Let Us Become One Voice, One Heart on 25 November

Violence against women has never before been carried out with such in-depth and systematic intensity. Male-dominated violence, which has reached horrific levels and permeates every month, every day, and every moment of the year, has made it imperative to say ‘enough is enough’. In this regard, effective results can only be achieved if we, as women, unite in organized struggle against femicide, the destruction of life, society, and nature perpetrated by capitalist modernity — the representative of our era’s murderous system of domination — and its derivatives, which inject these forms of destruction into every cell of life.

Against a culture of violence embedded in every aspect of social life, we, as women, need plans and projects that establish a multidimensional perspective of struggle, ranging from transforming the organization of everyday life and relationships to building alternative structures for a free life. At a time when violence has become a culture and a way of life, the process of democratic integration initiated by Leader Abdullah Ocalan brings all peoples and oppressed groups together within a framework of interconnectedness, while opening up new horizons of struggle for all the oppressed, particularly women.

With the development of the Peace and Democracy Process, our women’s liberation perspective and the seeds of an alternative life will grow much stronger. One of the fundamental objectives of the Peace and Democratic Society Process is to pave the way for women’s democratic and free participation. Through this process, the ground will also be created for a more comprehensive and profound struggle against violence targeting women, as well as all attitudes that marginalize and objectify women in every sphere of life. The Democracy and Peace Process will therefore also be a process through which women’s freedom, their understanding of liberation and their fundamental human rights can be advanced in every sphere of life.

This year, we approach the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November with a new, comprehensive and profound perspective. We respond by strengthening women’s unity in Kurdistan, the Middle East and across the world, and by advancing their collective struggle. Let us transform 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, into an even stronger expression of women’s solidarity, unity and struggle than in previous years.

The reality of 25 November places upon women’s movements, above all, the duty and responsibility to organize through women’s own collective wisdom and to democratize society under women’s leadership. For this reason, everyone — particularly women comrades — must strengthen and expand their organization with every step they take, successfully carrying this march towards freedom into cities, villages, streets, neighborhoods, factories, schools, homes and individual lifestyles. The male-dominated system, which is the undertaker of society and women, operates strategically and politically at global, regional and local levels. If it implements its agenda multidimensionally at every moment of life, then we, as women’s movements, must also wage a multidimensional struggle everywhere and at all times, based on a strategy and politics of women’s liberation.

We can develop our existence by expanding our world of meaning through struggle, organization and the power of self-defence. On this basis, we can change and transform society and men, and create a world in which it is possible to breathe freely. In this way, the tradition of 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, whose roots go back to the Mirabal sisters and extend to Sakine Cansız, will open the doors to a world free from violence.

Let us strengthen our organized, collective women’s struggle under the slogan ‘through women’s organization against violence, the time for self-defence is now!’ to overcome violence and lay the foundations of a new life alongside women struggling for freedom, equality and justice. Let us become one voice and one heart on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and make the 21st century an era of women’s liberation.

The Coordination Of The KJK