Kurdish hunger strikers saluted at 8 March rally in London
Thousands of women joined the action on Friday evening in front of the Bank of England in central London.
Thousands of women joined the action on Friday evening in front of the Bank of England in central London.
Thousands of women rallied in central London to mark 8 March, International Women’s Day.
Women sent messages of solidarity to women on hunger strike demanding the end of isolation.
Thousands of women joined the action on Friday evening in front of the Bank of England in central London.
Women's Strike was organized by many women's organizations and was joined by many Kurdish women.
Kurdish music accompanied the demonstration throughout and women chanted slogans in solidarity with Kurdish women and their struggle.
Speaking on behalf of the Kurdish women's institutions at the rally, Elif Sarican, greeted the women activists on hunger strike, and underlined that the ideas of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan led to the women's revolution in Rojava.
Sarican added that this revolution was a hope for the women of the world and that Kurdish women have paid a high price in their struggle against DAESH and fascism.
She also said that Kurdish women are now leading the world women's struggle and invited all women to join the Rojava Revolution.
The activists were carrying large-size photographs of British women's revolutionary and YPJ member Anna Campbell (who lost her life fighting in Afrin, killed by the Turkish army), Leyla Güven and the other women on hunger strike.
A huge banner saying ‘Jin Jiyan Azadi’ (‘Woman Life Freedom’) was carried by women.
After the rally, thousands of women marched up to Leicester Square chanting slogans.