Author: Maryam Namazie
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International Women’s Day homage to ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ and the women’s revolution in Iran
The Royal College of Physicians in London was the scene of a stunning International Women’s Day, 8 March, evening in homage to the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Revolution in Iran. Photos of the event can be seen here. Maryam Namazie, the event organiser and One Law for All Spokesperson says: ‘On International Women’s Day, will pay…
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An Open Letter from Iranian and Afghan Women, International Lawyers and Global Women Leaders Urging Countries to Recognize the Crime of Gender Apartheid
One Law for All Spokesperson Maryam Namazie joins a coalition of female lawyers, judges, activists and other global leaders to name the atrocities against the women and girls of Iran and Afghanistan for what they are: Gender Apartheid. This effort is being led by legal experts who are pursuing a path to have Gender Apartheid recognised…
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#Hair4Freedom Revisited
One Law For All and FiLiA charity are again joining forces as part of the Hair4Freedom campaign launched in November 2022. Our first joint action in central London saw women line up to cut their hair in solidarity with the women’s revolution in Iran, in an event lasting hours and making headlines around the world.…
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Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023
Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023 When Mahsa Amini was dragged off last year to undergo “re-education” for “improper” veiling, it was business as usual for Iran’s Islamic morality police, which harasses, imprisons, and brutalises thousands of women every year. But Amini wasn’t merely arrested and tortured. She was killed. Her murder became…
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Online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence
21 November 2022 Commander Richard Smith Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JL RE: Reporting online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence I, Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born writer and campaigner have been facing a barrage of threats and incitement to violence for over two months. There are hundreds, if not…
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Iran: International Day of Action in Solidarity with the revolutionary uprising and workers’ movement in Iran
Wednesday 8 February 2023 4pm – Rally in Parliament Square, London 5pm – Meeting at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster The Boothroyd Committee Room PCH Organised by the Solidarity with the Workers’ Movement in Iran Committe Following the murder of Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Iran on 16 September 2022 and the…
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The Body Riots on Hijab Day for Woman, Life, Freedom and No Hijab Day
On 1 February, World Hijab Day, women took part in a global body riot to defend the women’s revolution in Iran and for woman, life, freedom. They took action, topless or with bras on, to challenge compulsory hijab rules that has killed Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September and has and continues to suppress countless…
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Iran Protest: Stop Killing Children
24 January protest at UNICEF London against Islamic #ChildKiller regime of #Iran, 4-5pm, Intl Education Day #EducationNotExecution, #StopKillingChildren, #IslamicRegimeKillsKids UNICEF, London Office, 1 Westfield Ave, London E20 1HZ Join protest action at UNICEF against killing of children by Islamic regime of Iran on International Day of Education. 70 plus child protestors 18 and under have…
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شعار زن، زندگی، آزادی شامل مردان می شود
سخنرانی ام در جلسه ای در مورد چشم اندازها و نقش زنان و کارگران در خیزش انقلابی ایران. در مورد انقلاب زنانه صحبت می کنم و اینکه شعار زن، زندگی، آزادی شامل مردان می شود چون رهایی جامعه در گروی رهایی زن است و اما چرا شعار مرد، میهن، آبادی حذف زن و ادامه همان…
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Solidarity with Women, Workers, Youth in Iran: Model Motion
Dear Comrade I’m writing to inform you of the establishment of the Committee for Solidarity with the Iranian Workers’ Movement, a new campaign founded by a range of Iranian and Kurdish socialist and feminist activists, with support from ourselves and others in the British labour movement. Our movement at its best has always been radically…
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Solidarity with the Iranian Workers’ Movement Committee established
Solidarity with the Iranian Workers’ Movement Committee was established in December 2022. The aims of the Committee are to to provide briefings and information on struggles in Iran, mobilise support and solidarity with the revolutionary uprising and against rights violations and facilitate direct links between workers’ organisations in the UK and workers’ organisations in…
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“L’Occidente è complice, non aiuterà le donne iraniane a liberarsi del regime”, MicroMega, 12 January 2023
“L’Occidente è complice, non aiuterà le donne iraniane a liberarsi del regime”, MicroMega, 12 January 2023 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE INTERVIEW Specifically I’d like to ask you for a comment about why IS of Iran, according to your judgement, has ever got to reach this insulting position for all women within the UN Commission on…