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Kurdistan debate on road to women’s emancipation
By Ögmundur Jónsson
Vol. 83/No. 15
April 15, 2019
Militant/Ögmundur Jónsson
SULAYMANIYAH, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Sixty people turned out here Mar.
30 for a lively discussion and debate on the struggle for women’s
emancipation, hosted by two local youth groups, Tema and Nova. Alyson
Kennedy, the 2016 Socialist Workers Party’s candidate for president of
the United States and its candidate in this year’s election for mayor of
Dallas, spoke on the roots of women’s oppression and a working-class
road forward.
Kennedy drew on her past experience in coal miners’ battles and other
social struggles, as well as her political work discussing the party’s
program and activity with working people in Dallas and surrounding towns
and rural areas. She was joined by Dashne Nariman, who spoke about the
challenges of the fight for women’s rights today in Kurdistan and Iraq.
Savan Ako, speaking above, welcomed meeting participants on behalf of
the organizers. “We want to give a different reading on women’s issues
than the ones before in south Kurdistan,” she said. “We believe that
women’s emancipation can’t come true unless men and women work together
on ending the capitalist system.”
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