News Center-May Day is a global occasion in which peoples, institutions, and unions celebrate the role and struggles of workers. On this day, social organizations, especially women’s organizations, take the initiative to organize events and issue statements affirming the importance of social justice and worker’s rights, and to highlight the role of working women in the march toward liberation and equality.

The coordination of the Kurdish Women’s Movement System(KJK) issued an extensive statement today, Friday, May 1, On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, addressing the conitions of workers, the role of women in social struggle, the relationship between freedom and work, as well as political and social assessments of the capitalist system and its effects.

The statement highlighted the struggles of workers in Turkey and North Kurdistan, Rojava, East Kurdistan, and elsewhere, noting that workers in mines, defenders of the land againt mining companies, and participants, in marches demanding rights constitute part of a broad resistance movement that intersects with the struggle of women and youth.

KJK also saluted women facing femicide,mothers, youth,and children, considering that May Day is also an occasion to commemorate the martyrs of the labor and socialist movement.

Criticism of the capitalist system and warning of its social consequences

The statement addressed the effects of the capitalist system, describing it as “a system that has lost its moral and human standards.” It explained that “in the face of this capitalist system that has spiraled out of control and no longer possesses any ethical or human standards, we must work for a socialism based on a new moral philosophy.”

KJK believes that current conditions make the need for democratic socialism greater than ever, considering it the path capable of confronting "excessive consumerism, environmental destruction, digital control over society, draining life of its meaning, and, as Leader Abdullah Öcalan said, 'Perseverance in humanity is perseverance in socialism.'"

The statement explained that "the peoples of Kurdistan and the Middle East have suffered for centuries from occupation and the loss of their work values," as they were removed from their productive role and turned into strangers in their own homelands. It considered that this reality makes "broad national struggle an urgent necessity," affirming that "the liberation of work will not be achieved unless a free and democratic life is built."

Women's freedom is the foundation for building a democratic economy and society

The statement noted that work in a free homeland acquires a social and moral character – work that liberates humans and does not enslave them. It also stressed that "efforts to build a free life and liberate society are sacred work," pointing out that "the work of mothers and women has been the most plundered and exploited throughout history, yet at the same time it represents the most sacred form of work."

The coordination affirmed that the experience in Rojava is an example that women can be the owners of the real economy when appropriate conditions are provided, considering that this experience has become a source of hope for working women in the region and the world.

Lack of democracy is the root of workers' problems

The statement stressed that the absence of democracy is the fundamental root of workers' problems, and that any democratic society is capable of addressing unemployment and economic crises. It called for strengthening communes and community‑based economic systems as effective tools to confront capitalist exploitation. "Protecting work begins with communes, which represent the free life of peoples in the face of the capitalist system. By developing economic systems based on the commune, the cycle of exploitation can be broken. As it is quoted from Leader Öcalan: 'A society that knows democracy does not know unemployment. Wherever there is unemployment, there is a high degree of non‑democracy.' Therefore, the greatest struggle of workers is in essence a struggle for democracy."

In conclusion, KJK called on women, youth, mothers, villagers, and workers to participate widely in May Day activities and to adopt the project of democratic socialism, considering that this path is the way to build a free and just society.