The leader of Kurdish nation Abdullah Ocalan sent a message from Imrali Prison in the occasion of 1st of May the Worker’s International Day.
Every year on 1st of May the biggest Worker’s International Day ceremony is held in Zurich, Switzerland. The ceremony of this year, however, has a unique characteristic as the committee of labors’ organizer of Zurich had previously invited the leader of Kurdish nation to attend the ceremony. Abdullah Ocalan who could not attend the ceremony sent a message from the Imrali Island to address the attended labors and workers.
The message of Abdullah Ocalan written with his own hand writing reached the organizers of the ceremony in Zurich. Its text is shown as below:
The common point of all those people who have raised and filled the arenas of struggles is hope. The only thing that capitalist modernity has hitherto tried more than anything else to strike at is the sources of our hope, but hope has never gone that far from nations that we should not look for it in far distances. It is a long time that the resistances of our nations have crossed the borders. The common point of all resistances from Mexico to Tahrir Square and other parts of the world is the “hope” itself.
Today also, the most important message that we should emphasize on is to keep our faith on peaceful coexistence of nations on the earth.
Since the past and present experiences have shown that government and the upper-layers of society are forming a small part of this world, we also as the representative of majority have to consistently keep “rebellion” alive in our literature and activities.
Our answer to your hello is that in our geography we will take back the equality and democratic modernity from the superiors and rebuild them again. If there will be a strike against the workers in each period of history, in each part of the world or in each country, that strike will damage all of us equally with the same severity. Our long-term political struggle is showing how proletarian and sympathetic people can change their destiny.
Because of my current situation I cannot be among you but it does not mean that the resistance of the Kurds is separate from your movement. Rather this is an indication that shows the necessity of convergence of struggles among the organizations and labor movements. The best solution to end capitalism, nation-state and genocide is to freely bring about this convergence and solidarity in much more broader arenas. Once again, in my mind, I keep alive the issues of social sexism, working condition, refugee rights as well as issues like unemployment, nationalism and mediation to whose solutions we have a long struggle ahead of us. Articulating my belief on this idea and faith, I am sending revolutionary greetings to all of those who want to truly change the history of genocide, capitalism and undeveloped nation-statism with the view to rewriting them.
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