WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL Press Release - Total Solidarity with the Iranian People (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

As the Iranian people's uprising faces immensely violent repression, the Libertarian Communist Union expresses its full support and calls for strengthening solidarity actions and movements everywhere. ---- Since December 28, the Iranian people have been rising up against the Islamic Republic, which has ruled the country for over 40 years. This is a massive, deeply rooted popular uprising. It is the result of ever-increasing economic hardship, but also and especially of decades of political, social, and cultural repression, and the oppression exerted by a far-right fundamentalist regime on the people, and particularly on women.

This same regime responds with immensely violent repression and a deliberate policy of terror. As we write, provisional death tolls exceed 10,000, despite the regime's attempt to suppress information by completely shutting down the country and cutting off the internet: the massacres are taking place behind closed doors. Thousands of arrests have also been made, potentially leading to summary trials and hundreds of executions.

This uprising is not the result of foreign influence, as the Iranian government would have us believe, but rather the people's will to break free from their chains: alongside the slogan Jin, Jiyan, Azadi - Woman, Life, Freedom - resonates Marg bar Diktator: Death to the Dictator. Together, they embody the will to overthrow the authoritarian and fascist power of the mullahs' republic, and the hope for the emergence of a free society.

The vulture imperialists are watching the situation from afar, preferring authoritarian stability to the emergence of a popular revolution. The United States remains in ambush, and the son of the former Shah is already trying to present himself as a savior. But the emancipation of the Iranian people will not come from foreign interference, nor from a new dictator. Faced with the repression of the Iranian state, solidarity among peoples must prevail: let us everywhere affirm our support for the Iranian people in their struggle for emancipation!

Jin, Jiyan, Azadi! Marg bar Diktator!

Libertarian Communist Union, January 23, 2026.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Solidarite-totale-avec-le-peuple-iranien
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