Joint declaration: Long live the revolt of Iranian women and people, death to the Islamic Republic of Iran!

Long live the revolt of Iranian women and people, death to the Islamic Republic of Iran!

To the workers and oppressed peoples of the world

To communist parties and organizations, to Marxist-Leninist-Maoists

Call for support and mobilization:

since last September the Islamic Republic of Iran has been shaken by an unprecedented mass protest in terms of geographical extent (nationwide: from Iranian Kurdistan in the North-West, to Baluchistan in the South-East passing from the heart of the country and the capital Tehran) for social extension (involving large sections of the working class, students and petty bourgeoisie in the cities and peasants in the countryside) and for its prolonged duration.

A protest triggered by the cruel neo-medieval patriarchal repression of the regime of the ayatollahs that, through his "moral police", harass women daily, exploiting religion with the rigid imposition of the hijab, with the real aim of restricting the women in the public space and relegating women between house walls, that the regime would like mothers who produce children, condescending wives or girls to be given in marriage.

The brutal assassination of Mahsa Amini has unleashed the unstoppable anger of women, especially the young and very young: from schools, to universities, from working-class neighborhoods to workplaces, they took to the streets setting in fire their hijabs and the national flag, cutting themselves strands of hair and thus openly defying the regime.

The first repressive wave was not enough: on the contrary, even young people, from students up to the working class, who organized political strikes in the main oil sites and in other sectors such as in the national tire factory, joined the protest. In Theran, the main faculties are in mobilization, the university and high school classrooms are empty while the streets are full of protesters. Even in the countryside, peasants have mobilized, despite the regime using harsher repression in agricultural areas. All over the world the Iranian community abroad takes to the streets against the regime.

The demonstrators do not seem to want to stop until now, despite the provocations and the repression of the regime's police, the hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests, and now also the first death sentences.

In some cases the barracks were attacked with molotov cocktails, and the brutal charges of the riot police were repulsed by young men and women armed with determination and occasional means.

The real novelty is therefore the prolonged nature of this revolt which sees a broad class front on the field throughout the territory of the republic with political demands: "women, life, freedom", "death to the dictator" and "death to the Islamic Republic" .

The deeply reactionary nature of the ayatollahs' regime, a direct consequence of its semi-feudal system headed by a bureaucratic and comprador bourgeoisie, leaves no room for negotiations or reforms such as the rumored suppression of the "moral police", on the other hand also the Iranian masses in struggle, by ousting the representatives of reformist political parties from the protests, also show that the intention is to fight to the end for the fall of the regime.

All this shows that tactically the protest and women's movement in Iran will still have to face the harsh repression of the Iranian regime which enjoys the support of the Russian and Chinese imperialist regimes, at the same time from a strategic point of view however this is good: the masses in such determined struggles they are not sacrificing themselves in vain because with such determination they can bring down the reactionary Iranian regime advancing towards their own liberation and also favoring the liberation of the peoples of the region starting from the oppressed Kurdish, "chained and divided" between Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria. The revolt of the Iranian people's and women's movement also shows the way for the peoples oppressed by neighboring Sunni regimes in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, formally opposed to the Iranian Shiite regime, but essentially similar in their semi-feudal nature and by exploiting religion to leverage the masses.

Yankee imperialism and the Western powers hope and work for the fall of the Iranian regime to weaken the opposing camp represented by Russian imperialism in particular, but also by the Chinese one, with the aim of replacing the current regime with a puppet western friendly regime, as already happened last decade with the Arab revolts in Tunisia and Egypt whose outcome of the revolts was a real Pyrrhic victory in which the fall of reactionary regimes, in the absence of a proletarian direction of those revolts, it was a replacement with as many reactionary regimes here with a "democratic" form (Tunisia) there openly in continuity with the regime just deposed (Egypt). This instrumentalization of imperialism must therefore be denounced and fought everywhere in the world.

At the same time, building on these experiences, the struggle in Iran must necessarily rise from the current spontaneity and reach the superior organizational forms necessary to defeat the enemy, drawing inspiration from the current most advanced revolutionary forms in the world: the People's Wars in India and the Philippines, creatively developing the revolutionary war adapted to the Iranian context against the regime of the ayatollahs.

Communist parties and organizations and in particular the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists have the internationalist duty to support the popular masses, the Iranian working class as well as the Iranian Marxist-Leninist-Maoist comrades, organizing support in each country, showing solidarity with the Iranian women present, with all material and political means, joining the mobilizations in front of the Iranian embassies, denouncing at the same time the parties of the imperialist bourgeoisie who exploit these mobilizations with the aim of expelling them.

In the imperialist countries in particular, but also in some Arab and BRICS countries, it is necessary as well to counter the self-proclamed "anti-imperialist" opportunists (and in some cases self-proclamed "communists") who support the reactionary Iranian regime together with Russian and Chinese imperialism in an anti-American aim: by not supporting women and the struggling Iranian masses they show their true reationary nature.

In all countries of the world, make your support for the Iranian people and their women's movement heard loud and clear in front of the embassies and consulates of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Long live the liberating and democratic women's movement

Long live the libertarian and democratic movement of the masses

Iranian workers, peasants, women, students: forward to building the tools necessary for victory: the party, the united front and the people's army!

Let the spontaneous uprising develop into the People's Revolutionary War

Death to the Islamic Republic

May the Peoples Democratic Republic be established under the leadership of the working class

signatory organizations and parties: