Iraq crisis has been continued for decades while it has been under the power of Saddam
Hussein or under the ?current democratic Regime? since the invasion of 2003. There were no
freedom, no social justice; no equality and also little opportunity for those who were
independent from the political parties who were in power. In addition to existing
brutality and discrimination against women and the ordinary people a very big gap was
created between the rich and poor, making the poor even poorer and the rich richer. ----
The current crisis is nothing far from what has been said above. In fact it is the
continuation of the same situation of what was happening decades ago. The only differences
are the names and the power of the political parties in power.
Politicians and the mass media love to tell us that the current struggles are the
continuation of the old struggles & conflict between the two main Islamic religion
doctrines: Shia and Sunni that they have a bloody background almost since the birth of the
Islam religion.
If we look into history of the nations, countries and their people, their history was
always struggling between the powerful people and the powerless, between the exploiters
and the exploited, between the occupier and the occupied people, between the invader and
the people who have fought back against powers, against authorities and states. In short
it was a war for more capitals and profits.
What is happening in Iraq today under the name of ?the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant
(Syria), Isis? far from what the mass media portrayed and tells us. The facts are:
1st the Isis advance is a tiny minority aided by Sunni factions disillusioned with Shia
leadership in Baghdad, Sunni tribal leaders, Ba?ath party members, old army officers and
factions of the former insurgency all came together to plan how to take the fight to the
prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki . When the Isis marched towards Mosul, the third
biggest city in Iraq, and occupied, they were less than 2,000 while around 60,000 people
from police, soldiers to intelligent forces and security were existing in the town. This
army was equipped heavily with the fighter Jets, tanks and different types of powerful
weapons, but this army has collapsed and fled from the Isis group and the other militant
with very little resistance or no resistance.
2nd facts what was happening more likely was a plan by Turkey, Gulf countries and Kurdish
Region Government ?K.R.G? with the knowledge of US and UK.
3rd It is very difficult to know exactly what will be happening in the end, as most of the
time it depends on the interest of US and western countries that will measured any
uprising or movement whether it gets help or not through their interest. Until now both
the US &UK insist on the unity of people in Iraq to live together under the same system.
If they know that their interests are under threat they do not mind to divide Iraq in to 3
Simi-states between Kurd, Sunni and Shia.
4th this situation has pushed Iraq to the brink of sectarian war, especially after issuing
a Fatwa by Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, one of Shia Islam?s most revered cleric, for citizens
to bear arms and sign up for the military.
5th We are very much sure that there is a hidden agenda here as well. We think one of the
aim of this war is surrounding and strangling the democratic mass movement of the Kurdish
people in west of Kurdistan (Syria?s Kurdistan) and there local administration. The mass
movement there proved that there has been alternative to the nation state, old/neo-liberal
system and its government. It also proved that the movement of people do not have to
follow the ?Arab Spring? that ended up in establishing an Islamic government. In addition
to that this movement showed the uprising of people should not be supported by US, EU and
their agents. It has proved that the revolution has to be started from the bottom of the
societies, not from the top as this can be achieved by building the local groups that
making most of the decisions by themselves and for themselves. This movement is clearly
not in the interest of the politicians and neo-liberalism, so the next step is to attack
the west of Kurdistan and their mass movement.
In view of the above we (KAF) denounce this war that has been launched and imposed on
Iraqi people and we believe in organizing people outside of the political parties, the
supporters of the war and outside of the institution of the states and the governments but
in their work places, in their neighborhood, in their schools, universities and on the
streets to unite and fight back against war, injustice, poverty, starvation, inequality,
and suppression that have been imposed by this brutal system through their State,
Corporation, finance institution , neo-liberal mass media and the institution of their
spies & agents.
Kurdistan Anarchists Forum
18.06.2014
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