The conflict in Koban?, Syria, conerns us all; other than Kurd militia (YPG) clashes with
the fabricated terror of the Islamic State (ISIL), ongoing battles in Koban? involve the
clash of two entire worlds: our own world, the world of ordinary people struggling for
freedom, social justice and direct democracy and the world of states and capital revolving
solely around the quest for profit and dominance. ---- So, we have ISIL on one hand, which
is not some sort of social power emanating from the past and contrasting with western
culture, but the reversed mirror image of the ten-year terror of the West and its local
observers imposed on the peoples of the Middle East; a product of the elimination of all
secular powers in the region by western agents; a group fully armed with state-of-the-art
weapons easily acquired after the dissolution of the corporation state established by
western occupation powers in Iraq; a mercenary-type army in the like of the empire?s own
private armies of the operating in Iraq and elsewhere in the world; having as their sole
compass the totalitarian domination over populations, ISIL
imitates the methods of the neoliberal western state and capital complex
in the regional areas and little by little at the heart of this empire;
instead of using weapons of mass destruction such as the ones used in Gaza
and Bagdad that leave mere traces of past lives hanging on the devastated
walls, taking full advantage of the culture of terror, ISIL resorts to the
much spectacular appalling image of decapitations.
On the other hand, there is us; all those people rising up to regain our
freedom, even if this means giving our lives for it; this is the ideal
incarnated by the heroic Kurd militia in Koban?; inspired by the ideals of
democratic federalism, they defend their societies against the
totalitarianism of states/capital and at the same time they fight for a
state-free democracy, where citizens will have the first say and
federations will replace states. These struggles are contemporary and we
are a part of them. The conflict in Koban? does not signal the end, but
the beginning of a broader emancipation effort by the Kurdish people and a
point of inspiration and reference for all those people that fight today
for another world, far from states and the capital.
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