8 March, International Working Women\u2019s Day, is blessed to all women of the world who seek the
\nrights of their labor, to all humanity who struggle for this cause, and to Kurdish women! 8 March is
\nthe day of unity and struggle for all women.
\nAs the Kurdish Women\u2019s Freedom Movement, we bow with respect before the memory of all
\nwomen who fell martyr in the cause of freedom, and we salute the awakening and magnificent
\nactions of women who, despite all forms of oppression, violence, and massacres, have transformed
\nprisons, mountains, streets, workplaces, fields, homes, in short every sphere of life, into arenas of
\nFreedom.
\nAs the Kurdistan Women\u2019s Freedom Movement, for more than 40 years we have waged a great
\nstruggle to deepen the ideology of women\u2019s liberation; to reveal women\u2019s self-defense power and
\nconsciousness; to ensure women\u2019s equal and free representation in the political sphere; to overcome
\nsexism in all areas of life; and on this basis to accelerate women\u2019s liberation. On this path, we have
\nalways attached great importance and meaning to sharing the achievements we have reached with
\nthe women of the world.
\nAnd now, with great excitement, enthusiasm, and a high level of determination, we aim to fulfill our
\nmission within the universal women\u2019s freedom movement in order to transform the 21st century
\ninto the era of women\u2019s freedom and to realize the second great women\u2019s revolution.
\nAs you are all closely following, we have entered 2026 at a dizzying pace of developments. The
\nworld is rapidly shifting towards a multipolar, fragmented order. The global system has fractured.
\nAcross the world, populist, machoist leaders are placing their own power interests above all values.
\nOur world has been rendered unlivable due to hostile competition and power relations. Capitalism,
\npatriarchy, and domination are causing the very ground beneath our feet to collapse. For all these
\nreasons, the international system based on rights and rules stands on the brink of disintegration. The
\nPresident of the United States, D. Trump, through his actions and words, has driven the final nail
\ninto the coffin of the nation-state. Today, the rules of a world under destruction are being
\ndetermined by despots and populist, misogynist leaders. Unfortunately, democracies today are not
\neven effective in limiting this harmful course.
\nIn this situation, the primary question for women is the following: How should we read this process
\nand how should we position ourselves? This is the fundamental question that must be answered
\nfrom the front of the peoples, and specifically of women. As has been claimed, it has become
\nsufficiently clear that the international system does not provide a protective, balancing, or binding
\nframework for the lives of peoples; on the contrary, for women it is both the cause and the result of
\nall negative conditions. The era of the nation-state has collapsed; all the masks of the nation-state
\ngods have fallen alongside the multiple crises they themselves have created.
\nWith the collapse of the bipolar world order at the end of the 20th century, the search for a New
\nWorld Order began. The war in Yugoslavia, the Iraq war, the uprisings and wars that began with the
\nArab Spring, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Gaza war, and the ongoing wars in all parts of
\nKurdistan divided among four colonialist states have intensified and deepened since the 1990s.
\nThese colonialist wars that have devastated our planet have not ceased; they are systematically
\nsustained by dominant powers. The wars being waged have not resolved existing problems; rather,
\nthey have deepened them further and destroyed whatever belonged to the old world. As Antonio
\nGramsci said: \u201cThe old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of
\nmonsters.\u201d In recent days, everyone expresses this reality. Humanity now lives in an age ruled by
\nthe strong.
\nWhile the nation-state society binds individuals to power through citizenship ties, it has struck the
\nheaviest blow to communal life. Whatever sustains a society – economy, ecology, health, settlement,
\neducation, and self-defense as fields of organization – has been seized by the state. Peoples and
\ncommunities have been left defenseless. The forces that should be responsible for the defense of the
\npeople are either mobilized as aggressors to seize others\u2019 lands and wealth or driven against
\nopposing fronts.
\nAlthough our planet has long been sending out an SOS, ecological destruction is produced for the
\nsake of greater wealth; genocides and mass displacements are carried out. Why, while our planet is
\non the verge of death under such exploitation, do states refrain from necessary agreements and fail
\nto impose essential limitations on corporations? Science and technology, which should provide
\nsolutions to our existing problems, are transformed into serious weapons in the hands of power
\ncenters and used against humanity. Why is our food and drinking water poisoned, and why are the
\ndiseases arising from this not prevented? The answer to all these questions is simple: so that some
\nmay gain more profit. Poverty, inequality, social oppression, authoritarianism, environmental crisis,
\npollution, loss of diversity, and the uncontrolled use of technology are the results of wars waged to
\nsecure the competitive arenas of the capitalist system.
\nIt is time to abandon the illusion that states serve the peoples. Nation-states are the fundamental
\npillars of the capitalist system (of capital owners and narrow power centers). To sustain their own
\npower, they need the people, the worker, the unemployed, the army, raw materials, migrants, the
\nfamily, technology, and ideologies that generate exploitation (nationalism, religiosity, sexism, and
\nscientism). No people, especially forces outside power, can claim that nation-states represent them.
\nPeoples know they are oppressed, exploited, and suppressed under power, yet due to the illusion
\nthat life without the state is impossible, they tolerate these usurpations of rights.
\nAs women, we have no state; as workers, we have no state; as migrants, we have no state; as
\nindigenous peoples, we have no state. When we say we have no state, we mean there has never been
\nand will never be, a state that represents us, protects our interests, or prioritizes our well-being.
\nWorldwide, women still have to struggle for equality in every sphere. Because in all areas of life,
\nwomen are still systematically subjected to male violence. Women are still humiliated, degraded,
\nand objectified. Who, despite women constituting half of the world\u2019s population, sustains this order – and how?
\nWhy, despite the objections of people living in a country, are heads of state (such as the Taliban in
\nAfghanistan or Jolani in Syria) brought to power by force with the support of external powers? And
\nwhy are leaders or forces who gain the support and consent of the people killed, abducted,
\ncriminalized, and imprisoned? Because the interests of power are taken as essential, not the will of
\nthe peoples.
\nPeoples have been dragged into wars that are not their own and turned into instruments of others\u2019
\nstruggles for power. How is it that peoples pay the heaviest price for policies they did not
\ndetermine? The illusion of securing the just demands of peoples through the state has deprived us of
\nour own foundations and has led us to sustain the power of others.
\nHow did powers accomplish this? Not solely through brute force, though that has never been
\nlacking. The state\u2019s army, police, law, and media have always been deployed against segments of
\nsociety that refuse obedience, and especially against women. But more importantly, through the
\nideologies of power – nationalism, religiosity, scientism, and sexism – peoples and societies were
\nintegrated into this system.
\nBecause of this mentality, all struggles for freedom and equality conducted so far have not freed
\nthemselves from resembling their opposites; instead, they have strengthened them. The national
\nliberation struggles and class struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries met the same fate. Any
\nstruggle that cannot create its own alternative modernity in the face of this system cannot escape the
\nsame fate.
\nMale domination – and on this basis the phenomena of power accumulation, class formation,
\nmilitarism, and religification – has for thousands of years struck, massacred, and exploited us
\nwomen. The patriarchal civilization that systematized oppression and exploitation is today shaken
\nby realities resembling barbarism. The criminal files of Jeffrey Epstein, watched in astonishment for
\ndays by all humanity and women in particular, have become a confession of the male-dominated
\nsystem. The exposure of the powerful and billionaires as rapists cannot be read as a malfunction or
\nan isolated incident within the system. The true rapist is the capitalist system itself, shaped by
\npatriarchal codes.
\nYes, dear sisters, we are precisely at the moment called \u201cEither freedom or barbarism!\u201d Women\u2019s
\nfreedom is not merely a theoretical proposition; it is the foundation of all social freedoms. Women\u2019s
\nenslavement and femicide are the foundation of all enslavements and wars of power. The only path
\nto liberation from all the evils created by power, from the practices of femicide described as
\nbarbarism, passes through women\u2019s freedom. If the usurpation of rights, will, and labor created by
\nthe patriarchal system were not so deep, humanity, women in particular would have risen up after
\nthe exposure of the Epstein files. The issue goes far beyond an extraordinary scandal. Once again
\nwe see that capital relations intertwined with male-dominated power networks have also rendered
\nthe field of law a private domain of men. Male power networks protect the perpetrator and render
\nthe testimonies of victims worthless and invisible. Violence is a structural phenomenon in all
\npatriarchal systems. The demonization of \u201cJ. Epstein\u201d today may conceal the masculinity and power
\nrelations that made such monstrosity possible. As women, we must begin by questioning the system
\nthat leads to such barbarism. The Epstein file is the portrait of organized male evil. The historical
\nrealities called cannibalism, barbarism, and predation find expression precisely in the criminal
\nnetwork formed by Epstein. What has occurred is not an exceptional example of the male
\ndominated system. Epstein\u2019s crime island is the capitalist order itself.
\nWithout targeting and transforming the masculine order that makes abuse possible, every exposure
\nmay become an agenda, but the system will remain where it stands. Women\u2019s freedom requires
\ndaring a great and radical struggle. For this reason, as women we must cleanse ourselves of
\neverything belonging to power, its mentality, culture, lifestyle, and instruments. Otherwise, we
\ncannot save ourselves from becoming victims of this monstrous system. We must no longer develop
\nothers\u2019 struggles, but our own. For this, we must build our own paradigm, institutions, alternative
\nsystem, and culture through which we can develop and defend ourselves, our society, our lands (our
\nliving spaces), our nature, and our labor. We must lead the struggle for alternative life, the antidote
\nto all powers.
\nBecause the capitalist system is founded upon the exploitation of women and therefore women\u2019s
\nexploitation is its most essential pillar. To abolish this pillar, we must lead alternative struggles.
\nBecause the women\u2019s struggle is the longest and the most universal. The politicization of women,
\nwith its universal meaning at the forefront, will offer profound openings and radical solutions in
\nhuman rights, social and cultural rights, sensitivity to nature and environmental problems, children\u2019s
\nrights, health, and education.
\nBecause women are also the driving force of socialism. The woman question is more important than
\nclass and national realities. It is comprehensive both historically and socially. It is more valuable
\nand encompassing than politics conducted in the name of class and nation. On the basis of
\nrecognizing and overcoming the fact that woman is the lowest and most excluded class of all, we
\nbelieve that the communalist struggle will achieve the success it deserves and we say: the pioneer of
\nbuilding Democratic Socialism is woman! It has been understood that a socialist struggle that does
\nnot successfully pass the test of women\u2019s freedom cannot produce the result it deserves.
\nIn the face of barbaric patriarchal system practices that make life difficult for all living beings,
\nwomen must emerge as the force that most insistently raises peace and democracy. It is we women
\nwho will stop the flowing blood and restrain all the barbarities created by the male mind. Women
\neverywhere must act as militants of peace and democracy; otherwise, in the wars ruthlessly waged
\nby the male mind, none of us will have calm and peaceful harbors to which we can retreat.
\nRebelling against the male-dominated mentality and system undoubtedly requires great sacrifices; it
\nrequires tremendous organization, deep struggle, and efforts of self-defense. As seen, in all crisis
\nregions and in processes of the collapse of authoritarian regimes, women have been the most radical
\ndynamic of mass actions. Yet at negotiation tables, it has again been women whose rights, existence,
\nvoices, and gains have been ignored. Wherever we are, we must place women\u2019s status on the
\nagenda as a strategic issue. With the sensitivity that if we win, we win together, and if we lose, we
\nlose together, we must listen to the women\u2019s resistance and objections rising across the world and
\nraise solidarity beyond all borders constructed by powers. We must see and embrace our sisters\u2019
\npain, joy, success, and achievements as our own heritage.
\nAt this dawn of history, it is essential that we organize universally and build, on a global scale,
\nwomen\u2019s free and equal system against the sexist, patriarchal, capitalist world system. For this, we
\nmust develop democratic women\u2019s alliances. We must develop paths, methods, and perspectives of
\nstruggle appropriate to the conditions, characteristics, and needs of the 21st century. Indeed,
\ntogether we must create the 21st-century women\u2019s liberation program.
\nThe sharp increase in attacks against women worldwide is directly linked to this crisis condition and
\nto the relationship between the patriarchal capitalist world system and women\u2019s freedom. We must
\nsee the connection between gang rapes in Asia and sexual violence in the United States; we must
\naddress as a whole the femicides reaching massacre levels in Latin America and the abduction and
\nenslavement of women and girls by religion-masked gangs in Africa and the Middle East. We must
\nevaluate together the rise of fascist, misogynist regimes and the usurpation of women\u2019s rights won
\nthrough struggle. And we must clearly see that this war waged worldwide by the patriarchal system
\naims to suffocate the rising quest and struggle for women\u2019s freedom. Because perhaps at no stage in
\nthe history of civilization has the male-dominated system been so strained, its foundations so
\nshaken. And for women, the conditions for achieving freedom have never matured to such an
\nextent. The possibilities for realizing the second great women\u2019s revolution have never grown so
\nvast. Therefore, we are passing through a historic process. Great opportunities exist but the danger
\nis also great.
\nAs Kurdish women, we greet the 116th year of International Working Women\u2019s Day with this
\nintensity. With this brief letter, we wished to share our thoughts and hopes regarding the process
\nwith our esteemed sisters and women\u2019s structures. On this occasion, we celebrate your 116th
\nInternational Working Women\u2019s Day. With the strength and light of the common women\u2019s struggle,
\nwe renew our promise to tear the darkness created by domination and patriarchy out of our lives and
\nto make every day March 8.
\nSalute to our symbols of resistance, from Rosas to Saras!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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