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35 years after the assassination of its founder, long live RAWA !
Declaration of the OCML-VP
Dear RAWA sisters in struggle,
For 45 years, you have been fighting against all imperialist powers –Russia, America and Europe– and all fundamentalist and reactionary forces.
Thirty-five years ago, on February the 4th, 1987, your founder, Meena, was assassinated for this cause by agents of the Afghan secret service with the backing of the Russian KGB.
Still today, with the return of the Taliban to power, the barbaric puppets of successive imperialist interventions, you keep up your underground struggle within Afghanistan itself, in Kabul, Herat and elsewhere for the Afghan people and especially for women’s rights. No flight to the West for you, but underground, clandestine political and humanitarian work supporting refugees, providing food aid to the poor, running clandestine schools for women and holding more or less public courageous protest demonstrations.
We salute your determination and your courage with all our respect for the difficulties that you have to overcome along the way.
Twice, in 2002 and again in 2008, we welcomed a representative of RAWA to take part in a tour to gather support around our country, which was at the time involved in a military intervention in your country.
Today, all the blowhards such as Sarkozy, Hollande or Macron have abandoned you, because the imperialist geostrategic stakes are no longer worth it ; the so-called defence of women was nothing more than a PR smokescreen and a pretext to justify their intervention. We, the Maoist Communists of France, remain at your side, in our common fight against imperialism in all its forms –especially French imperialism in our case– and reaction and in support of women’s rights and a true popular democracy.
Comrades of RAWA, since we take the liberty to call you that, your founder Meena did not die in vain. The seeds she sowed continue to grow ; new generations of women are joining the struggle and the new imperialists and reactionaries will be defeated just as the old ones were.
We, Maoist Communists of France, remain at your disposal to the extent of our modest possibilities to broaden the support for your luminous cause !