Newaya Jin: Women will change the world!

Women's newspaper Newaya Jin published a special issue for the month of March. In this issue the newspaper focused on women's struggle from a local to a global perspective.

Newaya Jin is published monthly in Europe. The 180th issue of the paper has been issued in the month of March with the headline 'Women will change the world'. The issue focuses on the local, regional and universal women's struggle.

One of the authors, Hêja Zerya, draws attention to the general crisis of the feminist movement with the strongest anti-system potential and emphasizes the leadership of women in the 21st century.

Zerya Gül, who thinks that Erdogan was given the role of eliminating the freedom of women with the 'Third World War', emphasizes that freedom seekers were driven towards genocide and all the doors leading to slavery were opened to the end, but 'freedom cannot be limited to time and space, cannot be imprisoned'.

Dilan Bozgan prepared a news dossier about the struggle of Chilean women, who brought their case to the world attention with LasTesis dance performance. Reminding that the policies of women's crimes and colonialism in Chile have reached the world thanks to LasTesis, Bozgan defines the performance as a Chilean universal voice that comes from feminist theory and memory.

Büşra Ali wrote about the current public uprisings in Lebanon. Drawing attention to the leading role of Lebanese women in resistance, Büşra Ali interprets women's efforts on issues such as determining the demands of the people and social justice.

Drawing attention to climate change, one of the main items on the world's agenda, Nigar Yıldırım points out that problems such as increasing racism, violence, war, economic crisis, poverty, forced migration, and refugee crisis are directly related to the climate crisis that is leading the planet to extinction. Yıldırım reminds that many women who listen to the whisper of trees resist deforestation and destruction of living areas all over the world.

'WOMEN DEFEND ROJAVA'

During the attacks of the Turkish state against Rojava in October 2019, many European women who responded to the call of the Kongra Star established Women Defend Rojava committees in many parts of Europe. Helin Dirik, who met with the committees in London, Bern and Athens, shared the opinions of the committees about the establishment purpose and the activities they carry out.