumhuriyeti 21. yüzyıl insanlığı tarafından kınanmalı ve izole edilmelidir. 90’lı yılların başında Apartayd Güney Afrikası’nın siyasal izolasyonu, bu insandışı rejimin ortadan kaldırılmasında dünya genelinde insanların birleşik çabalarının başarılı bir örneğidir. İran İslam Cumhuriyeti, aynı kınanma ve ihraç edilmeyle karşılaşmalıdır. Bu rejime herhangi bir taviz ancak İran’daki insanların hakları ve yaşamları pahasına bu rejime yardımcı olmaktadır.
İKİP ve Hemen Şimdi Eşit Haklar, 8 Mart’ta İran’daki eşitlik mücadelesiyle dayanışma çağrısında bulunuyor. Geçen otuz yıldan daha fazla süredir, cinsel apartayda karşı hareket, üniversitelerde, okullarda, fabrikalarda, işyerlerinde, ailede ve sokaklarda şekillenmektedir. Bu hareket, artarak genişlemekte ve şiddetlenmektedir. Resmi istatistiklere göre, her yıl İran’da yüz binlerce genç ve kadın, hicab (türban) kuralına uymamaları nedeniyle tutuklanmakta ve cezalandırılmaktadır. Bunlar, bazen kırbaçlanmaktadır. Bu sadece rejimin adaletsizliğini ve baskısını değil aynı zamanda kitlesel ölçekte direniş ve mücadeleyi göstermektedir. İran’da İslam rejimi altında kadınların durumuna karşı itiraz, gerici bir rejime ve teröre ve ortaçağcıllıga başvuran siyasal İslam hareketine karşı bir itirazdır. İran’da kadınların özgürleşmesi, siyasal İslam’ın ve Şeriat’ın yönettiği ülkelerde ve topluluklarda kadınların özgürleşmesine çağrıdır ve uluslararası alanda kadın özgürlük hareketini güçlendirecektir.
8 Mart’ta, kamuoyunu İran İslam Cumhuriyeti ile siyasal ilişkilerin sona erdirilmesi ve cinsel apartayda son verilmesi talepleriyle İran’da kadınların kurtuluş hareketini desteklemeye çağırıyoruz.
Hemen Şimdi Eşit Haklar –
İran’da Kadınlara Yönelik Ayrımcılığa Karşı Örgütü
İran Komünist-İşçi Partisi – Yurtdışı Bürosu
Ocak 2009
http://www.equal-rights-now.com
http://www.wpiran.org
ikip@email.com
Bugün, apartayd artık ırk ayrımcılığı ile değil, İran İslam Cumhuriyeti gibi cinsel apartayd rejimleriyle tanımlanabilir. Bu rejim, yasaları ve hukuk sistemiyle kadının boyunduruk altına alınmasını şiddetlendirdi, yasalaştırdı ve pekiştirdi. Başından beri, kadınları erkeklerden ayırmak ve izole etmek üzere zorunlu örtünmeyi fiziki bir bariyer olarak dayattı ve bunu örtünmeyen kadınların yüzlerine asit fırlatmayı, günahkar olarak addedilenleri hapsetmeyi ve kırbaçlamayı içeren kaba güç yoluyla gerçekleştirdi. Önceki ırk ayrımcı Güney Afrika gibi, o da kadınları otobüslerde, işyerlerinde ve diğer bütün kamusal alanlarda ayrı tuttu.
Ayrı tutmanın yanı sıra, cinsel apartayd kadını eve geri göndermeyi amaçlıyor. Kadınlar, birçok meslekten men edilmiştir. Spor stadyumlarına girme hakları bile yoktur. Şeriat hukukuna göre, kadınlar erkeklerin mülküdür ve erkek “muhafızları”na hizmet etmek, eşlerine ve çocuklarına bakmaktan başka bir görevleri yoktur. Kadınların miras hakkı, erkeklerinkinin yarısıdır. Kadınların tanıklığı, erkeklerin yarısı değerindedir. Kadınlar, eşlerinin izni olmadan çok zor boşanabilir; ancak erkekler bir neden olmaksızın ve hatta onların hazır bulunması gerekmeksizin boşanabilirler. Erkek “muhafızları”nın izni olmaksızın, seyahat, çalışma, okuma ve daha başka şeyleri yapmaya hakkı yoktur. Yetişkin bir kadının evliliği, babasının rızası olmadan geçerli değildir ve tescil edilemez. Evlilik dışı cinsel ilişkiler en vahşi idam şekli olan taşlayarak öldürmeyle cezalandırılır. Cinsel apartayda ve kadınların köle konumlarına yönelik herhangi bir itiraz, kaba güçle karşılaşır. Üstelik, rejimin propaganda makinesi ve memurları kadınların aşağılanmasını ve köleleştirilmesini normal bir iş haline getirmiştir.
Bu çıplak gerçeğin ışığında, İran İslam Cumhuriyeti, Apartayd Güney Afrikası’nın karşı karşıya kaldığı öfke ve kınamanın aynısıyla karşılaşmalıdır. İran’da kurumsallaşmış ve yasalaşmış kadın düşmanlığı, kamuoyunun bu ortaçağ rejiminin uluslararası alanda siyasal izolasyonunu talep etmesi için yeterli nedendir. İran’da kadınların örgütlü ve vahşi şekilde ezilmesi ve bastırılması, bu rejimin başının insanlığa karşı suçlar için uluslararası bir mahkemede yargılanmasını talep için yeterlidir. Kadınların çok kötü durumu, bu duruma bir son vermek talebi için yeterli bir nedendir.
İran İslam Cumhuriyeti 21. yüzyıl insanlığı tarafından kınanmalı ve izole edilmelidir. 90’lı yılların başında Apartayd Güney Afrikası’nın siyasal izolasyonu, bu insandışı rejimin ortadan kaldırılmasında dünya genelinde insanların birleşik çabalarının başarılı bir örneğidir. İran İslam Cumhuriyeti, aynı kınanma ve ihraç edilmeyle karşılaşmalıdır. Bu rejime herhangi bir taviz ancak İran’daki insanların hakları ve yaşamları pahasına bu rejime yardımcı olmaktadır.
İKİP ve Hemen Şimdi Eşit Haklar, 8 Mart’ta İran’daki eşitlik mücadelesiyle dayanışma çağrısında bulunuyor. Geçen otuz yıldan daha fazla süredir, cinsel apartayda karşı hareket, üniversitelerde, okullarda, fabrikalarda, işyerlerinde, ailede ve sokaklarda şekillenmektedir. Bu hareket, artarak genişlemekte ve şiddetlenmektedir. Resmi istatistiklere göre, her yıl İran’da yüz binlerce genç ve kadın, hicab (türban) kuralına uymamaları nedeniyle tutuklanmakta ve cezalandırılmaktadır. Bunlar, bazen kırbaçlanmaktadır. Bu sadece rejimin adaletsizliğini ve baskısını değil aynı zamanda kitlesel ölçekte direniş ve mücadeleyi göstermektedir. İran’da İslam rejimi altında kadınların durumuna karşı itiraz, gerici bir rejime ve teröre ve ortaçağcıllıga başvuran siyasal İslam hareketine karşı bir itirazdır. İran’da kadınların özgürleşmesi, siyasal İslam’ın ve Şeriat’ın yönettiği ülkelerde ve topluluklarda kadınların özgürleşmesine çağrıdır ve uluslararası alanda kadın özgürlük hareketini güçlendirecektir.
8 Mart’ta, kamuoyunu İran İslam Cumhuriyeti ile siyasal ilişkilerin sona erdirilmesi ve cinsel apartayda son verilmesi talepleriyle İran’da kadınların kurtuluş hareketini desteklemeye çağırıyoruz.
Hemen Şimdi Eşit Haklar –
İran’da Kadınlara Yönelik Ayrımcılığa Karşı Örgütü
İran Komünist-İşçi Partisi – Yurtdışı Bürosu
Ocak 2009
http://www.equal-rights-now.com
http://www.wpiran.org
ikip@email.com
Sunday, February 1, 2009
8 March, International Women’s Day, is approaching. This day is the international day of protest against all forms of oppression and discrimination ag
8 March, International Women’s Day, is approaching. This day is the international day of protest against all forms of oppression and discrimination against women. To mark this day, the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) and Equal Rights Now - Organisation against Women’s Discrimination in Iran (ERN) call for the condemnation of the Islamic Republic of Iran for its systematic misogyny and sexual apartheid. We also call for the political isolation of the regime as a solidarity measure with the women’s liberation movement and the people in Iran.
Today, apartheid is no longer identifiable with racial apartheid but with the sexual apartheid of regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran. This regime has intensified, legitimised and strengthened the subjugation of women with its laws and legal system. From the outset, it has enforced compulsory veiling as a physical barrier to isolate and segregate women from men and has done so with brute force, including by throwing acid on unveiled women’s faces and imprisoning and flogging those deemed to be transgressors. Like the former racial apartheid of South Africa, it has also segregated women in buses, workplaces and all other public places.
In addition to segregation, sexual apartheid aims to push back women into the home. Women are barred from many occupations. They don’t even have the right to enter sport stadiums. According to Sharia law, women are the property of men and have no duty but to serve their male ‘guardian’ and take care of their husbands and children. Women’s right to inheritance is half that of men’s. Women’s testimony is worth half of that of men’s. Women can hardly get a divorce without their husband’s permission yet men can divorce their wives without reason and even without their being present. Women don’t have the right to travel, work, study and more without their male ‘guardian’s’ permission. The marriage of an adult woman is not valid and cannot be registered without her father’s consent. Sexual relations outside of marriage are punishable with death by stoning, the most brutal form of execution. Any protest against sexual apartheid and women’s enslaved position is met with brute force. Moreover, the regime’s propaganda machinery and its officials have made the humiliation and enslavement of women business as usual.
In light of this stark reality, the Islamic Republic of Iran must face the same public outrage and condemnation as did Apartheid South Africa. The institutionalised and legalised misogyny against women in Iran is sufficient reason for public opinion to demand the political isolation of this medieval regime internationally. The organised and brutal oppression and suppression of women in Iran is enough to demand that the heads of this regime be tried in an international tribunal for crimes against humanity. The abysmal status of women is sufficient reason to demand an end to this situation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran must be condemned and isolated by 21st century humanity. The political isolation of Apartheid South Africa in the early 90’s is a successful example of the shared efforts of people across the world in getting rid of an inhuman regime. The Islamic Republic of Iran can and must meet the same condemnation and expulsion. Any appeasement toward this regime only helps it at the expense of the rights and lives of people in Iran.
The WPI and ERN call for solidarity on March 8 with the egalitarian struggle in Iran. Over the last 30 years, the movement against sexual apartheid has been taking shape in universities and schools, in factories and workplaces, in the family and on the streets. This movement is becoming increasingly expansive and is intensifying. According to official statistics, in Iran, hundreds of thousands of youth and women are arrested and punished annually for not observing the hijab. They are sometimes lashed. This shows not only the regime’s injustice and oppression but also the massive scale of resistance and struggle. The appeal against the situation of women in Iran under the Islamic regime in Iran is an appeal against a reactionary regime and the political Islamic movement that is resorting to terror and medievalism. The emancipation of women in Iran is a call for the emancipation of women in countries and communities ruled by political Islam and Sharia and will strengthen the women’s liberation movement internationally.
On March 8, we call on public opinion to support the women’s liberation movement in Iran by demanding an end to political relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and an end to sexual apartheid.
Equal Rights Now – Organization against Women’s Discrimination in Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran- Organization Abroad
January 2009
http://www.equal-rights-now.com/
http://www.wpiran.org/
Today, apartheid is no longer identifiable with racial apartheid but with the sexual apartheid of regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran. This regime has intensified, legitimised and strengthened the subjugation of women with its laws and legal system. From the outset, it has enforced compulsory veiling as a physical barrier to isolate and segregate women from men and has done so with brute force, including by throwing acid on unveiled women’s faces and imprisoning and flogging those deemed to be transgressors. Like the former racial apartheid of South Africa, it has also segregated women in buses, workplaces and all other public places.
In addition to segregation, sexual apartheid aims to push back women into the home. Women are barred from many occupations. They don’t even have the right to enter sport stadiums. According to Sharia law, women are the property of men and have no duty but to serve their male ‘guardian’ and take care of their husbands and children. Women’s right to inheritance is half that of men’s. Women’s testimony is worth half of that of men’s. Women can hardly get a divorce without their husband’s permission yet men can divorce their wives without reason and even without their being present. Women don’t have the right to travel, work, study and more without their male ‘guardian’s’ permission. The marriage of an adult woman is not valid and cannot be registered without her father’s consent. Sexual relations outside of marriage are punishable with death by stoning, the most brutal form of execution. Any protest against sexual apartheid and women’s enslaved position is met with brute force. Moreover, the regime’s propaganda machinery and its officials have made the humiliation and enslavement of women business as usual.
In light of this stark reality, the Islamic Republic of Iran must face the same public outrage and condemnation as did Apartheid South Africa. The institutionalised and legalised misogyny against women in Iran is sufficient reason for public opinion to demand the political isolation of this medieval regime internationally. The organised and brutal oppression and suppression of women in Iran is enough to demand that the heads of this regime be tried in an international tribunal for crimes against humanity. The abysmal status of women is sufficient reason to demand an end to this situation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran must be condemned and isolated by 21st century humanity. The political isolation of Apartheid South Africa in the early 90’s is a successful example of the shared efforts of people across the world in getting rid of an inhuman regime. The Islamic Republic of Iran can and must meet the same condemnation and expulsion. Any appeasement toward this regime only helps it at the expense of the rights and lives of people in Iran.
The WPI and ERN call for solidarity on March 8 with the egalitarian struggle in Iran. Over the last 30 years, the movement against sexual apartheid has been taking shape in universities and schools, in factories and workplaces, in the family and on the streets. This movement is becoming increasingly expansive and is intensifying. According to official statistics, in Iran, hundreds of thousands of youth and women are arrested and punished annually for not observing the hijab. They are sometimes lashed. This shows not only the regime’s injustice and oppression but also the massive scale of resistance and struggle. The appeal against the situation of women in Iran under the Islamic regime in Iran is an appeal against a reactionary regime and the political Islamic movement that is resorting to terror and medievalism. The emancipation of women in Iran is a call for the emancipation of women in countries and communities ruled by political Islam and Sharia and will strengthen the women’s liberation movement internationally.
On March 8, we call on public opinion to support the women’s liberation movement in Iran by demanding an end to political relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and an end to sexual apartheid.
Equal Rights Now – Organization against Women’s Discrimination in Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran- Organization Abroad
January 2009
http://www.equal-rights-now.com/
http://www.wpiran.org/
Third Camp Against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
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International Third Camp protests
January 6th, 2009
With the start of the brutal ground phase of the conflict in Gaza Strip, Gazans are now experiencing a horrible scene. The massacre is not only on the crime scene. Those who die in hospitals because of the lack of medicine, or otherwise lack of water, food and other basic necessities of life are the victims too.
This WAR must stop!
Hamas and the Israeli government are both trying to profit from the casualties and the actions of the other party. Neither has the progressive humanity's interest, that is, a lasting peace and a truly just solution at heart.
Therefore, neither of them is acceptable to us, peaceandequalityloving people. Neither of these forces is going to recognize the two equal states of Palestine and Israel. Both of these forces want nothing but to wipe the other from the map! This insanity must stop.
In addition to millions of us around the world, 10,000 Israelis opposed the war on January 3, opposed the Israeli government on Tel Aviv streets. As a matter of fact, thousands upon thousands of Palestinians would do the same IF they had as much freedom to express themselves against the Islamic terrorist as well as the rotten, corrupt nationalist forces. So, let us support that third, that truly people's, trend. It is a Third Camp that finds itself even in the streets of Tel Aviv, but is censored by the Israeli as well as the Western media.
This note is to anyone who is interested in organizing an international Third Camp protest to oppose both the state terrorism of Israel, supported by its Western allies, and the Islamist terrorism. It demands:
• Immediate ceasefire! No attacks/occupation of Gaza! No rockets into Israel!
• Immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza!
•Immediate removal of antihuman blockade of Gaza by Israel!
• No to Israeli state terrorism! No to Hamas Islamist terrorism!
• Peace through the formation and recognition of a viable, equal state of Palestine!
The Third Camp already exists. Just read its Charter on www.thirdcamp.com, and join!
If you too are interested in participating and/or organizing an international day of protest from the stand point of the Third Camp please contact us.
On Gaza: www.thirdcamp.com/wptc
TV: www.newchannel.tv/englishTV/Thirdcamp.html
Email: info@thirdcamp.com
International Third Camp protests
January 6th, 2009
With the start of the brutal ground phase of the conflict in Gaza Strip, Gazans are now experiencing a horrible scene. The massacre is not only on the crime scene. Those who die in hospitals because of the lack of medicine, or otherwise lack of water, food and other basic necessities of life are the victims too.
This WAR must stop!
Hamas and the Israeli government are both trying to profit from the casualties and the actions of the other party. Neither has the progressive humanity's interest, that is, a lasting peace and a truly just solution at heart.
Therefore, neither of them is acceptable to us, peaceandequalityloving people. Neither of these forces is going to recognize the two equal states of Palestine and Israel. Both of these forces want nothing but to wipe the other from the map! This insanity must stop.
In addition to millions of us around the world, 10,000 Israelis opposed the war on January 3, opposed the Israeli government on Tel Aviv streets. As a matter of fact, thousands upon thousands of Palestinians would do the same IF they had as much freedom to express themselves against the Islamic terrorist as well as the rotten, corrupt nationalist forces. So, let us support that third, that truly people's, trend. It is a Third Camp that finds itself even in the streets of Tel Aviv, but is censored by the Israeli as well as the Western media.
This note is to anyone who is interested in organizing an international Third Camp protest to oppose both the state terrorism of Israel, supported by its Western allies, and the Islamist terrorism. It demands:
• Immediate ceasefire! No attacks/occupation of Gaza! No rockets into Israel!
• Immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza!
•Immediate removal of antihuman blockade of Gaza by Israel!
• No to Israeli state terrorism! No to Hamas Islamist terrorism!
• Peace through the formation and recognition of a viable, equal state of Palestine!
The Third Camp already exists. Just read its Charter on www.thirdcamp.com, and join!
If you too are interested in participating and/or organizing an international day of protest from the stand point of the Third Camp please contact us.
DO NOT LET THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUL BE EXECUTED
Farzad Kamangar is a 33-year-old teacher, human rights activist and journalist. He was a teacher in rural areas of Iranian Kurdistan. Prior to his arrest in August 2006, he taught in the town of Kamyaran, Kurdistan. He has been subjected to the most brutal physical and emotional tortures since his arrest. Farzad Kamangar has been accused of "endangering national security" and "belligerence against God", prefabricated charges the Islamic regime in Iran brings wholesale against almost all rights activists. So far, sixteen members of the Kamangar’s extended family have been executed by the regime for their political activities. Farzad Kamangar was sentenced to death by hanging on February 2008 after a sham trial. The following is his letter from death row to the clergyman, Qolaam-Hosyn Ezhei, Islamic regime's Minister of Intelligence. It has been translated and distributed by International Committee Against Executions.
January 5, 2008
***
Let my heart keep beating!
I have been in prison for many months now. Prison was supposed to crush my will, my love and my humanity. It was supposed to tame me. I have been detained in a ward with walls as tall as history, continuing to eternity itself. They were supposed to separate me from my beloved people, from the children of my land. But I travelled through the tiny window of my cell to far away places everyday and felt myself amongst them and like them. They, in turn, would see the reflection of their grievances imprisoned in me. Prison thus deepened our bonds. The darkness of prison was supposed to erase the very meaning of the sun and light from my mind, but I have witnessed the growth of pansies in the darkness and silence. Prison was supposed to force my mind to consign time and its value to oblivion. I have, however, relived the moments outside prison, and given birth to a new "me" in order to choose a new path.
I have also, like prisoners before me, wholeheartedly embraced every degradation, insult and cruelty that came my way, hoping to be the last person of a tormented generation who has had to endure the darkness of imprisonment in the fervent hope of seeing a new dawn.
One day, I was labeled "belligerent" for having waged war against their “God.” The noose of justice was thus woven, ready to take my life. And since that day I have been unwillingly awaiting my execution.
But I have decided, with all my love for my fellow human beings, that if I am to lose my life, let all my organs go to those who may find life receiving them. And let my heart, with all the love and passion in it, be donated to a child. It makes no difference where s/he might be: on the banks of the Kaaroon, slopes of Mount Sabalaan, fringes of the Eastern Desert; or to a child that beholds the sun rise from the Zagros Mountains. All I want is that my rebellious, restive heart may keep beating in the chest of a child who would, more rebelliously than I, reveal his/her childhood wishes to the moon and the stars, and hold them witness so that s/he may not betray them later as an adult. All I want is that my heart may keep beating in the chest of one who loses patience over the children who go to bed hungry; one that would keep the memory of Haamed – my sixteen-year-old student – alive in my heart who wrote, "even my smallest wish won't come true in this life," and hanged himself.
Let my heart keep beating in someone's chest, no matter what language s/he might speak. All I want is for her/him to be the child of a worker with calloused hands whose coarseness would keep the sparks of rage against inequalities alive. Let my heart keep beating in the chest of a child who may be a rural teacher in a not-so-distant future, whom the children would greet every morning with their delightful smiles, and with whom they would share all their joys and games. Then the children might not know the meaning of such words as poverty and hunger, and the terms "prison," "torture," "oppression" and "inequality" might be devoid of all meaning in their world. Let my heart keep beating in a tiny corner of your immense world. Only be careful with it, for it is the heart of a person full of untold stories of the people of his land, whose history abounds in pain and suffering. Let my heart keep beating in the chest of a child so that one morning I can cry at the top of my lungs and in my mother tongue [Kurdish]: I want to become a breeze carrying the message of love of all humanity to all corners of this immense world.
Farzad Kamangar
Patient in the Infectious Diseases Ward
Rajaa'i Shahr Prison, Karaj
28 December 2008
Originally written on 22 December 2008
Security Ward 209
Evin Prison
Iran
***
Please send protest letters to:
President Islamic Republic of Iran His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection Tehran 13168-43311 Islamic Republic of Iran E-mail: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
Chief of State His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, The Office of the Supreme Leader Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street, Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran E-Mail: info@leader.ir / Fax: +98-21 649 5880 (unreliable)
Minister of Justice Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Office of the Head of Justice Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., South of Serah-e Jomhouri Tehran 13168-14737 Islamic Republic of Iran E-Mail: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir / Fax: +98-21 879 6671/640 4018 or 4019 (unreliable)
Please copy your letter to the Iranian embassy in your country as well (in some countries, like the USA, the Embassy of Pakistan looks after the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran), as well as to:
Please also copy your letter to:
International Committee Against Executions:
Contact: Mina Ahadi
Tel: 0049-177 569 24 13
E-mail: Minaahadi@aol.com
Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners
Contact: Shahla Daneshfar
Tel: 0044 - 777 98 98 968
Shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com
January 5, 2008
***
Let my heart keep beating!
I have been in prison for many months now. Prison was supposed to crush my will, my love and my humanity. It was supposed to tame me. I have been detained in a ward with walls as tall as history, continuing to eternity itself. They were supposed to separate me from my beloved people, from the children of my land. But I travelled through the tiny window of my cell to far away places everyday and felt myself amongst them and like them. They, in turn, would see the reflection of their grievances imprisoned in me. Prison thus deepened our bonds. The darkness of prison was supposed to erase the very meaning of the sun and light from my mind, but I have witnessed the growth of pansies in the darkness and silence. Prison was supposed to force my mind to consign time and its value to oblivion. I have, however, relived the moments outside prison, and given birth to a new "me" in order to choose a new path.
I have also, like prisoners before me, wholeheartedly embraced every degradation, insult and cruelty that came my way, hoping to be the last person of a tormented generation who has had to endure the darkness of imprisonment in the fervent hope of seeing a new dawn.
One day, I was labeled "belligerent" for having waged war against their “God.” The noose of justice was thus woven, ready to take my life. And since that day I have been unwillingly awaiting my execution.
But I have decided, with all my love for my fellow human beings, that if I am to lose my life, let all my organs go to those who may find life receiving them. And let my heart, with all the love and passion in it, be donated to a child. It makes no difference where s/he might be: on the banks of the Kaaroon, slopes of Mount Sabalaan, fringes of the Eastern Desert; or to a child that beholds the sun rise from the Zagros Mountains. All I want is that my rebellious, restive heart may keep beating in the chest of a child who would, more rebelliously than I, reveal his/her childhood wishes to the moon and the stars, and hold them witness so that s/he may not betray them later as an adult. All I want is that my heart may keep beating in the chest of one who loses patience over the children who go to bed hungry; one that would keep the memory of Haamed – my sixteen-year-old student – alive in my heart who wrote, "even my smallest wish won't come true in this life," and hanged himself.
Let my heart keep beating in someone's chest, no matter what language s/he might speak. All I want is for her/him to be the child of a worker with calloused hands whose coarseness would keep the sparks of rage against inequalities alive. Let my heart keep beating in the chest of a child who may be a rural teacher in a not-so-distant future, whom the children would greet every morning with their delightful smiles, and with whom they would share all their joys and games. Then the children might not know the meaning of such words as poverty and hunger, and the terms "prison," "torture," "oppression" and "inequality" might be devoid of all meaning in their world. Let my heart keep beating in a tiny corner of your immense world. Only be careful with it, for it is the heart of a person full of untold stories of the people of his land, whose history abounds in pain and suffering. Let my heart keep beating in the chest of a child so that one morning I can cry at the top of my lungs and in my mother tongue [Kurdish]: I want to become a breeze carrying the message of love of all humanity to all corners of this immense world.
Farzad Kamangar
Patient in the Infectious Diseases Ward
Rajaa'i Shahr Prison, Karaj
28 December 2008
Originally written on 22 December 2008
Security Ward 209
Evin Prison
Iran
***
Please send protest letters to:
President Islamic Republic of Iran His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection Tehran 13168-43311 Islamic Republic of Iran E-mail: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
Chief of State His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, The Office of the Supreme Leader Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street, Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran E-Mail: info@leader.ir / Fax: +98-21 649 5880 (unreliable)
Minister of Justice Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Office of the Head of Justice Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., South of Serah-e Jomhouri Tehran 13168-14737 Islamic Republic of Iran E-Mail: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir / Fax: +98-21 879 6671/640 4018 or 4019 (unreliable)
Please copy your letter to the Iranian embassy in your country as well (in some countries, like the USA, the Embassy of Pakistan looks after the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran), as well as to:
Please also copy your letter to:
International Committee Against Executions:
Contact: Mina Ahadi
Tel: 0049-177 569 24 13
E-mail: Minaahadi@aol.com
Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners
Contact: Shahla Daneshfar
Tel: 0044 - 777 98 98 968
Shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com
We Condemn the Mass Murder of the People of Gaza by the Israeli Regime!
Since Saturday morning, Israeli forces have started widespread and unprecedented attacks against Hamas headquarters and centers in Gaza City and Palestinian refugee camps and destroyed the lives of many Palestinians. During the air raids on Saturday more than fifty centers in Gaza Strip were attacked and hundreds of people were killed or injured. Several hundreds were killed during Sunday’s attacks. This is another scene of mass murder of the Palestinian people, especially residents of Gaza, who have been caught in the cross fires of the state terrorism of Israel and its western allies, on the one hand, and Hamas and Islamic terrorism, on the other.
After Hamas came to power in Gaza, the government of Israel imposed sanctions on this region—an act that was condemned as a “crime against humanity” all around the world. Following Hamas’ abstention to renew the six-month ceasefire and under the pretext of retaliating against recent rocket attacks of Hamas against Israeli cities, the Israeli army carried out these atrocious attacks against the people of Gaza. The ruling government of Israel aims to increases its chances of winning the upcoming elections through such a criminal showdown. On the other hand, Hamas continues its terrorist and criminal tactics in order to reiterate its preemptive role and to acquire further advantages. The victims of these tactics are the innocent people who are dominated by criminal and terrorist states and movements on each side.
Worker-communist Party of Iran, together with freedom-loving people of the world, strongly condemns the crimes of the Israeli regime and the mass murder of innocent people of Palestine. The WPI also strongly condemns the blockade of Gaza and taking the lives of residents of Gaza hostage by the Israeli regime. These attacks should be halted and the blockade should be removed immediately. We once again declare that the inhumane policies of the Israeli government should be stopped; the hands of Islamist and reactionary movements should be eliminated from the lives of Palestinians; and an independent and equal state of Palestine should be recognised immediately.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
December 28, 2008
After Hamas came to power in Gaza, the government of Israel imposed sanctions on this region—an act that was condemned as a “crime against humanity” all around the world. Following Hamas’ abstention to renew the six-month ceasefire and under the pretext of retaliating against recent rocket attacks of Hamas against Israeli cities, the Israeli army carried out these atrocious attacks against the people of Gaza. The ruling government of Israel aims to increases its chances of winning the upcoming elections through such a criminal showdown. On the other hand, Hamas continues its terrorist and criminal tactics in order to reiterate its preemptive role and to acquire further advantages. The victims of these tactics are the innocent people who are dominated by criminal and terrorist states and movements on each side.
Worker-communist Party of Iran, together with freedom-loving people of the world, strongly condemns the crimes of the Israeli regime and the mass murder of innocent people of Palestine. The WPI also strongly condemns the blockade of Gaza and taking the lives of residents of Gaza hostage by the Israeli regime. These attacks should be halted and the blockade should be removed immediately. We once again declare that the inhumane policies of the Israeli government should be stopped; the hands of Islamist and reactionary movements should be eliminated from the lives of Palestinians; and an independent and equal state of Palestine should be recognised immediately.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
December 28, 2008
STOP THIS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! STOP THIS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
Since the morning of Saturday, December 27, Israeli forces have been carrying out massive, unprecedented attacks against Hamas strategic points in Gaza City as well as the Palestinian refugee camps. As a result, the lives and livelihoods of many people have been destroyed. During the air raids on Saturday more than fifty targets were hit in Gaza Strip and hundreds of people were killed or injured. Several hundred were killed during Sunday’s attacks. This is yet another scene of the massacre of Palestinian people, especially residents of Gaza, who have been caught in the cross fire of the state terrorism of Israel and its Western allies, on the one hand, and Hamas and Islamic terrorism in general, on the other.
After Hamas came to power in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government imposed all-around sanctions on this region - an act that was condemned as “crime against humanity” across the world. Now, following Hamas's refusal to renew the six-month ceasefire, and under the pretext of retaliating against the recent rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli cities, the Israeli army is carrying out these atrocious attacks on the people of Gaza. The ruling government in Israel aims to increase its chances of winning the upcoming elections through such a murderous showdown. On the other hand, Hamas continues its terroristic, criminal tactics as a reminder of its obstructive power, hoping to gain some concessions. The victims, on both sides of this equation of crime and bloodshed, are the innocent people living under the domination of criminal, terrorist states, on the one side, and characteristically similar movements, on the other.
Worker-communist Party of Iran, hand in hand with all freedom-loving people of the world, vehemently condemns the current massacre of the innocent people of Palestine by the Israeli government as well as its criminal siege of Gaza Strip, holding the lives of the people of Gaza to ransom. The current attacks must stop and the anti-human blockade must be removed immediately. We once again declare that the inhuman policies of the Israeli government must stop; the Islamist and other reactionary movements must be cut off from the life of the Palestinian people; an independent and equal state of Palestine must be immediately formed and recognized.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
December 28, 2008
After Hamas came to power in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government imposed all-around sanctions on this region - an act that was condemned as “crime against humanity” across the world. Now, following Hamas's refusal to renew the six-month ceasefire, and under the pretext of retaliating against the recent rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli cities, the Israeli army is carrying out these atrocious attacks on the people of Gaza. The ruling government in Israel aims to increase its chances of winning the upcoming elections through such a murderous showdown. On the other hand, Hamas continues its terroristic, criminal tactics as a reminder of its obstructive power, hoping to gain some concessions. The victims, on both sides of this equation of crime and bloodshed, are the innocent people living under the domination of criminal, terrorist states, on the one side, and characteristically similar movements, on the other.
Worker-communist Party of Iran, hand in hand with all freedom-loving people of the world, vehemently condemns the current massacre of the innocent people of Palestine by the Israeli government as well as its criminal siege of Gaza Strip, holding the lives of the people of Gaza to ransom. The current attacks must stop and the anti-human blockade must be removed immediately. We once again declare that the inhuman policies of the Israeli government must stop; the Islamist and other reactionary movements must be cut off from the life of the Palestinian people; an independent and equal state of Palestine must be immediately formed and recognized.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
December 28, 2008
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