Today we live in a world where racist–fascist movements are on the rise, misogyny and heterosexism threaten our lives. Patriarchal capitalism condemns us women to a life that is constantly on the edge of a cliff.
This system aims to consolidate the family by entrenching gender roles in order to tighten the grip on our bodies and our labour; it turns the wheel of oppression and exploitation much more severely. That is why, along with the liquidation of all social rights and institutions, we are forced to live in even more dire conditions. This means that even when we work outside as if it were not enough, we are not even allowed to escape our domestic servitude. When we are forced into equivalent work with men, we are paid less than our share. We live in the deepest depths of the deep poverty that seeps into every moment and area of our lives. The bare minimum of economic violence is to eat a hot plate that can’t be boiled in a full–blown copper kitchen, a hot plate that cannot be put on the table. Poverty is twice the poverty for women; we are talking about the feminization of poverty. What we are saying is that every day when we don’t want to carry these social gender roles that are imposed on us as if it were a law of nature, we are being restrained by physical, economic and psychological violence.
Just as the colonialist fascist AKP–MHP government hijacks the will of the Kurdish people by assigning skewers, seeks to subjugate the Kurdish people through massacres, wars and invasions, it also deepens male–state violence in order to solidify the foundations of the patriarchal capitalist system. In order to strengthen its male dominance, it wants to turn the wheels of exploitation even more quickly with the “bourgeois in the home,” i.e. over our lives. In one, a people seeks to subjugate woman to man; in the other, it seeks to subjugate, man to woman.
Our struggle is the struggle to take our own destiny into our own hands. We will stand up to this male–dominated fascist regime, which condones even the murders of women on display, and weaponises the brutality to imprison women on the margins of the system. We shall stand shoulder to shoulder with the Kurdish people against the patriarchical policies that have been in place for three terms in Kurdistan. We do not want to live in a male–dominated capitalist system, with the state, with the name of father, wife, brother or lover assigned to our lives outside the household. The rise of male violence is to imprison us in the world where we are second–class human beings. But despite all forms of violence and death against them, women do not obey, they carry out their self–defense, they rebel. We revolutionary women, even though we face all kinds of state violence, we are thrown into the revolutionary struggle. We say that you cannot subvert the will of the Kurdish people, our lives, we are elevating the struggle.
By fighting against fascism and male domination, we will take our own destiny into our own hands. We will be the followers of the Mirabel Brothers, who were slaughtered on November 25 while raising this fight against the patriarchal capitalist system, and our immortals who plucked their hearts out like a green leaf for the revolution of Turkey and Kurdistan. Our fight is for a free world where no one is exploited, where no one is oppressed, where nobody is oppressed!
We will not sacrifice our lives or the will of the Kurdish people!
We will fight for a world of our own!
We will overthrow male domination and fascism and win our freedom!
Woman, Life, Freedom, Jin, Jiyan!
DKP/Union – Women’s Communes