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Title: Tekoşîna Anarşîst Author: Tekoşîna Anarşîst Date: January 11, 2019 Language: en Topics: Tekoşîna Anarşîst, communique, Syrian civil war, Rojava Source: Retrieved on 2020-04-13 from https://twitter.com/TA_Anarsist/status/1083457278710370311/
Today, we, a militant anarchist collective, announce our presence in
Rojava and our participation in the newly reformulated International
Freedom Battalion. Tekoşîna Anarşîst (Anarchist Struggle) was formed in
Rojava in the Autumn of 2017. But we chose not to be outward facing due
to strategical and security reasons. With the looming invasion threat of
the Turkish state, in response we now believe it is important to become
public and announce our existence here. As committed anarchist
internationalists we view the struggle here as an important fight for
women’s liberation and peoples’ self-determination. Since our inception
we have been consistently active in the defense of Rojava. We first
participated in the defense of Afrin where one of our members, Şevger
Makhno fell şehid by Turkish air-strike. After Afrin was lost to the
invaders, we have been engaging in the final fight against Daesh on the
Deir ez-Zor front. As the Turkish state and their Islamist proxies
continue to amass troops on the border, we have also begun our focus to
preparing for a potential invasion.
While many anarchists do choose to integrate into YPG, YPJ and other
existing military units, our strategy is somewhat different. We believe
that maintaining a distinctly anti-state libertarian position with a
physical base of operation allows us to engage with the movement here
while also furthering the anarchist tendency. We see the IFB as a much
needed international revolutionary formation for the impending fight
against Turkey. Participation in this tabur allows us to engage in the
peoples’ self-defense while still retaining our autonomy as Anarchists.
The impending Turkish invasion is an existential threat to the Kurds as
well as other ethnic groups in the region such as Assyrians, Armenians
and Yezidis. The Turkish state wishes to extend their ethno-nationalist
project by expelling indigenous people from their lands and replacing
them with non-native populations as they have done in Afrin;
exterminating ethnic minorities, erasing indigenous identities and
banning indigenous languages, is the very foundation upon which the
Turkish state was built. We will not stand idly by while Turkey attempts
to carry out its genocidal project. As in Afrin, we are once again fully
prepared to stand in direct solidarity with the people of Rojava,
fighting side by side until victory or death.
We call upon comrades from all continents to show solidarity with the
people of Rojava. We call for unity against fascism and the neo-colonial
project of the Turkish state.
Death to fascism!
Death to all those who stand in the way of freedom!
Long live the peoples’ resistance!
Long live revolutionary internationalism!