Maryam Fathi: Jin—Jiyan—Azadî against Femicide [ENGLISH] (07 April 2023, Session II)
Channel: Network for an Alternative Quest
Date: 26/05/2023

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Session II: The Multicide Regime 
2.2 Maryam Fathi: Jin—Jiyan—Azadî against Femicide

Never before in history women have been exposed to such a deep and stratified exploitation as in capitalism. Together with the nation-state capitalism constitutes the most institutionalized expression of patriarchy. Moreover when becoming a system capitalism started by destroying societies based on mother-women culture, which can be seen as its antipode. If so, how shall we define the connection between the patriarchal system and capitalism? Why and how has the male dominant system reached its highest level in capitalist age? In that light what is happening in Rojhelat Kurdistan and Iran? And can a women's liberation struggle that has no anticapitalist character succeed?

Maryam Fathi is from Marivan, East Kurdistan, Iran. She has been involved in the struggle for women's and Kurdish rights since childhood. In 2010, she was forced to leave Iran and received political asylum in Spain. In 2014, she joined the Free Women's Society of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) in Europe. Since 2020, she has been appointed as the director of KJAR in Europe.

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