To the Squares on May 1st for Freedom, Justice, and a Dignified Life!- MLKP Turkey/Kurdistan

To the Squares on May 1st for Freedom, Justice, and a Dignified Life
Let Us Unite in Taksim, on the May Day Squares

We live under the yoke of an exploitative, unjust, and inhumane order in which the rich grow richer every year while the poor grow poorer. The torment and suffering of workers, women, oppressed peoples, laborers, and youth know no end. Life, which should be a great celebration, has instead become a misery of sorrow, full of poverty, deprivation, unemployment, and injustice. The class of capital clings to fascist governments, fascist presidential regimes, and fascist dictatorships to protect this vile capitalist order that holds the world in its clutches and its guardians, the patriarchal bourgeois states, from the wrath of the working class, the poor, and the laborers.
The working class and the oppressed have no choice but to unite, organize, and struggle. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to maintain even their human dignity in this world of plunder and oppression.
Brothers and Sisters!
The American bourgeois state opened fire on workers striking for an eight-hour workday instead of the 15-hour workday on May 1, 1886, killing four workers. Eight union leaders were later arrested, and four of them were executed a year later. But this intimidation could not stop the working class. The blood shed gave life to the red flag of the working class. In 1889, the international organization of the working class, the Second International, decided that May 1 should be celebrated every year in all countries as a day of unity, solidarity, and struggle for the working class. Despite all the bans and bloody attacks by capitalist states, workers and oppressed people have been shouting out their anger, their demands, and their aspirations in the squares, at great sacrifice, every May Day for 135 years.
In October 1917, the working class in Russia and its colonies turned the world upside down, drawing inspiration from the struggles of the global working class in the 19th century. They led the October Revolution to victory, which brought a smile to their own faces as a class, to the oppressed peoples, to women as the oppressed sex, and to all the poor. For the first time, humanity witnessed a workers’ revolution that destroyed the system of exploitation, a union of republics based on the equality of peoples, and the most comprehensive and qualified rights on the path to freedom for women to date. Likewise, just 20 years after the October Revolution, humanity realized that a new society was possible in which unemployment, lack of education, homelessness, a wasted life of poverty, and fear of the future were abolished. A society that says: “There is no liberation alone; it is either together or none!” and “Man is not a wolf to man, but a brother, a sister, a friend, and a comrade.” This socialist society, which embodied the fraternal unity of dozens of peoples, waged a relentless war 25 years after the October Revolution, saving the world from enslavement to the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, at the cost of 22 million people of all ages and genders who fell.
Today, the states and the bourgeois propaganda machine, which act as guardians, monitors, and executioners of the capitalist monopolies, are trying to make us forget all this. They are trying to turn May Day into a hollow parade through system-oriented trade unionists and reformist parties. They are doing everything in their power to sever May Day‘s connection with the tradition of solidarity and struggle.
Brothers and Sisters!
On May Day, let us become a united army and take over the squares to reclaim the democratic and economic rights that the working class worldwide, together with the oppressed, has selflessly fought for, and which have largely been stolen today. Let us transform our anger against capitalist exploitation, fascism, the patriarchal system, colonialism, and imperialism into fighting power. Let us raise the demand for a new life, a new world. Let us wave the flags of freedom, justice, and socialism in the squares.
Let us unite in the squares from Amed to Istanbul against the fascist regime, which knows no bounds in its fascist, patriarchal, exploitative, and racist-colonialist cruelty and arrogance against workers, the poor, women, the Kurdish people, national communities, Alevi laborers, youth, LGBTI+ individuals, intellectuals, and artists in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. Let us occupy the May Day Square in Istanbul, Taksim Square, and reclaim it from the thieves, guided by the desire raised by hundreds of thousands in the March Uprising to smash the Taksim ban and carry the uprising’s demand for justice and freedom to new parts of society. Let us tear down the remaining walls of fear from the fascist regime and its arbitrary fascist bans with an enthusiastic flood of workers, women, youth, the poor, and the working people.
Let us spread hope, morale, and the will to fight among the many millions of workers, the poor, women, and youth who have not yet joined the struggle. Let us take a strong practical and moral step toward the overthrow of the fascist regime.
Let Us Unite in Rojava and Syria!
Let us unite as workers, women, youth, laborers, and the poor from the Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syrian, Armenian, Circassian, Druze, Turkmen peoples, as Yazidis, Druze, Alevis, Nusayris, Sunni Muslims, and Christians in the May Day squares for a united Democratic Republic of Syria and Rojava, based on the equality of peoples, the freedom of women, and the political freedom of workers and laborers, against the HTS regime, which is under the patronage of the USA, Great Britain, the EU, Turkey, and the Arab capitalist states, above all Saudi Arabia.
Let us march in Europe shoulder to shoulder with the working and oppressed peoples of Europe on May Day and say no to racism, fascism, the theft of rights, “pensions in the grave,” the fascization of laws, violence against women, impoverishment, deportation of refugees, and the support of European states for the fascist regime of Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmed al-Sharaa’s HTS, Zelensky’s Ukraine, and the genocide of Zionist colonialist Israel in Palestine.
Rise Up, You Workers Who Carry the World on Your Shoulders!
Rise Up, Female Fighters for Freedom and Social Justice!
Rise Up, You Young People Who Are the Hope, Pride, and Future of Our Peoples!
Rise Up, You Oppressed and Laboring Forces of the World Who Are Fighting for a Life Without Borders, Exploitation, and Gender Separation!
Bijî Yek Gulan Bijî Sosyalizm! Long Live May Day! Long Live Socialism!
MLKP Central Committee

Against Capitalism, Imperialism, Colonialism, and Fascism:
Long Live May Day – Long Live the Revolution and Socialism!
The imperialist-capitalist system is in crisis. All parts of the world have been exploited, plundered, and enslaved without limits by the imperialists and their collaborators. Hunger, misery, unemployment, poverty, disease, lack of education, and homelessness plague the workers and laborers. Nature has been turned into a garbage dump. What is left that isn’t exploited by the imperialist-capitalist bandits? The greed for profit of capitalism and its bourgeoisie knows no bounds. Lies weren’t enough to save them. The king is exposed! Capitalism is again in crisis. Capitalism is dying.
Capitalism means exploitation!
Capitalism means hunger, poverty, and misery for workers and laborers!
Capitalism means the colonization of oppressed peoples!
Capitalism means patriarchy and barbarism!
Capitalism means the exploitation and destruction of labor, bodies, nature, and everything human!
Capitalism means palaces for the bourgeoisie and huts for the poor!
Capitalism means WAR!
To Our People, Our Peoples of Kurdistan!
The colonial, occupying, fascist, reactionary, despotic, and political-Islamist dictatorships continue to commit crimes against the Kurdish people and the peoples of Kurdistan. The colonialist, fascist Turkish occupying state does not recognize the national democratic rights of our people. It continues its attacks against our people and its communist and national-democratic vanguard in Bakûr, Basûr, and Rojava, using all possible methods, including liquidation, destruction, and war.
We, the Kurdish people and the peoples of Kurdistan – the workers, laborers, women, and youth – will resist, fight, and win unconditionally against the occupying fascist Turkish colonial state and the imperialist-capitalist states. We will fight for the establishment of a free and socialist Kurdistan, where the national yoke and colonialism will be broken, and capitalism and its bourgeois state apparatus will be abolished, for our dignity, freedom, labor, sweat, and future.
To Our People!
Imperialist states, regional reactionary, fascist, despotic, occupying, and colonial dictatorships are waging total war against the workers, laborers, and oppressed peoples in Kurdistan and the Middle East. They are using unrestricted power against all resisting and fighting forces. They are doing everything possible to liquidate and destroy all revolutionary, progressive, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist structures.
The imperialist-capitalist system has declared war on all the oppressed, using all kinds of weapons. The center of this war is the Middle East and Kurdistan. We will resist this war, which is intended to lead to the total liquidation of the resistance centers, with all means and methods and liberate our country.
The only way out is the organization and common struggle of all oppressed people against the capitalist system of exploitation and oppression. The path to the victory of national liberation and revolution lies through a united and socialist struggle.
Without the destruction of capitalism and its fascist state apparatus, there can be no freedom for our nation, its peoples, women, religious communities, and sexual identities.
The war bells of imperialists, colonialists, occupiers, rulers, and dictatorships have never been absent from our geography.
The USA, Great Britain, France, and Russia have turned the Middle East and Kurdistan into hell for centuries. Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq have mortgaged Kurdistan as colonial states.
Neither the Kurdish people nor the peoples of the Middle East have surrendered. There is the Rojava revolution. There is the Kurdish women‘s revolution! There is our struggle, which spans all four parts!
To the Turkish People and the Peoples, Workers, and Laborers of Turkey!
The fascist Turkish bourgeois state and its government apparatus of the AKP and MHP exploit, bleed, plunder, pillage, and destroy the Kurdish and Kurdistan’s peoples, workers, laborers, nature, and culture.
It is the fascist Turkish bourgeoisie and its state that exploit your labor and sweat, starve you, drive you into poverty, make you unemployed and homeless. They incite you against your brothers and sisters by promoting chauvinism and racism.
The causes of your hunger and poverty are not the Kurds and their struggle for freedom. Not the different religious communities. Not different sexual identities.
Every time you demand your rights, you are met by the gendarmerie and the police with batons, gas, and bullets, by prison, by the courts, and by the law of the state.
Do not become accomplices to the crimes of this fascist Turkish state and its bourgeoisie, which are hostile to workers, laborers, peoples, religious communities, and women. Your side and your place is the side and place of the Kurdish and Kurdistan’s peoples, the workers and laborers.
Our salvation lies in a united, revolutionary, socialist struggle against our common enemy. There is no salvation alone, it’s all together or none!
To the Peoples, Intellectuals, Socialists, Workers, Laborers, and Women of Syria!
HTS, consisting of the remnants of ISIS and Al-Nusra gangs, nurtured and raised for ten years under the supervision and support of imperialist powers, particularly the US, and in cooperation with Turkey, has come to power in Damascus. HTS and its racist, Salafist fascist leader, Golani, are in no way inferior to Assad.
His first act was the massacre of the Alawites. Just like ISIS, both the Turkish state gangs and HTS kidnapped Alawite women to Idlib and sold them as slaves. They imposed Arab racism and Islamic Sharia law on the Druze, Kurds, Christians, and Alawites.
Resist, organize, and fight against this political-Islamist, Sharia-compliant, and fascist government that has no future and is incapable of solving the problems of the Syrian people.
Join the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Rojava-North and East Syria, which was established by the Kurdish people right by your side.
The freedom of the workers, laborers, and all oppressed groups will be achieved through the unity of the united, honorable, and democratic struggle. The only way against these misogynist Salafist ISIS remnants is the way of the Women‘s Revolution of Rojava.
The task of extending the revolution to Syria for the revolutionary, democratic unity and freedom of the workers, laborers, peoples, and oppressed lies on the shoulders of the revolutionary intellectuals – above all the workers and laborers.
A free Kurdistan and a democratic Syria are our common future.
The time is ripe.
It is capitalism that is dying.
It is its racist, fascist, massacring, bourgeois ideology that is the enemy of women, nature, labor, and humanity.
It is the exploiters and colonialists who will force liquidationism, but will not be able to prevent their own liquidation.
Those who are being liquidated are the racist, jihadist, Salafist fascist gangs that massacred the Kurds, Alawites, Yazidis, and Assyrians – who yesterday were ISIS and Al-Nusra, and today are HTS.
The time is ripe.
Let us wage an organized, united, militant, revolutionary struggle against imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, occupation, Zionism, and hostility towards women, religious communities, and diverse sexual identities.
Let us liberate Kurdistan and the Middle East.
There will be no real freedom for us until capitalism, its states, its courts, its army, its police, and the system of exploitation are smashed.
The time is ripe.
It is the time of May 1st – the day of unity, struggle, and solidarity of the workers and laborers of the world.
Kurdish and Kurdistan-born workers and laborers, let us unite and fight against colonialism, fascism, capitalism, and imperialism.
Long Live May Day!
Long Live the United, Free, and Socialist Kurdistan!
Long Live the Democratic Federation of the Middle East!
Long Live the Revolution and Socialism!
April 28, 2024
MLKP Kurdistan

Long Live May Day, Long Live the Unity of the Workers!
Whenever we attempt to understand the present and bring attention to our political tasks, we must begin with the First and Second Imperialist Partition Wars. For all developments point to the fact that we stand on the eve of a new world war.
What has happened?
The First Imperialist Partition War brought the world into an “order” based on violence. Yet, the imperialist status quo could not be maintained for long. “The Second World War, set against the backdrop of capitalism, had the character of a general imperialist partition war, while for the Soviet Union, it was a war to defend the socialist homeland, and for the peoples of the world, it was a war to defeat fascism. This dual character of the war was also manifested in the post-war declaration of two opposing international political-military structures, NATO and the Warsaw Pact.” (From Marksist Teori magazine)
Since the 1950s, a balance was mostly established between the hegemonic areas of the Warsaw Pact and NATO. However, in the 1990s, with the collapse of the revisionist USSR, the economic, military, and political balance in the world shifted. Russia, with its regional influence, military power, rich natural resources, population, and production capacity, became one of the leading imperialist states in the world. In the 2000s, China, with its planned production, cheap labor, and demographic power, grew into another rapidly expanding imperialist power. Profit, exploitation, and hegemony are the fundamental laws of capitalism. Therefore, in capitalism, all balances are relative, temporary. All alliances are based on imperialist interests.
And today, under the existential crisis of capitalism, competition and contradictions between imperialists have intensified. The bourgeois law that governed mutual relations during the period of balance has nearly been invalidated. “The stronger prevails”, and now, mafia-like global power relations dominate. Trump threatens the EU, with which he has been in a strategic alliance, primarily within NATO for years, and he can easily place the invasion of Canada and Greenland on the agenda.
Now, Trump mocks Ukraine, as if he did not drag Ukraine into war and as if it were not the U.S. that supported the Zelensky government. “Look how you manage, and we will take your precious minerals from you,” he says. Ukraine and Zelensky are examples of the typical fate of those who follow the lead of the imperialists.
The Russia-Ukraine war was, in fact, a Russia-NATO war. Russia was to be exhausted, and China encircled. One of their objectives was to weaken the alliance between Russia, Iran, and Syria in the Middle East and create conditions for a new operation against Iran.
Western imperialists and their Arab collaborators, especially the U.S., have aligned themselves with Israel against Palestinian resistance, providing all forms of support. They launched a joint attack on the resistance hubs in the Middle East that were not integrated into Western imperialism and that opposed the U.S. They have weakened Hezbollah, pushed back Hamas, and overthrown Assad. They aim to end the Palestinian cause and erase Palestine from history. The desire to turn Gaza into a vacation resort is not a fantasy, but a blatant ideological, political, and moral insult to society. It’s akin to arrogance, trampling around and dancing at a funeral. The new world order of the imperialists enforces such moral decay and attempts to legitimize it.
They overthrew Assad. Instead, they installed HTS in Damascus. But is HTS more democratic than the Baathist regime? Was the Baath regime liquidated because it was truly undemocratic? Everyone knows that neither the U.S., Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, nor other imperialists and reactionary states in the region pursue an agenda of democracy. Torture in Sednaye prison was presented for days. Let’s pretend HTS has changed. But what about the genocide, massacres, rape, harassment, and kidnapping of Alawites in Latakia, Hama, and Homs? Is this the work of unknown gangs that don’t belong to HTS? Who are they trying to fool? We saw and experienced the same in Afrin, Sinjar, and Raqqa. ISIS and HTS are cut from the same cloth.
Despite this character and criminal history of HTS, Damascus was handed over to them. Why was HTS preferred over the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the most democratic and best-organized force in the region? It’s clear that imperialists have never cared about human rights, national rights, democracy, or freedom. Their only purpose is the strategy and politics of imperialist interests.
Of course, revolutionaries and communists exploit the contradictions between the imperialists in the interest of the peoples. This is where the main difference of socialist patriots lies: they take a stand in favor of the interests of the working class and laboring masses in all forms of alliance politics. This is where principles come into play. Every relationship without principles contains an opportunistic deviation, liberalism. And this is dangerous. As socialist patriots, we defend the anti-colonial Rojava Revolution to the end, but we also face the task of advancing this revolution toward socialism. For the colonial yoke has been broken under the conditions of the democratic revolution. And that is an extremely significant step and victory. However, the contradiction between labor and capital and the contradiction between the genders have not disappeared. The solution to this contradiction lies in replacing private property with collective ownership, replacing free capitalist competitive production with a social planned economy, and in the sovereignty of workers’ councils and communes.
It requires the building of international relationships with the workers and laboring masses of the region and the world. Socialist patriots view alliances, negotiations, and relationships based on these principles as legitimate.
The preparations of the imperialists and colonial occupying states for the Third World War continue. Each is positioning itself according to this new situation. It seems that one of the main battlegrounds of the Third World War will be the Middle East. The geopolitical and geostrategic role of Kurdistan, which is divided into four parts, is of critical importance. Wars are also times when the ruling bourgeoisie and their states are worn down. This creates revolutionary opportunities for the oppressed. As socialist patriots, we want the workers, laborers, and oppressed peoples of all nations and faiths to build their own front on an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and gender liberating basis.
On the way to May 1st, the Day of Unity and Struggle of the Workers and Laborers, the pace of our work for the unity of the workers and laborers of all nations and faiths in Rojava and all Syrian cities should increase in line with this strategic goal. In this process, we should organize workers’ assemblies everywhere, conduct trainings on the role, importance, and consciousness of the working class in our one-on-one conversations, and develop class consciousness. The establishment of workers’ councils is our goal.
*Translated article from the Serkeftin Magazine in Rojava


The Kurdistan Conference and Kurdish National Unity

Following the collapse of the Baath regime in Syria, the Kurdish parties and organizations in Rojava, seeking to secure their achievements and put an end to their fragmented stance, took a historic step: On April 26, 2025, the Kurdish Unity and Common Position Conference took place in the Kurdish city of Qamishlo. This conference is of great importance for the Kurdish national movement and the future of the Kurdish people.
For a long time, the question of national unity among the Kurdish people remained unresolved due to ideological differences, political rivalries, and the influence of imperialist and regional powers. However, even though the conference focused primarily on Rojava, it represents a significant step toward broader national unity. It brought together various political forces within the Kurdish movement and sent a strong signal for the future of the Kurds in the region. The conference was attended not only by representatives from Rojava, but also by guests from Bakur (Northern Kurdistan), Başûr (Southern Kurdistan), and Europe.
An important moment was the joint singing of the well-known Kurdish anthem Ey Reqîp and the raising of the Kurdish flag, which symbolized the resistance and unity of the Kurdish people. In the smallest region of Kurdistan, Rojava, an example has been set of a popular, democratic, and women-liberating revolution, as well as a step toward national unity that can serve as a model for other parts of Kurdistan.
Unity in the Face of Fragmentation
The conference demonstrated that Kurdish parties and organizations, which until now had been unable to cooperate due to different class positions, tribal interests, and ideological differences, now have the will to take a common position within the framework of the new order in Syria. This is a turning point.
The fragmentation of the Kurdish people had, in the past, prevented the dream of an independent Kurdish state from being realized. For many years, imperialist powers and reactionary states in the region exploited this fragmentation to isolate and divide the Kurdish national liberation struggle. But now, after decades of defeats due to this fragmentation, there is an opportunity for a stronger, united movement.
The conference was also a response to the political positions of the ENKS (Kurdistan National Council of Syria), which is supported by the southern Kurdish KDP and has been collaborating closely with the Turkish colonial state and imperialist powers for years. For a long time, ENKS was a reactionary force that opposed the principles of autonomous self-government. The conference exerted considerable pressure on ENKS to join the unity process, which ultimately represented progress for the Kurdish national question. The role of ENKS will continue to be a topic of major confrontation in the Kurdish political process.
The Role of Turkey and HTS
The conference took place at a critical time, as talks between the US and the fascist political-Islamist Golani of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) became public. The agreement between the US and HTS was seen as a temporary solution to gain time, but without clearly guaranteeing the rights of the Kurds. In contrast, the conference set out clear demands, including the right to their native language, self-defense, and self-administration, rights that the conference strongly defended.
The enemy of the peoples, HTS, justified by imperialist powers, is currently revealing its character with its massacres of the Alawites and Druze in Syria. The antagonistic contradiction between the democratic self-administration in Rojava and HTS will make major conflicts inevitable in the future. It is important to strengthen the peoples‘ self-defense and preparation for these battles.
The Turkish colonial state viewed the conference and its outcomes as a defeat. It attempted to sabotage the conference, including through attacks on the Tishrin Dam and by supporting military groups such as the Syrian National Army (SNA). However, these attacks have been fended off for months by popular resistance. The fascist regime, which refuses to recognize the territorial integrity of Syria, sees the developments in Rojava as a threat to its own existence. Fascist Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan even went so far as to equate the PKK with ISIS and openly issue threats.
The Vision of the Conference
A central concern of the conference was the call for a federal system for Syria based on the principles of decentralization, equal rights for all peoples, and the recognition of their cultural and language rights. The conference proposed a two-chamber parliamentary system based on democratic principles and the fair distribution of resources. Of particular note was the demand for the recognition of Kurdish as an official language alongside Arabic, as well as the return of displaced people from Afrin, Serekaniye, and Gire Spî to their homes, which were occupied by the Turkish colonial state and its political-Islamist gangs.
Another key topic was the emphasis on the rights of Alawites, Druze, Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic communities in Syria. The conference recognized these communities as integral parts of a shared, democratic social order. This emphasis on diversity and equal democratic coexistence strengthens the movement and is the solution for establishing a new social order in the Middle East.
Outlook
The Kurdistan Conference demonstrated that the Kurdish resistance not only seeks to strengthen the unity of the Kurdish movement, but also supports a united democratic movement in the region. The political differences between various Kurdish factions will not be overcome simply through an act of reconciliation, but rather through a long-term process based on common goals and principles. The path to national unity is long and fraught with challenges, but the success of the conference demonstrates that the will for unity and joint action exists.
The coming months and years will be crucial, as the enemies of the Kurdish freedom movement, especially the Turkish colonial state and its allies, will try with all their might to advance their political and military interests at the expense of the Kurdish people. However, the conference sent a strong signal that the Kurdish nation, both in Syria and in other parts of Kurdistan, is united and determined to defend its rights and preserve its achievements.
The Kurdistan Conference is more than just a political meeting; it is a symbolic act that could mark the beginning of a new era for the Kurdish people, in which Kurdish national unity and the democratic principles of the Rojava revolution point the way to a more just future.

The Ongoing Youth Uprising in Turkey
Last month, Turkey witnessed nationwide protests, where people took to the streets for days in numerous provinces, protesting the fascist regime and demanding an end to Erdoğan‘s chieftaincy. The years of intimidation and repression from state terror were broken by the March Uprising. The arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor İmamoğlu was the final straw that broke the camel‘s back. The widespread dissatisfaction with the conditions created by the AKP-MHP regime is deeply rooted, and the workers and oppressed long for change. After a long period of resignation, the workers and oppressed have freed themselves from this passivity and taken to the streets.
The Youth Ignites the March Uprising
An especially important part of the uprising is the youth. From the first days of the March Uprising, it was the students who gave the protests a militant character by breaking through police barricades. Even in the following days, the uprising was kept alive and developed further by the dynamics of the youth. However, with the holidays at the end of Ramadan, extended by the fascist regime, the intensity of the uprising diminished. The practical hegemony of the bourgeois opposition party, the CHP, and their shift to undynamic, limited rallies significantly hindered the people’s uprising. Nevertheless, the March Uprising is not defeated, because the will of the masses, their desires, and demands for freedom and justice remain unbroken. It only takes a new spark to reignite the uprising. The contradictions between the palace power and the bourgeois opposition remain, and may even intensify. May Day will be an important political moment for rekindling the uprising, and its future will be decided there, if a united antifascist center can be established by the socialist and democratic forces.
This historic opportunity for the workers, the laborers, and the oppressed in Turkey is, not least, thanks to the youth, who have played a key role in keeping the social dynamics of the March Uprising alive. While many parts of society, especially those heavily influenced by the bourgeois opposition, have retreated into defensive positions, the youth, particularly high school and university students—remain determined. This role is crucial, as the youth movement in Turkey has always been an indicator of social change and upheaval. The revolutionary youth, especially the students, have played a vanguard role in the history of the revolutionary movement, mobilizing all progressive sections of society. This was the case in the 1970s when young revolutionary leaders like Deniz Gezmiş, Mahir Çayan, and İbrahim Kaypakkaya breathed new life into the revolutionary movement. The sparkling role of the youth was also determinant during the Gezi-June Uprising in 2015. However, since then, there have been no significant uprisings or protests initiated by students that were not local. Therefore, the role of the youth, who set the March Uprising in motion with their resistance at universities, is even more significant.
At least as important is the ongoing youth movement we currently observe, as it keeps the spirit of the uprising alive. There are two important aspects of the youth movement that stand out: the resistance of high school students, who show solidarity with their teachers, and the young women’s resistance, which is opposing the state‘s use of sexual torture in detention.
Students Against the Fascist Regime
In the wake of the repression following the March Uprising, at least 6,000 teachers have been threatened with forced relocation or even full dismissal. The teachers affected are primarily those who joined the uprising in one way or another, openly participated in boycott actions, or took a stand against the fascist regime and demanded an end to Erdoğan’s dictatorship. This triggered a quick reaction from the educational union, Eğitim Sen, and students immediately began showing solidarity with their teachers. On April 11th, after the announcement of the repressions, they organized and founded the networking platform Liseliler Ayakta to coordinate actions in many schools. Since then, there have been regular actions in cities like Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, and many others, including reading statements, rallies, demonstrations, boycotts of lessons, and sit-ins. These actions are supported not only by progressive teachers but also by family members, former students, and university students.
At various schools, administrators have tried to exert pressure on the students to stop their justified protests. In doing so, classrooms have been searched, phones confiscated, and threats made. Nevertheless, the actions continue. The students do not want state-loyal teachers who must be approved by the fascist regime. Their resistance is not only directed against this specific form of repression and state terror but also against the entire fascist regime. The protesting students make it clear once again that the youth, in particular, cannot be disillusioned and that they see no future within the fascist regime.
They are also, at least partly, aware of their role within the March Uprising and in social struggles in general. The youth understands the necessity of resolutely standing against the fascist regime and not allowing themselves to be intimidated by the various forms of repression. They also know how much the fascist, bourgeois state fears the power of the youth and is therefore doing everything to stop, ban, or prevent the reporting of their actions. The students recognize the full extent of fascist state terror, which includes, not least, the entire police apparatus. They make this clear through slogans such as “Where was the police when women were murdered?” or “Where was the police during the earthquake in Hatay?” Their desire to continue the March Uprising and give it new energy is also reflected in their references to the Gezi-June Uprising and its martyrs, such as Berkin Elvan.
The Resistance of Young Women Against Violence and Sexual Torture
As clearly shown by the slogans at the protests, the issue of sexual and patriarchal violence is also central to the youth movement. Violence against women in Turkey has been growing unchecked since the abolition of the Istanbul Convention. The current student movement is also taking an active stand and demanding accountability for the young women İkbal and Ayşenur, who were murdered last year.
In addition to the general struggle of the women’s movement against patriarchal violence, one specific issue has come to the forefront again during the March Uprising: sexual torture in detention. Young women, in particular, are at the forefront of the fight against this misogynistic practice. They can draw on valuable experiences from the women‘s movements of the 1990s and 2000s, which achieved many successes in this struggle, such that the once widespread practice of sexual torture in detention has significantly decreased. Nevertheless, it remained a practice that the Turkish fascist regime increasingly uses to break the will of resistant women. This is exactly what we are witnessing now. The fascist regime is deliberately using sexual violence as a tool in its war of will-breaking.
The young women’s movement is standing up against the regime‘s misogynistic policies, which, for example, reward female murderers with impunity and promote the legitimization of harassment and rape. It is also resisting the political-Islamist „Family Year“ policy, which is currently a central part of the fascist regime‘s strategy. It is crucial for women within this movement to recognize their role as active subjects. The challenge lies in strengthening this courageous resistance and transforming the anger against the patriarchal system into organized political power. The advancing state violence against women highlights how deeply rooted the misogynistic and fascist nature of the regime is and how important it is to provide an organized, revolutionary response to this violence.

Solidarity with the Revolutionaries in India!
On behalf of the MLKP, we extend our solidarity to the dedicated revolutionaries of India during the international and internationalist action week of the year-long campaign in support of the people‘s war in India.
Through massacres, forced deportations, murders of villagers and indigenous people, social activists, and revolutionary leaders, as well as the persecution of journalists and human rights defenders, the fascist Hindutva regime in India is attempting to defeat the revolutionary movement and crush the just demands of the people. Backed militarily and with intelligence by US imperialism, the collaborationist Indian state, now under the leadership of the Hindufascist Modi, uses special military operations such as the counterrevolutionary Operation Kagaar to achieve its aims.
Over the past 15 years, the fascist Hindutva Indian regime has intensified its repression and liquidationist attacks against revolutionary, democratic, and progressive movements. Dignified people who dare to raise their voices against military repression and the killing of thousands of indigenous people in the zones where the CPI (Maoist) operates are branded as “urban Maoists” and arrested under special laws. We once again commemorate revolutionary intellectual Dr. G.N. Saibaba, who lost his life on October 12th after years of imprisonment in brutal conditions that severely deteriorated his health.
The methods of counterrevolutionary attacks against the CPI (Maoist) and the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) are well known to revolutionaries across the world. These methods are being intensified from Kurdistan and Turkey to the Philippines and India to smother the revolutionary flames and with it, the hope for a dignified, free life without exploitation and oppression.
The CPI (Maoist) resists these attacks combatively, inspiring revolutionary fighting spirit and resistance morale worldwide.
With known bluster, Modi declared that he would eliminate Naxalism by March 2026, but he will face resistance and revolutionary dedication backed by international solidarity.
We salute the international united struggle against imperialism, fascism, and Zionism, which is called for in the campaign, and reaffirm our commitment to standing with the revolutionaries in India and the Palestinian resistance against the counterrevolutionary front, which stretches from the murderers and enemies of the people, Netanyahu, to one of his greatest supporters, Modi.
We bow in deep respect to the immortalized leaders and members of the CPI (Maoist) and demand:
• Stop Operation Kagaar!
• Raise international solidarity with CPI (Maoist) and the PLGA!
• Freedom for all political prisoners in India!
• Let’s struggle against imperialist war and in solidarity with the Palestinian people!
• Long live proletarian internationalism!