Women Cried Out: Justice for Freedom and Equality
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"25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" is celebrated through series of activities organised in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. In the final of activities, the "Women's Court for Justice", gathered in the building based in Istanbul of Birlesik Metal-Is (United Metal-Union) on the 27th of November by the Labourer Women's Union (EKB), have analyzed and tried the economic, physical, psychological and cultural violence that labourer women face.

The date of killing of Mirabel sisters, who were taken into detention and killed after being raped on 25 November 1960 because of their honourable struggle against the Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic, had been declared as the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" in the year of 1981. 25 November, the day when the violence against women is being made a subject of the action, this year also witnessed cry outs for equality and justice, actions organised by labourer women in the world and in our country. By organising meetings, press conferences, distribution of leaflets, street agitations and demonstrations in big cities and towns such as Istanbul, Izmir, Malatya, Adana and Antep, labourer women have shown their anger over the sexual, class and national violence that they face since existence of the private property, and called on every woman to raise the struggle.

Through forming a symbolic court on 19 November in Kadikoy-Besiktas pier, EKB both commemorated Mirabel sisters and condemned every form of violence that women suffer in the capitalist society, and called upon people to participate in the Women's Court for Justice which was to be formed on 27 November. EKB activists, who exhibited photos of tortured women, have also stressed out by wearing written-aprons the domestic violence, "honour-killings" and the violence, torture and rape that Kurdish women face because of defending their own national identity. The action -where slogans such as "Justice for Equality", "Rapist State will be Brought to Justice" and " Semdinli is not alone" were shouted, was ended with applauses. On the other side, in Adana, EKB, EMEP and DOKH have organised a serie of common solidarity actions, including a panel on 22 November. In the speeches, it was said that women should cry out about the violence they suffer and should come together against it and give organised struggle. Also touching on the violence that the mothers of political prisoners and the political and criminal women prisoners come across with, the speakers emphasised that the massacres can only be stopped by organised women masses.

Women's Court for Justice

The court -which was organised under the slogan of "We are trying the violence against women" on 27 November by EKB- has become a scene of joyful discussions and tried the class society, the source of all forms of violence against women. About 200 women come together and experienced the most beautiful of sharing in a hall where the banners such as "We are trying the violence against women", "Justice for equality", "We are strong because we are organised" and the pictures of women who suffered from violence were putted up on the walls. Labourer women analysed the themes: "Economic Violence", "Domestic Violence", "Sexual Violence", "Media Violence" and "State Violence".

In the court where a film prepared by the BEKSAV Women Commission and showing the pictures of women fighting and resisting in many places of the world was shown, participant women pointed out the importance of solidarity among women and that the violence can be tried. What was expressed there was the strength of "weak" women. The court has become the flame of sometimes the anger, sometimes the emotional moments and sometimes the rebellion. Many women who talked there have lived the happiness of expressing herself and sharing of violence that she suffered. By emphasising that talking on the podium is an important opportunity for them, women said they learned that the violence is not a faith and it can be eliminated through struggle. The court, which has also discussed about the existing legal regulations, ended with calls for much more organised struggle against all forms of sexual, national and class violence and exploitation.

The violence and rape suffered in the middle of the street by the women known with their oppositional identities, women to experience domestic violence and loosing of their lives due to "honour killings"; not getting equal pay for equal work by the worker and labourer women, being used as the spoil of war during the imperialist wars and etc. is mainly caused, as it was also in all other class societies, by the capitalist order. Therefore, the real sexual, national and class liberation of women can only be possible by overcoming the capitalist system that we are living, i.e. by a revolution.

In this regard, our party MLCP, which acts in its organisational life with the principle of "positive discrimination" towards women -those who are seen as the second sex for hundred centuries and are excluded from all forms of social activities- and puts in practice the slogan "Without women there will be no revolution" both with its democratic and communist women work, gives systematic fight for women to have equal rights with men in all spheres of life and against humiliation of women and sexual discrimination.

 

 

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"25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" is celebrated through series of activities organised in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. In the final of activities, the "Women's Court for Justice", gathered in the building based in Istanbul of Birlesik Metal-Is (United Metal-Union) on the 27th of November by the Labourer Women's Union (EKB), have analyzed and tried the economic, physical, psychological and cultural violence that labourer women face.

The date of killing of Mirabel sisters, who were taken into detention and killed after being raped on 25 November 1960 because of their honourable struggle against the Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic, had been declared as the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" in the year of 1981. 25 November, the day when the violence against women is being made a subject of the action, this year also witnessed cry outs for equality and justice, actions organised by labourer women in the world and in our country. By organising meetings, press conferences, distribution of leaflets, street agitations and demonstrations in big cities and towns such as Istanbul, Izmir, Malatya, Adana and Antep, labourer women have shown their anger over the sexual, class and national violence that they face since existence of the private property, and called on every woman to raise the struggle.

Through forming a symbolic court on 19 November in Kadikoy-Besiktas pier, EKB both commemorated Mirabel sisters and condemned every form of violence that women suffer in the capitalist society, and called upon people to participate in the Women's Court for Justice which was to be formed on 27 November. EKB activists, who exhibited photos of tortured women, have also stressed out by wearing written-aprons the domestic violence, "honour-killings" and the violence, torture and rape that Kurdish women face because of defending their own national identity. The action -where slogans such as "Justice for Equality", "Rapist State will be Brought to Justice" and " Semdinli is not alone" were shouted, was ended with applauses. On the other side, in Adana, EKB, EMEP and DOKH have organised a serie of common solidarity actions, including a panel on 22 November. In the speeches, it was said that women should cry out about the violence they suffer and should come together against it and give organised struggle. Also touching on the violence that the mothers of political prisoners and the political and criminal women prisoners come across with, the speakers emphasised that the massacres can only be stopped by organised women masses.

Women's Court for Justice

The court -which was organised under the slogan of "We are trying the violence against women" on 27 November by EKB- has become a scene of joyful discussions and tried the class society, the source of all forms of violence against women. About 200 women come together and experienced the most beautiful of sharing in a hall where the banners such as "We are trying the violence against women", "Justice for equality", "We are strong because we are organised" and the pictures of women who suffered from violence were putted up on the walls. Labourer women analysed the themes: "Economic Violence", "Domestic Violence", "Sexual Violence", "Media Violence" and "State Violence".

In the court where a film prepared by the BEKSAV Women Commission and showing the pictures of women fighting and resisting in many places of the world was shown, participant women pointed out the importance of solidarity among women and that the violence can be tried. What was expressed there was the strength of "weak" women. The court has become the flame of sometimes the anger, sometimes the emotional moments and sometimes the rebellion. Many women who talked there have lived the happiness of expressing herself and sharing of violence that she suffered. By emphasising that talking on the podium is an important opportunity for them, women said they learned that the violence is not a faith and it can be eliminated through struggle. The court, which has also discussed about the existing legal regulations, ended with calls for much more organised struggle against all forms of sexual, national and class violence and exploitation.

The violence and rape suffered in the middle of the street by the women known with their oppositional identities, women to experience domestic violence and loosing of their lives due to "honour killings"; not getting equal pay for equal work by the worker and labourer women, being used as the spoil of war during the imperialist wars and etc. is mainly caused, as it was also in all other class societies, by the capitalist order. Therefore, the real sexual, national and class liberation of women can only be possible by overcoming the capitalist system that we are living, i.e. by a revolution.

In this regard, our party MLCP, which acts in its organisational life with the principle of "positive discrimination" towards women -those who are seen as the second sex for hundred centuries and are excluded from all forms of social activities- and puts in practice the slogan "Without women there will be no revolution" both with its democratic and communist women work, gives systematic fight for women to have equal rights with men in all spheres of life and against humiliation of women and sexual discrimination.