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March 8th,
International Women's Day, is just around
the corner.
Verily it is a day in which women,
all freedom lovers, and egalitarians confirm
that the world which women live in is an
unjust world beyond measure. It’s the day in
which we will raise the banner of full
equality and freedom for women. It’s the day
of persistence of this struggle and
insistence on this. The Worker-communist
Party of Iraq since it was founded, has
persisted inputting the issue of defending
women’s rights and equality with men in the
forefront of its political, social, and
legal struggle. Whereas the issue of rights
and equality of half of the society with the
other half has the utmost importance in the
struggle to free the society in Iraq from
all kinds of non-existence of rights and
inferiority. It’s not possible to talk about
the freedom and human rights in a society
where more than half of the population are
living in a tragic conditions not
appropriate for human being in this century.
In conditions of slavery, degradation, and
violence and murder and even mass killing
under different names: in defence of honour,
tradition, religion, and custom, none of
these justifications could be accepted to
violate women’s right. There is no
justification whatsoever for a system to
remain and for a condition to impose on
women a disgusting slavery which its time
has passed.
Verily women have being living in an
appalling and tragic conditions, since the
dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein then
the occupation of Iraq and the dominance of
Islamic, Arabic and Kurdish nationalist
parties, and the emergence of dark forces
that was unprecedented in the scale of the
terrorism and antagonism towards women.
since the changes in political conditions of
Iraq the situation of women got worse and
worse starting from imposition of compulsory
veil on women to killing of women and
depriving them from education due to
economic needs in a society deemed to be one
of the richest countries in the world. And
imposition of the existed Islamic law which
is established on the basis of sexual
discrimination against women, polygamy, an
increase of girls circumcision phenomenon,
trafficking in women, the prevalence of
selling female’s body, the abduction of
women and selling them, killing of women who
have been abducted by the militias, women
subjected to conditions of economic poverty
and subsistence needs that pushed them to
live under the poverty line.
The
state is not taking the responsibility of
the children’s maintenance, especially those
who have been deprived of their parents
because of war, leaving a heavy burdens on
women to provide a living for their children
and the family. But in political, social and
general fields women have been marginalized
to the farthest extent. The retreat of
Women’s social and political participation
in the society
was imposed. And if it was not the
huge combative resistance and
history
of women’s struggle and civil society and
its secularity, women and their role and
place would have been distorted completely
in a society plunged into an unprecedented
darkness especially in recent years.
The
ruling parties and militias backed by the
U.S. military machine shackled by the most
reactionary traditions and laws are seeking
to impose and sustain a dark conditions for
women and in the economic, social, legal and
civil rights fields. The conditions that
women are living in are neither sustainable
nor durable and must be changed. Women could
have their rights and a better life, because
of the resources of the society and the
abundance of wealth which ensure a well-off
life for women and even for the whole
society . The Worker-communist Party of the
Iraqi affirms to women in Iraq that the
miserable reality could be changed through
mass struggle which the overwhelming
equality women's movement involves in. The
movement which is a place for all freedom
lover’s women and men in order to end the
U.S. presence which is the support and ally
of the reactionary Islamic forces and to
overthrow the Islamic government, militias,
and constitution that tightening the grip
around the society in Iraq and humiliating
women in particular. This could be done only
by coming around and joining the ranks of
the party and strengthening a striving
relationship with the party.
The Worker-communist Party
places itself in the first row and
the first faction in putting an end to the
Islamic government and the Islamic
Constitution and
bringing
about a secular government in which passing
a law first and before anything else the
separation of religion from the state
bringing an end to the interference of
religion in personal and civil life of
women, emancipating women
from exhausting economic burden which
is one of the onerous duties and
responsibilities of the state and
providing a living for children, which is
the duty of the state and they are not
women’s duties. Freeing women from the laws
that treat them as a second-class citizens
to ensure the freedom of separation, the
equal right of inheritance and custody of
children in the event of separation, and
categorical prohibition of polygamy and all
religious forms and contracts of marriage.
. This is the struggle of the
Worker-communist Party of Iraq in order to
secure equal rights and freedoms of women
with men. We call upon women to organize
themselves in various forms of organizations
to defend their rights and undoubtedly the
Worker-communist Party of Iraq is their
supporter, struggler, the first defender of
their rights. The Worker-Communist Party has
put onto its shoulder the task of struggle
for socialist revolution and establishment
of Socialist Republic on the debris of the
capitalist system, the abolition of wage
labour and private property which is a
revolution that bears in its mind the
freedom of women, their rights and
aspirations and prepares all the material
requirements for their emancipation from all
forms of oppression, delusions and former
reactionary identities among them the male
dominated system up until now.
Worker-communist Party of Iraq is
calling women to join the party to struggle
in its ranks as a fundamental guarantee in
order to bring about the pursued changes in
freedom and equality and the well-being of
women. Long live the struggle of women for
freedom and equality. Long live the 8th
of March the International Women's Day.
Worker-communist Party of Iraq
www.wpiraq.net
zaryak@yahoo.com
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