We, anarchists and revolutionaries, hate oppression, injustice, any exploitation of man, nature, and all living things. We hate that disgusting oppression on the foundation of which the Leviathan of the state and inequality is built – the subordinate position of a woman. It must be destroyed!
Abdullah Öcalan, the leader and ideologist of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, repeatedly emphasized in his writings that a woman is more capable of feeling injustice than a man. The enslavement of a woman by a man became a prologue to slavery, aggressive wars, the mass destruction of entire peoples, and capitalist exploitation that entangled the entire planet with its chains. The ideology and practice of the most successful revolutionary movement of our time – the Kurdish resistance led by the PKK – is built around the principle of women’s liberation.
The reactionaries are not going to give up their positions, this is especially evident in our Eastern European region. Putin’s expressions about a “gender-neutral god” and “perversion of the family” regularly become memes, but the dictator does not hide at all that the preservation and strengthening of the patriarchal order is one of the main goals of his foreign and domestic policy.
Within the framework of this reactionary, patriarchal paradigm, Russian troops operate in Ukraine. During the imperialist invasion, the Russian military repeatedly raped and killed women. For thousands of years, the invaders have tried to break the will of the peoples they subjugate to resist by such methods, and the Russian fascists of the 21st century have become “worthy” successors of this patriarchal tradition.
But is the liberal status quo a desirable alternative to dictatorship and reaction? Does it bring freedom to women and humanity in general? Of course not! In a world where human life has been turned into a commodity, where alienation reigns, the destruction of nature for the sake of material interests, the consumer attitude towards one’s neighbor, the suppression of the weak by the strong, there can be no freedom. With this world, we will always wage a mortal struggle. The war against the state and capitalism will not stop – in the name of the liberation of women and all living things in general!
The past year was not only the year of the terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine but also the time when women’s liberation practices once again loudly declared themselves. After the assassination of Mahsa (Kurdish name Jina) Amini by Islamist policemen, women started an uprising in Iran, and resistance under the slogan Jin, Jian, Azadî (Women, Life, Freedom) continues to this day. In the mountains of Kurdistan, the PKK women’s units massacred the Turkish imperialists. The voices of women from Eastern Europe also sounded in this international revolutionary choir. The voice of Anastasia Levashova , who already on the evening of February 24 came out with a Molotov against the National Guard, the voices of our comrades from the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists, the voices of women fighting against the Putin regime in Ukraine, engaged in volunteer activities. May these voices grow stronger every day!
No exploitation has a right to exist, and no one will be free until all are free. In the coming revolutions, women will play a leading role, and these emancipatory principles will be the leitmotif of uncompromising resistance! Man and nature will win the war for freedom – thanks to women.
