International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

“Today’s state, capitalist and class system is based on thousand years of exploitation, oppression and violence against women. Today, all around the world, we can see how patriarchal violence against women is reaching new heights. But if this violence is lasting since thousand of years, the resistance of women against it is also thousand years old. In every countries, every continent of the world, in the struggles for liberation, women have been systematically at the forefront. One of the brightest exemple of this legacy of resistance can be seen here, in Kurdistan and in the Rojava’s revolution. Here, the Kurdistan Women’s Movement has been at the vanguard of the struggle for the transformation and liberation of life. Here we learned that the liberation of society cannot be achieved without the liberation of women, and that the struggle for women’s freedom is the struggle for the freedom of everyone. As men, and as revolutionaries, it is a fundamental duty to make the struggle against patriarchy a central part of our daily practice and to reject and overcome every aspect that patriarchy has influenced our behaviors, mentalities and our actions. We are calling on every men to fight against the dominant male system inside and outside of themselves. We are sending with admiration and the deepest respect our greeting to the Kurdistan Women’s Movement and to all women’s movement around the world fighting against patriarchal violence. We draw a lot of inspiration and strength from their resistance.

Biji berxwedana YPJ!

Jin Jîyan Azadî!”

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