(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - International, "Barcelona, Warsaw, Stalingrad, Koban?" (fr, pt)

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Photo essay by Cuervo (AL 95) demonstration in support of the Kurdish Left October 18, 
2014 in Paris, and text of the speech libertarian organizations. ---- About 3,000 people 
marched from Bastille to Nation on October 18, in support of the city of Koban?, which 
always resists jihadists. ---- In addition to the organizations of the Kurdish Left 
movement PKK and PYD, the French presence was much more consistent than in previous weeks: 
Left Front, NPA, but also a strong libertarian procession with AL, FA, CGA, and OCL 
CNT-SO. ---- At the end of the event, place de la Nation, a comrade was read to the crowd. 
Have also expressed the PCF, MSF, the Greens, the NPA, a representative of the Council of 
Europe and a comrade of Kabyle organization. ---- 
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ADDRESS LIBERTARIAN

" Barcelona, Warsaw, Stalingrad

The battle today is engaged in Koban? imposes the memory of these three cities.

Barcelona, 1936. Fascists have broken teeth on the working citadel, the epicenter of the 
Spanish revolution.

In Barcelona, two worlds clashed On the one hand, the libertarian forces secular, feminist 
and revolutionary; the other obscurantism, fascism and religious fanaticism.

So, how not to think about Barcelona when to Koban? two worlds collide again?

Warsaw, 1944. There are seventy years exactly. For sixty days, the Polish insurgents stood 
up to the Nazi army.

For seven days they fought block by block, street by street, house by house.

For sixty days, the Soviet Army stationed, grounded arms, a few kilometers.

For sixty days, Stalin allowed Hitler to do the dirty work for him. Once broken Warsaw by 
the Nazis, the Soviet army occupied the city.

So, how can we not think in Warsaw, before the cynicism of the Turkish state vis-?-vis Koban??

Stalingrad in 1943. For months, Hitler's army had exhausted his strength in vain, unable 
to take the city. This failure has broken morale, stopped its expansion, the prelude to 
his defeat.

How now does not expect Koban? be the Stalingrad of the Islamic State?

The militia and militia fighting in Koban? know.

They carry on their shoulders the possibility of a different future for the entire Middle 
East. He Democratic confederalism implemented in Syrian Kurdistan since 2012.

That is why the anti-colonial, feminist and revolutionary worldwide can vibrate for them.

The hypocrisy must stop.

The Kurdish left should no longer be classified as "terrorist" to please Ankara.

Refugees need help , not tear gas to the Turkish army.

Koban? needs weapons and reinforcements . Not cynical blockade imposed upon it.

This fight is also ours.

Long live free Koban?! Long live free Kurdistan! Long live the revolution!"