Solidarity with the uprising of Iranian people

There was an uprising, a serhildan against poverty, corruption, discrimination and oppressive policies in many cities of Iran and Rojhilat (East Kurdistan). After the 1988, 1999 and 2009 protests, people went out on the streets for the first time with such large scale actions and shouted out radical slogans against the religious leader Ali Hamaney. Besides the economic demands, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets with the demand of political freedom and showed once more that corrupted and rotten governments in the Middle East do not have a long-term future.

The Mullah regime was carrying out an oppressive and capitalist exploitation order within the country and implementing expansionist and aggressive policies in the region. Especially women are affected by the oppression of their women's rights and their right to life. Although it is trying to legitimize these policies through religious discourse and propaganda of national unity, it is losing its credibility in the eyes of the masses day by day. And this time, the Iran state ignored the legitimate demands of the people by relating the people's uprising with the contradiction it has with US imperialism.

Just in the previous weeks, people of Başûr (South) Kurdistan had not left the streets for days against corruption, poverty and the degenerated rotten oligarchic government and organized actions which targetted firstly Barzani and then all the other political parties sharing power. And now, East (Rojhilat) Kurdistan is resisting the regressive and colonialist rotten Mullah regime from Kirmanshah to Mahabad.

This spark which cooled down for now once again proved that, despite all the cruel state violence, it is possible once again for spreading of strikes and protests all around the country, bringing themselves into beings of women who especially stand at the forefronts of the clashes, of the student movement and the revolutionary movement in Kurdistan. The new quality of the protest movement in Iran consists in being marked by workers' protests.

In order not to hand over the struggle of people for freedom, independence and social justice to the regressive opportunists, starting from all the revolutionaries of Iran, peoples of the region and all the revolutionaries of the world should support the uprising and serhildan and raise the struggle against thieves and dictators by standing side by side.

As communists, revolutionaries, progressives and consistent anti-imperialists, we support the uprising in Iran and serhildan in Rojhilat!

We continue to uphold the flag of labor against capitalist exploitation, of women's liberation against patriarchy, of national equality and independence against colonialism!

Signatories (as of 3 March 2018, further signatories possible):

1. RCP Revolutionary Communist Party of Egypt

2. PCPCI Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire (),

3. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

4. MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

5. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

6. MLOA Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan

7. CPB Communist Party of Bangladesh

8. CPI (ML) Red Star Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star

9. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

10. NDMLP New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party, Sri Lanka

11. БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

12. KGS Společnost Klementa Gottwalda (Klement Gottwald Society), Czech Republic

13. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

14. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

15. BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))

16. MLP Marksistsko-Leninskaja Platforma (Marxist-Leninist Platform), Russia

17. VZDOR VZDOR - strana práce (Resistance - labour party), Slovakia

18. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)

19. TIKB Türkiye İhtilalci Komünistler Birliği (Union of Revolutionary Communists of Turkey)

20. MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

21. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

22. PCC-M Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia - Maoist)

23. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

24. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))

25. PPP Partido Proletario del Perú (Proletarian Party of Peru)

26. BDP Bloque Democratico Popular (Popular Democratic Bloc), Peru

27. PS-GdT Plataforma Socialista - Golpe de Timón (Socialist Platform – Change of Course), Venezuela

Signed after the release date:

28. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

29. SMKC Svaz Mladych Komunistu Cheskoslovenska (Union of young Communists of Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic

30. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

31. Krasnyj Klin Gruppa Kommunistov-Revoljucionerov „Krasnyj Klin“ (Group of Communist Revolutionaries “Krasnyj Klin” [Red Wedge]), Belarus

32. KSC-CSSP Komunisticka Strana Cheskoslovenska – Cheskoslovenska Strana Prace (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovakian Workers Party), Czech Republic

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