TJA: Democratic life to be built with women's labour

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  • 14:33 29 April 2025
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AMED - Making a statement on May Day, TJA said, "Women's labout is not only a part of economic production; it is also the power to rebuild and transform society."

Free Women's Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) made a written statement on 1 May Worker's Day. In the statement titled "Democratic life to be established with women's labour", it was emphasised that TJA welcomed May Day this year with the slogan "Insistence on socialism is the insistence on the liberation of women's labour".
 
Statement stressed May Day is defined as a struggle to make visible, defend and liberate women's labour, which has historically been rendered invisible, and said, "At the intersection of capitalist modernity and the patriarchal system, women's labout is both exploited and systematically ignored. Women shoulder the entire burden not only in the paid labour force but also in domestic care services, agricultural production, migration routes, war zones and moments of crisis."
 
It was stated that women's labour in the Middle East, especially in Kurdistan, is under pressure not only by poverty but also by war policies, displacement, cultural assimilation and state violence. The statemetn reads: "Attacks on women's labour and institutional gainst by the trustees continue. Women's labour is directly targeted because it is linked to political will; it is tried to be excluded from social, cultural and political life. As TJA, we redefine the liberation of labour on the bais of women's liberation. Women's labour is not only a part of economic production; it is also the power to rebuild and transform society. Therefore, our struggle is a struggle to liberate all kinds of labour produced by women at home, on the street, in the field, at school, in prison and on migration routes."
 
Calling on the women's movements of the world, the statement continued: "Let us come together to organise common grounds of struggle together. As Kurdish women, we believe that the struggle for equality and justice waged by women in every geography from Latin America to Africa, from Asia to Europe is one.  We struggle against male domination in different languages, in different geographies, but in different forms of the same system. Women's identity and labour can only be defended with a line of freedom that knows no borders. Our labour can gain meaning in a democratic, ecological and women's libertarian life, not in the consumption wheel of the capitalist system. Let us grow our international struggle to liberate women's labour.  Let us learn from each other's experiences, make solidarity permanent and strengthen organisation. Our labour is our organisation. A free life is possible with women's labour."

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