March 8 - From the cell to the street: Iranian women never give up! ---- On this International Women's Day, Iran is under bombardment and Iranian women, as they have always been, are in the centre of fire, not as victims but as fighters. ---- Since the early days of the Islamic Republic, women were the ones who refused. When Khomeini imposed the mandatory hijab in 1979. , women took to the streets within a few days. For nearly five decades, they have been paying the price of this refusal with jail, with whipping, with death. The regime has built its entire ideological architecture on control of women's bodies, women's movement, women's voices. And for five decades, women have been destroying this architecture brick by brick.
When Mahsa Gina Amini was murdered in September 2022. , the women ignited the flame that turned into the uprising "Women-Life-Freedom". Not because they've been told to. Not because a party or leader has given them permission. And they have been burning for decades and finally the fire became visible to the world.This flame has not been extinguished. In December 2025 and January 2026 women were again at the forefront of the uprisings, organizing, leading, inspiring. The regime responded with its full and brutal force. Women were beaten in the streets. Shot down with battle ammunition. Sexually abused in custody. Tortured in cells. Some were killed. Their names may not yet be known in the world, but we know them. We are wearing them. We honor every woman who gave her life those weeks, demanding nothing more than the right to exist freely and with dignity.
The prisons were again filled with women who had dared to stand up.
Today, as bombs fall on Iranian cities, these same women remain in custody. Some were transferred to Revolutionary Guards military bases used as living shields. Their cases are being conducted quickly through the courts in silence and eclipse. The risk of mass executions is real.
Now war is added to oppression. Women in Tehran, in Minab, in cities across Iran hide their children from rockets while their sisters rot in cells. They care for the injured in damaged hospitals. They document the atrocities on phones related to illegal VPN networks. They keep the memory of the struggle alive in the darkest moment.
We make it clear: the liberation of Iranian women will not come from American bombs or Israeli missiles. It won't come from a monarchy that treated women like property before the Islamic Republic treated them like sinners. Liberation will come, it's already coming, from the women themselves. From below.
On this March 8, we honor every Iranian woman who refused. Every woman who burns her hijab. Every woman that has gone out on the street. Every woman who has been beaten, tortured and abused because she dared to demand freedom. Every woman who was murdered and whose blood waters the seeds of struggle. Every woman that is in a cell today. Every woman that's alive and still fighting.
They're not waiting to be exempted. They are the liberation.
Without the Mule! Without Chess!
Woman - Life - Freedom!
Anarchist front (Iran)
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Comment by the autonomous non-authorized group "AnarchoResistance":
We could have written different texts regarding women's liberation and anti-patriarchy in connection with March 8. Feminism and the struggle for female liberation and dignity are an integral part of anarchist theory and struggle.
However, we decided to give a voice to those women who have been brutally oppressed and physically destroyed for decades. These are the ones we need to heed today. Shut up too with your campism and anti-imperialism for idiots. Listen to them!
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Link: (en) Iran, AF: STATEMENT OF ANARCHIST FRONT (IRAN) REGARDING MARCH 8, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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