Let's Embrace the Gains of the Rojava Revolution! Let's Defend the Women‘s Revolution!

Written by: Women’s Leadership Group, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party/ Turkey & Kurdistan on 2 February 2025

(Above:Jin Jiyan Azadi!  Women, Life, Freedom)

The Rojava Revolution is a fire of rebellion and a torch of hope for women in the Middle East, in the midst of the most aggressive, most slavish strongholds of patriarchy in the region based on oppressive, colonialist, fascist regimes and unbridled bourgeois patriarchal states. The Rojava Revolution, which also developed as a women's revolution, is the achievement of all the women of the world.

The Rojava revolution, in which hundreds of women fighters sacrificed their lives with the ideals of national liberation, women's freedom and equality, developed a great people's army against the rapist, slavish, political Islamist fascist Daesh, the invasion attacks of the fascist colonialist Turkish capitalist state and the collaborator gangs it organized and directed. 

The revolution raised the women's army and women's self-defence. In Rojava and Northern Syria, it has lived for years under fascist, despotic rule of various male reigns, the last of which was formed by ISIS, and has maintained women's councils, women's institutions, women's justice, co-presidency system with great persistence and will in all areas and administrative structures, including the regions where patriarchal reactionary social traditions are most dominant. 

Today, fascist colonialism under Erdoğan has once again mobilized all its power and capacity to destroy the Rojava Revolution and overthrow the popular power. He is giving orders to HTS. It is waging war through a gang of collaborator fascist traitors called SMO. It directly engages in massacre attacks. It is increasing the buildup around Rojava for genocidal occupation. It threatens the Kurdish people and the Rojava revolution with “either surrender or genocide”. Women of all ages from the peoples of Rojava and Northern Syria are responding to this colonialist fascist arrogance by resisting with weapons in hand and forming new defence batta lions. 

The Rojava revolution is one of the most important obstacles for Erdogan's fascist chiefdom regime to intensify and spread fascist state terror and massacres in order to achieve the grave silence it aims in Turkey and Bakur Kurdistan, to continue its attacks on the women‘s liberation struggle even more unbridled, to cross out all the legal gains of the women‘s liberation struggle with great arrogance, such as exiting the Istanbul Convention with a single signature, and to unleash male violence on the streets. 

The fascist chief, who threatened Rojava and the Kurdistan freedom struggle with “either you will surrender or we will destroy”, declared 2025 as the “Year of the Family” in the same days. One of the most current bases on which he connects these plans to turn women into a birth tool to provide more exploited labour force, a larger army of hungry, miserable, poor, miserable unemployed to force workers into slavish submission, more soldiers for the army of murderers for more aggressive colonial and expansionist regional policies, and to organise a family system that will keep masses of workers and labourers, youth and women under control, is the threat and aggression against the Rojava Revolution. 

The Rojava Revolution will not be defeated, no matter what threats the colonialist fascist regime makes. It will once again defeat the denialist, colonialist, occupying, male-dominated, fascist tyranny directed against it. 

As KKÖ, we will never lower the flag of KKÖ fighters Sibel Bulut, Ivana Hoffmann, Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, Sevda Çağdaş, who were immortalised while defending the Rojava Revolution and what it brought to the women of Rojava and the whole world, we will defend the Rojava revolution. We will defeat colonialism and its fascist, racist political Islamist collaborators and allies. 

We call on all women in Turkey and Bakur Kurdistan and all over the world, who want freedom, who struggle for equality and justice, to raise solidarity with the Rojava Revolution! 

Long live our Rojava Revolution! 

Long Live the Women's Revolution! Jin Jiyan Azadi! 

Rojava Will Never Fall! 

January 20, 2025 MLKP / KKÖ Women’s Leadership 

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