(en) International Libertarian-Socialist Statement in Solidarity with the Kurdish Resistance - by Anarkismo.net Editorial Group

For some years now the Kurdish movement has been moving in the direction of libertarian 
ideas. While not an anarchist movement, this move is a sign that anarchist ideas of 
freedom and equality through solidarity, our ideas of horizontality and radical direct 
democracy and our radical critique against the State are not only valid and strong, but 
are also necessary for movements in order to break away from the authoritarian legacy 
within the left. It is our duty to express our solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish 
movement, because they represent hope in this region and because they are the oppressed 
fighting the oppressors. Real struggles are never perfect but they carry diverse degrees 
of potential to being about a free society. Expressing our solidarity with the 
revolutionary movement in Rojava means we understand our role is to continue developing 
the core tenets of our ideas in order to inspire revolutions and revolutionaries all over 
the world.

The revolution initiated by our comrades in Rojava, part of a much broader movement for 
the liberation of the Kurdish people and, through them, of all the peoples of the Middle 
East, is an inspiration to all those who yearn for a free, egalitarian, just world with no 
dominators or dominated. It is an experience of direct democracy in which the basis exists 
for free, self-managed socialism which respects the environmental and the autonomy of 
peoples. Libertarian socialists all over the world feel this revolution as our own.

Today this revolution is being threatened by the triple threat of imperialism, State 
authoritarianism and an obscurantist, fanatical and ultra-conservative reaction which 
arises out of the bowels of the decomposition created by the occupation and invasion of 
the peoples of the Middle East. While the obscurantist reaction strikes with weapons 
obtained thanks to imperialism, the Turkish armed forces are erecting an armoured barrier 
of tanks and cannons in order to surround the Kurdish population, like a hammer and anvil. 
Our comrades from Rojava are fighting, arms to hand, as part of a large mobilization of 
all the people against this triple threat and that perverse siege, defending what they 
have won through their struggle: their autonomy and freedom. But they are not alone in 
this fight. Behind them millions of free-spirited men and women are gathering round them, 
supporting them and we have our hands held out to hold onto theirs in the fight for the 
new world that is growing in our hearts. The heroic resistance being waged today in the 
city of Koban? is heir to the long history of struggles of people who have said "?No Pasar?n!"

From various parts of the world, we want to declare that your struggle is our struggle. 
We are with you, willing to contribute our bit in the fight for universal social 
transformation, now more necessary than ever. We demand an end to the repression, the 
release of political prisoners and prisoners of war, including Abdullah ?calan, an end to 
the international criminalization of Kurdish revolutionaries and respect for the autonomy 
of communities who are taking the reins of their destiny into their own hands. We are one 
in the struggle for liberation from all forms of oppression and exploitation, for the 
construction of a new free and equal society. We support your struggle for the 
revolutionary society by all means necessary to end the structural violence of the State, 
capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy.

In revolutionary and libertarian solidarity,

Peri?dico Solidaridad (Chile)
Frente de Trabajadores Ernesto Miranda ? FTEM (Chile)
Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)
Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici ? FdCA (Italy)
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire ? OSL (Switzerland)
Collectif Communiste Libertaire Bienne ? CCLBienne (Switzerland)
Alternative Libertaire (France)
Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (Australia)
Federa??o Anarquista Ga?cha (Brazil)
Acci?n Libertaria Estudiantil (Colombia)
Militantes Sindicales y Sociales por una Corriente Libertaria (Buenos Aires, CABA, La 
Plata - Argentina)
Melissa Sep?lveda, President of the Federation of Students of University of Chile ? Fech 
(Chile)
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa)