#support rojava

[thelonelyjew]

"Doesn't Israel have a right to exist" No because it's not a person it's a political entity founded on genocide, like all nation-states. Hope this helps.

"Why are you singling out Israel? Why don't you boycott the US?"

1. Growing up Jewish, I have been conditioned since birth to care about what Israel does as if I lived there. Y'all wanted me to care so bad, well now I do.

2. The people under genocide have called for a boycott and published a platform. Boycotts aren't just people individually deciding not to buy things. It's not "conscious consumerism" or whatever. It's a political tactic with specific demands.

3. I'm not even singling out Israel. Y'all should boycott Turkish goods in solidarity with the Kurdish calls to do so until the genocide of Kurds in Turkey and the Turkish proxy forces' occupation of northeastern Syria is ended. Especially since these Turkish proxies are far-right theocratic gangs that fund their terror by selling olives stolen from families who fled their homes and became IDPs when Turkey invaded Afrîn. Oh what's that? You didn't *actually* want to have to think about Middle Eastern politics in any substantive way? Sorry my bad. How about the Potawotamie lawsuit against the state of Michigan? They never called for a boycott of Michigan but they were close, and I would absolutely have boycotted Michigan.

No state has a "right to exist". The purpose of institutions is to serve human beings, and if your institution is slaughtering human beings en masse then it must be stopped. The survival of the institution itself in this scenario is of almost no import.

[victusinveritas]

You might think that its funny that UHC CEO was murdered but someday you might be the CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation making an eight figure salary maybe you wont think its so funny

The day I make eight figures, or seven for that matter (six also seems kinda pushing sanity, not to mention decency) the day I really start worrying about the people paying me, like their sanity and such. I know my worth, probably ten thousand bucks more than I make now, max, and that keeps me well under the six figure income bracket.

On the day I make eight figures for inventing a widget that slices bread eight times faster than the latest doohickey on the market, I'm donating that money, and not to my own money laundering charity front either, I'm giving that shit straight to the Peshmerga or Karen National Union (two groups I've always been fond of along with the Zapatista) and keeping back maybe the five figures I need to support my family on. With maybe an extra five thousand a year to support local artists and underfunded historical preservation initiatives... but most of this magical money is going to groups actually doing the work.

I'm hoping, of course, that by the time I become a CEO both Kurdistan and the Karens have achieved independence, but also being realistic about this very silly scenario.

If I make my hypothetical millions on the blood, sweat, and suffering of people just to keep my shareholders happy, then, comrades all, I deserve any medicinal lead the people see fit to give me by the nearest bike messenger.

[crimethinc]

Although Assad has fallen, the tragedies in Syria continue. The Syrian National Army, a Turkish proxy force, has captured the city of Manbij and aims to storm Kobane next. Turkey intends to conquer all Rojava and carry out ethnic cleansing there.

In 2014, with the tacit support of the Turkish government, the Islamic State took over most of northern Syria, carrying out massacres as they gained ground. In the town of Kobane, locals managed to halt their advance only a few miles from the Turkish border.

Now, Kobane is at risk once again.

In Rojava, multiethnic militias including anarchist volunteers from around the world did most of the fighting and dying in the struggle against the Islamic State. Now the international community is preparing to look away while they are massacred.

We must not let this happen. As in 2019—the last time Turkey mounted a major offensive against Rojava—solidarity actions are urgently needed.

http://crimethinc.com/RojavaSolidaritY

[tamamita]

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what's your opinion? I don't think we can really blame syrians for the way they react in this time but..

The issue with the situation is that this war will have no positive outcome, the Syrian rebels are greatly fractured into various factions, all with their own respective ideologies they wish to implement in the future. Hayat al Sham is perhaps beneficial to Sunnis, but no other religious minority. The Syrian National Army is supported by Turks, who wish to subjugate the Kurds in Rojava, and lest you want another Kobani, nobody wants this. My point is that the there will a power vacuum left after Assad is deposed and it will lead to a continuation of a war between these rebel factions. Yes, Assad is to blame as well, he destroyed the economy through his failed neo-lib policies during COVID, and the deep disgusting corruption of the ruling class paved the way for hatred towards him, but the problem is that SNA and Jolani won't compromise, and so there will be another civil war with no clear winner. The HTS being slightly less evil than al-Qaeda is not a very high bar to aim for.

From a materialist perspective, the only ones who will benefit from this outcome is the US (whom is leading Operation Inherent Resolve), the Turks, who will weaken the Kurds and quash any prospect for Kurdish autonomy, and the Settler state, who will no longer feel threatened by the Axis of resistance and absorb the West Bank and the Golan Heights. The Syrian people in the meantime will be embroiled in another civil war after Assad is gone.

[radfemsiren]

idk if you ever heard about rojava but they literally have a female-only city which is called jinwar and a whole ass feminist ideology called jineology and tbh they‘re based af. absolutely against libfems and for a matriarchy. kurdish women taking over the world.

My heart always has a soft spot for the Kurdish female fighters. They are such a brave and inspiring group of women.❤️ I knew they had a more progressive way of organizing and operating their lives in and out of battle, but I didn’t realize just how much land and resources they had taken over. It’s really beautiful.

“For an ISIS militant, one of the worst things is being killed on the battlefield, that too by a woman. They believed that they would directly go to hell if killed by a woman. For me, I was the happiest woman, as I could send a few men to hell,” - a 19-year-old Kurdish fighter Sterek Judhi.

If you ever hear me say I support the troops, I’m talking about literally only The Kurdish YPJ (Women's Protection Units) and other brave women like them.

[radicalgraff]

"Support the struggle from Rojava to Palestine against Imperialism"

Poster seen in Geelong, Australia

[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.

Kreissparkasse Köln

IBAN: DE49 3705 0299 0004 0104 81

BIC/SWIFT: COKSDE33XXX

Purpose: Rojava

PayPal:heyvasorakurdistan@gmail.com

(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.

[nando161mando]

5 years of invasion in Rojava

Five years ago today, the Turkish army invaded the self-governing territories in northern and eastern Syria.

After weeks of threats and a green light from the USA, Turkish troops crossed the border on October 9th and began shelling the border towns.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) put up fierce resistance for almost two weeks until a ceasefire agreement was reached on October 17. By this time, the offensive had already killed hundreds of people and displaced almost 400,000.

In response to the attacks, tens of thousands demonstrated against the advance and in support of the self-administration.

To this day, the areas between the towns of Gire Spî and Serê Kaniyê are occupied by Turkey and allied Islamist militias in violation of international law. There have been no consequences for Turkey to date.

[scottishcommune]

Emergency aid for Rojava!

Humanitarian aid for the victims of Turkey’s aggressions

Turkey has been bombing civilian infrastructure in Rojava (North and East Syria) since 4th of October 2023, and the region is heading for a humanitarian catastrophe. Turkey has bombed more than 150 targets so far: Much of the region's vital infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed in a matter of hours. Turkey’s attacks have so far caused dozens of civilian deaths and injuries and destroyed 80 per cent of civilian infrastructure, including water and power supplies, hospitals, residential areas, schools, oil fields, factories and warehouses. Hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from electricity and water supplies for days now. The Covid hospital in Dêrik, one of the most important hospitals of its kind in the region, was completely destroyed by the Turkish air strikes. Numerous other health facilities have been destroyed, hospitals cut off from electricity, cold chains broken - there are calls for blood donations. As Turkey’s attacks continue, the humanitarian situation is expected to deteriorate further and the death toll to rise. The Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd) is on the ground providing vital humanitarian assistance. Support the work of Heyva Sor a Kurd with your donations!

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Reference: Rojava

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*please note:

Due to an order from the ADD Rheinland-Pfalz, they are currently unable to accept donations from Rheinland-Pfalz.

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[navramanan]

finally the dam broke.

[marxistmuslimah]

Last month I made a post about how I believed the "left" would turn on Muslims the nano second people stopped caring about the Palestinian people and I was wrong, it happened when the Syrian people rid themselves of a brutal dictator.

The "left" is so fucking infuriating like they look at Gaza and rightfully say "this is awful and needs to stop" but then looks at Syria and goes "well Assad likes the Palestinians so this is bad" like WHAT???.

Assad and his family murdered thousands of Syrian Palestinians and gassed their own people, like aren't we supposed to support people in taking back their own freedom. What happened to the leftist supporting Rojava and a Syria free from Assad, where did they go cause we need those people back.

And then the critzeism of HTS, SNA and surprisingly the SDF once people realized that the U.S backed them, like obviously trusting a former Al-Qaeda guy is difficult for most and impossible for others alongside a Turkish backed group which is a state hellbent on the genocide of the Kurdish people.

These people aren't saying that they don't trust them their just calling them all rebels (at times including the Kurds) ISIS, this whole time as just reminded me when Russian invaded into Ukraine and these same "leftists" started going full Russian and viewing them as some anti imperialist force and it's truly just obvious to me that these people aren't even on the left in any sort of way but are just opportunists who view anything america or it's allies to bad and everything else as good.

[ecoterrorist-katara]

Actually I take back everything I said about Ka/taang not being a revolutionary ship!!!

Revolutionary men love nothing more than more powerful women who will support whatever they do & take all the blame & none of the credit, who will do women’s work like cooking and cleaning while the men do men’s work like waxing philosophical about the affairs of the world. Aang and Katara are soooooooo “I do the dishes while you crowdfund your trip to Rojava” coded. I change my mind. Ka/taang is the revolutionary ship

[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!

[honey-whiskey-666]

excuse me but where was the world community when turkey bombed southeast turkey the last few years and killed a lot of kurds? where was the world community when turkey bombed hospitals and schools in rojava and killed children and old people? where was the world community when turkey bombed iraq and syria and killed people and left the rest with no electricity and water? where was the world community when turkey bombed refugee camps in iraq and syria and killed people? where was the world community when azerbaijan attacked and invaded artsakh and people had to flee and leave their homes? tell me where was the world community, especially the muslim community? 80% of the kurds are muslims, so where is the support??