LIS statement on Rojava
He 9 October, with the implicit approval of the United States, Erdogan's regime launched a military operation in northern Syria (west) It called "Spring of Peace". There are other factors behind the scenes of the occupation that hide behind diplomatic phrases stylish, the preservation of the territorial integrity of Syria and clean sources of "terror" in the region: reverse national democratic gains of the Kurdish people as an old state tradition, provide a breath of fresh air to the neo-Ottoman adventures set in the hub of the Middle East and Syria, reverse the decline in popularity due to the economic crisis, poverty and unemployment and raise the consent of the working class with a chauvinistic campaign.
Particularly from the referendum 2016, Erdogan intensified its cooperation with the MHP(1) and he launched an overwhelming campaign against the Kurdish national movement. In this new era, especially Selahattin Demirtaş (2), Kurdish political movement, which it became increasingly stronger in the field of civil policy, faced severe oppression. Demirtas and many politicians were jailed HDP; HDP elected mayors in the Kurdish cities were dismissed by intervenors. While cities like Sirnak, Nusaybin and South were "liberated" Kurdish youth militia, these cities were heavily destroyed. Hundreds of people were killed. On the other hand, with operations "Shield Euphrates" and "Olive Branch", Kurdish self-rule in Syria, especially in the city of Afrin, He was severely beaten. By establishing offices, schools and district governors in these regions, the Turkish government is trying to lay the groundwork for a possible annexation and violates the right of Syrian sovereignty. fanatical Islamist groups in the city of Idlib continue their battle under the auspices of Turkey. The current operation, "Spring of Peace", It aims to provide a permanent achievements of the Kurdish people suddenly and radically change the demographic structure of the region through organized gangs jihadists in the "Syrian National Army".
In this process, the Kurdish people was abandoned by imperialism, especially by the United States. When the danger was removed ISIS, el PYD-YPG (3), he had received American support for operations against ISIS and to avoid the possibility of a de facto occupation of the TAF (Turkish Armed Forces), now was abandoned to avoid rotation of the Erdogan regime towards the axis of Russia. Erdogan is one of the strongest allies of NATO in the region. The PYD-YPG is paying dearly for the unilateral attachment and confidence placed in the United States. This process has shown that oppressed people can not achieve freedom depending on the imperialist balances. The history of the Kurdish people is full of many tragic examples: from the experience of the very short period of the Republic of Mahabad Kurdistan 1946 until the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan which was crushed with tanks in Baghdad 2017.
The current dynamics of the Middle East, which it was shaped by imperialist powers like Britain and France after the First Imperialist War, He has produced nothing but blood and tears for more than a century. The biggest victims of this process were the oppressed peoples, as the Palestinians and Kurds. These people have faced the most extreme examples of imperial-capitalist barbarity. Divisions ethnic and religious identity have paved the way for bloody civil wars and massacres in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon.
The imperialist capitalist system crushes the oppressed peoples of the region: Palestine is oppressed by the Zionist policies of Israel, Yemen is butchered by the dirty Gulf regimes and Rojava is attacked by the military aggression of the regime of Erdogan. For Kurdish workers, no alternative but to join the workers of other nations, build solidarity and build an internationalist alternative against the occupation and imperialist hypocrisy. Freedom, equality and brotherhood will not come until the imperialist status quo that imprisons the Kurds is completely demolished.
The labor movement in Iraq and Lebanon now proves that the only way out is to overcome the ethno-sectarian divisions. If a unified socialist struggle manages to become an alternative for youth and workers in the Middle East, the system of the bourgeoisie, not only in the Middle East, but the world, It will be shaken. Only a Socialist Federation of the Middle East, to be established on the basis of real equality, You can achieve salvation of the oppressed and workers.
The International Socialist League calls on workers, women and youth of the world to surround solidarity to the Kurdish people.
October of 2019
(1) Nationalist Action Party fascist orientation
(2) Kurdish leader of the Democratic Party of Peoples (HDP)
(3) The People's Protection Units (YPG) They are the official armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Supreme Committee Kurdistan and the Democratic Union Party (PYD)
