KJAR: We will take to the streets on March 8

The Eastern Kurdistan Free Women’s Association (KJAR) issued a written statement on March 8, International Women’s Day, commemorating women revolutionaries who were martyred in the women’s freedom movement.

KJAR pointed out that their main agenda and purpose in 2022 would be “guarantee the physical freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and to extend the struggle in which women are at the centre in all aspects.

The women’s organisation stated that the twenty-first century is the century of women’s liberation, emphasizing the necessity of struggle against the male-dominated order.

KJAR stated that “women all around the world have now created their own unity with shared goals and demands,” emphasizing that women are fighting in every field today.

The statement drew attention to the atrocities committed in the name of Islam, saying, “With the murder of women, it is the society who is also being murdered, and it is the human values that are violated.”

Remarking that now is the time for women’s lives to be protected and freed, KJAR added; “This is only possible through the liberation of women and peoples. On this basis, Persian, Baloch, Azeri, Arab, Kurdish, feminist, and ecologist women are waging a great fight.”

KJAR stressed that the women of Eastern Kurdistan are “in rebellion against the dominant system in Iran,” and that they regard the transformation of Iranian society as the foundation of women’s emancipation for the democratization of Iran.

KJAR noted that violence against women is “the product of a sexist worldview,” and that they will hold those who are responsible accountable and take to the streets on March 8.

“With our resistance, we will defeat the fascist dictatorship,” KJAR stated, and added, “The woman is the leader of the Iranian revolution.”

“We will achieve victory under the leadership of women. In Eastern Kurdistan and Iran, we will triumph with the paradigms of democracy, ecology, and women’s liberation,” the statement added.