Syria & Kurdistan: three Kurds burnt alive by the Islamists, CIA appoints Syria commander

The brutal fascist inhuman and psychopathic nature of the NATO-supported Islamist militias in Syria becomes even more evident with cases like these: three Kurdish citizens were burned alive in an execution like those of Torquemada.

Video from Russia Today[es]:

Earlier this year the same fascist militia massacred 450 Kurds near Tal Abyad. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


CIA names General Wright as commander for Syria

An anonymous source of the FARS news agency reported that the CIA has General John Wright, 57, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, has been appointed as "commander of operations and cooperation" for the Syrian civil war.

The general already has an office in Amman, Jordan, and keeps tight contacts with the dictators of Saudi Arabia. After a meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the USA provided stinger missiles to the Islamist rebels. The CIA has a training camp in Jordan where some 3000 Syrian rebels are being trained. They plan to occupy Deraa, the border town where the civil war began after infiltration of agitators and armed groups from Jordan.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Nation and Revolution: a Kurdish breakthrough analysis: Democratic Confederalism

Must read: Abdullah Ocalan, Democratic Confederalism (PDF).

The "nation-state" as enemy of nations and peoples in general and possible formulas to overcome the limitations of bourgeois political organization. 

CC by James Gordon

Kurdistan: PKK cell kidnaps a Turkish police agent

The massacre of Lice, on Friday 28th, in which Turkish police forces opened live fire against civilian protesters who attempted to impede the construction of a new police station, killing one and injuring many, has not just caused widespread protests in Kurdistan and Turkey proper, but also has triggered an incident that puts in jeopardy the recently initiated "peace process" between the Ankara government and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

According to Gara newspaper[es], citing Turkish news agency Dogan:

PKK guerrillas kidnapped a Turkish military police sergeant in Lice hours after the killing of the young Kurd. The guerrillas argued with the gendarme, a member of the special operations unit, and they finally decided to capture him.

The kidnapping seems to be independent of the PKK command structure, which so far has not made any statement in the direction of ending the cease-fire but it illustrates very well how the arrogant stand of Erdogan also in the Kurdish case, building new military sites and ordering to shoot to kill, instead of taking steps to ensure a long-lasting and democratic peace, is undermining all the peace process just weeks after it began. 

In this sense Kurdish MP Sirri Sureyya Önder declared that:

The Government must reconcile itself with the People, not build new military outposts, it must have a true will for peace. This is not the road that will bring us to peace. 

Turkey and Kurdistan: massive protests for the murder of Medeni Yildirim

Some 10,000 people demonstrated in Istanbul in solidarity with Kurdistan and repulse of the murder of Medeni Yildirim, killed on Friday by the Army. 

The protesters in Istanbul, which hosts a very large Kurdish minority, could not reach the iconic Taksim Square, still heavily guarded by police, but they remained in the nearby streets chanting slogans in Turkish and Kurdish with messages like "police murderers, out of Kurdistan", "this is just the beginning, the struggle continues, the murderer state will pay" and "long live the fraternity of the People".

In Diyarbakir (Northern Kurdistan) the thousands attending to the funeral demanded from the government: "Erdogan behave, don't make us go to the mountains", in reference to the guerrilla camps. 

This murder and the injuring of dozens is the worst incident in Northern Kurdistan since the PKK signed a ceasefire with Ankara two months ago.

Source: Gara[es].

Kurdistan: Turkish Army fires against protesters near Diyarbakir: one killed, many wounded

A road blockade to protest against the opening of a new Turkish military station at Lice (Diyarbakir province, Northern Kurdistan) was brutally quelled by the Army of the Islamist and Imperialist regime with live fire, killing Salih Bedirxan Medeni Yildirim and injuring at least seven others. 

There have been protests in Istanbul in solidarity with the massacred Kurds. 

Source: Occupied Taksim.

Update (Jun 29): 

The funeral for the mortal victim has been held today at a Diyarbakir cementery. 

A popular assembly has been called in Beksitas for 5pm in order to march to Taksim Square. Similarly the Democratic Congress of the Peoples (HDK) has called for a concentration at 6pm at the Galatasaray Lisesi in protest for the Lice massacre with the intention to march to Taksim Square as well. Taksim Solidarity will also held a demonstration at Taksim Square at 7pm with in homage to Sarisuluk (a worker murdered in Ankara weeks ago), in demand of justice against police and in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades. 

Source: Occupied Taksim.

Turkish Revolution report (June 14)

Protests and police repression continue in Turkey. 

The differential attitude of police with the more visible city of Istanbul and the capital city of Ankara is apparent in these images from tonight:

From Occupied Taksim.

However that does not mean that Istanbul protesters are free from fear of renewed police attacks. On the contrary, they are getting ready for the worst, raising barricades and defensively equipped with gas masks and helmets. 

Still the government issued a new offer of negotiation, which is perceived with distrust by the protesters. An improvised committee of artists went to the meeting, however for many protesters Erdogan is anything but trustworthy and the committee represents nobody. One said:

Erdogan must resign because he is giving away our resources.

So far the government has made only one concession, dropping a bill that would allow forests to be developed by constructors. 

(Source: Webguerrillero[es]).

The radicalization of the protests is quite apparent for example in an article published today at Occupied Taksim, titled In Praise of the 'Marginal Groups'. Excerpts:

It must be known that those dubbed as “marginal groups” by the government are all legal organisations. Most of them are left-wing, revolutionary organisations. In spite of their legal status, they have constantly been the target of state attacks, have constantly been obstructed, beaten, arrested and gassed. Naturally, they are well acquainted with state violence and the forms of resistance required in order to counter it. These “marginal groups” have banners and have always upheld their banners. For instance the Patriotic Youth carry flags bearing the image of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and demand his freedom. The anarchists carry black flags and long for a stateless society. The revolutionary groups, for example, actually want to confiscate your property, as they aspire for a world without private property. Although they continue their existence within legal boundaries and are a part of the Taksim Solidarity, they have been confined to a legal “grey area” because of the illegal state violence they have been forced to face over the years. Because they strive to continue their existence in a sphere where the law and lawlessness have become one, they are regarded as “the marginals."

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The Gezi Park protests symbolise defiance against the deceitful media, the imprisonment of more than 10,000 people for political reasons, and the dirty war in Kurdistan. This has become a war for honour, and if this area of struggle for dignity -cleared with the pioneering of the middle classes- has been filled by the marginalised sectors of society, it cannot be said that this is the product of pragmatic politics. For it is the fulfilment of a new existence. Those who have defended the square, have in fact, defended this very existence and will naturally resist all boundaries imposed on the field where they have flourished.

It is only natural for a twelve year old Kurdish child from Tarlabasi to throw rocks at the police. A revolutionary who has been gassed and imprisoned for many years will of course march relentlessly on the police bearing revolutionary banners in hand, and young men and women will quite naturally provoke the police by defying them with their folk dances. It is only normal that those young men and women who, after leaving their manual daytime jobs, find themselves on the barricades will not disperse as if they were cattle. It is essential that certain members of this resistance grasp that for the past 14 days, the Gezi Resistance is no longer an “innocent protest,” it is a popular uprising. 

 

Kasama Project publishes a dramatic manifesto by one of such marginal groups: the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey and North Kurdistan (MKP). Excerpt:

Erdogan, the leader of the AKP government and the “Turkish Republic”, underestimated the rising masses that he flagrantly and arrogantly referred to as “three to five marauders.” Taking his arrogance even further he threatened “As a party I could gather one million.” However, once “these delinquent marauders” have awoken they cannot be broken apart by empty threats, nor will they be frightened by the blood and stench of slaughter of vampire teeth, you cannot stop them! The one with warmongering and aggressive policies in Syria, the two-faced Erdogan that has hypocritically criticized the Assad dictatorship of bringing violence and slaughter to the masses has called those filling the squares “Marauders.” This is nothing more than his fear and panic of the masses’ uprising.

Italy: thousands demonstrate against fascist arson aggression in Pisa

The autonomous space Newroz (New Year in Kurdish language) of Pisa was burnt on Sunday, apparently by a fascist hand. 

In response, yesterday, several thousand people marched through the streets of the Tuscan city under the slogan "there are some things not to be burnt".

The march stopped before the Prefecture (top police command) hanging on it a banner demanding the freedom of Seda, a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey (MLKP), which is actively persecuted in Turkey since 2007. Seda may be extradited to the authoritarian Turkish state, where he would face tortures and a trial without any guarantees.

The demonstration also visited several buildings occupied by the worker people, such as a municipal building recycled to serve as emergency housing for homeless families, a university social center, etc. They also sang songs of solidarity with Kurdistan. 

Source: No Pasarán![es].