Solidarity Message to the 2nd Middle East Youth Conference in Rojava

From the Bureau of International Relations of the Communist Party of Iran

Our greetings to all the participants and organizers of the Second Middle East Youth Conference.

Our greetings to Rojava freedom-loving people and its proud fighters in all the cantons who stood up till their last breath for their own emancipation and in order to determine their own life in a free and communal society and who have become the symbol of resistance and bravery both in the region and worldwide.

Dear comrades!

The organization of this conference, the aim of which is to meet its short and long-term goals, is one of the essential requirements for the struggle for self-emancipation. We congratulate you on this important step, and we wish you victory. Learning from the experiences of other movements and organizations and seeking knowledge and awareness, exchanging experience and knowledge between revolutionary forces, discussing the Middle East crisis and solutions and activating joint organizational mechanisms will allow for more cooperation and co-operation. We believe that these basic steps are also necessary and constructive steps to arming ourselves with knowledge of struggle to set free from class captivity.

We as the Communist Party of Iran consider it our internationalist duty to take all necessary steps and make all necessary effort to construct a united and coherent view in the struggle for a democratic and socialist Middle East and to strengthen the struggle of workers and toilers, especially in this global economic and political crisis and in the Middle East. Support and participation in the organization and empowerment of views for movements and revolution against authoritarian and reactionary dictatorships that have only created death and destruction through proxy wars and with the presence of world powers and their regional allies in the Middle East, must be founded on a revolutionary union.

In Iran under the rule of the capitalist Islamic regime for four decades and as one of the biggest centers of reactionary state, creating crises and export of war and terrorism in the Middle East, all the society has seen is oppression of workers and toilers, humiliation and degradation of women and the spread of war and terrorism and destruction. Institutionalization of corruption and destruction of society and nature, death, torture, imprisonment, execution, insecurity in the Middle East, especially direct military involvement in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, and indirectly in many other territories, only show part of the record of ruling class in Iran.

On the other hand, we witness the struggle of workers and oppressed masses in Iran that has entered a class phase since December 2017. In the ten days that shook Iran, in December 2017, close to 120 Iranian cities witnessed a confrontation between the riot police and special oppressive forces on one hand, and on the other hand, unarmed men and women who had revolted against the regime. The current wave of protests continue from those from December, which were brutally suppressed by the regime. They signal the deep crisis of legitimacy of the regime, as expressed by one of the most enduring slogans that emerged, “Fundamentalists, reformists, the game is over”.

The uprsing, the main slogan of which was “Bread, Work, Freedom, Consultative self -management!”, demanded the revolutionary overthrow of the government throughout Iran. Even after thousand protesters were arrested and hundreds killed and wounded, the movement is not restrained and not over, and is about to explode at any time. Since then, the slogan Consultative-self management!”. has been echoing throughout Iran. Now it is the working class in Iran that has been at the front row of the struggles, with hundreds of its activists arrested and killed, and with more than 7000 rallies, strikes and demonstrations over the past two years across Iran, are promising a revolutionary boost.

In Rojava, struggle and resistance for emancipation and communal system has created another page in the history of struggle for liberation and should be supported by internationalists. We must stand together against class dictatorship, for victory and for self-emancipation. We should exchange experience and knowledge of struggle and advance unity and common struggle for socialism, equality and communal society. We are all fighting for a free, just and prosperous society where no one is treated like a slave, neither a worker nor a toiler nor anybody else; where women and children are not seen as commodities; where humans and nature, as one and the same, are not commodities, and where all the relations that construct the roots of oppression, must be uprooted.

The survival of the councils in Rojava, its victories and hopes, its communal life, women’s emancipation, its revolutionary achievements and, ultimately, equality and end of class oppression depend on our solidarity.