Duties on Democratic Liberation on the 8th Congress of the PKK, 16 April 2002

The democratic liberation phase, which the characteristics we have determined is a preliminary phase in order to attain socialism, which is our ultimate aim. The democratic liberation stage will entail below duties:

A- To end the domination on our people of all types of structures and their extensions, which have of oligarchic, autocratic and theocratic nature. For which:

1. To create an extensive organisation of our people with the aim of organising and developing civil society, establishing and developing the democratic masses organisations of women, youth, workers, employees, peasants and similar sections of people.

2. To form large blocks of democracy in every country so that unity of all sections and political forces which favours the democracy could be achieved.

3. To develop people's democratic political serhildan (struggle) in all fields with rich methods to carry out the self-defence against oligarchic, autocratic and theocratic structures and their extensions. To spread the civil disobedience in all areas.

4. To undertake most effective ideological methods of struggle against those practices that hinder the struggle against oligarchic, autocratic and theocratic structures or dogmatic, utopic, fatalist, chauvinist and primitive nationalists understandings that leads to surrender of our people.

5. To eliminate systems of special wars, contra-guerrillas and war profiteers banditries.

6. To undertake active methods against the ill development of capitalism which leads to the destruction on environment and the society.

B- To create a free and democratic society under the executive of the Democratic Republic. For which:

1. To develop democratic political systems in all countries which is based on the political integrity and constitutional citizenship where peoples participate in it as the founding members.

2. To form constitutions in all countries basing on the individual and plural and in which the individuals take part with their own identity and the fundamental rights are secured.

3. To afford everyone the rights for the freedom of speech, organisation and engagement in politics in order to create the organised civil society, that is the safeguard of the Democratic Republic.

4. Develop freedom of press in the framework of the correct and adequate news rights of the people and to meet legal guarantee.

5. To attain a democratic legal framework for the political parties, unions, and associations in order to develop the inclusive and pluralistic . To develop a system where the workers are able to participate in the management.

6. To overcome excessively powerful centralised structures which prevents the free development of the people. To spread the strength of the power to the base and support the local administrations.

7. To support the idea of reducing the size of the military and the army expenditures and to prevent them becoming a threat to the outside world.

8. To be against NATO and all kinds of military pacts which pose threat to the peace as well as sovereignty of the people.

9. To support the Turkey's accession to the European Union participation. To undertake activities in all areas to support this relationship in order to achieve the benefit for the favour of the peoples and the Middle East.

10. To take base an economical system where the self-interests of the working peoples, a fair distribution of wealth and the development of social prosperity are maintained .To carry out a fair distribution of the sources in the country.

11. To develop the usage of contemporary technologies but to favour the formation of the proper inspection systems on nuclear energy, greenhouse affects, hormonal foodstuffs and genetic technologies in order to prevent its harmfulness.

12. To develop policies with the aim of protecting the environment, earth, greenery, water, air, climate, and animals.

13. To develop a finance and tax system for the benefit of the working people as an alternative to the finance and tax systems that serve for exploitative structures.

14. To undertake works towards the establishment of cooperative organisations by the sections of the society in the economical field with peasantry being the foremost.

15. To establish a national insurance system where a security of an income and a job is maintained.

16. To support the development of a social security system where the availability of an unemployment benefit as well as the opportunities for the new employment is present.

17. To establish a system where protection of public's health is provided free of charge. To establish an insurance system which will make this possible. To establish a health care program for children and women.

18. To undertake educational and social works which will develop psychological, cerebral, and physical development of the youth as well as providing the opportunities for their active participation to social and political life.

19. To be in favour of the arrangements which solves the problems of, protects the rights, and serves to of children and the elderly.

20. To overcome an educational and cultural system that does not develop the individual and society. Establish a base where the democratic system develops the free personality and social freedom.

21. To develop a democratic law system by way of carrying out a law reform,.

22. To end all types of pressures on minority, nationality and religious groups, To treat the diversity of the cultures as a form of wealth and to provide freedom and support in order for all cultures to develop.

23. To support the practice of the fundamental human rights such as Declaration of Universal Human Rights, Paris Convention and the Copenhagen Criterions which are three-generations long. To struggle for the complete abolishment of the death penalty.

C- To end the unjust position of women in the class based society by returning to the position in the Neolithic Society via fundamentally changing the system of male domination in the 21st century which is the age of the free women.

For which,

1. To develop the freedom struggle of the women as one of the fundamental social movements in the 21st century.
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2. To develop the legal organisations of women's freedom movements in all parts (Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey) by way considering the special circumstance s of the locality.

3. To make constitutional changes to prevent the legitimisation of the slavery, persecution and domination. To reverse the institutionalised inequality in favour of women.

4. To struggle against male domination in all fields of social and political life.

5. To ensure that the active, free and equal participation of women to cultural, political and social life is maintained.

D- Resolve the Kurdish national question in peaceful and democratic means. For which:

1. To develop the level of organisation for the Kurdish Society and to increase the strength of their administrative power and secure their participation in the democratic republic.

2. The recognition and formalisation of the Kurdish identity in the constitution. The creation of a situation for the development of the Kurdish language and the culture is secured as well as waging a multi directional struggle for the legal protection on these to be achieved.

3. To work for the attainment of a legal status for the right to be educated in Kurdish mother tongue.

4. To improve the Kurdish education and all types of press, publication, history and art work in an institutionalised manner. To mobilise all national resources on these.

5. To carry out the necessary work in order to expose the Kurdish history and ensuring of the protection for the historical artefacts.

6. To eliminate totally the tribal-feudal remains that our struggle has smashed on a large scale.

7. To eliminate totally the state of emergency rule, and village guard system and similar that have been developed in Kurdistan.

8. To improve and reconstruct for the benefit of the people, the economic structure that has been damaged in the war era.

9. To provide the necessary means and support to people who left their homes during the war to return their homes.

E- Developing the Kurdish National Unity and system of democratic relations within the principles of Democratic Middle Eastern Union. For which:

1. To base the national democratic development and the solution on the self-strength of the people living in each piece.

2. To consider the national democratic development and resolution of the national question in all parts as part of the transformation in each sovereign country. To solve the Kurdish Question without changing the borders and within the unity of the free will.
To undertake the practice of works towards the "Democratic Turkey Free Kurdistan", "Democratic Islamic Iran Free Kurdistan", "Democratic Federal Iraq Free Kurdistan", "Democratic Syria Free Kurdistan".

3. To work for the active support and solidarity amongst the national democratic struggle forces in all parts. To see the Kurdish national unity with the strategy of "Democratic Middle Eastern Union United Kurdistan"

4. To be in a position of defending the democratic rights of Kurds which are spread throughout the world, to organise and support them for their cultural development and to unite them with progressive humanity and the struggle in Kurdistan.

5. To obtain relations and unity of between the Kurdish society and political forces in all fields within the framework of the National Congress.

6. To be in unity and the solidarity with the national societies and national policies in Kurdistan with Asyrian-Saurian people being the foremostly important.

F- To consider the relationship between the countries of the area on the basis of Democratic Union of Middle East strategy. To undertake works to establish the democratic solution to Kurdish Question in each part separately in order to make it between itself and your flat. To be in solidarity with the local peoples and the democratic forces.

G- To be in relation with democratic countries on the international level. Forming alliance with socialist; progressive; democratic and liberalistic forces, freedom loving. To be in solidarity with the people in all areas on the issues of anti-fascism, environmentalist, humanistic, and defenders of the human rights.