It is March 8, International Women’s Day, the date that also marks the start of the February Revolution of 1917, spear-headed by the working-class women of Petrograd, who toppled the tsar and effectively initiated the revolutionary process that would culminate in Red October. So solidarity with the sisters out there, all around the world, who continue to fight for dignity and equality in their homes, their workplaces, and society in general.
Of course, I talked about the current imperialist war against Iran last week, and there are numerous reactionary rogues and scoundrels, some of whom claim to be Iranian, who would have you believe that this war of aggression, which slaughters schoolgirls in their classrooms and has killed over 1000 civilians across the country, is somehow in defence of Iranian women. They said the same thing about Iraq and Afghanistan and they were lying through their teeth back then too. Women did not benefit from the wholesale destruction of those two countries, women’s lives were destroyed, completely torn apart, by those invasions by the forces of American Empire. There was no liberation.
Imperialism does not liberate, it either exploits what it can take or destroys what it can’t take. And Trump, Netanyahu and the Epstein Class have made it very clear that they want to destroy Iran in its entirety.
Links:
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, "US and Israel attack more countries, as Iran War chaos spreads."
Dimitri Lascaris, Reason2Resist, "My Apology to the People of Iran."
Michael Parenti, University of Guelph 2011, "The Face of Imperialism."
Gabriel Rockhill, The Critical Theory Workshop, "Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti."
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