Rêber Apo: The role and mission of Young Women in the Democratic Nation

This is a a shortened version of an evaluation of Rêber Apo (Abdullah Öcalan) about the role and mission of Young Women in the Democratic Nation, in all the different parts of live.

Capitalism is actively hostile to young women. Thus, it tries to numb the young woman, to make her incapable of acting and to make her invisible as a part of society. Capitalism forces young women into a dream world, one where they can get and achieve anything, to live out relationships freely and to dress as they wish. They are crushed and suppressed in dreams of marriage. The phase in which the woman is most productive and her urge for freedom is greatest is her youth. The young woman wastes all her energy in this phase in fleeing from the man’s tight grip and taking precautions against his traps. The traps of the man and the strict understanding of honor cause the young woman to spend the most beautiful time of her life far from the idea of a free woman, and instead living in fear. The mission that the exploiting capitalist system imposes on the young woman is to have no mission. This means that the young woman has great revolutionary potential, and because of that there is an attempt to suppress this potential. The problem is not the honor for which thousands of women have been murdered, nor the weakness, uselessness, ignorance or fragility that are attributed to her.

It is precisely in the midst of these fascist attacks that our historical consciousness will urge us to develop a solution through a concrete analysis of concrete conditions. The solution of Democratic Modernity enables the young woman to fulfill her mission as a vanguard of the revolution. In order to achieve this, she must form the social, moral and political system that matches with her own values ​​over time. According to this, the young woman must define her identity, her goal, her principles from what she rejects and what she accepts, and raise the flag of revolution to realize our social revolution. Democratic Nation means that the moral political society builds its own will through self-governance. At the core of the young woman’s identity is a resistant and militant spirit. She has a lively, empathetic identity and is open to new things. She wants to take revenge on the existing order of life and thus liberate herself. In the establishment of the Democratic Society, it is the young woman who brings about a personality change in herself and participates in the struggle, thus guaranteeing that the man and the society will be changed more quickly in a revolutionary way.

Change through education

To ensure this change, she must insist on organizing education within the Democratic Nation. For education, she is the pioneer. Therefore, she must create alternatives in every sphere of life through which she no longer needs the educational institutions of the system and can lead her own educational and consciousness-raising work. Education does not happen only between four walls, under a roof or in a school. The young woman can transform any place, be it a house, workplace, street or anything else, into a place of education and gain and share consciousness in these places with free platforms for discussion. Therefore the first and most important task of young women is to destroy the existing educational system.

Organized action

In order for the young woman to defend the values of women and the values of society, she must take becoming guerilla and self-defense as her only goal. For this, she must be able to react and organize against any attacks she encounters in all areas of life (such as harassment, rape, violence, psychological pressure). The reigning system very often attacks the young women with different methods, visible as well as hidden. Especially the media and social media are important tools here. Therefore, the young women must question everythingin the existing system and show their reflexes in an organized way. In addition, she should be able to defend herself at school, on the street, at work, i.e. in each of her life situations. She must participate in life according to her mission as a vanguard, and put this mission into action.

It is up to the young woman to shatter the perception created by capitalism about her and her people and thereby find new political ways and methods and fulfill her mission in politics. She must use her own creativity and revolutionary nature in politics. Her political struggle should be based on the needs of the people. She should also develop joint actions and organizational work in the anti-fascist struggle with peoples, youth organizations and young women around the world who are resisting as she is. For this, diplomatic works must be brought forward.

Diseases of the system

In order to overcome the diseases of the capitalist system in people’s feelings, bodies and mentalities, a holistic, alternative health system must be created. The reason why many diseases today have no cure is because the diseases are produced and spread by the capitalist system itself. The capitalist system does not actually want to find a solution to the diseases, so it builds a mentally ill individual, and prevents a healthy society. In building an alternative health system, the individual with all the emotions, thoughts and character must be seen as a whole. Moreover, contrary to the perceptions created in society, it must be explained that any problem can be overcome with the the will of people. This, and the destruction of the pathological social order, is one of the inescapable tasks of the young woman. Social values and our moral strength are the greatest medicine against the mental illnesses of capitalism.

Stars of resistance

There are women, like Sema and Viyan, who turned their bodies into bombs against the colonialists, who crossed the borders of militancy in revolutionary struggles against those who wanted to endanger the ideological line of the revolution. There are women, like Berîtan, who are the vanguard of revolutionary resistance, fighting against the feudal, patriarchal collaborators and against surrendering. There are women like Axîn, Faraşîn, Jiyan, Serhildan, Hebûn, Zeryan, Zelal, Yildiz, as well as thousands of other young women whose names cannot be listed, who resisted against the occupying forces in the self-government resistances to their last drop of blood based on the ideology of women’s liberation. They all became symbols of resistance against the statist, patriarchal mentality within history. Today, the flag of these young women is passed from hand to hand. The young women must understand well that the revolution of women will lead to the success of the social revolution, and that they should make it their only goal in life to be a vanguard for the mentality of the Democratic Nation and the construction of the system of Democratic Confederalism with the Women’s Revolution.