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[dzthenerd490]

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Francesca Albanese and the industry of pro-Palestine defamation (newarab.com)

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Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: Syrian rebel HTS leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime | CNN

Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters | AP News

Inside the Iraqi factions’ decision to keep out of Syria | Middle East Eye

Syrian rebels capture second major city as army withdraws from Hama | CNN

ANF | To defend Rojava is to defend humanity (anfenglishmobile.com)

[tamamita]

Moral mustve been seriously low in the SAA for this to have happened they kept retreating left and right without trying to dig in and put up a fight. Was it desertions? Officers acting autonomously breaking the chain of command? Why did assad's plane take off fly towards homs and then turn back around before crashing? Was it shot down? Was he even on board? Its crazy how rapid the whole thing went down. What do you anticipate happening next?

the FSA and other Syrian opposition groups are suffering from factionalist infighting, with ideologies ranging from Salafist fundamentalism to Secular democratic movements. With Assad gone, there will be a power vacuum left in which various factions of the Syrian opposition will strive to control. It either boils down to compromise between the more conservative elements and the more liberal secularists or a full take-over of Salafi takfirism, which is of no benefit to religious or secular minorities.

The Turkish-backed rebels, or the Syrian National Army, is a coalition of several anti-assad militias, all of whom share their respective ideologies and being concentrated in the northern part of Syria, while you have have Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly known as Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda in Syria, to the north-west of Syria. The SNA aims to consolidate a safe area for the Syrian Turkmen in the northern part of Syria and establish Turkish control in that region, while HTS aims to establish an Islamic state in Syria. If no compromise is reached between these factions, then there will be a continuation of the Civil War, leading to another decade of warfare. At the South, we have the US-backed al-Tanf refugees comprising of former ISIS-members. (lol)

The Syrian Democratic Force (SDF), mostly comprising of Kurdish militias in Rojava, will most likely try to reach a compromise in order to prevent any form of escalation between the Turkish-backed rebels and various Kurdish militias. However, there is no doubt that the Kurds will be forced to make concessions to the Turkish-backed rebels or face displacement from various territories it obtained during the 2014 offensive, such as the city of Manbij, unless the US backs them, which is less than likely since Trump will assume office soon. With Trump having no interest in helping the Kurds in Rojava, they'll be at the mercy of the Turks and their puppets.

Hezbollah and other members of the Axis of resistance are severly weakened and the main supply route between Iran and these groups have been cut, substantially weakening these groups and their power in SWANA, much to the benefit of the Settler state and revisionist Zionists. Hamas will most likely fight to the bitter end, while Hezbollah will have to remain in the defense. Iran's image is severely weakened and will most likely go on the retreat for now.

[heyvasorakurdistane]

Our partner organisation in Rojava, Heyva Sor Kurd, is working to provide medical care to people who have fled from Tel Rifat, Shehba and the Aleppo area. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the attacks.

Heyva Sor a Kurd continues its relief efforts with the support of Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e.V.

Dear supporters,

Your support is needed. You can donate for the people of Shehba and Tel Rifat through Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e.V.

Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e.V.

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(Note: Due to an order by the ADD Rheinland-Pfalz, we are currently unable to accept donations from the federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz.)

[spaghettioverdose]

how did u went from anarchism to ml question mark

I was just going to write a couple paragraphs but I basically ended up writing a novel so I'm going to put a keep reading link here for my everyone's sanity.

Tl;dr: I became disillusioned with liberalism, became ancom, saw many silly takes and analysis that felt incomplete, became disillusioned with ancom, learned more about ml, went "this makes way more sense, has been applied in real life and has also helped many millions of people", became an ml.

I became an anarchist when I was in my late teens. I was already disillusioned with liberalism, and while I was sympathetic to socialism because I come from a formerly socialist country and grew up with stories about it from my grandmother, I was still of wary of it. Partially due to some of the genuinely bad things that happened during it and partially due to the immense amounts of anti-communist propaganda I was constantly bombarded with growing up. Then I found anarcho-communism which to me at the time seemed like "communism with none of the bad stuff".

I got into it, I watched ancom youtubers, I read Kropotkin, Graeber, Bakunin, I joined online ancom communities etc.

Slowly, over time I started becoming disillusioned with ancoms.I found myself having to defend marxist-leninist projects a lot (mostly from usamericans) against some very silly cold war anticommunist propaganda a lot. Such as the idea that everyone was just miserable and trying to escape the country or brainwashed by the leader's cult of personality.

Keep in mind that I myself ate up a lot of anticommunist propaganda growing up, but I also come from a formerly socialist country and had someone who was around during the socialist era of my country to ground my view of it in reality to some extent. Most of the ancoms in these communities only had the propaganda.

I also didn't like the way so many of these people talked more about an idealised, aestheticised, romanticised and abstract idea of revolution, and especially past failed anarchist revolutions, rather than talking about the material results of revolution.

Even when I still was mostly convinced by anarchist theory, I still found anarchist analysis to be incomplete and lacking predictive power and real world practice. Other anarchists tended to excuse the fact we didn't have a lot of revolutions and that the vast majority of them were crushed within their first couple years by saying things like "we were up against everyone" or "we were betrayed" which didn't really hold up. The bolsheviks had to fight everyone as well and yet they still won. Same with the Chinese communists who were also against massive internal and external threats. This is because in both cases they had popular support and were capable of analysing the material conditions and formulating policies based on that.

Another rebuttal was that every socialist revolution was state capitalism because it didn't adhere to a very simplified definition of socialism. I thought that lacked nuance and in the end it mattered to me less than the fact that it got results and helped millions of people, but it didn't prevent me from internalising this to some extent. I did (for at least some time) think that most ml states were incomplete revolutions that eventually fell to state capitalism.

When I did believe to these ideas I often fell into pits of despair, as did other ancoms, over the fact that in our world view, communism was essentially entirely defeated and at best we (as anarchists) had two current revolutions: the Zapatista (a group who follows marxist theory, refuses to call itself anarchis and controls a very small region and only due to an agreement with the government) and Rojava (who also controls a small region, is a military ally of the US and has a constitution which guarantees private property and definitely fits the anarchist definition of a state).

The holes in anarchist theory became even larger and more apparent to me once I started reading Marx and Lenin. The contrast in the explanatory and predictive power of dialectical materialism against the philosophical idealism of anarchist analysis eroded my remaining trust in anarchism very quickly.

Anarchist analysis severely lacked much class analysis beyond "people do evil things to each other because of the profit incentive of capitalism" and "power wants to hold onto power" which while in some ways is correct, it is vastly incomplete. Which is why the conclusion of this analysis, that after an anarchist revolution the profit incentive would simply be gone and so would reactionaries, also felt incomplete.

As it turns out it's also historically been proven wrong. Revolution doesn't stop when the civil war ends and that capitalists (even if disposessed) don't suddenly stop being reactionary and don't suddenly stop being a danger to the revolution.

However many anarchists also viewed historical events in a vacuum and lacked any sort of tools for materialist analysis and therefore came to silly conclusions about why things happened the way they did.

Many propositions on how an anarchist society would run resembled some variation of Old West homesteading, medieval peasant communes or some other strange individualist fantasies.

In the end I realised about anarchism that it entirely resembled the philosophically idealist utopian communism of old. A form of communism that lost the debate against the scientific communism of Marx, Engles and Lenin over a century ago and there is no reason to engage with it in the present day.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Supporting the SDF in Post-Assad Syria [UPDATES]

To preserve its only reliable and capable partner in the fight against the Islamic State, the United States must help the SDF deter HTS and fend off Turkey-backed militias…

RELATED UPDATE: SDF: Raqqa Military Council Forces completed operation in Meidan

RELATED UPDATE: KONGRA-GEL calls for mobilization to defend the Rojava revolution

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish attack on civilians at Tishrin Dam kills 2, injures 20

RELATED UPDATE: General strike in East Kurdistan today against death penalty

RELATED UPDATE: Over 40 people detained during demo against the detention of socialists in Istanbul

[scottishcommune]

@staff appear to have nuked the blog @int-revolution which was posting updates from the revolution in Rojava, as well as about ongoing Kurdish resistance to the aggression and colonial expansion of the Turkish state. If this is the case, @staff are, through the censoring of information, helping Turkey in its campaign of genocide against the people of North and East Syria.

[marlonblognotes]

holy shit! :D

10:28 PM

lmao, hmmm...

I'm gonna be honest: WHY did I "feel as though" I HAD to post my video after this?

Well I wanted to explain some memes, but it was requested I shew THIS instead! One theory I have is they wanted the folk who just look at what I tag for videos to see THAT up there lmao! Maybe they're using me to make Cantonese translations too. Hey, glad to help with this in particular!

DISCUSSION:

It's good to see that these folk have support from Russia, as they said they wanted very clearly years ago! Was that 2022? I hope I get to see more interviews from him, from that other young guy, etc. 'cause as I've complained before I saw a FLURRY of activity from Africa on "mainstream" USA social media like Facebook, Instagram etc and then? Nothin for a while! I mean, some "riot" photos here and there but not like back then, and to have the memes be supplemented by interviews from the folk there? Ho!

PS

Ooookay...

What is green!? Everybody knows abt red. What's green!? Rojava had so much green. Various things I support had green. What's green? Here, green became odd. Kinda felt "edgy" when combined with red. Just sayin, I have no idea what green is anymore lmao, no offense, no offense!

[dailyanarchistposts]

We have been debating tirelessly on different ways to abolish caste and other social evils which permeate the society that we have today. Raising voices against oppression, forming political parties and contesting in elections and also trying to force the government to form and implement policies which will give the Bahujans their fundamental rights. We have come a long way through decades of struggle in gaining rights, but the present political scenario of the country is not looking hopeful to the Bahujan aspirations for breaking away the shackles of caste.

With the diluting of labour laws and enabling state sanctioned exploitation of Bahujan labour, implementation of NEP which further marginalize the Bahujan children and extinguish their hopes of upward social and economic mobility, a proposed EIA which will rob the Bahujans and Adivasis of their land and livelihood, implementation of CAA and NRC to deprive the status of citizenship, privatization of key public utilities and destroying the already weakened public healthcare system, the government is openly showing its motives as a corporate stooge which dances to the whims of Adani, Ambani and other Brahmin Bania masters.

Armed with a grass roots organization like RSS and corporate funded media outlets, they have complete dominance in creating narratives they want the public to believe and they also have a well-oiled IT cell to spread fake news against any dissenters who dare to raise voice against them. Even though there are voices in the society which are raising against these government policies, there is a lack of grass root organization and common vision is sometimes lacking. This doesn’t mean that all the opposing forces against the fascist regime, which is murdering our democracy, should be centralized under one political entity. Instead it is time to think about exactly the opposite, the expansion of the idea of democracy from merely being a political tool used while casting vote once every 5 years to inculcating an idea of democracy in all aspects of life — political, social and economical and decentralization of all aspects of society.

Anarchism is a political philosophy which rejects all coercive and oppressive forms of hierarchy, be it caste, class, color, creed, clan, gender, age, orientation or country. It says that every system of power hierarchy should be scrutinized and made to justify its existence, and any system which fails to justify itself and is trampling the freedom of the individual will have to be abolished. The idea of questioning oppressive power structures is inherent to the idea of anarchism. It prohibits a system where even a party or a few leaders decide on how the society will function. Instead it focuses on decentralizing power to local bodies and communities so that decisions are made at the lowest level possible, thus eliminating the concentration of power into a few hands. It also shares the view that people who are most impacted by policies and decisions are the ones who are most capable of making them.

Historically, humans have developed to live in societies which didn’t have the kind of huge inequalities as it exists today. There is an intrinsic instinct to cooperate and help each other which is visible when a disaster strikes or the self-organization that appears out of nowhere in organic movements against oppression. Solidarity and mutual aid are the foundations of an anarchist society. The “right to well-being” of all human beings, meaning “the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours” (Kropotkin, 1892). Two of the examples of societies which function close to anarchist principles today are Zapatistas of Mexico (Nacional, 2002) and Rojava in Syria (Democracy, 2018). Extreme corruption, colonization and environmental exploitation forced the indigenous people of Mexico to form an autonomous region where people directly form communities and decide the policies. Similarly, the people of Rojava, battered by the civil war, have formed an autonomous region with direct democratic ambitions based on an anarchist and libertarian socialist ideology promoting decentralization, gender equality, environmental sustainability and pluralistic tolerance for religious, cultural and political diversity based on democratic confederalism. One of the principles of direct democracy is that there are no elected representatives for a fixed term, any member who is elected will just be a spokesperson of the community and can be withdrawn immediately if he goes against the decision taken by discussion and deliberations. The means of production will be owned by workers and run by worker councils. Conflict resolution mechanism and alternative systems of judiciary exists within the community run by the members. There won’t be police or other systems which grant power to one person or group to take away the life and liberty of an individual, rather power will be distributed equally or rotationally which is controlled by the community. During the current times of BLM protests all over the world, it is clear that the police institution is just a tool employed by the ruling and propertied class to control the lower class and there is mass class for defunding the police and transferring the resources to community welfare projects.

We need to look at how these communities organize themselves in the face of an oppressive regime and come up with innovative ways to decentralize and create institutions which we are brainwashed to assume will work only if they are centralized. Decentralized community gardens provide food for the community which is maintained by them. Systems of education, community defense, criminal justice systems, industry and healthcare can be decentralized and we need to focus our efforts in building such grassroot level communities which function along the principles solidarity and mutual aid. We already have systems of mutual aid in our communities, all we need to do is to transfer these tendencies to all the systems we live by.

The Indian social mentality of following a leader or waiting for a savior needs to change. Any system which can consolidate power in the hands of the few can change into authoritarianism. Even if the leaders are benevolent and have the will to serve the people, there are systems of coercion which exist in our society, where economic, political and social power resides in the hands of the few, that they will bind the leaders from doing their duty to the Bahujans. The leaders and parties we look up to keep failing and disappointing us time and again. Now, action needs to be taken directly at grass root level by the Bahujans by creating communities and networks of solidarity and mutual aid and practicing decision making and direct participatory democracy. The culture of outsourcing decision making to politicians or other ruling class needs to stop. This has to start at all sectors of industry, agriculture and services too, and also within family.

We can’t turn to the state for protection anymore as it the state apparatus which is being systematically abused by the ruling castes to exploit Bahujan labour to create their wealth. Along with the efforts to educate Bahujans through social media and other means to sensitize them of their exploitation, effort needs to be focused at the bottom most level to inculcate the habit of participatory democracy at individual, family and community levels, respecting the liberty of the individual. The fight for annihilation of caste cannot be won, unless all unjust power structures in the society cease to exist and power is decentralized and distributed to the people directly, where individuals themselves can organize and make decisions about their life without being coerced or exploited to create wealth for others.

References

Democracy, N. (2018, July 6 ). The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self Direction. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDnenjIdnnE

Kropotkin, P. (1892). The Conquest of Bread. Paris.

Nacional, E. Z. ( 2002). A Zapatista Response to “The EZLN Is NOT Anarchist”. Retrieved from The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist

[dolcettamagica]

do you mind sharing some resources or giving some info that could help teach about what's going on in Kurdistan?

OF COURSE OMG

kurdistan’s timeline

more in depth history

kurdish genocides

another source to genocides

and again…

kurdish groups (pkk, ypg, ypj) saving us from isis

abdullah öcalan’s take on women’s rights

so, first you have the understand that kurdistan has been colonized by four countries: turkey, iran, iraq, syria. iraq and syria gave the kurds autonomous regions (which is the bare minimum). rojava is the syrian occupied kurdistan and bashur the iraqi occupied kurdistan.

those four countries did (and do) the same disgusting shit israhell has been doing to palestine, since 1923: prohibited the language, the national colors (turkey has prohibited new adidas shoes a few days bc they have red, green and yellow😭), raped women and kids, use illegal chemical weapons (the last time? two years ago), deporte them, genocides, even cutting off olive tress of kurds and so on.

iran hates the kurds with a burning passion, especially bc jin, jiyan, azadi was started by the kurdish freedom movement (pkk) centuries ago.

the most hate tolds the turkish regime. turkey’s crimes against kurds are ENDLESS. the worst being the dersim massacre. turkey also collaborated with ISIS to kill kurds in rojava. at the beginning of last october erdogan started to bomb rojava again!, citizens and even mosques. if you want all the crimes turkey has done to kurde you should ask for an extra ask cause turkey is the absolute worst.

the best news site regarding kurdistan is anf

you can also follow @/newsfromkurdistan on instagram.

[max1461]

I'd say your selective opposition to ethnostates is hypocrisy, but you at least do make it clear that you'll tolerate an enormous amount of nationalist or ethnoreligious violence and repression, so long as it's coming from "nonwhite" (by your standards) people acting in the service of "decolonization."

I don't think I have a selective tolerance of ethnostates. I think I've been pretty clear in my opposition to non-white ethnonationalism, including Hindutva and Japanese nationalism (both of which I've talked about recently) and Han Chinese nationalism (which I haven't talked about recently, but which you can find posts on way back in the archives).

I don't think ethnonationalism is infinitely bad; that is to say that if there were e.g. a group of ethnic nationalists who also credibly claimed to support some form of democracy, and they were engaged in a civil conflict against an autocratic state, I might very well think they were the lesser of two evils. Someone described Rojava as an ethnostate the other day—I don't think it is, either nominally or in practice, but even if it was I would be pretty sympathetic to their cause, given that they're attempting to break away from Assad's Syria. None of that means that I think ethnonationalist policies are good.

Beyond that, I would say that "ethnonationalism" gets used pretty freely on here, for sets of policies that don't materially resemble each other very much. People trying to revive the Welsh language and the BJP trying to eliminate Muslims from India both sometimes get described "ethnonationalism", even though I don't think they actually have much in common at all as policy agendas. The most you could say is that perhaps at some level there are similar emotional motivations involved for certain supporters, but like... who cares? I don't think that's a great basis on which to judge a set of policies. Uncharitably, I think people opposed to policies of the former sort often call them "ethnonationalism" precisely to associate them with policies of the latter sort, as a cheap rhetorical trick. Even if you feel the description is technically accurate in both cases, "preservation of Welsh is just like the 2002 Gujarat riots" does not really work as an argument...

Anyway, I'm a pretty strong supporter of people's endeavors to express and partake in culture that matters to them, and I see "coordinating endeavors that matter to people" as one of the main functions of our (public and private) institutions. So I'm exceedingly sympathetic to "let's dog-ear some money in the budget to help keep Welsh alive", and I suppose if that makes me an ethnonationalist then so be it. But I don't think it does. And in any case, as you can see by my choice of example here, this applies exactly the same to white and non-white people.

[dzthenerd490]

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Palestine

UNRWA pauses aid through key Gaza crossing as hunger stalks Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Tens of thousands attend pro-Palestine march in London | Middle East Eye

Palestinian woman and two children crushed to death outside bakery in Gaza | CNN

Which countries recognise Palestine in 2024? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Ukraine

US will send Ukraine $725 million more in counter-drone systems, anti-personnel land mines | AP News

‘Major compromise’: How Ukraine’s Zelenskyy shifted goals to end Russia war | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Has Ukraine helped the Syrian rebel offensive in Aleppo? | Middle East Eye

Sudan

Sudan conflict: BBC hears of horror and hunger in massacre town El Geneina

Chad struggles as refugees pour in from Sudan – DW – 11/28/2024

South Sudan kicks off Certificate of Secondary Education exams - Radio Tamazuj

Sudanese army advances in Al Jazirah state, retakes key locations - Sudan Tribune

Lebanon

Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds | AP News

She fled Israel's bombing of Lebanon four times. It still found her (bbc.com)

Trump taps Lebanon-born Massad Boulos as Arab and Middle East adviser | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

Gaza’s hopes for ceasefire dim despite renewed US efforts following Lebanon truce | CNN

Syria

Turkey calls for reconciliation between Syria government and opposition to end conflict | AP News

Who are the rebels who have seized control of Aleppo, Syria? : NPR

Mapping who controls what in Syria | Syria's War News | Al Jazeera

ANF | KNK calls on everyone to defend Rojava (anfenglish.com)

Syria's 13-year civil war: All you need to know | AP News

ANHA (hawarnews.com)

ANF | To defend Rojava is to defend humanity (anfenglish.com)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights says Canada is putting the lives of its citizens at risk by not helping to return them from prisons in Syria.

"It is inconceivable for any country, including Canada, to leave its vulnerable children in these camps for a day longer than they should be," said Fionnuala Ní Aoláin in an interview airing Saturday on CBC's The House.

The UN special rapporteur also accused the Canadian government of hypocrisy, arguing that its actions on citizens in Syria devalued other efforts on the international stage.

"Canada is the leading state on the children-in-armed-conflict agenda at the UN. But actually those words ring hollow when you're telling other countries to look after their children in other conflicts and you're not prepared to look after your own," she said.

A number of Canadian citizens have been detained in Syrian camps, suspected of links to the ISIS terrorist group. They haven't faced charges or been given a trial. The camps are controlled by Kurdish-led authorities. [...]

Continue Reading.

Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: The article makes a grave error, be it an innocent mistake or parroting Western propaganda that conflates opposing factions. Kurdish authorities in Syria and ISIS are mortal enemies. They are nowhere near the same. The Kurdish autonomous region in Syria was cleared of ISIS by the Rojava freedom fighters. What has since been going on in there is unclear. Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

[heyvasorakurdistane]

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[polarwav]

Why India needs Anarchism

Anarchism is a philosophy of direct action. India always had local self governance and direct democracy, in the form of panchayats. Mutual aid has always been a part of the Indian consciousness. But all that is basically a fossilised version of the indian, a digression. I will tell you why we REALLY need anarchism.

Firstly, UPSC, JEE, NEET and the Bureaucrats are colonial legacy

Competitive exams basically throw bodies at the problem of governance poverty and education. Even after JEE Advanced being the hardest exam, the IITs do not rank anywhere in research. Contrarily, TIFR, ICTS, IISc, ISI, RRI- institutes that do NOT take in through JEE or even if they do, they take in very less are actually pretty well known worldwide. Why? You may ask. If you really do want to know we can discuss it later on.

The IAS babu system compels and facilitates corruption as they basically are in place so that the mobs do not go berserk full french revolution mode. I mean, the Brits had ICS for this very reason. Civil servants were always against the independence movement, and the police and the babus have only ever worked to benefit the political upper class, who rarely ever change. In 525 people in the lower house, basically no one is there that is not a result of nepotism. Same is true for local assemblies. You are further removed from politics because if you work for the government you cannot have any political affiliation and if you are anyone else, your company can indiscriminately fire you for being “political”. Why? Because the IAS are the DE FACTO CHAIRMAN OF YOUR COMPANY. The IAS also come up with brain dead policies because they have no idea about the ground reality. So is the case with the Courts, where time and time again people of backward castes are harassed. Therefore your protest and movement will have no participants unless you are the political elite.

I say if you are an anarchist, instead of protesting, which will play into the hands of the ruling state, take it in your own hands. Educate children, do not take the NGO route, find mutual aid. If you are a doctor, or a nurse, educate people in first aid, help them set up their own clinics for primary care. Look up doctors who work in goodwill, improve their access and help them reach you. If you are an engineer, go to farmers, go to different people. Understand their problems, start co-ops to deal with the problem, contribute to open source! See how can you take your knowledge to the people. Gather artisans, cooks, experts, etc. Set up a little gym for youth in backward communities, train them martially to RESIST police and caste oppression! Thousand different ways to achieve this.

Learn from the example of Gandhian Khadi or Swadeshi movement, the Mondragon coop in spain, read about EZLN and Catalonia, read about Rojava. Read Bookchin, Malatesta. Follow the example of Dr Verghese Kurien!

Let not anarchism be a mere talking point. Let it mean action!

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Do you regret your time with the YPG? How have your attitudes changed since then? Interested because you described yourself as having overcome racist and imperialist attitudes, but I don't know how that squares with my understanding of Rojava and the YPG.

Okay, in order.

I don't regret my time with the YPG. It was a formative experience that forced me way outside my comfort zone and my usual sphere of ideology. I think that ultimately it did have more positive than negative effects, but I think it was still a bad decision (more detail on motivation).

My attitudes have practically done a full about-face. Very literally in some cases (raised to believe Israel could do not wrong, now believe in dismantling the Israeli settle state). However change is ongoing as I noted in a previous post. I still have issues with prejudice that I am actively trying to fix, because years don't disappear in months.

The thing about Rojava and the YPG in 2015 is like...this was when ISIS was big. The Kurds were on the ropes for a while and weren't exactly like...screening folks. I saw a person there with literal Nazi tattoos on our side. That's not to say that the YPG are stupid or ignorant, but they are practical. A body with a rifle is a body with a rifle, whether it's decorated with a swastika or a hammer and sickle. At the time there were simply bigger issues.

Anyway I hope this answers the questions, or at least helps understanding.