By LoBo – Barricada Libertária
I am an anarchist because I do not recognize legitimacy in a regime sustained by control over bodies, the exploitation of labor, and terror as state policy. The Ayatollah regime in Iran is a mechanism of patriarchal and class domination: a theocracy that turns religion into an instrument of discipline, punishment, and death, directed above all against women, dissidents, and the working class.
In Iran, the State does not govern; it seizes life. Women and gender-dissident people are treated as property, monitored in every gesture, murdered when they disobey. Workers are pushed into misery while religious elites concentrate power and wealth. This violence is not a failure of the system; it is the system functioning exactly as designed.
The uprisings in the streets do not ask for reform; they express total refusal. The recent protests are acts of survival and collective insubordination. They are working-class people, young people, and women confronting an armed State with nothing but solidarity, courage, and organized revolt. When freedom is shouted, it is a declaration that submission will no longer be accepted.
My solidarity is with those who struggle, not with governments, nor with imperialisms that simulate concern while deepening exploitation through sanctions and geopolitical interests. No liberation will come from the West, from controlled elections, or from replacing one tyrant with another. Liberation can only be feminist, anti-capitalist, and anti-authoritarian, built through the self-organization of the working class and the destruction of all hierarchies.
Against the Ayatollahs, against patriarchy, against capital, and against the State.
For bodily autonomy, for the end of exploitation, and for revolt as a daily practice.
As long as domination exists, resistance will exist.
Freedom for those who fight.
