Message of Homa Arjomand on violence against women, systematic violence, sexual apartheid, war and genocide
Thanks to Radio "Avai Zan" and the listeners of this radio, I have been asked to speak for 5 to 7 minutes on the occasion of banning violence against women, war, systematic violence, sexual apartheid. I am honoured to respond to these questions in short matter of time.
I must state here that in order to destroy systematic violence against women, gender apartheid, war, and genocide, the capitalist system must be overthrown, simply because the basis of capitalist governments is the division of society based on culture, religion, nationality, ethnicity, race, language, and gender.
To maintain this segregation, the capitalist system makes the tools of repression and increases its prisons.
The basis of these types of divisions means that the citizens of a country or in one geographical area are not equal. If people want Freedom, equality and Prosperity for all across the nation then the army, will drop bombs on them this happens mostly apartheid regimes . In order to segregate men and women from each other such as regime of sexual apartheid of Iran, they use the force of Basij, Hijab-ban ( another ultra right wing force created by the regime consist of trained men and women to violently attack women without hijab ). In the Western countries too the equality between men and women, freedom of expression which was gained after hard struggle, during economic and political crises will be totally destroyed by war or pushed back . A clear example of that is "the rights of abortion in America which was approved in 1973 and this right has been taken back from women in 2023; or freedom of expression that is taken way since genocide started in Gaza. the demonstrators are arrested, jailed, fired from jobs and band from education.
The question is, how to stop violence in the family, sexual violence, hate crimes, racial violence, police , Basij, IRGC, violence, ethnicity war, and genocide?
truthfully, it is only by replacing socialism with capitalism that equality and prosperity for all can be universalized which means all citizens (residents) regardless of their religious beliefs, which part of Iran they live, whether they are men or women , gays, lesbians. whether they are Kurds or Baloch, whether they are from Tehran or Khuzestan or from Afghanistan who live in Iran, everyone will follow one law and regulation that each adult member of society was involved in creating it. In such a society there is no need for repression of the police,the IRGC, the Basij, the police, the army, and the intelligence agency.
But what should be done today in Iran despite the existence of the Islamic Republic? The fact is that the Islamic Republic's law is based on the Quranic rulings of the seventh century. A time when baby girls were buried alive. A time when there was a harem and a man could have several women. Now, in the 21st century, IR wants to implement these laws by force, which, of course, we saw that the regime faced the Women's freedom and equality movement right from first day the Islamic regime came to power. After many harsh struggles, the balance of power finally changed in favor of the people. Islamic laws in the book of law have not changed and will not change. But people were able to achieve social, cultural and political achievements in Iran. Today we have "White Marriage" in Iran. this means that two people who like each other do not need the approval of any religion or government to live together, as long as they love each other, they will live together and when they can't stand each other anymore they separate. Today, the veil was thrown aside.
It should not be forgotten that the hijab is the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But these are not enough for freedom, equality and prosperity for all. We need to have assemblies and councils at the world place, at universities, and areas we live. we need to be the decision makers of our own future and establish socialism. Let's not allow US imperialism and its allies to replace this regime with another rabid regime. They are doing their best. During the revolutionary upsurge of "Women Life Freedom", their prince, Reza Pahlavi, hijacked this slogan and came forward with the "Mahsa" manifesto, which we defeated that.And now Netanyahu, this genocidal, whose hands are stained with the blood of more than 200,000 Palestinian people, has come forward with the slogan "woman life freedom" and we must respond to him with the slogan "freedom, equality, and prosperity for all" this is the slogan that no capitalist leaders or delivers dare to hijack simply because this slogan is their death knell. it is with establishment of socialism that violence can be eradicated for good.
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