The Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad - TJA), in a statement titled “Democratic life will be built through women’s labor,” emphasized that this year they mark May Day with the slogan “Insistence on socialism is insistence on the liberation of women’s labor.”

The statement read: “At the intersection of capitalist modernity and patriarchy, women’s labor is not only exploited but also systematically erased. Women shoulder burdens not only in the paid workforce but also in domestic care, agricultural production, migration, war zones, and during moments of crisis.”

The statement also condemned the appointment of trustees, emphasizing that attacks on women’s labor and institutional achievements continue through these practices.

TJA stated: “Because women’s labor is directly linked to political will, it is being deliberately targeted and pushed out of social, cultural, and political life. As the TJA, we redefine the liberation of labor on the basis of women’s freedom. Women’s labor is not only part of economic production; it is also the force behind rebuilding and transforming society. For this reason, our struggle is the struggle to liberate all forms of labor produced by women, at home, in the streets, in the fields, in schools, in prisons, and along migration paths.”

TJA also issued a call to women’s movements around the world and stated:

“Let us come together to organize common grounds of struggle. As Kurdish women, we believe that the struggle for equality and justice carried out by women from Latin America to Africa, from Asia to Europe, is one and the same. In different languages and different geographies, we are fighting against male domination, imposed in various forms by the same system. Women’s identity and labor can only be defended through a borderless line of freedom. Our labor finds meaning not within the consumption machinery of the capitalist system, but within a democratic, ecological, and women’s liberation-centered life. Let us expand our international struggle to liberate women’s labor. Let us learn from each other’s experiences, make solidarity permanent, and strengthen our organization. Our labor is our organization. A free life is possible through women’s labor.”