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Gebrauchskunst<p>gorekhaa@anarchism.space</p><p>Die Kurden und die Globalisierung: <br>Zwischen brüderlichem Idealismus und politischer Fragmentierung</p><p>Das kurdische Volk, das hauptsächlich in <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Bak%C3%BBr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bakûr</span></a>, <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Bash%C3%BBr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bashûr</span></a>, <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> und <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Rojhilat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojhilat</span></a> lebt, <br>ist <br>eine Nation ohne Staat, <br>aber <br>mit einer tiefen historischen, sprachlichen und kulturellen Identität. <br>Trotz ihrer Ressourcen, ihrer großen Bevölkerung und ihrer geostrategischen Bedeutung gelingt es dieser Nation nicht, in einer Welt, die von den wirtschaftlichen und politischen Logiken der <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Globalisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Globalisierung</span></a> beherrscht wird, eine kollektive Strategie hervorzubringen.<br> <br>Ein ignoriertes wirtschaftliches Potenzial<br> <br>Die kurdischen Regionen verfügen über zahlreiche Vorteile: <br>Öl, Wasserressourcen, landwirtschaftliche Nutzflächen, strategische Korridore, aber auch eine große Jugend und eine aktive Diaspora. Diese Elemente könnten eine solide Grundlage bilden, um ein gemeinsames Wirtschaftsprojekt aufzubauen, internationale Partner anzuziehen oder auf den regionalen Märkten Einfluss zu nehmen. In einer Welt, in der die Globalisierung den Wert von Rohstoffen, aufstrebenden Verbrauchermärkten und lokaler Stabilität erhöht, verfügen die <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Kurden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurden</span></a> über einen echten Hebel.<br> <br>Da es jedoch an einem einheitlichen politischen Bewusstsein fehlt, bleibt dieses Potenzial ungenutzt. Die <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Ressourcen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ressourcen</span></a> werden nicht auf der Grundlage einer gemeinsamen nationalen Vision verwaltet, sondern fragmentiert und manchmal von regionalen Mächten oder Claninteressen missbraucht...</p><p>Übersetzt mit DeepL</p>
Gebrauchskunst<p>gorekhaa@anarchism.space</p><p>Wie wirken sich die israelisch-türkischen Spannungen auf <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Syrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syrien</span></a> und die <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Kurden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurden</span></a> aus?<br>https://kurdistan-au-feminin.f...</p><p>"SYRIEN / <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/ROJAVA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ROJAVA</span></a> </p><p>- Bedran Ciya Kurd sagte, dass die expansionistische <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Politik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politik</span></a> der Türkei nicht nur Israel, sondern <br>auch Syrien und die Kurden alarmiere. </p><p>Im <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/NahenOsten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NahenOsten</span></a> zeichnet sich eine neue geopolitische Realität ab. <br>Die Spannungen zwischen der <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/T%C3%BCrkei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Türkei</span></a> und <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> belasten nicht nur die Beziehungen</p><p>DeepL</p>
Anarchists in NES<p>*Don't hesitate to boost if you enjoy reading the reports!*</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewsFromTheFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFromTheFront</span></a> <br>Weekly highlight from your anarchist comrades in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <br>24.03.25-30.03.25<br>Also available on <a href="https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/category/war-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/c</span><span class="invisible">ategory/war-updates/</span></a></p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p># RENEWED CLASHES WITH TURKISH PROXIES<br>Turkish attacks against SDF continued. The intensity of Turksih attacks decreased since the beginning of March, as negotiations about a ceasefire took place and negotiations for the integration of SDF in the new Syrian army developed. Nevertheless, new attacks in the west bank of the Euphrates river from SNA Turkish proxies this last week, proved that the end of hostilities is not yet a reality. SDF also published footage of three new Turkish military bases being build in Manbij countryside, with videos of alleged Turkish military convoys that include armored vehicles and advanced military equipment such as radars, circulating at night in areas under control of Turkish proxy forces. Rumors about direct negotiations between AKP (Turkish ruling party) and SDF circulate on social networks together with speculations about steps for peace talks between Turkish state and PKK, but until now there are no official announcements in such direction.</p><p># FORMATION OF THE 'SYRIAN EQUAL CITIZENSHIP ALLIANCE' or 'TAMASUK'<br>In reaction to the provisional constitution that the transitional government recently presented, an alliance of more than 30 diverse political parties and civil society organized groups was formed. The main aim of this alliance, including the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) and other Kurdish, Christian, and Druze-affiliated groups, is to demand a new Syrian constitution that respects the diversity of Syria as well as promoting a decentralized and democratic Syrian State. The alliance founding statement present itself not as direct opposition to the government but working towards a unified Syria, willing to engage with all political forces, including the government of al-Sharaa.</p><p># NEW APPOINTED FATWA SUPREME COUNCIL AND RENEWED TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT <br>On Friday March 28 al-Sharaa appointed 15 members to the newly formed supreme Fatwa council. The council will oversee religious rulings on critical issues and will be lead by Osama al-Rifai, who have close connections with Turkish president Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Rifai was appointed as Grand Mufti of Syria in 2021 and have been a prominent Islamic scholar in the opposition to al-Assad regime. Several notable HTS-affiliated scholars, including Sheikh Abdul Rahim Atun, former HTS-backed Supreme Fatwa Council member Anas Ayrut, and new Minister of Justice Mazhar al Wais, also sit on the new council.<br>On Saturday March 29 al-Sharaa also announced the list of the ministers of the new transitional government. HTS loyalists and other men close to al-Sharaa keep their positions in key cabinets, with some new names of technocrats that join the government in less critical ministries. The government remains therefore arab, suni and HTS dominated, including some tokenized members from ethnic minority groups. The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC, political body aligned with the DAANES) made a statement denouncing this new government as a continuation of the exclusion politics of the Syrian State, declaring that the DAANES have no obligation to implement the decisions of such government and that it will continue working for a democratic Syria.</p><p># FIRST KURDISH WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN NORTH-EAST SYRIA<br>The inaugural Kurdish Women's Conference was held in North-East Syria on March 23rd, aimed at amplifying the voices of Kurdish women within the evolving Syrian society and fostering a path toward a unified, democratic future. Approximately 300 delegates are participating, including representatives from political parties, intellectuals, authors, artists, journalists, and women from diverse organizations and movements. The conference features representatives from the women's committees of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) as well as from Aleppo and Damascus. Among the topics was the importance of the continuation of YPJ and womens self-defense as well as rejecting the Damascus constitution. Suad Mistefa, mother of Martyr Hevrin Xelef, said that women cannot be deceived by this constitution and that the slogan “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” will always win.</p><p># INTERNATIONAL SEHIDS MEMORIAL<br>On March 24 a commemoration for international sehids took place in Qamsihlo, gathering dozens of internationals to remember the struggle of our internationalist fallen comrades. March 24 is the date that Elefteria Fortulakis, a woman from Greece, burned herself in 2006 to protest for the imprisonment of Abdullah Ocalan. It was the 5th year this commemoration took place in Rojava, with delegates from “families for peace” from Germany as well as other groups and organizations. The event also hosted the screening of the movie “Legerin – In search of Alina”, exploring the life of sehid Legerin, a doctor from Argentina who joined the guerilla in the Kurdish mountains and lost her life in a car accident in Rojava in 2018.</p><p># EID CELEBRATIONS<br>At the end of March, closing the Ramadan, the celebrations of Eid become an important event in all Muslim world. In Syria Eid started on March 31st, and for 3 days families will be visiting relatives and friends, eating sweets and strengthening social bonds. Political organizations also celebrate eid visiting each other and building diplomatic relations. The new transitional government made a televised prayer all together from the presidential palace.</p><p># (SOME THOUGHTS, NOT SO MUCH OF) ANALYSIS <br>The celebrations of eid are an important reminder of the value of social bonds in this society, with kurdish and arab mothers and grandmothers spreading sweets and candies among kids on the streets. Every receiving guests and going to visiting their relatives and neighbors for three days. It also comes with the arrival of the spring, as well as the recent celebrations of newroz dancing around the fire. It also come together with the celebrations of Akito, the Assyrian new year, making a very lively days and cheerful days. News of agreements and peace talks combine good with the atmosphere of this festivity, combining well with hopes of peaceful times and the end of bloodshed in Syria. </p><p>For us it’s also an important time to join the local rhythm of this society, to visit friends and neighbors and receive the guests that come to visit us, putting in practice the lessons of hospitality and cultural fluency we learned over the years living and taking part of this revolutionary society. And yes, it’s true that there is a religious component in these celebrations, as Christmas does in christian countries, but we also learned to not focus on that aspect and to value these days for the human and social aspect they bring. Social relations are the key to sustain the networks of mutual aid that are foundational in our anarchist values, and every opportunity to strengthen these bonds of friendship and solidarity should be cherished and celebrated.</p><p>Revolutionary greetings! 🖤<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PYD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurdistan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Comrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comrades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbdullahOcalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbdullahOcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%96calan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Öcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenLifeFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenLifeFreedom</span></a></p>
entre les lignes entre les mot<p>« Les YPJ représentent la lutte mondiale pour l’humanité »</p><p>SYRIE / ROJAVA – À l’occasion du 12e anniversaire de leur fondation, les Unités de protection des femmes (YPJ) ont déclaré que cet événement symbolisait la lutte pour la liberté et l’égalité. Elles ont souligné que la lutte des YPJ n’est pas une simple confrontation militaire, mais une bataille pour la justice, l’égalité et la liberté de tous. Des femmes de cultures...</p><p><a href="https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/le-rojava-au-bord-du-gouffre/#comment-66128" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">entreleslignesentrelesmots.wor</span><span class="invisible">dpress.com/2025/02/24/le-rojava-au-bord-du-gouffre/#comment-66128</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syrie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rojava</span></a></p>
Kurdistan au féminin<p>SYRIE – Les forces kurdes quittent les quartiers d’Achrafieh &amp; de Cheikh Maqsoud, à Alep, conformément à l’accord signé entre les autorités kurdes &amp; les autorités de Damas.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/04/04/syrie-les-forces-kurdes-se-retirent-dalep/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/04/syrie-les-forces-kurdes-se-retirent-dalep/</span></a></p>
Killy-Ann<p>A preliminary agreement stipulates the demilitartization of the Tishrin Dam area and its handover to a special administration without any military presence from any party. Implicit implementation will take place in the coming period, and the agreement was made to defuse any military confrontations or field escalation on the axis. Source: Syria TV, according to government sources.</p><p><a href="https://syria.liveuamap.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">syria.liveuamap.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://subversive.zone/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://subversive.zone/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://subversive.zone/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a></p>
antiverschwurbelte aktion<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rojava</span></a></p><p>❔welches abkommen haben rojava und die neue islamistische regierung von syrien getroffen?</p><p>❔welche bedeutung hat öcalans aufruf, die PKK aufzulösen für die region?</p><p>❔läuten die proteste in der türkei das ende von erdogan ein?</p><p>giyas sayan ist kurd. politiker in berlin</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/zKrGMT9OFN0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/zKrGMT9OFN0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
MichaelWilk<p>Es sind nicht nur kurdische Menschen, die das Regierungskabinett des islamistischen Übergangpräsidenten al-Scharaa in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Syrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syrien</span></a> ablehnen. In Nordostsyrien <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> leben viele Ethnien, kurdische, assyrische, arabische jesidische. Sie haben nicht nur gegen den IS gekämpft ( und tun dies immer noch), sondern ebenso eine Gesellschaft etabliert, in der Frauen und Männer gleichberechtigt leben. Eine syrische Neuordnung muss dies respektieren und abbilden, sonst werden Islamismus und Totalitarismus ihre menschenfeindliche Herrschaft fortsetzen. Ebenso müssen die Bombardements des türkischen <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Erdoganregime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erdoganregime</span></a> enden. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kurden-in-syrien-lehnen-neue-regierung-ab-106.html&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTOTkxNzQ0MTgxNDAxMjg5MTUzNzIaNWExMzEyZDhmNTQzMDBmOTpjb206ZGU6VVM&amp;usg=AOvVaw38bkQ_AymkfOpOHDX7GstY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">google.com/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=</span><span class="invisible">https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kurden-in-syrien-lehnen-neue-regierung-ab-106.html&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTOTkxNzQ0MTgxNDAxMjg5MTUzNzIaNWExMzEyZDhmNTQzMDBmOTpjb206ZGU6VVM&amp;usg=AOvVaw38bkQ_AymkfOpOHDX7GstY</span></a></p>
Kurdistan au féminin<p>Que vont devenir les djihadistes occidentaux emprisonnés en Syrie?</p><p>"Face à la fin des financements américains, les Kurdes menacent de fermer les camps et prisons de l’Etat islamique d’ici à la fin de l’année. Une perspective qui relance la question du retour des djihadistes helvétiques. Dont Ajdin, un Lausannois d’origine bosniaque"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.letemps.ch/monde/en-syrie-les-kurdes-menacent-de-fermer-les-prisons-le-temoignage-d-un-djihadiste-suisse-a-l-avenir-flou" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">letemps.ch/monde/en-syrie-les-</span><span class="invisible">kurdes-menacent-de-fermer-les-prisons-le-temoignage-d-un-djihadiste-suisse-a-l-avenir-flou</span></a></p>
Abolition Media<p>On Ocalan’s Call for Peace and Social Democratic Imperialism: An Anarcho-Communist Critique</p><p>Revolutionary struggle is never a solitary endeavor; rather it is an unfolding process replete with contradiction and tension. But sifting through the complexity what fundamentally endures is solidarity and principles. When we – anarchist and communist rev</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18070/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/180</span><span class="invisible">70/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Communiques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communiques</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>critique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hbdh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hbdh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mlkp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mlkp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pkk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rojava</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TkpMl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TkpMl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>On Ocalan’s Call for Peace and Social Democratic Imperialism: An Anarchist Communist Critique</strong></p><p></p><p><span>Revolutionary struggle is never a solitary endeavor; rather it is an unfolding process replete with contradiction and tension. But sifting through the complexity what fundamentally endures is solidarity and principles. When we – anarchist and communist revolutionaries – embark on the path of struggle we expect to exist, grow and die in a life of contradiction and tension, but we also intend for the path we are on to steadily maintain the positions that we’ve historically defined as <span>unequivocal</span>. In essence, some things are negotiable, some deviations are forgivable, and some can be treacherous. The recent positions and actions by the PKK, in several of its components, are not only inconsistent with revolutionary struggle, but have deviated so far from the established principles of proletarian and internationalist struggle that the project has now veered into an essentially revisionist, collaborationist posture. This is particularly alarming as the internationalist movement exceedingly needs heightened, resolute and honorable positions as the challenges facing us are grave and growing. </span></p><p><span>We are writing from an anarchist communist position that is far from monolithic in our locale, or in general, but we have also been at the forefront of solidarity efforts with the PKK since the formation of the International Freedom Battalion, the HBDH, and the establishment of the anarchist guerrilla faction, the IRPGF. We have been increasingly alarmed at ongoing developments and the most recent political realities need to be addressed. We are not writing this with any elation and are not laying out this statement from a dogmatic, idealist stance. In actuality, we maintained principled silence on a whole host of revisionist deviations, and would have continued out of respect for the complex and dynamic position the combatants find themselves in at the forefront in the conflict zones in West Asia. <span>However, recent developments have pushed us to publicly critique the organization in spite of our admiration for their historical accomplishments.</span></span></p><p><span>In the earlier phases of the struggle in Rojava, the US and the YPG both stated their collaboration was “temporary, transactional and tactical”; in essence, not a strategic partnership but a brief association to combat ISIS. This stated position is now, approximately, 8 years old and has turned into unarguably a comprehensive strategic partnership. </span></p><p><span>The reality is even more stark in light of the larger situation in West Asia today. The Palestinian Revolution, ignited by the monumental October 7th operation, followed by remarkable acts of solidarity performed in northern occupied Palestine and the Red Sea, set a new stage in contemporary struggle against colonialism and imperialism, but is also an illustrative example of resistance for the entire internationalist movement. The war against the Zionist settler regime, and in effect the US-led imperialist world system, is at an elevated state, and due to the genocidal nature of the imperialist forces, the planned ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and the potential of success for the Resistance in Gaza, the liberation of Palestine must have a central role. To be clear, this is not to contrast the Kurdish movement with the Palestinian movement, but to highlight a fundamental contradiction that has reached its peak. The Zionist regime, being a settler appendage of US power <span>projection</span>, has embarked on a genocidal campaign, and the eradication of the Zionist state will put unprecedented pressure on American imperialism, particularly as the US is a wounded animal <span>that has been in decline for some time due to its intensifying excesses. </span>In this context, the PKK partnership with the American regime is particularly inconceivable – as a crucial war for liberation against colonialism rages on in the region.</span></p><p><span>The opportunism in this collusion is evident but there are also three other crucial points that we feel must be addressed to clarify the true scope of the morass.</span></p><p><span><strong>1)</strong> The historic statement by Abdullah Ocalan calling for the PKK to lay down its arms and to dissolve itself not only betrays the strategy of revolutionary people’s war, self-defense, and proletarian struggle; the release of the statement had been timed at the height of the counter-revolutionary push across the region, which is the HTS/Turkish consolidation of power and the Zionist colonial expansion in Syria.</span></p><p><span>The statement was met with confusion initially by PKK executive committee members. Murat Karayilan, for instance, stated, “Let’s assume that he [Ocalan] made the call. But this work cannot be done only through a call. We are a movement with tens of thousands of armed people. These fighters are not on a payroll to be sacked. These are ideological fighters. They have beliefs and are willing to sacrifice themselves.” </span></p><p><span>The Turkish revolutionary organization, the MLKP who is allied with the PKK, resoundingly rejected the statement arguing:</span></p><blockquote><p><span> We strongly emphasize that the view in the “Call for Peace and a Democratic Society,” which states, “There is no path outside of democracy for system searches and implementations. There cannot be. Democratic consensus is the fundamental method,” is incompatible with the reality of polarization between oppressors and the oppressed, the rich and the poor, the rulers and the oppressed peoples in Turkey, Kurdistan, and worldwide. In a world where the ruling class, through their state apparatuses, hold the monopoly on violence, have access to the means of violence, are armed to the teeth, fascistize state apparatuses, and divide the world with blood and fire, it is impossible for the working class, women, oppressed peoples, and workers to achieve their basic demands, gain freedom, and create a just, humane world without armed struggle and revolutionary mass violence.</span></p><p><span> The MLKP will continue the fight for freedom against the fascist regime, denialist colonialism, the patriarchal system, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism, for the Union of the People’s Republics of Turkey and Kurdistan, for the Democratic and Socialist Federation in the Middle East, and for the war for socialism, using all means and forms of struggle.</span></p></blockquote><p><span>We echo a similar sentiment here. The renunciation of revolutionary self defense and mass violence is the siren call of a movement replete with bourgeois revisionism. Other segments in Ocalan’s call illuminate the same issues: the demands for “free self-expression, democratic self-organization of each segment of society based on their own socio-economic and political structures”; the idea that “permanent and fraternal continuity” can be achieved if it is “crowned with democracy.” Or that “there is no alternative to democracy in the pursuit and realization of a political system. Democratic consensus is the fundamental way.” This is the language of imperialist power; it is the language of liberalism. We don’t mean this in a pejorative sense either, but literally. The discourse of democracy separated from class war, a movement without an armed component, or a strategic initiative against the colonialist enemies is merely speaking the language of defeat. </span></p><p><span><strong>2)</strong> Mazloum Abdi, the top SDF general, who was in the PKK high command, the HPG and a personal friend of Ocalan, publicly stated that the YPG is open to support from the Zionist colonial regime. Abdi stated if the occupation regime can “prevent attacks against us and stop the killing of our people, we welcome that and appreciate it… ‘Israel’ is a force with influence in the US, the West, and the region.” As we noted, Palestine is the compass for anti-colonial revolution, and publicly articulating (particularly now) a desire to open relations with the Zionist regime is unconscionable.</span></p><p><span>From Imrali Island to SDF headquarters, the whispers of social democratic imperialism have now become screams, however, in Qandil, and HBDH guerrilla zones we hear a different discourse. Cemil Bayik recently stated, for instance that, “A new Syria is being built, and it is based on protecting ‘Israel’ and the global capital. What does ‘Israel’ represent? It represents global capital; it represents the capitalist system. Protecting ‘Israel’ does not only mean protecting Israel; it also means protecting the system of capitalist modernity.” </span></p><p><span>After the martyrdom of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah the MLKP proclaimed his “memory will live on in the struggle for a free and united Middle East,” while also calling “on the peoples of Kurdistan and Turkey to take the streets, side by side with the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, against genocidal colonialism.” TKP-ML’s Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade, based in Rojava, proclaimed that “Nasrallah has become an example of resistance against ‘Israels’ brutality, attacks and occupations.” They called “on all peoples to take a stand against genocide and to actively solidarize with the Palestinian and Lebanese people,” since the “only remedy for the oppressed against this system is to unite in a common line of resistance and to strengthen solidarity networks with the oppressed peoples of the world.” </span></p><p><span>These positions hearken back to the foundational era of the PKK’s Kurdish Freedom struggle, when guerrillas were based in the Bekaa Valley as guests of the Palestinian Resistance, and even took casualties fighting Zionist colonialists in the 1982 battle for the Castle Arnun in Lebanon. Evoking this period highlights the nature of the political differences that have emerged, and the consolidation of bourgeois thought and practice within the upper echelon of the PKK – seemingly the dominant perspectives. The revolutionary parties and some of the executive branch in Qandil fully understands that the Kurdish Freedom Movement, allied with the Palestinian Resistance is unmistakably the path to liberate both societies – merged again through resistance. </span></p><p><span>Practically speaking, the Resistance in Palestine and Lebanon wanted a front opened against the Zionist regime from Syria. The Assad regime, being as opportunistic and cynical as expected, refused to open a new front for the Resistance, leaving Hezbollah to take the brunt of the fighting in the north singlehandedly. If PKK/YPG forces had opened a front, even symbolically, the contradictions that exist would have been severely disrupted, solidarity between the stateless peoples would have been strengthened and the repairing of Kurdish-Arab ties could have been addressed with a foundational basis of revolutionary solidarity and not political maneuvering. </span></p><p><span><strong>3)</strong> The SDF/YPG announcement of their political and military merger with the HTS regime in Damascus signals an impending collapse of the revolutionary project. </span></p><p><span>The HTS seizure of power in Syria is the culmination of a counter revolutionary process targeting Palestine and revolutionary Kurdistan in tandem. HTS, like its counterparts ISIS and Al-Qaeda, are accomplices with the fascist Turkish state. Its military offensive against Assad, timed on the very day of the ceasefire in Lebanon – November 27th – was designed to put extraordinary pressure on the Palestinian Resistance and its supporters during a period of vulnerability. In this regard, it was almost certainly agreed upon by the Zionists and their American sponsors. Before the offensive, the US and Zionist regime were beaten to a stalemate in Lebanon and the HTS actions became the one marker of strategic success for imperialism in the entire al-Aqsa Flood battle. Fascist Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed the collapse of the Syrian regime was “a direct result of the blows we have inflicted” on the anti-Zionist Resistance forces. </span></p><p><span>On the Kurdish side, the success of the HTS military operation brought to power the same people the PKK had fought against since the rise of ISIS and it also rejuvenated the Turkish backed SNA forces that were attacking the YPG in the north. However, this also put political pressure on revolutionary factions in the Kurdish movement since Rojava was surrounded by hostile forces who have now gained momentum.</span></p><p><span>The Communist factions have maintained the position that striving for a Kurdish nation, allied with internationalist anti-imperialist forces as a bulwark against Western expansion is the objective. The PKK, on the other hand, proposed the formation of the democratic nation, opposed to the nation-state system, where directly-democratic communes organize themselves, cutting through the miscellaneous Sykes-Picot arrangement, and through ethnic divisions. But the opportunistic forces in the PKK, based in Syria and Turkey, disregarded both revolutionary propositions and took Ocalan’s call for disarming/dissolution and the opportunity to appease western forces to its logical conclusion. As TKP-ML stated in their recent text about Ocalan’s call, “</span>it appears that even this ‘paradigm’” – Democratic Confederalism – “has now been abandoned.” <span> In both instances, in Syria and Turkey, the party is calling for subsumption by both states. In Turkey the PKK calls for the establishment of a democratic process, which as Cemil Bayak says the conditions for such an initiative do not even exist. He states, “The Turkish state attacks us every day with all kinds of weapons. How are we going to stop under these circumstances? Of course, our struggle continues.” In Syria, Salih Muslim, spokesperson for the PYD’s foreign relations, reinforces the capitulation, claiming that the agreement with HTS is consistent with Ocalan’s decree.</span></p><p><span>We should also note that the signing<span> of the a</span>greement with the HTS regime, just like the offensive against Assad, was timed in a particularly heinous manner. The signing ceremony was commenced immediately after one of the gravest massacres – resembling Sabra and Chatilla – was committed by regime forces. Recent estimates maintain that almost 1400 people were slaughtered by the state in western Syria, the vast majority civilians, <span>with tacit approval by the west and their puppet Arab states. </span></span></p><p><span>In the imperial core, particularly in the US, we had struggled against the revisionist creep in Rojava solidarity efforts; promoting the combative forces and maintaining the line of armed struggle, anti-imperialism, while supporting efforts either towards the Kurdish nation, or the Democratic Confederalist line. Both positions have merit, and solidarity was established through struggle, with its clearest articulation in the International Freedom Battalion in Rojava, and the HBDH in Turkey in Bakur. Through this process we have also understood mourning, loss and sacrifice. The internationalist movement has given martyrs from all over the world; Orhan Bakırcıyan, Ivana Hoffmann, Dogan Kirefe, Lorenzo Orsetti, Michael Israel, Ulaş Bayraktaroglu, Alina Sanchez, Nurhak Cem, and the list continues.</span></p><p><span>In memory of the fallen it is our responsibility to clearly proclaim that the direction the party has taken is contrary to the stated objectives of the revolution: from either the class struggle position or the Democratic Nation. We hope non-revisionist forces within the struggle can exert the necessary pressure to prevent a further drift towards reaction and normalization with imperialism. In a similar manner that Fatah’s capitulation in the Palestinian struggle damned the left to years of insignificance, or Khrushchev’s peaceful coexistence betrayed anti-colonial forces, thoroughly discrediting the Soviet project, the PKK’s shift towards integration and peaceful coexistence with US imperialism will certainly have a similar effect. </span></p><p><span>The integration of revolutionary political forces into the Western-backed state in Syria, and the dismantling of revolutionary military forces in Qandil and Bakur is totally irreconcilable and antagonistic to the furtherance of the internationalist movement. The Kurdish Revolution, with the PKK as its primary revolutionary force, cannot prevail after being absorbed into bourgeois, fascist political structures in West Asia; in fact, the most advanced sections of the movement – the women’s movement and the armed struggle – will only survive if the democratic aspirations of the Kurdish people are fulfilled and maintained through embracing the principled positions that have been established and continuing to combine efforts with other forces fighting against imperialism today. People’s War, the Democratic Confederalist model, and the “right to freely secede” (the right to establish a Kurdish nation which is now rejected by Ocalan), are all positions that reject absorption and must be upheld. As TKP-ML succinctly stated, “Renouncing or refusing to demand.. national-collective rights does not mean that the Kurdish national question has been resolved, nor does it indicate that the contradiction between the oppressor and oppressed nations has disappeared.<strong>”</strong></span></p><p><span> Due to wary statements from some members of the PKK leadership and the revolutionary organizations we believe there is still potential to pivot and rectify the situation internally. We are certain the guerrillas in the mountains, the commando units in the cities, and local organizers who worked diligently to build popular power are questioning these positions. Revolutionaries in Kurdistan and elsewhere understand what is at stake and that now is not the time for half measures. The collaborationist posture is particularly egregious as antagonisms and conflict are amplified in the region. The internationalist anarchist and communist positions must further the line against capitulation. </span></p><p><span>For a free Kurdistan and a free Palestine!</span></p><p><span>No to unilateral ceasefire and disarmament!</span></p><p><strong><span>Revolutionary Anarcho-Communists in the Northeastern “US” </span></strong></p><p><span>Further reading:</span></p><p>“<span>Kurdish National Question ”The Call of the Century”: Solution or Dissolution? – TKP-ML,” </span><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17751/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17751/</a></p><p>“Let’s Strengthen the Struggle for the National and Democratic Rights of the Kurdish People! — MLKP,” <span><span><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17327/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17327/</a> </span></span></p><p>“<span>PKK: We will comply with Leader Öcalan’s call, we declare a ceasefire,” <a href="https://anfenglish.com/features/-78180" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">anfenglish.com/features/-78180</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></span></p><p>“<span>Call for Peace and Democratic Society: Abdullah Ocalan,” <a href="https://www.demparti.org.tr/Images/UserFiles/Documents/Editor/2025/eng-callfor-peace-and-democratic-society.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.demparti.org.tr/Images/UserFiles/Documents/Editor/2025/eng-callfor-peace-and-democratic-society.pdf</a> </span></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18070" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">18070</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anarchism/" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/critique/" target="_blank">#critique</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/hbdh/" target="_blank">#hbdh</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mlkp/" target="_blank">#mlkp</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestine/" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/pkk/" target="_blank">#pkk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/rojava/" target="_blank">#rojava</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/syria/" target="_blank">#syria</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/tkp-ml/" target="_blank">#tkpMl</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/west-asia/" target="_blank">#westAsia</a></p>
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Anarchists in NES<p>*Don't hesitate to boost if you enjoy reading the reports!*</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewsFromTheFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFromTheFront</span></a> <br>Weekly highlight from your anarchist comrades in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <br>17.03.25 - 23.03.25<br>Also available on <a href="https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/category/war-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/c</span><span class="invisible">ategory/war-updates/</span></a></p><p>(2/2)<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p># ANALYSIS</p><p>As the spring arrives, the celebrations of Newroz light the fire of resistance. This is a time of hope for the Kurdish people. The message of Abdullah Öcalan sparked expectations for a peace process and a possible road map for a democratization of Turkey. This also echoes in Syria, with renewed negotiations petween PYD and ENKS to make a joint Kurdish delegation to negotiate with Damascus. It seems that the years of denial of the Kurdish identiy, of assimilation and ocupation, may be reaching its end. The resistance of the Kurdish people against colonization, against the borders imposed by European colonizers in Middle East after the World war, against the assimilation and genocidal policies, seems to be growing ripe. But what does this mean at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century? The creation of a Kurdish state, dream of many Kurdish resistance movements from the last century, seems not possible in the current world order. In any case, the Abdullah Öcalan's proposal of Democratic Nation is also rejecting such path, deeply questioning the role of nation-states and their capacity to build a free life and a democratic society. </p><p>The negotiations with the provisional government of Damascus, when analyzed with an anarchist perspective, seem very discouraging. The new draft of the Syrian constitution is far away from the revolutionary dreams that brought us to Rojava. However, it is worth to not hurry with conclusions. <br>Many political organizations criticized the proposed constitutional draft, with strong opposition from the institutions of the DAANES as well as from the Druze community. The current political agreements and positions will influence all involved actors. From all years of civil war in Syria it can be expected that hegemonic state forces will use all opportunities to create more strife and chaos. It opens doors for them to step in, assert themselves as legitimate players and pursue their goals. The negotiations between SDF and the Provisional government can be considered with that reality in mind. Revolutionary Northeastern Syria asserts itself in all fields possible and shows itself as a legitimate and viable political actor. It takes the image of revolutionary system here far beyond the "allies who defeated ISIS", towards being seen as a model and a system to be implemented, or at least to be reckoned with. We also should distinguish political talks from ideological lines. ENKS-PYD agreement is a good example of that. This brings us to one of the lessons we as anarchists can find here. We observe that a revolutionary movement needs to have capacity of bringing various political actors to contribute to the liberatory changes. Skillful diplomacy of DAANES and SDF is a good example of this effort.</p><p>In the past we shared reflections on the challanges that HTS will face to assert itself as the new government of Syria. The recent wave of insurgency that shaked Latakia may be the extreme example of that. The occupations of Turkey in the north and Israel in the south, the unrest in Deir Ezzor, the claims for decentralization by the Druze community in the south and the Kurds in the north, are just examples of the challenges that the post-Assad Syria is facing. The DAANES is a proof of how a decentralized system in Syria is not only possible but necessary. Still, HTS will try to hold their grip on the newly captured central power in Damascus, navigating a dangerous balance of forces that can easily derail. If the diplomacy can't reach satisfactory solutions for all relevant actors, we know how easily (and how a fast) the tensions can escalate to new armed conflicts. </p><p>It is good to remember that the estimations of fighters of HTS before the offensive against the regime varied between 10.000 and 30.000 soldiers. At that time, the numbers of SNA were estimated between 30.000 and 80.000, while SDF is ranging between 100.000 and 120.000. In theory, all the main military forces in Syria agree that it is time for peace, to work together to rebuild Syria. To reach cohesive agreements means that all sides also need to make concessions. Assad is gone, and the future of Syria needs to be built on consensus and popular unity, including all the people in Syria and with the memory of all those who gave their life to make this day possible.</p><p>We also know that happy endings are just for movies. Life goes on and the struggle has to go on. We need to use the time we have to be ready for what will come tomorrow. We have a revolution to defend and we have a fight to win. We can't simply wait and expect that things will play out as we wish. We need to make sure that the achievments of the revolution and the lessons learned here help us in the next battles to come.</p><p>Revolutionary greetings! 🖤<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PYD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurdistan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Comrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comrades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbdullahOcalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbdullahOcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%96calan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Öcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenLifeFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenLifeFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Newroz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newroz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alawite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Latakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latakia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a></p>
Anarchists in NES<p>*Don't hesitate to boost if you enjoy reading the reports!*</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewsFromTheFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFromTheFront</span></a> <br>Weekly highlight from your anarchist comrades in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <br>17.03.25 - 23.03.25<br>Also available on <a href="https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/category/war-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/c</span><span class="invisible">ategory/war-updates/</span></a></p><p>(2/2)<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p># ANALYSIS</p><p>As the spring arrives, the celebrations of Newroz light the fire of resistance. This is a time of hope for the Kurdish people. The message of Abdullah Öcalan sparked expectations for a peace process and a possible road map for a democratization of Turkey. This also echoes in Syria, with renewed negotiations petween PYD and ENKS to make a joint Kurdish delegation to negotiate with Damascus. It seems that the years of denial of the Kurdish identiy, of assimilation and ocupation, may be reaching its end. The resistance of the Kurdish people against colonization, against the borders imposed by European colonizers in Middle East after the World war, against the assimilation and genocidal policies, seems to be growing ripe. But what does this mean at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century? The creation of a Kurdish state, dream of many Kurdish resistance movements from the last century, seems not possible in the current world order. In any case, the Abdullah Öcalan's proposal of Democratic Nation is also rejecting such path, deeply questioning the role of nation-states and their capacity to build a free life and a democratic society. </p><p>The negotiations with the provisional government of Damascus, when analyzed with an anarchist perspective, seem very discouraging. The new draft of the Syrian constitution is far away from the revolutionary dreams that brought us to Rojava. However, it is worth to not hurry with conclusions. <br>Many political organizations criticized the proposed constitutional draft, with strong opposition from the institutions of the DAANES as well as from the Druze community. The current political agreements and positions will influence all involved actors. From all years of civil war in Syria it can be expected that hegemonic state forces will use all opportunities to create more strife and chaos. It opens doors for them to step in, assert themselves as legitimate players and pursue their goals. The negotiations between SDF and the Provisional government can be considered with that reality in mind. Revolutionary Northeastern Syria asserts itself in all fields possible and shows itself as a legitimate and viable political actor. It takes the image of revolutionary system here far beyond the "allies who defeated ISIS", towards being seen as a model and a system to be implemented, or at least to be reckoned with. We also should distinguish political talks from ideological lines. ENKS-PYD agreement is a good example of that. This brings us to one of the lessons we as anarchists can find here. We observe that a revolutionary movement needs to have capacity of bringing various political actors to contribute to the liberatory changes. Skillful diplomacy of DAANES and SDF is a good example of this effort.</p><p>In the past we shared reflections on the challanges that HTS will face to assert itself as the new government of Syria. The recent wave of insurgency that shaked Latakia may be the extreme example of that. The occupations of Turkey in the north and Israel in the south, the unrest in Deir Ezzor, the claims for decentralization by the Druze community in the south and the Kurds in the north, are just examples of the challenges that the post-Assad Syria is facing. The DAANES is a proof of how a decentralized system in Syria is not only possible but necessary. Still, HTS will try to hold their grip on the newly captured central power in Damascus, navigating a dangerous balance of forces that can easily derail. If the diplomacy can't reach satisfactory solutions for all relevant actors, we know how easily (and how a fast) the tensions can escalate to new armed conflicts. </p><p>It is good to remember that the estimations of fighters of HTS before the offensive against the regime varied between 10.000 and 30.000 soldiers. At that time, the numbers of SNA were estimated between 30.000 and 80.000, while SDF is ranging between 100.000 and 120.000. In theory, all the main military forces in Syria agree that it is time for peace, to work together to rebuild Syria. To reach cohesive agreements means that all sides also need to make concessions. Assad is gone, and the future of Syria needs to be built on consensus and popular unity, including all the people in Syria and with the memory of all those who gave their life to make this day possible.</p><p>We also know that happy endings are just for movies. Life goes on and the struggle has to go on. We need to use the time we have to be ready for what will come tomorrow. We have a revolution to defend and we have a fight to win. We can't simply wait and expect that things will play out as we wish. We need to make sure that the achievments of the revolution and the lessons learned here help us in the next battles to come.</p><p>Revolutionary greetings! 🖤<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PYD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurdistan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Comrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comrades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbdullahOcalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbdullahOcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%96calan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Öcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenLifeFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenLifeFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Newroz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newroz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alawite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Latakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latakia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a></p>
Anarchists in NES<p>*Don't hesitate to boost if you enjoy reading the reports!*</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewsFromTheFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFromTheFront</span></a> <br>Weekly highlight from your anarchist comrades in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <br>17.03.25 - 23.03.25<br>Also available on <a href="https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/category/war-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/c</span><span class="invisible">ategory/war-updates/</span></a></p><p>(1/2)<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p># NEWROZ PIROZ BE!</p><p>This week all Kurdistan went to the streets for Newroz, the new year celebrations for many peoples in West and Central Asia, Caucasus and Balkans. It has a very significant meaning of resistance for Kurdish people. Throughout northern Syria big celebrations were organized by the DAANES, with music, political speeches and other cultural events. Many political and social organizations made statements to celebrate Newroz and to celebrate the achievements of the Kurdish liberation movement, as well as the revolutionary steps taken this year, and the recent statement of Abdullah Öcalan invigorated the celebrations.</p><p># NEXT STEPS ON THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY ABDI-SHARA'A</p><p>Following the agreements of cooperation signed by Mazlum Abdi and Ahmed al-Shara'a, the provisional goverment formed a committee to coordinate its implementation. Alongside discussions about the integration of SDF into the Ministry of defense and other topics related to security and military affairs, steps are also been taken in civilian affairs. UNICEF mediated a discussion between the DAANES and the Ministry of Education to develop a fair and accessible process for students across the region, mainly concerning Syrian universities and mechanisms for conducting secondary and preparatory certificate exams. Discussions about oil and gas fields and electricity plants are also taking place, with the Syrian Minister of Electricity Omar Shaqrouq giving at a press conference about energy infrastructure repairs in northeast Syria. Rumors and alleged conditions of SDF and the transitional government about the integration of SDF in the new Syrian army are spreading on some social networks, but as terms are being discussed no official announcements have been made this week.</p><p># AGREEMENTS BETWEEN PYD AND ENKS</p><p>Representants of PYD (Partiya Yekitiya Democratic - Democratic Union Party, leading political party of DAANES) and ENKS (Kurdish national union party, a party in Rojava that is closely connected to KRG and Turkey) held a meeting in Qamishlo with mediation of Mazlum Abdi and American officials. After the meeting both sides communicated they reached agreements to end the disputes between both organizations and to build a common delegation to negotiate with the Damascus provisional government. Both parties also expressed their common disagreement with the provisional consitution that was recently proposed by the provisional government, calling for a decentralized and federal Syria. They also stated that they will meet again after the celebrations of Newroz to continue negotiations.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COASTAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COASTAL</span></a> INSURGENCE </p><p>Incidents continue in the coastal areas of the Latakia province that saw the recent wave of insurgency. Revenge killings and kidnappings have continued over the past week, even as coordinated insurgent attacks and extrajudicial sectarian killings by interim government forces have decreased. Alawite media have widely reported on instances of violence committed against the Alawite community by Sunnis and government forces. Several thousands, mostly Alawites, left their homes seeking shelter from the attacks in Lebanon. Near 10.000 found temporary shelter in the Russian base at Hmeimim, but after the tensions lowered, Russian military personal urged them to leave the military base.</p><p># CLASHES IN LEBANESE BORDER </p><p>After a confusing incident on the border between Syria and Lebanon where some Syrians were killed, clashes took place. Forces of HTS connected to the Syrian Ministry of Defense (MoD) launched a raid into Lebanese territory, taking control of one small border town. The Lebanese army engaged in clashes, allegedly against smugglers or tribal armed groups. HTS-linked media blame Hezbollah for the incidents, but Hezbollah denied involvment. Over the week, clashes continued on and off, with discussions ongoing between Lebanese goverment and Syrian provisional government to secure the border and stop the clashes. Allegedly, Hezbollah used the tensions and confusion to launch raids on Syrian territory.</p><p># DEIR EZZOR INSURGENCY</p><p>Soldiers of the MoD launched several raids in the Deir Ezzor region, in areas under control of the provisional government. The raids followed a wave of insurgency and attacks against military points of the MoD, allegedly by smuggling networks and militias aligned with Hezbollah or with Iran. It seems there is no direct relation between the insurgency in Deir Ezzor and the insurgency in coastal areas, but in both cases Assad loyalist elements seem to be involved in one way or another.</p><p># HALT ON TURKISH ATTACKS? </p><p>On Sunday 16th of March a Turkish drone attacked a family home in the Kobane countryside killing both parents and 7 children, with only two children surviving with serious injuries. Many protests denouncing the attack took place all across north-east Syria. Two days after the massacre, the attacks of SNA and the Turkish army slowed down to a point that in the last days, no new attacks are reported. This pause could be a temporary phenomenon, but it comes against the backdrop of the SDF-Syrian provisional government talks. Turkey and the SNA appeared to halt attacks on March 19, which was the same day that the Syrian interim government met with the SDF at al Shaddadi base in Hasakah Province to continue negotiations over the SDF’s integration into the Syrian army.</p><p># ISRAEL ATTACKS</p><p>Israel continued its attacks on Syrian military positions, further advancing their occupation in southern Syria. Some airstrikes are claimed to be targeting military installations in southern Syria, which were allegedly being repurposed by military personal, and becoming a potential threat to Israel. Military occupation forces entered several new villages of the Quneitra region. Besides the expansion of the military occupation, they launched airstrikes next to the Lebanese border, allegedly targeting Hezbollah militias. The Israeli air force also bombed the Palmyra military airport in central Syria in several raids.</p><p># ANALYSIS: Read in comments</p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PYD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurdistan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Comrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comrades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbdullahOcalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbdullahOcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%96calan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Öcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenLifeFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenLifeFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Newroz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newroz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alawite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Latakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latakia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a></p>
Gebrauchskunst<p>&gt; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@michaelwilk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>michaelwilk</span></a></span> 🔗 <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/users/michaelwilk/statuses/114236988522664467" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/users/michaelwil</span><span class="invisible">k/statuses/114236988522664467</span></a><br>-<br>Hilfe tut Not.<br>Die Situation in <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Syrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syrien</span></a> ist auch nach dem Sturz des diktatorischen Assadregimes prekär. Im Nordosten <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> greift die islamistische SNA-Miliz mit Unterstützung der türkischen Luftwaffe weiter Menschen und Infrastruktur an. Viele tausende Menschen flohen und sind auf Hilfe angewiesen. Über zehn Jahre unterstütze ich den Kurdischen Roten Halbmond auch vor Ort. Eine weitere Reise steht bevor. Die unabhängige Organisation leistet entscheidende Arbeit: Betrieben werden Krankenhäuser, Ambulatorien und Rettungsdienste. Euere Spenden erreichen ihr Ziel und helfen den Menschen eine Perspektive zu geben. Wer in der Lage ist zu spenden- jeder Beitrag ist willkommen: Dr. M. Wilk "Gesundheitsaufbau", IBAN DE77510500150173070939 BIC NASSDE55XXX Ich bin nicht in der Lage steuerwirksame Quittungen auszustellen. Dafür garantiere ich, dass 100% der Spenden für humanitäre Projekte in <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> Verwendung finden. <br>Die Fluchtursachen bekämpfen - nicht die Geflohenen. Danke dafür.</p>
MichaelWilk<p>Hilfe tut Not.<br>Die Situation in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Syrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syrien</span></a> ist auch nach dem Sturz des diktatorischen Assadregimes prekär. Im Nordosten <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> greift die islamistische SNA-Miliz mit Unterstützung der türkischen Luftwaffe weiter Menschen und Infrastruktur an. Viele tausende Menschen flohen und sind auf Hilfe angewiesen. Über zehn Jahre unterstütze ich den Kurdischen Roten Halbmond auch vor Ort. Eine weitere Reise steht bevor. Die unabhängige Organisation leistet entscheidende Arbeit: Betrieben werden Krankenhäuser, Ambulatorien und Rettungsdienste. Euere Spenden erreichen ihr Ziel und helfen den Menschen eine Perspektive zu geben. Wer in der Lage ist zu spenden- jeder Beitrag ist willkommen: Dr. M. Wilk "Gesundheitsaufbau", IBAN DE77510500150173070939 BIC NASSDE55XXX Ich bin nicht in der Lage steuerwirksame Quittungen auszustellen. Dafür garantiere ich, dass 100% der Spenden für humanitäre Projekte in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> Verwendung finden. <br>Die Fluchtursachen bekämpfen - nicht die Geflohenen. Danke dafür.</p>
Anarchists in NES<p>Don't hesitate to boost if you enjoy reading the reports!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewsFromTheFront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFromTheFront</span></a> <br>Update from your anarchist comrades in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NES</span></a> <br>10.03.25-16.03.25<br>Also available on <a href="https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/category/war-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/c</span><span class="invisible">ategory/war-updates/</span></a> </p><p># Signature of an agreement SDF - Provisional Government </p><p>On Monday, March 10, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi and Syrian President Ahmad al-Shar’a sign an agreement formalizing what was already discussed and confirming cooperation towards a shared security framework. It ensures Kurdish political rights and paves the way for integration of major institutions. DAANES institutions back the agreement gladly, hoping that it will put an end to the different conflicts like the clashes erupted on the coast, will safeguard rights of Kurds, and will enable the return of IDPs and refugees to Afrin and other occupied territories. In the following days, the UN and relevant international state actors, such as Gulf states, European states, and US welcomed the SDF-Syrian government agreement. </p><p># Aftermatch of Coastal insurgence</p><p>After few days of coordinated insurgent attacks on the coastal region of Latakia, the stronghold of Assad loyalists, forces of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) are, more or less,in control of the situation. Several insurgents had been killed or arrested in wide security operations, as well as several fighters linked to the MoD, mostly caught in ambushes by the insurgents. Many civilians, mostly Alawite population, have been killed or forced to flee looking for shelter in the Russian military base. Security operations continue, combing the insurgent areas. Insurgent attacks, even if not in the scale that they had been, also continue. Interim president al-Shara made declaration briefly acknowledged accusations of extrajudicial killings by HTS-led forces and promised that those who “exceeded the powers of the state” will be held accountable. Shara also appointed two Alawites and several competent, professional judges to a committee to investigate the crimes committed by government troops.</p><p># Provisional Constitution of Syria</p><p>Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara signed a provisional constitution on March 13, claiming to initiate a five-year transition period. The document is based on Islamic jurisprudence, remarking that the president of Syria must be Muslim. The constitution defends the freedoms of opinion, expression, information, publication and press, also defends religious freedom. The Constitutional Committee emphasized that the document ensures a separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. However, it ensures a lot of powers to the president, who will appoint a third of the "Peoples Assembly" and select a committee that will appoint the other two thirds. The president will also select the seven members of the Supreme Constitutional Court, also have right to declare state of emergency with the approval of the National Security Council, formed by the minsters of Defense, Interior, Intelligence and Foreign affairs. This grants al-Shara a massive influence over the formation and direction of the Syrian state. The SDC and other institutions of the DAANES, including the opposition party of ENKS, made declarations rejecting this constitution and denouncing how it perpetuates the presidential model of the Assad regime, not reflecting the plurality of Syria. Druze authorities also made declarations in the same direction.</p><p># Turkey continue on the offensive</p><p>After the agreement between Mazlum Abdi and Ahmed al-Shara, there was a question of how much this implies the end of hostilities between SNA and SDF. But clearly nothing really changed on the ground. Turkey continued their attacks with planes and drones over the Eufrates region around Tishreen dam, were the civilian protests still ongoing. There have been renewed attacks with heavy weapons on differnet points of the M4 like Til Temir and Ain Issa frontlines. Turkish foreign minister made declarations declaring that will monitor closely the implementations of the agreements with SDF, calling to make no concessions for any attempt of self-administration.</p><p># Continuing repatriations from Al-Hol camp to Iraq</p><p>After Iraq halted repatriations from Iraqi citizens in al-Hol camp for a short period, and following coordinated efforts between DANNES and the Iraqi state, more than 600 Iraqi former arrested had been allowed to return to Iraq. This also comes after The provisional government announced that they are ready to take control of the ISIS prisons currently under control of SDF.</p><p># Points of agreement signed by SDF and the provisional government:</p><p> Political Participation – Full representation and rights for all Syrian communities, including Kurds, in state institutions based on merit rather than sectarian or ethnic background.<br>Kurdish Rights – Recognition of the Kurdish community as an integral part of Syria, ensuring constitutional rights and citizenship protections.<br>Security and Stability – A ceasefire across Syrian territories, aiming to reduce hostilities and facilitate political dialogue.<br>Institutional Integration – The merging of all civil and military institutions in northeast Syria into the national framework, including border crossings, airports, and energy resources.<br>Refugee Return – Guarantees for the safe return of displaced Syrians to their homes under government protection.<br>Sovereignty Protection – Joint efforts to counter external threats, including armed groups and foreign interventions that destabilize Syria.<br>Combating Extremism – Enhanced cooperation in counterterrorism efforts against ISIS and other extremist factions.<br>Ending Division and Sectarian Rhetoric – Rejecting hate speech and ensuring national reconciliation.</p><p># Evaluation</p><p>The recent agreement between Mazlum Abdi and Ahmed al-Shara, happening at the same time than the massacres against Alawite population, leaves a bitter taste. The agreement brings nothing new, nothing more than what was already discussed. It is the formalization on paper to reach common agreements for Syria. It takes a step to make sure that no national-scale decisions and talks are made without people of northeastern Syria. Still, it is hard to see the future of the revolution through the large scale moves of state-level diplomacy.</p><p>At the same time, we need to ask ourselves: what would we like to see? What is the alternative? What could be done in this situation? Is there any better way to proceed, something that aligns better with anarchists values and respects the will and the needs of the people of north-east Syria? Honestly, these are very difficult questions.</p><p>We need to reflect what all this means. What it means for the people here, wearied by war, with the Turkish threats of a full scale invasion still looming? What it means for the revolution, with the collapse of the Assad regime but with a new authotitarian goverment rising over the same structures of nation-state? And also what it means for us, revolutionary anarchists who committed to support and defend this revolution?</p><p>In comparison with everything around it and beyond, NE Syria is clearly the most exciting political proposal in the region. Can it survive the war, the lack of resources, the attacks from all sides, the cooptation Can it avoid collapse and annihilation? Can people defend what they fought and died for, and live their lives in dignity? Time is desperately needed to ensure positive answers to these questions. And the moves we see in past weeks do buy the revolution some time. What we are trying to do here defies th logic of capitalist modernity, and this is not an easy thing to do. And as every revolution, whatever happens will bring lessons for the next ones to come.</p><p>Revolutionary greetings! 🖤<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AANES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AANES</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PYD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YPG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kurdistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kurdistan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRojava</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Comrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comrades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbdullahOcalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbdullahOcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%96calan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Öcalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenLifeFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenLifeFreedom</span></a></p>
nachogazpachof<p><a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/Rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rojava</span></a> en la cuerda floja mientras las SDF acuerdan la integración con el Estado <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/sirio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sirio</span></a> </p><p>- Acracia<br><a href="https://acracia.org/rojava-en-la-cuerda-floja-mientras-las-sdf-acuerdan-la-integracion-con-el-estado-sirio/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">acracia.org/rojava-en-la-cuerd</span><span class="invisible">a-floja-mientras-las-sdf-acuerdan-la-integracion-con-el-estado-sirio/</span></a></p>