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Saturday, September 3, 2016
London protest against solitary confinement of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan : Increased concern for life of Abdullah Ocalan
Protest in London's famous and busiest square Piccadilly Circus.
The Protest was against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan's solitary confinement.
During the protest "Turkish Terrorist State" with "Turkish troops out of Kurdistan" and "Freedom for Ocalan - Peace for Kurdistan" slogans. were raised.
Red smoke grenades exploded in the action.
Democracy and Class Struggle says there is increased concern for the life and well being of Abdullah Ocalan has he has not been seen for over 500 days
Friday, September 2, 2016
Proletarian Inter- nationalists support Rojava - Long Live Rojava - Long Live Self Reliance - Long Live People's War against IS Fundamentalism and Patriarchy
The Rojava Revolution must be defended against Turkish and jihadi aggression once again.
Once again revolutionaries, democrats, feminists, secularists and all progressive forces must come together, like they did in Kobanê, to make the Rojava Revolution victorious again.
Memed Aksoy
Democracy and Class Struggle says the above words of our Comrade Mao Zedong should be in the head and heart of every fighter in Rojava - ideas are our invincible weapon
In Defence of Rojava by Memed Aksoy
The Turkish army, together with a rag-tag team of jihadist Free Syrian Army militants, has invaded areas of Rojava and continues its incursion further into territory that had already been liberated from Islamic State.
Turkey backed FSA militants, made up of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Battalions, Faylaq al-Sham (Sham Legion), Sultan Murad Brigade and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) among others -all Salafist/Islamist groups responsible for countless human rights crimes- have already declared they will march onto Manbij, which had rejoiced with joy recently after being liberated from Islamic State by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Images of women taking off their enforced niqabs and smoking, and men shaving off their beards is still fresh in the memory of those following events in Syria.
After taking Jarablus in agreement with the Islamic State without firing a single bullet, the Turkish army has engaged in airstrikes and shelling of civilian areas, killing at least 45 in two villages south of Jarablus. Dozens of local fighters from the Jarablus Military Council, affiliated with the SDF, have been taken prisoner and tortured in front of cameras; most of them Arabs.
With its latest military foray Turkey, which has tried to camouflage its regional war on Kurds by using the Islamic State as a pretext, is trying to prevent the conjoining of Rojava’s three cantons. Furthermore this is also an attempt to strengthen Sunni/Muslim Brotherhood forces, which are ideologically aligned with the Turkish AKP government. Through these proxies Erdogan hopes to revive his neo-Ottoman aspirations to have a say in Syria’s future and a longer-term influence in the Middle East and North Africa.
What is at stake though, as much as Kurds’ gains, is the possibility of a progressive, secular and democratic political line and system in the region. This is what Rojava represents and this is why the Syrian regime, Iran, Russia and the USA have agreed to Turkey’s invasion.
Rojava’s existence in this regard is a threat to the status quo and interests of all the nation-states and governments in the Middle East and by extension those pillaging the region.
As an alternative model of governance Rojava has proven that people from different ethnicities and religious groups can organise at the local level, live, produce and struggle together without a centralised state, even during times of sectarian war. The unity between Kurdish, Arab and Turkmens against Turkey’s invasion is proof of this.
For this reason Rojava’s expansion and the conjoining of the three cantons -Cezire, Kobane and Afrin- is being prevented by all powers involved in the Syrian war. Furthermore and for the same reason, Rojava’s expansion cannot be viewed in the same light as areas being captured by Turkey backed jihadi groups or the regime. These two political systems -Islamist and Baathist- have nothing to give to the people in terms of a humane, progressive and participatory democracy. Indeed they do not even make any such claims.
Although Rojava, with its anti-nationalist rhetoric has already nullified accusations from some quarters that Kurds are trying to capture Arab lands it is also worth noting that the area between Kobanê and Afrin, which is under attack by Turkey and FSA jihadists, was systematically Arabized by the Syrian regime in the 1970s.
Even if this were not the case, the Kurds, as a distinct group living in a contiguous piece of land across Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, would still have a right to self-determination and international recognition. To argue otherwise would mean that the states above, which have large Kurdish populations whose rights have been denied for decades, should be deemed illegitimate from the moment they were declared.
In short, Rojava has become a light, a beacon of hope for all the progressive people of the world; against inequality, despotic regimes and systems of hierarchy and patriarchy, Rojava has raised the flag for humanity against barbarism.
This is why the Rojava Revolution must be defended against Turkish and jihadi aggression once again. Once again revolutionaries, democrats, feminists, secularists and all progressive forces must come together, like they did in Kobanê, to make the Rojava Revolution victorious again.
SOURCE: http://www.kurdishquestion.com/article/3397-in-defence-of-rojava
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Red Salute from Democracy and Class Struggle to All India Strike of 150 million Indian workers on September 2nd 2016
September 2, 2016 will see one of the largest coordinated labour strikes ever in India, possibly in the world. Trade unions cutting across political affiliations will shut down key sectors of the Indian economy against the pro-corporate anti labour Modi Government.
FROM ECONOMIC TO POLITICAL STRUGGLE
Economism is a tendency in the workers movement that only focuses on economic struggle – struggle for wages, welfare and rights in the workplace – and that limits itself to union work.
As a resistance to this, Lenin puts the versatile political struggle and the revelation of the state and the bourgeois. He writes:
“Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without; that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employers.”
He also writes:
“that the Social-Democrat’s (communist ed.note) ideal should not be the trade union secretary, but the tribune of the people, who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears, no matter what stratum or class of the people it affects; who is able to generalise all these manifestations and produce a single picture of police violence and capitalist exploitation; who is able to take advantage of every event, however small, in order to set forth before all his socialist convictions and his democratic demands, in order to clarify for all and everyone the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat”
And:
“Trade-unionist politics of the working class is bourgeois politics of the working class”
Political struggle over economic struggle
In the article “Once Again On The Trade Unions” Lenin writes:
“I said again in my speech that politics is a concentrated expression of economics, because I had earlier heard my ‘political’ approach rebuked in a manner which is inconsistent and inadmissible for a Marxist. Politics must take precedence over economics. To argue otherwise is to forget the ABC of Marxism.”
source: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/norway-politics-over-economy-by-tjen.html
Remembering when migrants saved the Honour of France : L'Armee du crime
Democracy and Class Struggle says nothing exposes the fake patriotism of the Le Pen's more than their apologetics for the Vichy Government and the Nazi Occupation of France,
it took immigrants to defend the honour of France from the Vichy collaborators of yesterday.
Red Salute to the Group Manouchian may they inspire a new generation to combat Fascism in France
it took immigrants to defend the honour of France from the Vichy collaborators of yesterday.
Red Salute to the Group Manouchian may they inspire a new generation to combat Fascism in France
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http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/france-immigrants-defend-honour-of.html
Red Salute to the Anti Fascist Women Partisans of Italy - Never Forgotten
Red Salute to the Anti Fascist Struggle in Italy today which honours the partisans of the Resistance
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