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 Tuesday January 30, 2018 23:58 by KAF - Kurdish-speaking anarchist forum anarkistan at riseup dot net
 No to war, No to dictators and States, No to corporations, No to religions, No to nationalism! No to war, No to dictators and States, No to corporations, No to religions, No to nationalism!
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3It is unclear from this statement whether the KAF is for or against the Kurdish people waging a just war of defense against the aggression by the Turkish imperialist state. To do this would require using the militia (the statement denounces all militias) and require warfare (the statement rejects all war). Yet the statement speaks of the Kurds' "legitimate defense." Do they mean a "defense" solely by Ganhdian nonviolence or do they support the armed struggle of the Kurdish peop[e?
We do not believe that it is the Libertarian Socialist, because what was built there is a government, a small state, it is a power above people, it is mainly a power of one political party, PYD. It is true that there have been parties involved, but they have no real power and very much dependent of PYD. We know that self-administration in Rojava is very much different from the kind of autonomies that people actually have it and formed through direct democracy. In Rojava’s self- Administration all the decision making done by PYD not by the people in Rojava. PYD leads politics in Rojava , who is making important decision on peace and war and others without going back not just to people even does not consult the administration and the Tev-Dem. We have example: In its pack with US PYD never consulted its people even in its agreement with UNKS that we mentioned in our statement, PYD made important decision alone.
We hope our reply is satisfactory
Warm solidarity
KAF
The response by of the KAF is disappointing. They answer the question, Is Rojava a libertarian socialist communal society? They argue that it is not. Whatever its virtues, the Rojavian community is still a state and not a socialist society. Okay, I mainly agree.
But I asked a different question: "whether the KAF is for or against the Kurdish people waging a just war of defense against the aggression by the Turkish imperialist state. ... do they support the armed struggle of the Kurdish peop[e?" They do not answer this.
The Kurdish people should be able to determine their own future. They should be able to decide if they want a non-state communal federation (the anarchist opinion) or a state of their own or autonomous regions within existing states. That should be up to the Kurds. It is not the job of big states to impose their rule on the Kurds. Therefore anarchists and other libertarian socialists should support the armed self-defense of the Kurdish people.
The KAF statement sounds like it would support the Kurdish resistance only if the Kurds were in an anarchist federation. Otherwise, the Kurds are no better than the Turkish invaders. I give full credit to the KAF for upholding anarchism in a difficult situation. But our support to the Kurdish people should not depend on whether they agree with anarchism.