Today's Topics:
1. Twin Cities Anarchist People of Color Engage Militancy
Debate (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Sweden, International Committee of SUF: Solidarity with
imprisoned Russian anti-fascists! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. On Black Militancy, “Outside Agitators,” and Bad
Jacketing in the Movement against Police Violence by TWIN CITIES
COALITION FOR JUSTICE (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. US, Black Rose Anarchist Federation: ON VIGILANTE JUSTICE
AND THE NEED FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarkismo.net: Erdogan policies have played a major role in
the Region by Zaher Baher (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. wsm.ie: After Nice attack - ISIS and Pegida want a clash of
civilisations - lets resist their project (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Kurdish Movement Releases Statement on Turkey Coup Attempt
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. alternative libertaire: Block everything becomes vital by AL
Brussels (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Minneapolis, MN – On July 9th, 2016 Black Lives Matter Minneapolis (BLM-Mpls), along with
members of other groups and non-group affiliated young people, led a protest march and
shutdown of highway I-94 In St Paul, MN to demand justice for Philando Castile. ----
Protesters block I94 in Minnesota ---- During the shutdown, a multi-jurisdiction task
force fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets, flash bangs, CS gas, rubber ball grenades,
40mm marker rounds, and pepper spray at protesters. In response, water bottles, rocks, and
firecrackers were hurled back by numerous protesters towards police lines. ---- Night 4 of
#PhilandoCastile Protests from Unicorn Riot on Vimeo. ---- In recent days, as tensions
have grown over issues such as noise levels at occupations and defense against white
supremacists, questions of militancy, anarchism, direct action, and community self-defense
have shot to the front of public conversation.
During and after the action, prominent BLM-Mpls activists and others made statements
asserting that it was solely outside individuals who were instigating self-defense against
police.
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Black Lives MPLS @BlackLivesMpls
White anarchists and agent provocateurs have been endangering Black lives this entire
shutdown.
8:09 AM - 10 Jul 2016
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An organizer also stated through a loudspeaker that “white anarchists” were throwing
fireworks onto the highway and thus “endangering black lives”.
Throughout the action, white protesters presumed to be anarchists based on their
protective facial masks were verbally pressured and confronted by some BLM-Mpls allies and
activists. Black anarchists and others were seen coming to the defense of their white
friends before, during, and after the I-94 demonstrations, arguing the importance of
focusing energy on fighting for social and economic justice instead of blaming their own
allies for police repression.
An anonymous black anarchist organizer summed up their frustration and stance on militancy
by stating:
“I’m tired of this. Honestly. I’m gonna say some shit and I’m not gonna censor anything
and you need to understand. Niggas been fuckin’ shit up. And by this I mean both at the
4th precinct and at 1-94. The militance that I’ve witnessed has been by hood niggas … with
no politics and with no fucks given. I’m starting to understand that white liberals’ quest
to seem so “not racist” and “POC-friendly,” and black leaders’ internalized
respectability, has people completely ignoring the existence of black militance. That’s
what I’ve seen. At the same time, I was too busy trying not to get hit with marker rounds
up front to see everything, but if they were doing anything, white anarchists certainly
weren’t alone.“
The implied targets of BLM-Mpls criticism and their supporters expressed their own
frustration of BLM-Mpls’s statements. “Phillip”, an organizer with the IWW’s General
Defense Committee (GDC), stated
“‘White ally means fighting back. It doesn’t mean taking orders from some leader/authority
on the megaphone. It means fighting back SIDE BY SIDE with our melanated comrades, not
standing in front of them and snitching to the peace police that people are picking up rocks.“
There is historical precedent of political repression of anarchists in Minnesota, from
1917’s raids against radicals in Duluth and Minneapolis during the first Red Scare, to
2007-2009 when Twin Cities anarchists faced state and federal law enforcement house raids
and nuisance charges around the RNC.
The 2008 RNC also saw the “St Paul Principles” adopted, supporting a diversity of tactics,
supported by a wide range of activist groups, avoiding any public or media denunciations
of fellow activists and events.
As multiple networks mobilized politically under the banner of “Occupy” in 2011, dozens,
if not hundreds of groups, like Oakland, considered adopting variants of the St Paul
Principles in order to create more political cover for radical action.
In this broader context, in the last decade, counter-currents against militant action from
more mainstream groups and the state also emerged. In numerous instances, the more
mainstream side have often symbolized their antagonists as some type of ‘outside
agitators’ and ‘white anarchists’ in congruence with the state’s common strategy of
dividing ‘good protesters’ and ‘bad protesters’ – the very dichotomy the St Paul
Principles helped prevent.
On Nov. 19th, 2015, during last year’s occupation of the 4th Precinct, Minneapolis police
department (MPD) chief Janeé Harteau held a press conference where she made similar
claims, blaming “[anarchists] from outside of the community” for inciting violence.
The March 2016 report by Ikemba Kuti, “The 4th Precinct: A Black Anarchist’s Perspective
on Struggle in Minneapolis’ Northside Streets” reflects on this critical situation for
Anarchist People of Color (APOC) who engaged there last year.
Last year in North Minneapolis, several protesters were shot and wounded by white
supremacists; this seemed to created a conundrum where armed militant defense was suddenly
an imminent matter of survival, a major problem for mainstream nonprofit organizations
that don’t usually find themselves in this position. A critical point: This problem hasn’t
been resolved, which has led directly to the political tensions we see today.
In our coverage of protests and militant street actions, as well as discussion panels, the
Unicorn Riot team has worked to keep our platform open in order to recognize the critical
roles of many different types of people. Through working with so many members of the
community, we strive to amplify voices of the people with more range and nuance than any
one group has to offer.
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A week ago, the days of international solidarity with the imprisoned russian anti-fascists
came to an end. But the struggle did not. ---- When the mass civil protests in 2011-2012
was struck down, the regime started a wave of heavy political repression against militant
activists for social and economic justice, including anti-fascistis and anarchists.
Several activists has been sentenced to terms of 10 years in prison, even without the
court being able to prove they were participating in the riots. Many of the sentenced
activists even have evidence that they were not participating in the protests. ---- This
wave of political repression never stopped, its spreading through europe faster than ever
before. Just look at the events in Kungsan in stockholm, COP21, Athens, the protests in
France and the current evictions in Germany. The struggle is worldwide, and it is even
more important to stay together in times like these.
http://www.suf.cc
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Message: 3
We are living in a time of resistance. This country is challenging the state sanctioned
murder of Black people by police officers like never before, demanding justice for the
many lives stolen too soon. As a coalition we stand with the families of all working class
and oppressed people targeted by police violence, and all those standing in solidarity
with those fighting for justice for Philando Castile. We specifically want to clear up
accusations about “outside agitators” in the battle of I-94, condemn the bad jacketing of
protesters, and present a set of principles moving forward. ---- The system we are
fighting against has many tools at its disposal to destroy movements for liberation.
“Badjacketing” is one such divide-and-conquer tactic that can prevent us from building
with one another. The definition of badjacketing is to create suspicion by spreading
rumors or unsubstantiated accusations, that people are undercovers, infiltrators,
snitches, or agent provocateurs. Sometimes this is done out of fear and paranoia, but it
is often motivated by wanting to control the movement (See this statement for further
explanation). During and after the battle of I-94, the police, media, and some individuals
and organizations made accusations that white anarchists and “agent provocateurs” incited
violence and endangered Black lives. We reject this.
The “outside agitator” narrative has been used many times before to attack past Civil
Rights movements. This is a new version of the same tired old story, updated for 2016,
which ignores the agency of Black militants and community members rightfully angered by
centuries of police executions and abuse. Those that blocked I-94, those that are standing
up to the police across this country, are heroes. We support righteous displays of rage
and pain from people terrorized at the hands of this system. The state violence
perpetuated every single day by officers gunning down Black, Brown and poor white people
must be our focus, not the actions of protesters who decide to defend themselves.
The “outside agitator” story also erases serious political and tactical divisions that
exist within the Black community as within all communities. It presents whites and
non-Black people who cross racial lines to support Black people (such as the neighborhood
folks from Rondo), as part of a racialized bogeyman. A recent article by Unicorn Riot, a
local independent media collective, quoted an anonymous Black anarchist stating: “I’m
tired of this. Honestly. I’m gonna say some shit and I’m not gonna censor anything and you
need to understand. Niggas been fuckin’ shit up. And by this I mean both at the 4th
precinct and at I-94. The militance that I’ve witnessed has been by hood niggas...with no
politics
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Message: 4
“Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of
violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how
terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities. High
strung, like a violin string, they weep and moan for life, so relentless, so cruel, so
terribly inhuman. In a desperate moment the string breaks. Untuned ears hear nothing but
discord. But those who feel the agonized cry understand its harmony…” ---- –Emma Goldman,
excerpt from “The Psychology of Political Violence” ---- By Tariq Khan, BRRN ---- Alton
Sterling, murdered by the Baton Rouge police at point-blank range for the crime of selling
CDs to feed his family. Education worker Philando Castile, murdered by the Minnesota
police in front of his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter; targeted by the police
because he had a “wide-set” nose.
Michael Brown, murdered in the street by the St. Louis police for jaywalking, described by
his murderer as having a face “like a demon.” Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice, murdered by the
Cleveland police as he played with a toy at a playground. Sandra Bland, murdered by Texas
police, died in jail where police took her for failure to signal a lane change. Freddie
Gray, murdered by the Baltimore police, who brutalized him so cruelly that his spine was
severed from his neck. Every day another person murdered by police and vigilantes.
17-year-old Trayvon Martin looked suspicious. 14-year-old Emmett Till wasn’t deferential
enough in his demeanor. These murders stretch back through the decades, through the
lynchings and pogroms of the Jim Crow era, into chattel slavery, when the predecessors of
the modern police, the Slave Patrols, hunted people who escaped enslavement and violently
exerted authority to control the movement of Black people.
And in spite of continuing mass protest, city and state officials find that the police
“acted appropriately,” “followed procedure,” and acted with “restraint and
professionalism.” No accountability. No justice. No changes deeper than the superficial
level. The daily, systemic state violence against poor and racialized communities
continues unabated. So is it really “random” when Army veteran Micah Johnson, apparently
acting on his own, killed five police officers (one of whom had white supremacist tattoos)
in Dallas at a protest against police violence, or when even more recently a shooter
killed three officers in Baton Rouge, where militarized police have been bullying people
over the past week?
This suicidal anti-police violence is the tragically inevitable outcome of a violent
system that is impervious to the concerns of the people it targets. Given the cruel nature
of this system, and the deep alienation under which people live and work, it is remarkable
that these suicidal acts of desperation do not happen more often. If things do not change
significantly, we can be assured that such acts will happen more often.
We do not celebrate or encourage such acts but recognize that the anger is justified. The
powerlessness and hopelessness from which these acts spring is cultivated by violent law
enforcement institutions and more by the systemic political and economic injustice that
such institutions function to protect. We aim our anger and condemnation up, rather than
down, the social hierarchy. We condemn the businessmen, politicians, corporate media
outlets, and state officials whose policies create a situation in which people feel so
disempowered that they see no way out other than anti-social violence.
For those of us who want to live in a more just and less violent society, there is no
magic bullet solution. No lone gunman, unaccountable to larger emancipatory mass
movements, can shoot us into a free and equal society. The kind of revolutionary change we
struggle for requires mass people’s movement organizing for clear demands to change the
underlying unjust social relations at the root of police violence. Within the larger
anti-police violence and Black Lives Matter movements, the demand to disarm, defund, and
disband the police is a hopeful start which we support, however it is only a start. As
anarchists, the questions we grapple with have to do with what needs to change in the
structure of society – socially, economically, politically – for police to become
obsolete, and how do we build a mass movement strong and aware enough to fight for those
changes.
http://www.blackrosefed.org/vigilante-justice-blm/
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Message: 5
This article covers the policy of Erdogan and his political party (AKP) in Turkey, Syria,
Iraq, Iran, Rojava and Iraqi Kurdistan. The article shows the reasons as to why Erdogan
supports Isis, the reason for invading Mosul and why Kobane has been chosen to be invaded
but not Jazeera? The article also states the success of Erdogan polices during the war in
the region since 2013 and predicting his peace policy in the future can be on the expenses
of Rojava's Cantons. ---- Erdogan policies have played a major role in the Region ---- By
Zaher Baher ---- July 2016 ---- In this article I will try to show how the regional
policies, executed by Erdogan and his AKP (Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi – Justice and
Development Party) in respect of Rojava, Bakur and Iraqui Kurdistan, meet the goals of the
Turkey’s president.
None of these policies are in the interest of Turkey. They already have suicidal impact on
the country’s social, economic and political situation. In future it may even cause a
military coup in Turkey.
As for the economic situation, the biggest damage is done to the tourism sector.
• 8% of the workforce working in the tourist industry generates 12.9% of Turkey’s GDP.
• According to Burak Cosan, The Daily News Istanbul, in 2014 almost 42m people visited Turkey.
• Murat Ersoy, the head of the Tourism Investors Association in a press meeting on the 1st
of June 2016 said “Our country’s loss in tourism revenue may increase up to $15 billion
over this year and the decline in tourist numbers by 30 percent compared to 2015”.
• The number of foreign arrivals visiting Turkey declined by 28% in April to 1.75 million
compared to the same month of 2015, marking the steepest decline since May 1999, according
to data by the Tourism Ministry.
• The number of foreign people visiting Turkey decreased by 16.5% to 5.82 million in the
first four months of this year compared to the same period of 2015.
• In the first three months of 2016, tourism revenue decreased to $4.07 billion with a
16.5% drop, according to data that was released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜIK)
on April 29.
• Tourism revenue was $31.5 billion in 2015, an 8.3 percent decline compared to the
previous year. Leading Turkish tourism player expects $15 bln loss in revenue
We can all see at present that the social and political situation is getting worse as
well. I believe the problems Turkey is currently facing are caused by ISIS which Erdogan
has based his entire policy on.
How did that come about?
From the very beginning I said and believed that the main aim of invading Mosul by ISIS
was because of Rojava and its social movement. The Democratic Self Administration (DSA) in
Rojava up to this moment is exemplary not only in this region, but can be said for other
parts of the world. As much as Erdogan is unhappy with the type of administration like the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), compliant in meeting his demands completely, he
deeply hates DSA, which does not yield to his will.
The so called “international community” may have approved Erdogan’s war against Rojava in
2014. But instead of getting Turkey involved directly, he decided to use a proxy – a
terrorist group, ostensibly independent from Turkey. The problem was the terrorist groups
supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar were not strong enough to defeat YPG/J (the people and
the women protection Units). Erdogan had to choose the most fanatical, brutal and
ideological one, ISIS, to achieve all his plans with a very little risk.
Why Erdogan and his National Intelligence Organization (MIT) have chosen Mosul for ISIS?
There were many reasons for Mosul chosen to be invaded by Erdogan and his MIT plans. The
historical reason is, Mosul was one of the regions of the Ottoman Empire in the olden
days; it is very close to both Turkey & Syria; it is also well connected by public
transport with both of these countries. The Community of Ezidis mainly situated in that
area, and also the closeness of Mosul to Kurdish towns like Erbil, Duhok, Tikrit and
Kirkuk. The region of Mosul is very rich with oil. It was one of the weakest points in the
country, probably second to Falluja. The vast majority of its residents are Sunni who
resent the central government. They were marginalized and having very difficult time on
the hands of the Iraqi army, police and the security. There were also several minor
reasons in favor of this option.
Using ISIS to invade Mosul
The important point in this article is the invasion of Mosul. Without this operation it
would have been impossible for Erdogan to carry out the rest of his plans successfully and
to play a major role in the region.
Following the invasion of Mosul, ISIS declared al-Raqqah its Caliphate capital. The
connection between these two cities is strong. The land controlled by ISIS has expanded,
al-Raqqah became stronger. The invasion has made it easy for Turkey to support ISIS
politically and militarily. In the meantime, ISIS supported the state of Turkey by
supplying it cheap oil and caused an influx of refugees, used by Erdogan as a bargaining
chip in trading with Europe. Erdogan made it easy for ISIS to enter Turkey to terrorize
the Kurdish and killing innocent people.
ISIS forces were under 5000, whereas the Iraqi forces were over 60.000 and equipped with
new weapons including helicopters and tanks. It appeared, there was a conspiracy between
Erdogan, KRG, Qatar and the Iraqi military generals in Mosul. Mosul was an easy victory
for ISIS. There was no bloody battle; the entire town was taken within less than 24 hours.
ISIS managed to gain many new powerful weapons easily that nobody could have expected.
This boosted the confidence of ISIS and it then made its next move, to Kobane.
Why was Kobane, not Jazeera?
In order to execute their plans, Erdogan and MIT had to choose Kobane or Jazeera as their
target. Distance wise, Qamishli in Jazeera is closer to Mosul at around 150 km, whilst
from al-Raqqah is around 370 km. However, there were many other reasons to choose Kobane
instead.
• Kobane is smaller than Jazeera in size and in population, as such it would be easier to
control.
• Secondly, Kobane is between Afrin and Jazeera. Taking Kobane would cut the
communications between remaining cantons.
• Thirdly, Kobane is poorer than Jezeera economically; its YPG/J forces are smaller as
compared with Jazeera. Furthermore, Assad’s has an army stationed in Qamishli and it is
still there up to now; the army controls a few kilometers within Qamishli, the postal
service and the airport. Kobane is free from Assad’s control.
• The state of Turkey could support ISIS in Kobane and around Kobane through Sruce easier
and better than supporting ISIS though Nusaybin, neighbor of Qamishli.
• Finally, al-Raqqah is much closer to Kobane than Qamishli to Kobane.
I believe until the defeat of ISIS in January 2015 in Kobane, Erdogan and MIT policies
were successful. In June and July of last year Erdogan adopted a couple more policies.
Both policies were created to terrorize Kurdish people.
First, they did not approve the outcome of the general election held in June 2015 while
the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) achieved excellent result well above the election
threshold and gained 80 seats.
The second policy was his fascist attitude towards Kurdish people by terrorizing them,
killing innocent people, arresting activists and creating a climate that was easy for ISIS
to use suicide bombers. In July 2015, the suicide bomber attacked a gathering of a large
group of leftist youth, communists and anarchists in Sruce; many people were killed and
injured.
Erdogan was the beneficiary of using terror policy for three reasons. First, grounding a
lot of forces there and restricted the freedom of movement to people. Second, made claim
to his own people,Europe and the world that ISIS is his enemy too. Third, provoking PKK to
start a war that gave him the justification to cancel the peace process and entering the
war with Kurdish people all the way.
Alas, Erdogan was very successful and managed to provoke PKK and go with his tactic. Now
the killing, arresting people, enforcing Curfew in Kurdish towns and cities, starving
people withdrawing the political immunity on the HDP MPs continues. He also sacked 134 of
the heads of Municipalities and replaced them with his supporters. All of this has been
carried out in the eyes of US and the Western countries. All of this damaged the social
movement in Bakur and were in the interest of Turkey government, its MIT, the right wing
and racist groups.
Another success of Erdogan’s was that since 05/07/15 he hasn’t let Ocalan to be seen by
any of his people including his own lawyers. This cut off the entire communication between
Ocalan and PKK or other forces. This policy has again served the state of Turkey but not
the Kurds from Rojava or Bakur.
Erdogan Policy in regards to Syria and Rojava
In this point of my article I draw the attention of the readers to both successful and
failed policies of Erdogan.
Failures:
• Bringing down a Russian fighter Jet and killing its pilots was a disaster for Erdogan.
He was not able to participate in the war in Syrian skies, and it also economically and
politically damaged Turkey. In effect, president Putin introduced boycott of Turkey as a
tourist destination.
• Erdogan also failed in convincing US and Western countries to set up a none-fly zone in
Rojava. His main aim was just to fight the YPG/J forces there.
• Another failure policy was he could not go ahead with the joint plan with Saudi Arabia
to take their forces into Syria to support the terrorist group against Assad’s forces and
YPG/J in the same time. By supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups damage was done to
diplomatic relationship of Turkey and the USA.
At the same time, Erdogan scored some successes.
• Economically, ISIS supported Turkey by providing very cheap oil, letting some of the
companies in Turkey using the Syrian children labors, and also using refugees as a
bargaining chip with Europe.
• Normalizing diplomatic relationship with Egypt and also with Israel.
• Erdogan and MIT managed to form a military group from Syrian Turkmen against Assad and
use them directly, supporting and providing them everything to make them powerful enough
to claim that they represent all Turkmen in Syria.
• He also managed to make Kurdish opposition political parties (ENKS), the Syrian Kurdish
National Council (that occasionally commit terrorist act especially in Jazeera), stand up
against YPG/J and DSA.
• The most successful policy of Erdogan and MIT was making ISIS so powerful against YPG/J
that pushed them in line of US and jointly fighting ISIS. YPG/J now are facing the most
terrible war perhaps after Kobane, with support of US forces to liberate the Caliphate
capital, al-Raqqah.
Erdogan policy in regards to Iran:
Erdogan and MIT have a double policies towards Iran. On one hand the Kurdish question
became a common problem for both of them, that can make them friends. On the other hand
the same issue can make them enemies if Iran starts supporting PKK or PYD.
In the meantime, it is quite obvious that a big number of Iranian solders are taking part
in the war side by side with Assad’s forces and Assad received other help from Iran. Assad
also relies on support from Lebanese “Hezbollah” who are supported by Iran as well.
Meanwhile Turkey is indirectly working on weakening Iran as a close ally of Iraqi
government by supporting ISIS against Iraq. At the moment Iran-Turkey economical
relationship is getting better and that is helping them to improve their political
relationship too.
Erdogan’s policy in regards of Iraq and KRG
Erdogan and MIT used ISIS not only in Syria and Rojava. In fact ISIS was the most powerful
and active group that Turkey has been using to execute their policy against the Iraqi
government and KRG.
ISIS managed to invade Mosul, the second town of Iraq and became a major threat. Invading
Mosul meant the other towns and cities in that region, like Erbil, Tikrit and Kirkuk faced
a big threat as well. ISIS managed to control entire oil fields and refineries in the
area; the income from their production fueled ISIS’ war effort instead of the government.
Invading Mosul revived the old historic question of Mosul that always was in Erdogan’s
mind. He wanted to annex it for Turkey.
I believe this can be one of the reason as to why Erdogan last year before the eyes of so
called “international community“ brought 5000 heavy military forces with variety of
different weapons, including tanks, to the border of Iraq close enough to Mosul. Since
then Iraq keeps demanding Turkey to withdraw its forces, while Erdogan keeps ignoring
these demands.
By invading Mosul ISIS controlled the dam of Mosul that can threat flooding Baghdad and
many small towns and villages in the middle of Iraq. In supporting ISIS in invading Mosul,
Erdogan managed to give strength to Arab Sunni tribes in the region at least if they do
not support ISIS, they abstain to support the Iraqi government. Invading Mosul pushed the
Iraqi government into deep debt by borrowing lots of money and buying more weapons. ISIS
became more powerful and started to threaten to occupy Baghdad.
In 2014 ISIS rendered nearly a third of the country out of government control by taking
more cities like Fallujah, Tikrit, Ramadi, Hit, Rutba and Telafar, with many villages. The
threat of ISIS to Iraq was very real, up to this moment there has been no peace, no
security in Baghdad and a few more towns in middle of Iraq.
In addition to all that Erdogan fighter jets since July of 2015 and even before that every
week regularly crossed the borders and bombed heavily Qandil Mountain and the villages in
the bottom of the mountain. This has caused the killing of so many people, injuring many
more, displacing hundreds of family and killing their cows, cattle, dogs, sheep and
destroying the environment.
In regards to Kurdistan and KRG, Erdogan brought them endless war. In this war Kurdish
Peshmerga became the main forces to fight ISIS. The war between the Kurds and ISIS made
Kurds an enemy of Sunnis and to certain extent to Arabs as a whole and the Iraqi
government. In the meantime the war made KRG be more dependent on Turkey and closer to US
and Western countries. In effect Iraqi Kurdistan has become a big military base for Turkey
and US.
By using ISIS in the region of Mosul so successfully, Erdogan managed to make KRG in
particular and Kurdistan in general almost a part of Turkey. He is working on Iraqi
Turkmens as well to increase the dispute between them and Kurdish communities and to
escalate the tension. The dependence from Turkey made KRG, particularly Barzani Party,
KDP, the main enemy not just of PKK and PYD, in fact to whole Kurdish society in Rojava
and Bakur. From time to time, obviously at the order of Erdogan, Barzani even closes KRG
borders completely. The most recent embargo was almost for 3 months between March of this
year and June. Even worse is the fact that Barzani became silent about everything that
happens in Bakur and Rojava. He neither supports the Kurds there, nor protest against the
state of Turkey.
ISIS also put the Kurdish Islamic political organizations under pressure. They must
clarify their attitude towards ISIS, either “with us or against us“. In Iraqi Kurdistan we
have a couple of Islamic political organizations and both have their own MPs in KRGs’
Parliament. However one of them is very pro-Erdogan and both of them so far have not
denounced ISIS as a non-Islamic group. The vast majority of Kurdish does believe they are
sleepy cells of ISIS. They might be right.
One more important effect of arriving ISIS to Mosul and the rest of Kurdish areas, was
preservation of the position held by Barzani and his government. Despite the bad situation
of KRG economy, people there are reluctant to protest. They have made people scared to go
on strike, protest, even demanding their wage, salary. At the moment the KRG employees are
getting less than half of their salary even they do not get that regularly. They are three
to four months behind. This has affected the markets badly, whole services, projects have
been stopped and poverty for many people will soon become unavoidable. Whenever and
wherever people try to complain and protest they were told “they have to be grateful, at
least they do not live under ISIS control and should not rock the boats because this is in
the interest of ISIS and other our enemies”
Erdogan and his MIT policies for the time being were right and met their aims, even if
they create a damage for Turkey in the long run. They were good for Erdogan, AKP and bad
for Kurdish people and the rest of the region. It looks like Erdogan and his AKP now want
to change their policy from war to peace with everybody except the Kurdish society. His
future peace policy in the region certainly will be if not aimed to eliminate Rojava
cantons, at least to reform them in the KRG manner.
Zaherbaher.com
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29435
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Message: 6
At least 84 dead in Nice as a truck is deliberately driven through the huge crowds marking
the anniversary of the French Revolution. The driver who was shot be police after plowing
through the crowd for 1.2km is reported to be a French citizen of Tunisian descent. The
method of attack which is very similar to one advocated in the ISIS magazine strongly
suggests an ISIS /Daesh attack. ---- The massive ISIS bombings in Baghdad that killed
nearly 300 this month on 3rd July followed the ISIS defeat in Fallujah and this attack
comes on the eve of their defeat in Manbij. There the Kurdish YPG as part of the SDF are
engaged in street fighting in the city center and the next stage of their offensive should
cut ISiS off from its resupply routes into Turkey. This is probably why I'm the Turkish
state has been making noises about normalizing relations with the Assad regime, their next
best hope of crushing the revolution in Rojava.
ISIS also lost their top commander, Omar al-Shishani, again their worst terror attacks
often follow military setbacks. There are two reasons for this, the first is simply to
have something to distract their international followers from their defeats. But the
second is because they badly need new recruits to travel to the region and such attacks in
Europe are designed with the hope of triggering a racist backlash.
So far after every attack the European far right have tried to give ISIS what it wants but
have largely failed to generate the racist programs they also desire. But we can be sure
in the days ahead they will try again through Pegida and other front organizations. Trump
will play the same game the US. They must not succeed.
It's probable that the attack on the celebrations of the French Revolution were not just
about the date but also the opportunity of crowds on the street. Nevertheless as ISIS
sufferers defeat after defeat in Syria at the hands of today's revolutionaries there it's
useful to understand the symbolism of that date as part of centuries old struggle between
those desiring true human freedom for all, and the regressive far right ideologies from
ISIS to Pegida.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/after-nice-attack-isis-pegida-want-clash-civilisations
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Message: 7
The umbrella organisation of the Kurdish movement, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)
Executive Council Co-Presidency, has released a statement about last night's coup attempt
in Turkey. ---- The statement said; “There has been a coup attempt by persons whose
identity and purpose is yet not clear. This attempt comes just before the military council
meeting, where Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reportedly going to assign generals close to
himself to the army's top tier. Another striking dimension of the coup attempt is that it
comes at a time when discussions about the fascist AKP government's foreign policy, were
taking place.” ---- Coup attempt is proof of lack of democracy ---- The statement by KCK
reads; “No matter within which internal and external political factors and focuses, and
for what reasons a power struggle is waged, this case is not a matter of defending or
being against democracy. On the contrary, this situation is the proof of lack of democracy
in Turkey. Such power struggles and attempts to seize power are witnessed in undemocratic
countries where an authoritarian power makes coup attempts to overthrow another
authoritarian power when conditions are appropriate. This is what has happened in Turkey.
A coup was staged on 7 June
A year ago, Erdogan and the Palace Gladio (Erdogan's secret force), alongside the
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), all fascist circles, nationalist military powers
(Ergenekon) and a part of the army, staged a coup. This was a palace (Erdogan) coup
against the democratic will of the people [which voted in the HDP an left the AKP short of
a majority]. The AKP's fascism made an alliance with all the fascist powers and a part of
the army including the Chief of Staff in order to suppress the Kurdish Freedom Movement
and democratic forces. The AKP's fascism drove the army into Kurdish cities and towns,
made them burn cities to the ground and massacre hundreds of civilians. Recently it has
passed new laws that have give immunity to state forces, preventing trial for the crimes
they have committed. In this way the AKP has become a government that has legitimised and
made legal the military's tutelage over democratic politics and society.
Coup attempt from one military faction against another
There was already military tutelage in Turkey before yesterday's coup attempt; which makes
the attempt a coup by one military faction against the existing one. This is why a section
of the military has taken sides with Erdogan, because there is already military tutelage
in Turkey.
The fact that the MHP and chauvinistic nationalist circles took sides with the Palace
Gladio (Erdogan) and its fascist allies reveals quite clearly that this is not an incident
of struggle between those siding with democracy and those standing against it.
Portraying Erdogan democratic is dangerous
Portraying Erdogan and the fascist AKP dictatorship as if they were democratic after this
coup attempt is an approach even more dangerous than the coup attempt itself. Portraying
the fight for power among authoritarian, despotic and anti-democratic forces as a fight
between the supporters and enemies of democracy will only serve to legitimise the existing
fascist and despotic government.
Democracy forces do not side with either camp
Turkey does not have a civilian group in power, nor is this a struggle between democracy
forces and putschists. The current fight is about who should lead the current political
system, which is the enemy of democracy and the Kurdish people. Therefore, democracy
forces do not side with either camp during these clashes.
The coup against democracy is the one carried out by the fascist AKP
If there is a coup against democracy, it is the one carried out by the fascist AKP
government. The political power’s control over the judiciary, the implementation of
fascist laws and policies through a parliamentarian majority, the removal of
parliamentarians’ immunities, the arrest of co-mayors, the removal of co-mayors from their
positions, and the imprisonment of thousands of politicians from the HDP and DBP
constitute more of an actual coup. Kurdish people are under unprecedented genocidal,
fascist, and colonialist attacks in Kurdistan.
AKP dragging Turkey into clashes
What has brought Turkey to this stage is the AKP government, which has transformed into a
government of war against Kurdish people and the forces of democracy. With its monistic,
hegemonic and anti-democratic character, it has kept Turkey in chaos and conflict. With
its war against the Kurdish people and the forces of democracy, it has kept Turkey in a
state of civil war. The latest coup attempt shows that Turkey needs to get rid of the
fascist AKP government and have a democratic government. The recent developments make it
urgent for Turkey to democratise and get rid of its monist, hegemonic and fascist government.
To sum up, the forces of democracy should confront the legitimisation of the fascist AKP
government’s policies under the disguise of democracy, and create a democratic alliance
that truly would democratise Turkey. This coup attempt makes it necessary for us to not
slow down the struggle against the AKP's fascism but to enhance it so that chaos and
clashes in Turkey come to an end and a new and democratic Turkey emerges."
http://www.kurdishquestion.com/article/3289-kurdish-movement-releases-statement-on-turkey-coup-attempt
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29445
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Message: 8
First, we must understand that we consider that no further significant improvement of our
existence can be expected within the capitalist framework and its political system,
parliamentary democracy. Europe knows almost continuously for 40 years an economic and
social crisis. This structural crisis can not be resolved by a political will that would
accept the framework of this system: state, market economy and private property. ---- We
believe this impossibility explains the failures of Syriza, Podemos and the renunciation
of all initiatives explicitly or not wanting to pose as new "radical left". Most of these
initiatives assume that the crisis of capitalism comes from the poor distribution of
wealth and in rebalancing the balance could both stimulate the economy and allow people to
live better. We oppose this belief possibility of alternative crisis management. This is a
fundamental mistake to believe that the share of the wealth swallowed up capital is not
necessary to its own survival. The question of a solution for a better distribution of the
fruits economy therefore seems impossible.
We are the crisis
Understand the various reforms currently affecting Europe (specifically you think here in
Belgium and France, but these reforms have already taken place in Germany, Spain or
Greece) as a necessity for capitalism to renew sources profit to survive.
The ruling classes seem to favor four tracks:
1) First of intensifying the work, that is to say, trying to destroy the organizational
rigidity that prevents allocate labor efficiently in-house companies. This is what we are
accustomed to call in the managerial language labor flexibility. In Belgium it is clearly
the sense of working time annualization that will allow employers to better employ force
he pays.
2) To a lesser extent, the capitalists are trying to tackle workers' compensation to
increase the share capital. However, these attacks are not the main component of the
current offensive and are rather indirectly: Political managers prefer to attack the wage
supplements (Sunday work, overtime), the collective wage (gross wage) or to remuneration
outside employment (stoppages, CPAS benefits, sick leave) the direct salaries
travailleur.euse.s. The reason for such a strategy is twofold, firstly, not to create a
crisis (additional) "under-consumption" by attacking the "purchasing power". On the other
hand, politicians know that too abrupt decrease of pocket salary would be too visible and
may cause a social explosion.
3) The latter attack on the socialized or indirect wage salary doubles as a redeployment
of the capitalist state. This redeployment is characterized by privatization of state
prerogatives. The funds generated by privatization are redirected to the more or less
direct financing of capitalist profits (aid to companies, tax cuts, etc.). The sectors
privatized by the state can be absorbed by the sphere of the private economy, which
creates new valuation sources for capital. In other cases, the redeployment rather
characterized by a reorientation of social prerogatives of the State turned into
repressive tools loaded to impose new economic discipline the working classes (restriction
of social protection, control and sanction of the unemployed, etc. .) and force them to
precarious employment. The social state has become punitive state.
4) The transformation of the capitalist economy also allows the sliding of a standard
employment inherited from the Fordist period (CDI, full-time) to a new form more suited to
late capitalism (or CSD Interim, part-time, etc. .). These precarious and flexible jobs
are obviously much more beneficial to employers, which often helps generate quick profits.
The existence of precarious workers allows in addition to downward pressure for more
stable jobs.
In this sense, the refusal to adapt to these reforms that aim to renew the sources of
profit of capital tends to bring about the crisis of the capitalist system. This crisis is
a breach in the heart of the fortress of capital. We want to deepen and broaden, we cry
without shame we are the crisis and the crisis is our policy. We want to switch from one
crisis to fact a voluntary crisis.
Our program block in terms of capital
Our unique program is to highlight the crisis of the system by blocking the capital's
neoliberal transformation plane by any means necessary, blocking all reforms and deepening
contradictions. In summary if capital wants more flexible work, a revolutionary strategy
is to stiffen the possible one. Not that we believe that the CDI -like employment standard
- or more laws protecting employees es constitute an anti-capitalist alternative or a way
towards libertarian communism. But because we consider above all, that these struggles are
tool to aggravate the crisis of capital by defeating the "labor reforms" that revitalize it.
By increasing the contradictions of capital, we give ourselves time also to recompose our
forces. The permanent transfer of capital the last 40 years makes it very difficult the
emergence of an opposition process result. A form appeared barely valuation, it gave way
almost immediately to another, before a test or a resistance to emerge. Given this fact,
slow the pace of reforms will give us time to reconstitute our forces.
The People only gets what it takes
Faced with misery and poverty that still affects more our class. At the injustice of this
system makes us insecure, we can not ignore.
We do not expect that powerful deigned to turn their eyes towards us or lend a ear to hear
our sentences. We do not claim anything, we will take what is ours. Not to survive but to
live. In one way or another, this is to replace part of the world trading system. Food,
clothing, housing, knowledge, leisure, transport, health, etc., all the bourgeoisie denies
or permits us to assert its privileges, we will take it for free, and will make it freely
accessible to all.
We're all partisan-tear to the bourgeoisie but in the meantime we will take every
opportunity to reduce the capitalist privileges.
We must, of where we are, participate in the self-organization of the exploited Assemblies
Artists-workers or unemployed-Artists, neighborhood, collectives, unions, etc. Provided
they contribute to self-management and autonomy of struggles. Provided that the exploited
can federate and decide together the conditions of struggle and means of action.
Against the precariousness of neoliberal capitalism, we expect nothing bosses, politicians
or powerful few, we rely on our own strength to achieve our emancipation.
Alternative Libertaire Brussels
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Tout-bloquer-devient-vital
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