(en) anarkismo.net: THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION IN
ROJAVA by Oulaloum (gr) [machine translation]
Text for the "Solidarity Campaign - Financial Assistance collectives from Turkey - Greece
and the troupe to Build Democratic - Libertarian School for Children of Kompania" which
made event Thursday, May 21 at the Labour Centre of Halkida. ---- THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL
REVOLUTION IN ROJAVA ---- What happens nowadays and briefly called "the revolution of
Rojava (Rozava) '' is particularly important for those who, in one way or another, find
themselves a member of the global movement for social emancipation and autonomy raises
questions and implement crucial policies. ---- What is happening now in Rozava is a
project ecumenical importance converses with the story in the present time, the huge
importance of which will become more noticeable the more it understood what has been put
in place there.
On the other course, do more implacable question because much of the left, not only
devalues (perhaps deliberately?) The liberation narrative taking place in northern Syria?
The reasons may be understood by presenting some of the particular features of this
project. Some of them are the repudiation of Marxism-Leninism, the Republican
confederalism, the emphasis on social rather than "national" liberation, participation and
the importance of the role of women.
The citizens, women and men, the Rozava preferred to emphasize the social emancipation and
autonomy instead of national integration and thereby achieved two very important things:
one is that this put into immediate effect social change and not postponed its realization
until the "liberation" and the other is that it refrained aftopagideftoun the maze of
international alliances and state lykofilion.
They preferred the "solution without a state", as they call it, because, as also note,
"the state is the problem, not the solution." They have already shown their differences in
relation to modern national liberation movements.
So they put them immediately Democratic confederalism, which is not very different from
what Bookchin called "libertarian municipalism". Social life is the life of the community,
the decisions taken by the Assemblies of residents involving equally men and women, the
economic life is organized into cooperatives and prices are set by committees of
communities. There is no organized army, as a separate and autonomized the subset of
society, or political and religious factions to assume the role of defense, but in reality
dominate society, there are organized militias, men's (YPG) and female (YPJ).
Another very important achievement of the revolution taking place in Rozava is the
liberation of women from all kinds of bondage until then they had chained. The event takes
even greater importance if we consider the area that this happened!
No free society when half the population is enslaved, they say in Rozava. So women in the
region have gained freedoms nor to from time secular West does not enjoy. Each community
has two Co-chairs, essentially agents of community decisions, one man and one woman. The
participation of women in political bodies is institutionalized at least 40 percent, while
women's militias have their own, autonomous administration and barracks in order to
maintain their independence.
Another very important feature is the lack of segregation and exclusion from political
life of the community on the basis of religious and national differences, all residents of
the cantons and are considered citizens with institutionalized participation in political
bodies.
Finally, the importance that the libertarian education for the creation of tomorrow's free
society demonstrates the seriousness of the task since a free society based primarily on
education freedom.
The most important elements of the revolutions that preceded present here: the citizens'
assembly on which is trying to organize the creation of a free society, the question of
the State, the refusal of capitalism, the importance of education, ecological
consciousness, feminism. In conclusion, what takes place now in Rozava is a revolution
going on, of enormous importance not only for the region but for the world libertarian
movement. A similar situation we can see from Spain in 1936. We debt every free man the
support using any means everyone !!!
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