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Yassamine Mather continues her discussion of political islam In her latest article on political islam, Yassamine Mathers looks at how the womens movement has fared in Iran. She also addresses how imperialism offers no answers for women. Full text at link. It is ironic that political correctness has discouraged many western feminists from challenging ‘islamist feminism’. Iranian women, who are amongst the worst victims of fundamentalism, have no intention of following this trend and indeed over the last few years many of them have written extensively against the defenders of ‘islamist feminism’. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Chris Strafford reports on a successful HOPI public meeting in Manchester. Full text at link.
Hands Off the People of Iran held a successful meeting in Manchester on June 24, titled ‘Can imperialism liberate women?’ The meeting discussed how imperialism cynically claims to support the rights of women and others to legitimate its own actions, including its military adventures.
Ruth Bergan from the Greens reasserted her party’s support for Hopi and spoke about the growing military threat to Iran and its use by the theocracy to attack the social movements. The driving force was not concern for democratic rights, but the pursuit of the west’s economic and political interests, she said. She spoke about the need for change in Iran to come from the Iranian people without the interference of the western powers, and slammed Britain’s hypocrisy in regard to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.
Yassamine Mather discussed at length the effect of sanctions and the increasing inflation within Iran, particularly their effect on the working class. She explained the intricacies of and contradictions within the Iranian women’s movement and how these are being played out in the ‘one million signatures’ campaign. Comrade Mather gave an account of the new generation of women, who are far more radical, and how they have linked up with the students’ movement.