KJK calls on all progressive, revolutionary and freedom-seeking women\u2019s movements and groups to \u201ccollectively build World Democratic Women\u2019s Confederalism with us and our organized sisters from all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kurdistan Women\u2019s Communities (KJK) Committee for Democratic Relations and Alliances <\/strong>released a statement marking March 8, International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRevolution is not a certain date marked in the calendar but a constantly continuing process which has already started. Therefore, we need to liberate our relations, partnerships, friendships, and families, and fill our living spaces with a culture based on freedom, communalism, democracy and ecology,\u201d said the KJK statement released on Monday, which further includes the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day, we commemorate all women that lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and equality. The memory of women like Sakine Cans\u0131z, Rosa Luxemburg, Meena Kewshwar, Berta Caceres, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, Maita Gomez, Emily Davison and many, many more continues to light our path of resistance. On March 8, 2022, as the Kurdistan Women\u2019s Movement, we send our revolutionary greetings to all freedom-seeking women and recommit to transforming our century into the age of women\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we look at the past year, we can see both gains, like in India or Colombia, as well as setbacks like in Afghanistan and Poland. This is not unusual. Quite the contrary, in this period of women\u2019s history gains and losses go hand in hand. Because, while on the one hand women\u2019s pursuit of freedom and equality is rising, the patriarchal system tries to counter this most dynamic struggle of our age by organizing and mobilizing misogyny and sexism. The systematic attack by fundamentalist forces on women\u2019s rights under the mask of religion or moralism, the targeted killing of female community leaders, increased sexual and physical violence are expressions of this patriarchal aggressive war, which aims to prevent the women\u2019s revolution from happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The opportunities, conditions and urgency to realize this revolution have never been higher. The reasons for this historical chance lie in women\u2019s powerful quest for freedom, the structural crises of the patriarchal capitalist hegemony, and the strategic role of women\u2019s liberation in the 21st century. Once again, we see how right our leader Abdullah \u00d6calan was at the end of the last century when predicting that \u201cThe 21st century will be the age of women\u2019s liberation\u201d. Women\u2019s struggle for freedom, equality, justice, dignity and peace is the most inclusive social movement today, embracing and including people\u2019s struggles for democracy, against fascism and racism, for the protection of nature and the right of self-determination. This makes her the most strategic force in the thousands-year-old struggle against power and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As women\u2019s movements that struggle for the realization of freedom and equality, we need to take these historical conditions and the responsibility they put on our shoulders into consideration when organizing our resistance. We need to collectively analyse the historical situation in which we find ourselves, evaluate risks, challenges and opportunities, clarify our goals and develop our strategic road maps. Our gatherings should serve these needs and result in a stronger autonomous organization of the transnational women\u2019s movement. Moreover, we need to find forms and structures that allow us to struggle commonly based on an optimal balance between the local and the universal. As the Kurdish Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, we call our suggestion World Democratic Women\u2019s Confederalism. Based on our own practical and theoretical experiences, we believe that Democratic Confederalism could be the form needed to organize the women\u2019s revolution and, by doing so, transform our century into the age of women\u2019s and society\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this we also need more ground for theoretical and ideological discourses on the roots of patriarchy as well as free life. Freedom is nothing to be postponed to an unknown date in the far future. It is essential that we do not separate our life from our struggle but live what we stand for and demand now. Revolution is not a certain date marked in the calendar but a constantly continuing process, which already started. Therefore, we need to liberate our relations, partnerships, friendships, and families, and fill our living spaces with a culture based on freedom, communalism, democracy and ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need to be very aware of the counterrevolutionary attacks of the patriarchal system, especially those that seem to be invisible. In particular, we need to deepen our awareness of liberalism ideology, the main instrument of capitalist modernity to integrate women\u2019s movements into the ruling system. The appointment of women for posts within the capitalist state order under the pretext of \u2018gender equality\u2019 should be seen critically, as often they aim to undermine the women\u2019s movement\u2019s demands. The same applies to attempts to divide the women\u2019s movement by creating artificial hostilities. Ideological discourses are essential for the development of the feminist movement but should not end in fighting each other, which only serves the patriarchal system. We should not allow the tactic of \u2018divide and rule\u2019 to infiltrate our struggles and must respond to these attempts by strengthening our unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n World Democratic Women\u2019s Confederalism might act as the ground for strengthening this unity through building the world women\u2019s autonomous system. The more we organize ourselves autonomously, the more we\u2019ll be able to change. Only organized will we be able to liberate ourselves and life. In this sense, on the occasion of March 8, we call all women, in Kurdistan and around the world, to take her part in the women\u2019s revolution through organizing. We call all progressive, revolutionary and freedom-seeking women\u2019s movements and groups to collectively build World Democratic Women\u2019s Confederalism with us and our organized sisters from all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KJK calls on all progressive, revolutionary and freedom-seeking women\u2019s movements and groups to \u201ccollectively build World Democratic Women\u2019s Confederalism with us and our organized sisters from all around the world.\u201d The Kurdistan Women\u2019s Communities (KJK) Committee for Democratic Relations and Alliances released a statement marking March 8, International Women\u2019s Day. \u201cRevolution is not a certain date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n