The 8 March should be declared officially as paid public holiday!
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The Working Women's Union (EKB) has been organising a widespread campaign since the 11th of January 2005 in the geography of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan for declaration of the 8th March, the World Working Women's Day as an officially paid public holiday. The campaign started in Istanbul and Adana has spread to other cities of the country in short time. EKB, which aims to turn 8 March into a right that is being achieved instead of only celebrating it as an action day, is trying to bring working women together around this demand and to carry the liberation struggle of women a step forward. EKB naturally calls on all trade-unions, democratic mass organisations, parties and all oppressed women to support in order to end in success the campaign which would be able to cause improvement on the level of organisation and consciousness of the working women who live the sexual, national and class exploitation multiply.

8 March is the day that materializes the uprising and persistent struggle of the working women against the capitalist exploitation and repression. In the spirit and action of 8 March, there is the fight for socialism, the cause of liberation of the oppressed against the capitalism and exploitation. The working women have suffered a lot in this fight and lost hundreds of worker and labourer woman. This is why the existence and meaning of 8 March scares the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeoisie tries to empty the labourer and struggling content of 8 March, just like its efforts to turn May Day into a day of reconciliation with the system, and disappear its class essence that came into being through struggle against capitalist barbarism and exploitation. And some of the reformist and feminist currencies are taking part in this effort with different aims but reach the same result.

The campaign started and conducted by EKB is a revolutionary and vanguard initiative in terms of both organizing the masses of labouring woman with the slogan "8 March belongs to the working women", mobilizing them for the liberation struggle, and for aiming to get demands that they put forward from the patriarchal system. Spreading this struggle should have to be the task of all woman and man communists. The campaign organised through petitioning, posters, leaflets, house visits, feasts and other tools is also becoming the means to overcome the weaknesses and insufficiencies of working among the women masses. It was possible to see campaigner women every place where they could met with working women, in factories, manufacturers, schools, labourer neighbourhoods and etc.

The defence and celebration of 8 March proper to its essence caused a split in our country. By managing to succeed in what they were failed in last year, the reformist and feminist groups, who are not able to fade the red colour of 8 March, separated themselves from the socialist and revolutionary women. This situation has clearly putted the vanguard role and task of celebrating 8 March proper to its ideological content before the socialist women. By forming preparatory commissions for 8 March in the work-places and neighbourhoods to fulfil the task, the working women carried their activities to the widespread sections of workers and labourers through these commissions. The signatures collected during the opening of petition-stands have been passed to the Ministry of Employment and Social Security via centralized action organised by EKB activists who started their journey on 28 February from Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, Adana and Mersin to meet in Ankara on 1 March.

The campaign, which was started by the socialist women in our country as part of the democratic woman work, is an important activity that would let vanguard to meet with wide masses of labouring women. Dealing with the liberation struggle of the woman via socialist perspective and ideological stance, the campaign has also being placed in the first clauses of MLCP s agenda since the 20th of February. Communist vanguard has called on all of its forces to mobilise in order to bring to open the strength of socialist woman work among the masses, to enlighten them with socialist consciousness, to activate them for revolution and to organise them in the ranks of the Party. By representing a means of overcoming the question of self-trust of woman comrades, which hinders them to become leaders and forming frontlines as the communist vanguards, and also by providing an opportunity to the male comrades to overcome there weak sides expresses in their disinterests towards the woman question, the campaign is also serving the ideological and practical education among the ranks of the communist vanguard.

The campaign "8 March should be declared officially the paid public holiday" started in our country is a response given by the working women against the merciless offensive of the bourgeoisie on the rights of the workers and labourers in our day. It is an initiative to defend existing rights and to achieve new rights rather than being silent on seizure of the rights. It is the task of the communist vanguard in our country to defend and strengthen the work. But it is also the task of the communist parties and organisations of all countries to spread this work to their own countries and to create a new sphere on the international level from the labouring women front.

MLCP calls on revolutionary and communist forces of all countries to carry this revolutionary initiative to their own countries.
 

 

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The Working Women's Union (EKB) has been organising a widespread campaign since the 11th of January 2005 in the geography of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan for declaration of the 8th March, the World Working Women's Day as an officially paid public holiday. The campaign started in Istanbul and Adana has spread to other cities of the country in short time. EKB, which aims to turn 8 March into a right that is being achieved instead of only celebrating it as an action day, is trying to bring working women together around this demand and to carry the liberation struggle of women a step forward. EKB naturally calls on all trade-unions, democratic mass organisations, parties and all oppressed women to support in order to end in success the campaign which would be able to cause improvement on the level of organisation and consciousness of the working women who live the sexual, national and class exploitation multiply.

8 March is the day that materializes the uprising and persistent struggle of the working women against the capitalist exploitation and repression. In the spirit and action of 8 March, there is the fight for socialism, the cause of liberation of the oppressed against the capitalism and exploitation. The working women have suffered a lot in this fight and lost hundreds of worker and labourer woman. This is why the existence and meaning of 8 March scares the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeoisie tries to empty the labourer and struggling content of 8 March, just like its efforts to turn May Day into a day of reconciliation with the system, and disappear its class essence that came into being through struggle against capitalist barbarism and exploitation. And some of the reformist and feminist currencies are taking part in this effort with different aims but reach the same result.

The campaign started and conducted by EKB is a revolutionary and vanguard initiative in terms of both organizing the masses of labouring woman with the slogan "8 March belongs to the working women", mobilizing them for the liberation struggle, and for aiming to get demands that they put forward from the patriarchal system. Spreading this struggle should have to be the task of all woman and man communists. The campaign organised through petitioning, posters, leaflets, house visits, feasts and other tools is also becoming the means to overcome the weaknesses and insufficiencies of working among the women masses. It was possible to see campaigner women every place where they could met with working women, in factories, manufacturers, schools, labourer neighbourhoods and etc.

The defence and celebration of 8 March proper to its essence caused a split in our country. By managing to succeed in what they were failed in last year, the reformist and feminist groups, who are not able to fade the red colour of 8 March, separated themselves from the socialist and revolutionary women. This situation has clearly putted the vanguard role and task of celebrating 8 March proper to its ideological content before the socialist women. By forming preparatory commissions for 8 March in the work-places and neighbourhoods to fulfil the task, the working women carried their activities to the widespread sections of workers and labourers through these commissions. The signatures collected during the opening of petition-stands have been passed to the Ministry of Employment and Social Security via centralized action organised by EKB activists who started their journey on 28 February from Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, Adana and Mersin to meet in Ankara on 1 March.

The campaign, which was started by the socialist women in our country as part of the democratic woman work, is an important activity that would let vanguard to meet with wide masses of labouring women. Dealing with the liberation struggle of the woman via socialist perspective and ideological stance, the campaign has also being placed in the first clauses of MLCP s agenda since the 20th of February. Communist vanguard has called on all of its forces to mobilise in order to bring to open the strength of socialist woman work among the masses, to enlighten them with socialist consciousness, to activate them for revolution and to organise them in the ranks of the Party. By representing a means of overcoming the question of self-trust of woman comrades, which hinders them to become leaders and forming frontlines as the communist vanguards, and also by providing an opportunity to the male comrades to overcome there weak sides expresses in their disinterests towards the woman question, the campaign is also serving the ideological and practical education among the ranks of the communist vanguard.

The campaign "8 March should be declared officially the paid public holiday" started in our country is a response given by the working women against the merciless offensive of the bourgeoisie on the rights of the workers and labourers in our day. It is an initiative to defend existing rights and to achieve new rights rather than being silent on seizure of the rights. It is the task of the communist vanguard in our country to defend and strengthen the work. But it is also the task of the communist parties and organisations of all countries to spread this work to their own countries and to create a new sphere on the international level from the labouring women front.

MLCP calls on revolutionary and communist forces of all countries to carry this revolutionary initiative to their own countries.