Commemoration of Those Immortalised for the Party and Revolution - info

 

Communist Women's Union affiliated TKP-ML,

KKB organised a commemoration event for women and LGBTI+ immortals on the occasion of the "Week of Commemoration of the Martyrs of Revolution and Communism". The presentation made in Arabic and Kurdish began as "Comrades, we are gathered here today to commemorate women and LGBTI+ martyrs. I invite you to a minute of silence". After the international anthem and a minute of silence, the declaration signed by the TKP-ML Central Committee was read.

In the speech, it was pointed out that while women and LGBTI+s fight against the enemy, they also struggle within their own organisations, "Sometimes our name is lost in patriarchal history, just like Maria Suphi for years. They tell us that you cannot fight, but just like İsyan Tolhildana Pirsus, we fight on the front lines until the last moment we are martyred. As Sakine Cansız stated, our lives are always a struggle".

After the cinevision showing women immortals, a speech was made on behalf of KKB. In this speech, it was emphasised that those who became immortal were butterflies who dared to fly to the fire. The speech continued as follows: "This system always tells us that we cannot do it, leaving us without arms and wings. In such a situation, of course, it is even more difficult to fly to the fire of struggle. However, we can do this, our immortalised ones have shown us that we can do this."

After the speech made on behalf of KKB, everyone took the floor and talked about the lives of women immortals. In a speech about lubunya martyrs, "Of course, it is even more difficult to enter the revolutionary struggle in a reality where even our existence is denied. However, we have always been in this fight. As our leader Rosa Luxemburg stated, we existed, we exist, we will exist. The formula for immortality has been searched for since humanity has existed. This is the formula of immortality. To be martyred in the cause of freedom and liberation means to be immortalised. Because today, whenever we are in trouble, whenever we stumble, whenever we have difficulty in breaking our ties with the system, it is our martyrs who take us by the hand and lift us to our feet."

After the lives of the immortals were told, the commemoration event was followed by the statement "We will not allow the flags of our martyrs to fall to the ground. We will raise the flag we took over from them to the highest sky. We promise in front of all our martyrs, we will continue their struggle until victory".

In Arabic and Kurdish, slogans such as "Long Live Our Party TKP-ML, TIKKO, KKB, TMLGB", "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" and "Revolution Martyrs are Immortal" were chanted. After the commemoration event, women and lubunyas sang the song of Comrade Ibrahim together.