منظمة البديل الشيوعي في العراق تنظيم شيوعي عمالي منهجه الفكري والسياسي ماركسي مستنبط من “البيان الشيوعي”
“The patriarchal disregard of this ruling regime for the bodies and destinies of women and their children will remain a powerful source of the escalating violence between half of society and the other half, preventing the working class from living in peace or addressing its crucial issues, its class identity, and the unified struggle it requires.” – Yanar Mohammed.
With this profound emancipatory ideas and these firmly established feminist-communist principles, Yanar dedicated three decades of her life to the struggle against violence and exploitation wherever it exists. She worked tirelessly to illuminate the path for women by emphasizing that violence against women is not inevitable or eternal, but rather a phenomenon systematically reproduced as a cornerstone of the class system. The ruling patriarchal nationalist and sectarian forces seek to impose the tyranny of this system and entrench inequality through the most severe repression.
The ruling regimes in Iraq have never hesitated, not even for a moment, to try to silence the voice of women’s liberation. When we began publishing “Women of the Uprising” during the October 2019 uprising, as an initiative to document the role of women in the uprising, the Organization of Women’s Freedom was facing yet another of the fiercest reactionary campaigns by the government of the then-Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to shut down the organization and deliver a final blow to the women of Iraq, even though his government was already out of office.
On the morning of March 2, 2026, the hand of criminality and male violence claimed her life when an armed terrorist group assassinated the icon of the women’s emancipation struggle — our dear comrade, Yanar Mohammed— in the most brutal and horrific manner, in broad daylight, at her residence in Baghdad. The criminals killed Yanar, oblivious to the fact that the intellectual legacy she left behind is inexhaustible, and that by combining intellectual and practical struggle against injustice and male oppression, she secured millions of friends and admirers around the world. This is evident in the outpouring of messages of solidarity and appreciation for her distinguished role in the Women’s emancipatory struggle, and in the heartfelt sentiments of those devoted to Yanar and her struggle, as well as from the hundreds of marginalized and abused women who reclaimed their agency thanks to Yanar.
Our dear comrade Yanar will remain a shining beacon on the path to freedom and equality, and a towering fortress against injustice and exploitation.
Women of the Uprising
March 5, 2026
