CENTRAL NEWS
Kurdish youth gathered in various European cities to celebrate May Day, and protest the occupation attacks of the fascist Turkish state and the KDP’s support of these attacks. Celebrations were carried out in Marseille, St.Gallen, and Paris.
MARSELLE
Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger (Revolutionary Youth Movement) activists in Marseille celebrated May 1 by hanging banners at different points.
The young people hung banners on two bridges in the city center reading; “Bijî 1ê Gûlanê” (Happy May Day), and “Bijî Partîya Karkerên Kurdistan” (Long Live the Kurdistan Workers’ Party).
ST. GALLEN
Revolutionary Youth Movement activists celebrated May 1 and May’s martyrs with banners they hung on overpasses in the city.
While the People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan was quoted in one of the banners: “Insist on socialism, insist on being human – Long live May 1,” another banner read, “We salute the May 1 and May Martyrs. ”
PARIS
While celebrations were banned in Paris, the capital of France, Kurdish youth celebrated May Day with banners they hung in many regions. Revolutionary Youth Movement and Young Free Women activists celebrated May 1 with banners they simultaneously hung at three different locations in Paris.
On a banner hung in the Villiersle-Bel suburb of Paris, young people had written “Long live 1 May, Long live PKK”, and in the suburb of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, the banner read “Freedom of Öcalan is the Freedom of Humanity”.
In the suburb of Drancy, young people protested the TR-KDP cooperation by writing “Murderer Erdogan, Collaborative Barzanî” on the banner they hung.
At night, the APOist Youth carried out an action to protest the collaborative KDP and the fascist Turkish state in the suburb of Paris’s Villiers-le-Bel. In an area heavily populated by the people of Kurdistan, a call was made for young people to act against betrayal.
Posters of the Peoples Leader Abdullah Öcalan were carried along with PKK flags. Among the sounds of fireworks, the youth were heard chanting “Long Live Leader APO”, “Down with betrayal”, “Kurdistan will be a grave for fascism” and “Long Live the Kurdistan Workers’ Party”.
