Rojava must be saved! Defend Rojava!

Written by: ICOR on 21 January 2026

 

The following statement in defence of the Rojava region of north-east Syria is currently being signed by affiliates of the International Coordination of Revolutionary parties and Organisations (ICOR). Our Party has signed the statement. We urge any people able to attend today's rally outside Parliament House, Canberra, to do so - eds.

 

Immediate stop to the attacks by the jihadist-fascist HTS!

Imperialists, fascists, and Zionists, get out of Syria!

Democracy and freedom for the peoples of Syria!

 

In the wake of imperialist aggression in Venezuela, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and recent developments in Iran, a genocide by the imperialist henchmen HTS against the Kurdish population in the districts of Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê began in the Syrian city of Aleppo. 120,000 people were displaced and hundreds were killed while putting up a self-sacrificing resistance. Let us remember that Hayat Tharir al-Sham (HTS) is a reactionary Islamist organization that was close to al-Qaeda for a time and has been in power in Syria since Bashar al-Assad fled, and has been removed from the list of terrorist organizations by Western imperialists. Meanwhile, the Zionist occupying power is putting its expansionist megalomania for a Greater Israel in Syria into practice, having already taken the Golan Heights.

 

Military aggression is spreading. The Golani regime and Ankara advanced in a coordinated manner in the affected areas with over 40,000 jihadists, hundreds of tanks, and modern military equipment. The jihadist gangs of the so-called Syrian army are bombing Dair Hafir and the strategic Tişrîn dam, among other places, with simultaneous Turkish drone attacks in the region. The attacks were extended to the rest of Rojava, including the provinces of Deir-e-Zor and Raqqa.

 

These attacks are taking place against the backdrop of the fascist Turkish state's colonial occupation efforts in northern and eastern Syria, its hostility toward the Kurdish people, the imperialist-Zionist intervention in Syria, and the security negotiations between HTS and Israel in Paris.

 

They are a continuation of HTS's aggression against the peoples of Syria, beginning with massacres against the Alawites, Druze, Palestinian refugees and resistance forces, and especially women. They are directed above all against the revolutionary and democratic achievements in North and East Syria, such as the groundbreaking position of women in society, the council organizations with national and religious equality, and the legitimate self-defense of the peoples. According to their commander Mazlum Abdi, the Syrian Democratic Forces have withdrawn to avoid civil war and further bloodshed. The agreed peace process was torpedoed by the Islamist-fascist Syrian government.

 

HTS is a force that has been deliberately promoted and controlled by the British and US secret services and forms a coalition of deeply reactionary, misanthropic gangs, most of whom are not Syrian and are successors to ISIS. They are the enemies of Syria, who will bring neither democracy nor stability to Syria, but immeasurable suffering and oppression. The fact that they attack infrastructure, kill civilians, and throw people out of their homes illustrates their character. They have close ties to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, serve imperialist and Zionist interests, and allow important parts of Syria to be occupied in order to redraw the region.

 

As the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR), we stand in full solidarity with the revolutionary forces in northern and eastern Syria and the broad masses of Syria who yearn for democracy and freedom.

 

We stand alongside the struggles of the peoples of Syria for their own liberation from imperialist, colonial intervention and occupation by Turkey, Israel, and US imperialism.

 

We stand with the Kurdish people and behind their legitimate demands for self-determination and a free life in dignity.

 

Only the peoples themselves will be able to liberate themselves. But they need the international solidarity of the workers and peoples of the world. That is why we call for Solidarity with the peoples of northern and eastern Syria against the current and future attacks that are being prepared. You are not alone!

 

Fight the fascist HTS, henchmen of imperialism!

Stop the Turkish occupation of Syria!

Stop imperialist and Zionist intervention in Syria!

For a united democratic republic of Syria and the right of self-determination for the Kurds and all other ethnic groups!

 

Status of the signatories 20.01.2026. Further signatures possible. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info

1. ORC   Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

2. PPDS   Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

3. NCP (Mashal)   Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

4. RUFN   Revolutionary United Front of Nepal

5. CPA/ML   Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

6. Krasnyj Klin   Аб'яднання беларускіх камуністаў «Чырвоны Клін» (Association of Belarusian Communists «Red Wedge»), Belarus

7. БКП   Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

8. PR-ByH   Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

9. MLPD   Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

10. UPML   Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

11. KOL   Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

12. RM   Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

13. UMLP   União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

14. RMP   Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)

15. TKP-ML   Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)

16. MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

17. PCP (independiente)   Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan  Communist Party (independent))

18. PC (ML)   Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

19. PCR-U   Partido Comunista Revolucionario del Uruguay (Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay)

20. Chinese Communists (MLM)   Chinese Communists (Marxist Leninist Maoist)

Support Rojava – condemn Erdogan’s attacks on the liberated region

Written by: Nick G. on 25 October 2024

 

(Above: destruction caused by Turkish bombs, Rojava, 24 October 2024)

With the world focussed on the continuing atrocity of Zionist Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and its aggression against Lebanon, the Turkish authorities have resumed intensive bombing of the mainly Kurdish stronghold of Rojava in neighbouring north-eastern Syria (NES).

For the last couple of days, the Turkish fascist regime has carried out airstrikes on 42 sites in NES, including Qamishlo, Kobane, Amude, and Derik. To date, 12 civilians have been killed and 25 wounded. The strikes are still ongoing, and included several power stations, 2 bakeries, a health centre, and grain silos. In past months, the Turkish forces had burnt large areas of food crops in an effort to starve the Rojava people.

These attacks indicate Turkey’s intention to control these areas and displace their residents, in order to crush the democratic and progressive Rojava revolution. Itis contrary to what was being promoted about the peace talks between the Kurds and Turkey that were expected to start this month. The attacks show that Turkey is not seeking peace with the Kurds, but rather seeking to exterminate them under the pretext of fighting terrorism. 

This repeated targeting of service facilities is leading to a humanitarian disaster in an area that is home to millions of people, who are already suffering from severe fuel and gas shortages as a result of Turkey’s repeated targeting of infrastructure facilities in previous years.

The same Erdogan who correctly condemns Zionist genocide against the Palestinians is head of a fascist government whose values are threatened by the example of the Rojava revolution. 

“The only reason Turkey attacks is because we are a threat to their fascism. The society here is the antidote to the state's poison!” said one resident of Rojava.

(Above: the people of Kobane protest the bombing, October 24,2024)

Turkey: Freedom for the Prisoners of the Kobanê Case!

Written by: Solidarity Initiative for Figen Yüksekdag on 2 September 2024

 

We have been contacted by the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey and asked to publicise the case of leaders arrested in 2016 for supporting the Kurdish revolutionary forces in Kobane in neighbouring Syria. 

The HDP is a social democratic party with representation in the Turkish parliament. It is not a revolutionary party but has opposed the reactionary, fascist Erdogan regime.

In 2014, it called for demonstrations in support of Kobane, whose majority Kurdish people were fighting a life and death battle with ISIS.  They were ultimately successful but the region they have liberated in north-east Syria presents a threat to Turkey, which keeps its own Kurds under draconian control, and is today bombing the Syrian Kurds.

We support the right of the HDP to support Kobane and to oppose the Erdogan regime – eds.

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Freedom for the Prisoners of the Kobanê Case! 
 

On May 16, 2024, the protracted “Kobanê Case” in Turkey concluded with an immense verdict of 407 years in prison for former board members and leading figures of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), including former co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, who have been detained since November 4, 2016. Those convicted in this trial stand as symbols of the relentless fight for equality, justice, and freedom in Turkey. 

The resistance of the people of Kobanê against the brutal ISIS attack in October 2014 garnered global sympathy and political and practical support. Thanks to the heroic resistance of the Kurdish freedom fighters and international solidarity, Kobanê did not fall; instead, it marked the beginning of ISIS's defeat. The HDP's solidarity with the people of Kobanê and its call for support for this people is a completely democratic and legitimate right and cannot be used as a pretext for this trial. 

The Kobanê Trial has clearly demonstrated that the judiciary in Turkey is not independent and has become an extension of political power. Ongoing bans against the HDP, arrests and suppression of democratic opposition, restrictions on assembly and demonstration rights, the isolation of prisoners and denial of their medical care, and media censorship are all manifestations of the multifaceted attack on democratic freedoms in Turkey. This is also evident in the non-implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments, such as those in the cases of Yüksekdağ, Demirtaş, and Kavala. 

We view the trials and lengthy sentences against the HDP's leading figures as expressions of the Erdoğan dictatorship's efforts to suppress democratic opposition. We express our solidarity with Figen Yüksekdağ, Selahattin Demirtaş, and all those convicted in this trial, who steadfastly stand against this injustice and for democracy and political freedom. 

We demand the annulment of the sentences for the prisoners of the Kobanê show trial and the immediate release of Figen Yüksekdağ, Selahattin Demirtaş, Alp Altınörs, Ali Ürküt, Aynur Aşan, Bülent Parmaksız, Dilek Yağlı, Günay Kubilay, İsmail Şengül, Nazmi Gür, Pervin Oduncu, and Zeynep Ölbeci. 
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Who is Figen Yüksekdağ? 

Figen Yüksekdağ is pioneering advocate for freedom and equality and a representative of the socialist movement in Turkey. Born on November 9, 1971, in Adana-Ceyhan, she was introduced to socialist ideals during her school years. Her political activities led her into conflict with the Turkish state at a young age, resulting in arrests and repression. As a student, she was involved in various student associations advocating for democratic and social rights, including the High School Students' Association (LÖB), the Working High School Students' Association, and the Association of Democratic High School Students. 

During her university years, Yüksekdağ founded student unions and later worked as a journalist for various socialist publications such as the youth magazine Özgür Gençlik and the weekly newspaper Atılım. Her commitment to women's rights was evident in her role as editor of the magazine Sosyalist Kadın (Socialist Woman). 

Her political activities intensified in 2002 when she became the spokesperson for the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed. Despite serving a one-year prison sentence in 2006, she continued her work and contributed to the founding of the Working Women's Association. Her participation in the funeral of the socialist intellectual Kutsiye Bozoklar in 2009 led to another arrest. 

In 2010, she played a key role in founding the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and became its chairperson. Amidst a period of global political upheaval, including the Arab uprisings and the Gezi Park uprising in Turkey in 2013, as well as growing social protests against the global economic crisis, she participated in the founding process of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). In June 2014, she was elected as co-chair of the HDP alongside Selahattin Demirtaş. 

As a Member of Parliament for the Kurdish region of Van from 2015 to 2018, Yüksekdağ faced constant attacks and repression from the Turkish government, which viewed her position and the role of the HDP as a threat. On November 4, 2016, she was arrested along with other leading HDP representatives as part of the so-called Kobanê trial. 

Even in prison, Yüksekdağ continued her resistance. Her poetry collection The Walls Will Collapse, written in prison, was banned and confiscated. Yüksekdağ remains a symbolic figure in the fight for women's freedom, the self-determination of peoples, and against exploitation and oppression, both inside and outside the prison walls.

 

We will resist the occupation. We will defend the soil of Kurdistan!

Written by: MLKP on 29 July 2024

 

(Above: MLKP rally Source:MLKP International Bulletin)

We are making avalable to Australian readers this statement from the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey/Northen Kurdistan (MLKP). We support the right of the Kurdish nation to exist within its own borders and condemn the efforts of Erdogan's Turkey to destroy the Kurdish people.  We have added several footnotes for clarity - eds.

 

The fascist Turkish bourgeois colonial state, with the support of the KDP (1) and the Iraqi government, is expanding its occupation attack on the territory of Bashurê Kurdistan (Southern Kurdistan) (2). Our mountains are being bombed, our villages are being evacuated, our people are being forcibly relocated. A genocidal attack is being carried out with chemical weapons and tactical nuclear bombs. 

 

The Turkish colonial state sees the centuries-old Ottoman dream as the basis for its invasion attacks. It is on its way to annexing the territory from Bashurê Kurdistan to Mosul and Kirkuk. The NATO countries, which recently came together and openly announced their intention to bring the world to the brink of World War III, support the genocidal policy and occupation of the Turkish state. The USA and the Western imperialists assign a special role in its Middle East axis to the Turkish bourgeois state, which is their financial-economic colony.

 

Together with Israel, which continues its massacres in Palestine, the Turkish state is plunging the Middle East into a great chaos. While sowing the seeds of discord among the peoples, the ground is being prepared for the military base of the imperialist USA in the region. 

 

The Turkish bourgeois state sees war and political chaos in the Middle East and North Africa as support for its goal of becoming a regional power. It is trying to exploit the contradictions between the imperialist USA and Russia. It is pursuing an expansionist strategy with the aim of becoming a regional political player. With a future vision of expanding its territory, it is trying to shift borders. Military bases are being established in the occupied territories from Afrin to Bradost. It stations the fascist political Islamist gangs it feeds and strengthens in the region and establishes a rule of colonial masters. 

 

Fascist leader Tayyip Erdogan, who is planning a new Ottoman Empire, wants to push the borders of Misak-ı Milli. The oil reserves in the region are whetting his appetite. From Aleppo to Mosul and Kirkuk, he wants to realize his annexation scenario, which he could not realize with the ISIS gang, by deploying his own army forces. He is positioning the political Islamist ISIS gangs in Syria and the KDP Barzani family in Bashûrê Kurdistan as collaborators in his colonial plans. 

 

The KDP-Barzani family has deepened the line of collaborationist betrayal. It has sold out the national liberation struggle and the freedom of the people of Bashurê Kurdistan for narrow family interests. It is jeopardizing the federal status of the region. It fills its coffers with the black money it collects from the oil of Bashurê Kurdistan and opens the gates of the Kurdish land to the occupiers. It turns a deaf ear to the calls of our patriotic people to stop cooperating with the colonialists. The KDP line, which reached out to the Turkish state, could not save its arm. Now the Barzanis degenerated into wanting to become a governor of colonialism. If the Turkish state gains full rule over Bashurê Kurdistan, they will not even have as much authority as the trustee of the Hakkari municipality, much less will they be able to maintain their bourgeois rule. 

 

The only force resisting the occupation of Bashurê Kurdistan is the Kurdish freedom guerrilla. In Zap, Garê, Metîna, in the mountains of free Kurdistan, the patriotic and communist guerrilla forces have stopped the invaders with the line of self-sacrificing resistance. They prevented the occupying forces from advancing. The Turkish army, which suffered heavy losses every day, was unable to move without the support of the KDP and the Iraqi government. It therefore began to target the population of Bashurê Kurdistan. By bombing villages and besieging districts, the aim is to force the population to leave and to depopulate the region by setting up checkpoints on the roads. 

 

The Turkish occupying state is trying to turn the Syrian and Iraqi states, which have been colonizing Kurdistan for years, into being complicit in this plan. The weaknesses of the governments in Baghdad and Damascus, which want to regain their power as sovereign states, are to be united in the Turkish state’s policy of hostility towards the Kurds and turned into its reserve. The Assad regime, which is trying to survive in Syria, is offered cooperation for the liquidation attacks against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The fascist Turkish state wants to form a colonialist alliance against our women‘s revolution in Rojava.(3) To this end, it invites the regime in Damascus, with which it has established military and intelligence cooperation, to the negotiating table in order to force it to divide the East and West of the Euphrates. The main goal of the colonialist Turkish state is to liquidate the Autonomous Administration and occupy the areas of the revolution in Rojava. The fascist chief regime is taking its steps in line with the plan of annihilation and genocide. 

 

On July 19, the 12th anniversary of the revolution in Rojava, the seeds of greater resistance and glorious victories will be planted. We defeated the colonialists and their gangs in Kobanê in a historic resistance at the cost of the lives of thousands of our people. We defeated them in Sinjar. We defeated them in Garê. Now another legend of resistance is being written in the mountains of Kurdistan. 

 

With the epic resistance power of our people, we will expel the fascist Turkish colonial state from the revolutionary areas of Bashurê Kurdistan and Rojava. Our people in the four parts of Kurdistan must not remain silent in the face of the betrayal and collaborationist line of the KDP. They must put a stop to this insidious occupation complicit. The guerrilla resistance must be strengthened through popular uprisings throughout Kurdistan. With the determined stance of our people and our guerrilla resistance, we will finally put an end to this colonialist war, which the fascist chief regime sees as a struggle for being or not being for itself. Our freedom guerrillas will draw strength from the strong popular actions against occupation and colonialism in Bakurê Kurdistan (4), Rojava, Turkey and the European metropolises and further strengthen their resistance. 

 

The strength lies in our resistant patriotic people. The mountains of free Kurdistan, protected by the blood of thousands of martyrs, and our revolution in Rojava draw their strength from our patriotic people. The history of the liberation struggle of the oppressed peoples has shown that not everything depends on the will of the colonialists. 

 

Now is the time again to start the Serhildan (Kurdish Intifada) (5) for the freedom of Kurdistan and our people. Our people, who never shy away from paying the price, will play this historic role and bury the colonialists in the mountains of Kurdistan. The will of the resistance for honor and freedom will prevail.

We call on all our peoples in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, especially our laboring peoples of the ruling Turkish and Arab nations, to raise the struggle against these genocidal, occupying and colonialist attacks. As long as colonized Kurdistan is not free, no people will be free. 

 

We call on all progressive, revolutionary parties and organizations, democratic mass organizations and dignified intellectuals in the four parts of Kurdistan and the region to stand up against this war and occupation. 

 

This resistance, which draws its strength from its righteousness and its people, will absolutely, absolutely win. Either victory or victory! 

 

Long live the women‘s revolution of Rojava! 

 

Long live our guerrilla resistance! 

 

Long live the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist united struggle of the peoples of the Middle East! 

 

Long live the united free socialist Kurdistan! 

 

July 18, 2024 

MLKP Kurdistan Organization

(International Bulletin of the MLKP, July 2024)

 

(1) The Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) was established in 1946 under the leadership of Mustafa Barzani. Originally located in Iranian Kurdistan, it is now he ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan, and is regarded as a populist, conservative organisation – eds.

(2) Bashurê Kurdistan is an internationally recognised autonomous region of northern Iraq, home to 6 million Kurds. Kurdistan spans four countries: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria -eds.

(3) Rojava is liberated and self-governing Kurdish territory in North-east Syria. It is regularly bombed by Turkish forces -eds.

(4) Northern Kurdistan, or the southeastern part of Turkey, home to nearly 20 million Kurds-eds.

(5) Literally “raise your head”, Serhildan activities are carried out particularly on the anniversary of the jailing of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, and at the Kurdish New Year Newroz festival - eds.

Salute the heroic comrades of the Rojava revolution.

Written by: Nick G. on 19 July 2024

 

On  July 19, 2012, armed fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) captured the city of Kobane from government forces in north-east Syria.

Further victories against Syrian government forces and those of ISIS saw the creation of Rojava as an autonomous region in which the cultural, religious and political freedom of all people has been established. Significantly for the region, its Constitution also explicitly states the equal rights and freedom of women and also "mandates public institutions to work towards the elimination of gender discrimination".

In celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Rojava revolution, we encourage our readers to download the book Rojava: People in Arms to gain an understanding of the Kurdish people’s struggle. It can be downloaded at the bottom of this page:  Rojava: Peoples in Arms – #RiseUp4Rojava

 

We support the international campaign to free Ecevit Piroğlu

 Written by: CPA (M-L) on 5 March 2024

 

At the request of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) Turkey/Kurdistan, we have petitioned the Serbian Ambassador to Australia for the release of Kurdish prisoner Ecevit Piroğlu. Our letter follows:

H.E. Ambassador Mr. Rade Stefanovic
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Canberra

Your Excellency,

On June 4, 2022 I wrote to you in relation to the Turkish national Ecevit Piroğlu who is currently facing an extradition request by Turkey for his return to that country from Serbia.

Since 1 June 2022, Kurdish political activist Ecevit Piroğlu has been in detention in Serbia following an extradition request from Turkey. He was denied his legitimate right to asylum. Last year, he went on a 136-day hunger strike in protest. An international campaign stopped his extradition.

On 12 January 2024, Ecevit Piroğlu was released, but the Serbian immigration police were already waiting outside the prison to unlawfully arrest him again and take him to another extradition camp. Piroğlu, who does not accept these unlawful practices, has since gone on another hunger strike for his freedom. 

This illegitimate action by the Serbian judiciary, which indicates close cooperation with Ankara, has been going on for 32 months. Turkey is known for systematic human rights violations and attacks on democratic institutions and organisations. The extradition of Ecevit Piroğlu to Turkey would jeopardise his life. With great concern the democratic world public is following the illegality of the Serbian state and is calling for immediate compliance with international and Serbian law. Lawyers from all over the world are informing themselves about the situation and condemning the arbitrariness of the Serbian judiciary.

We protest in the strongest possible terms against these actions of the Serbian state, which violate all human rights. Extradition to Turkey would be a serious violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It states: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."  This means that extradition to a country such as Turkey, where there is a risk of such treatment, is prohibited. The imprisonment of Ecevit Piroglu is therefore already a gross violation of the law.

We respectfully request that Ecevit Piroğlu be allowed to seek asylum in Serbia and that the extradition order made on behalf of Turkey be quashed.

Nick G.
Chairperson,
Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
5 March 2024

Condolence letter sent to MLKP

 

Written by: Central Committee, CPA (M-L) on 13 January 2023

The Central Committee of our Party has sent a condolence letter to the Marxist-Leninst Communist Party of Turkey/Kurdistan (MLKP) following the murder by Turkish drone attack of two leading members in Rojava, Syria on January 3.

The letter reads:

Dear Comrades,

The Central Committee of the Communist party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) extends its profound sympathies to all members of the MLPK on the death of Zeki Gürbüz (Ahmet Şoreş) and Özgür Namoğlu (Firat Neval) in Rojava. These are new crimes to be added to the long list of crimes committed by the fascist Turkish government.

Comrade Zeki Gürbüz was a member of your Central Committee, a tried and tested revolutionary who had withstood torture by the Turkish state for days as a young man. Reaching the mountain of Kurdistan he contributed to the growth of unity between Turkish and Kurdish revolutionaries in the Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH).

The MLPK stands at the head of an entirely just cause. Although there will be such sacrifices, oppression by the Turkish regime will eventually be defeated.

Nothing can prevent the eventual victory of a free united socialist Kurdistan.

Nick G.
Chairperson, 
Central Committee, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
13 January 2023

For further information, see: https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-zeki-gurbuz-and-Ozgur-namoglu-will-live-on-in-our-struggle-64880    

Declaration of the International Kurdistan Conference Initiative

Written by: International Kurdistan Conference on 8 August 2022

Our Party has always supported the Kurdish people's struggle for national self-determination and a state of their own. How that is achieved is a matter for the Kurdish people. We are not familiar enough with their complex situation to do anything but offer general in-principle support. We recommend this notice of an international conference on Kurdistan to all our readers, but particularly to the Kurdish people living in Australia.Those people can get into touch with the conference organisers here: International Kurdistan Conference <intkurdistanconference@gmail.com> .

Declaration of the International Kurdistan Conference Initiative

 

1. Whenever the ones without sovereignty try to rise against the arbitrary massacres of the ruling states, ruling states accuse them of being corrupt bandits, traitors, or terrorists. This might summarize the hundreds of years of history of the Kurdish, who are currently occupied by four states in their homeland. Recent developments in all parts of Kurdistan in the last few months have illustrated this centuries-old story.

2. Ten years ago, an airstrike killed Kurdish villagers who were trading on their territory in Roboski, and today mortars rained on the children of Zaxo. Back then, the Turkish state claimed terrorists were amongst trader villagers to justify the bombing. Today they say, “terrorists killed the civilians, not us.” These remarks clarify that the Turkish state considers killing Kurds legitimate as they cannot be subsided to recognize the Turkish state. Turkey is not the only state ignoring the sovereignty of the Kurdistan Regional Government by dropping bombs on Bashur. On March 13th, Iranian missiles hit Hawler. Even though the pretext of the attack was to prevent Israel’s terrorist activities, the essential objective was to intimidate the regional government in Bashur. These recent political and military events show that the territory of the Kurds has become a hunting ground for the oppressing nation-states to settle their diplomatic and military accounts.

3. Likewise, the most reckless operation of the last decade has been conducted in Bakur over the previous three months. Aside from the delusional statements of victory over Kurds, the way the Turkish state wages the war exposes its feebleness. The Turkish state avoids sending the drafted privates to the war. Instead, it relies on unmanned robots, not even its contracted military personnel. The defeat in Vietnam War forced the USA to adopt such combat techniques. And history tells us that the second-class imitation of the US will only be successful as the United States was in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. On the other hand, the Turkish state is not capable of waging war by relying entirely on technological opportunities on its own. Therefore, the war in Bakur continues with the approval of the governments of Iran and Iraq to some extent. These attacks are also not independent of the intentions of the United States and Russia in the region.

4. Afrin, the westernmost branch of Rojava, has been under the occupation of the Turkish state for a long time. The approval of Russia and the US is a decisive factor in the invasion rather than the Turkish army’s military capability. Now the Turkish government, seeing the Ukrainian war as an opportunity, is trying to get permission for an operation to the east of the River Euphrates. The Turkish government indeed wants to use this operation as a tool to advance domestic political plans. It cares more about its pandemonium than the operation itself. Moreover, no state has given its permission for the operation so far. Yet the Afrin example has shown that the occupying states or their bearers will not defend the Kurdish. The current political developments show that attempts to plot against the Kurds with the support of Iran and Russia will gain momentum with the effort to revive the Astana “Peace” process.

5. Iran, whose president said “Bijî Kurdistan” in Sanandaj, was the number one force that invaded Kirkuk after the 2017 referendum and marched towards Hawler. And today, the Kurdish massacres in Rojhelat are continuing with executions. Last June alone, 12 Kurds were executed by the Iranian government.

6. The attacks carried out cooperatively and sometimes competitively by different states in different parts of Kurdistan prove the despair of the oppressing nation-states, not the Kurds they enchain. While all four regional Kurdish states are experiencing or expecting major political crises, the desire for independence is growing in every part of Kurdistan while the different Kurdish movements’ diplomatic, political and military opportunities are increasing. Under these political conditions, occupying regimes cannot capture the Kurds using traditional ways. These regimes, which have assumed an utterly repressive character due to their domestic predicaments or drawn to civil wars, want to use the Kurds as a crutch or antagonize them to solve their domestic crises. However, at the end of each attempt, they attack the Kurds more aggressively.

7. The present political condition stipulates that the Kurds should unite with a national claim aimed at the unity and independence of the four parts of Kurdistan. The current condition also highlights the importance of waging a struggle against the occupation of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Breaking the occupying aggressors’ tenacity of war will raise Kurdistan’s struggle for independence and pave the way for victory.

8. Taking a stand against those who forbid sovereignty to Kurdistan is also an indispensable condition for the struggle for democracy in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq. These regimes use attacks and campaigns against the Kurdish to fortify their repressive structures. In this regard, the Kurds may gain their independence on their own, but the struggle for democratic Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey is impossible by remaining indifferent to the independence of Kurdistan and the occupation of their own state.

9. The International Kurdistan Conference Preparation Initiative is taking a stance on this political climate. Its call is for those who see that the independence of Kurdistan is an indispensable condition for the emancipation of not only the Kurds but also the oppressed of the Middle East and the whole world.

ICOR condemns Turkish attack on South Kurdistan

 

Written by: ICOR on June 4, 2022

The International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR), to which our Party is affiliated, has issued a statement condemning the Turkish attack on South Kurdistan. The statement reads:

ICOR stands with the workers in Turkey and the Kurdish people

While the democratic mass movement is reviving, workers in Turkey fight for their labor rights, for rise in wages and better living conditions and the fascist Turkish state has once again launched a comprehensive military attack on South Kurdistan on 17 April. 

This is a long-planned invasion with the strategic aim to eliminate the Kurdish freedom fighters, to occupy the whole region and to abolish all achievements of Kurdish people. But at the same time, it is a new offense of state terror and chauvinism against the growing mass movement, especially the rising workers movement, which organized independently over 100 wild strikes this year, more than in the last couple of years together.  

With the support of the imperialists the Turkish state uses state terror against the mass movement and commits war crimes in Kurdistan. The collaborationist bourgeois leadership of Kurdish Democratic Party is directly involved in the invasion attack providing intelligence and the Iraqi state started an aggression against the Yazidi self-defense forces in Sinjar. 

Simultaneously, the Turkish army and jihadist militias bomb Rojava while the Turkish police put a crackdown on democratic forces and alliances in Turkey. Political prisoners are tortured and murdered in Turkey.

The heroic resistance of the guerillas with mobile units and an effective tunnel system against air strikes will once again defeat the Turkish army but it needs the urgent solidarity and support of the workers, the democratic mass movements and all progressive people in the world. 

As ICOR we stand by the fighting workers, revolutionaries, antifascists and anti-imperialists of Turkey and Kurdistan and condemn this war of occupation. 

We salute the united struggle of the revolutionary forces in Turkey and Kurdistan, especially within the HBDH (People’s United Revolutionary Movement) and call all progressive people of the world to support the freedom forces and coordinate for an international and regional revolutionary unity. Active resistance everywhere is the only way to defeat this barbaric center of counter revolution in the region.

We will defeat fascism!
Long live the united revolution of Turkey and Kurdistan!
Long live socialism!

ICOR - Stop the war preparations in Southern Kurdistan! The Kurdish people are not alone!

 

Written by: ICOR on 28 December 2020

For months the South Kurdish ruling party PDK (the party of Barzani) has been preparing for a war against the PKK under hypocritical pretexts. 

It is obvious that with its military provocations and propaganda, the PDK, in close cooperation with the Turkish secret service MIT, wants to prepare the way for a war of invasion of the fascist Turkish state against the Kurdish freedom movement. 

The stationing of military forces serves the purpose of encircling the Kurdish freedom movement from different directions and cutting its connections to the outside world. To this end, the PDK stationed military units at the "Gate to Qendîl" in the Zînê Wertê region, whereupon the Turkish air force bombed guerrilla positions in the region. Special units of the PDK surrounded the Gare guerrilla area in the Medya Defense Zones with heavy weapons, further attacks by the Turkish army followed on the strategic border region of Heftanîn and the entire region of Bradost, Xinêre, Goşine and Helgurt. The numerous attacks by the Turkish Air Force prove that the PDK is directly transmitting information to Turkey.

 

Since October, the Iraqi government and the PDK have also been trying with little success to gain complete control over the self-governing Yezidi region of Sinjar and dissolve the self-defense forces.

 

All this shows the scope of the entire war preparations, which are being carried out in a coalition and with the approval of various counterrevolutionary powers. The Turkish state mobilizes everything in its power to destroy the PKK, stifle the Kurdish people's will for freedom and attack the achievements of the Kurdish people, especially of the women. But the imperialist USA also supports any plan to weaken the Kurdish freedom movement. As early as November 6, 2018, the US renewed its hostility to the PKK with the call for arrest of leading PKK cadres. The states in the region also support the attacks on the PKK, as it is one of the most important anti-imperialist dynamics in the region and thus, a threat to the capitalist and imperialist rulers.

 

The coming attacks against the PKK in Southern Kurdistan therefore represent a great danger for the freedom struggle in the region.

 

The PDK, which stands in the way of the Kurdish people's unification efforts and disregarded any calls for calm, risks a new inner-Kurdish civil war that will spread all over Kurdistan through its treacherous cooperation with the fascist Turkish state. The PDK betrays the just demands of the Kurdish people for freedom and self-determination.

 

It is necessary to thwart these plans and organize international solidarity with the Kurdish people.

 

We call on the PDK to immediately stop its war preparations and cooperation with the fascist Turkish state!

 

We call on all freedom-loving people in the world to take to the streets against any attacks on the Kurdish people and their freedom fighters in all parts of Kurdistan!

 

Down with imperialism and colonialism!

 

Long live international solidarity and the struggle for democracy and freedom!

 

Signatories (as of 20 December 2020, further signatories possible):

1. PCPCI   Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire (Proletarian Communist Party of Ivory Coast)

2. MMLPL   Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

3. CPSA (ML)   Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

4. PCT   Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)

5. PPDS   Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

6. MLOA   Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan

7. CPB   Communist Party of Bangladesh

8. CPI (ML) Red Star   Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star

9. NCP (Mashal)   Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

10. PPRF   Patriotic Peoples Republican Front of Nepal

11. NDMLP   New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party, Sri Lanka

12. CPA/ML   Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

13. БКП   Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

14. БРП(к)   Българска Работническа Партия (комунисти) (Bulgarian Workers Party (Communist))

15. PR-ByH   Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

16. MLPD   Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

17. UCLyon   Unité Communiste Lyon (Communist United Lyon), France

18. UPML   Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

19. KOL   Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

20. RM   Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

21. UMLP   União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

22. MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

23. KSRD   Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

24. PR   Partija Rada (Party of Labor), Yugoslavia (ex)

25. PCC-M   Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia - Maoist)

26. NPCH (ML)   Nouveau Parti Communiste Haϊtien (Marxiste-Léniniste) (New Communist Party of Haiti (Marxist-Leninist))

27. PCP (independiente)   Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan  Communist Party (independent))

28. BDP   Bloque Democratico Popular (Popular Democratic Bloc), Peru

29. PC (ML)   Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic