#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ROJAVA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL - Rojava, 10 years later, more than ever, let's defend the July 19 Revolution! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 10 years ago, on July 19, as the Syrian revolution turned into a deadly civil

war, the YPG/YPJ (People's Self-Defense Unit linked to the PYD, the Syrian branch
of the PKK), which had been formed in secret since 2004 following the massacres
of March 12, take control of the city of Kobanê. In the aftermath, the movement
spreads: Efrîn, Derik, Amudê and Darbasiyê. The Kurds celebrate the liberation of
Western Kurdistan, Rojava, and unbolt the portraits of the Assad family! Since
then, in this territory already rich in a heritage common to all humanity, a
feminist, democratic and internationalist revolution has been born and is resisting.
Despite the pressures from all sides, the double game of the NATO and Russian
imperialists, the Syrian state, the attacks of Daesh, the invasions and
occupations of Turkey and its ANS (Syrian National Army) militias, the Kurdish
movement and its allies built an administration (the Autonomous Administration of
North and East Syria) based on democratic autonomy, women's liberation, radical
democracy and ecology, while liberating entire regions under the control of the
Islamic State, such as Raqqa or Kobané, and by fighting resolutely against the
aggressions of the fascist Erdogan. The system set up in the North and East of
Syria does not offer a political solution only for the Kurds but for all the
peoples of this territory: Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Circassians, Chechens,
Turkmens, Yazidis...

UCL supports the Kurdish left by acting, studying, or publicizing the political
revolution in Rojava/northeast Syria. It is therefore only natural that today we
are celebrating the 10th anniversary of this revolution. But in the face of
Erdogan's threats, imperialist interests, natural and political drought, the
whole of Kurdistan is more than ever under pressure.

For this, we affirm that it must be supported by all means. Let us recall, among
other things, that the revolution defends or has achieved:
- the autonomy of tens of thousands of women from all nations who organize
themselves in all sectors of society: education, training, armed self-defense,
agriculture, justice, economy...
- the Women's Law, which provides in particular for the male/female co-presidency
of all institutions, the prohibition of forced marriage, dowry, giving one's
daughter to a family, the criminalization of "honour crimes", the equality
between men and women throughout society...
- the professional training of women and the feminization of all professional
sectors, as well as the development of autonomous cooperative activities for women.
- the Mala Jîn (Women's Houses), the fight against sexist and sexual violence and
especially that against feminicides.
- free and public education, for all in the mother tongue and anti-sexist
education from an early age and throughout schooling, research centers on the
science of women and life: the jineolojî.

For us, defending the Rojava revolution is:
- Defend a society without a state, a federalist society, based on municipalities
and local councils.
- Defend a concept of transformative justice based on grassroots conflict resolution.
- Defend the democratic planning of production through economy committees and
defend the establishment of a cooperative economy.
- Defend popular self-defense!
- Defend the self-defense of women!

In addition, UCL demands:
- the removal of the PKK and other armed political branches of the revolution
from the list of terrorist organisations.
- the truth and the end of state secrecy on the assassination in Paris, on
January 9, 2013, of Fidan Dogan, Sakîne Cansiz and Leyla Saylemez.
- the release of Abdullah Öcalan and all the prisoners of the Kurdish left and
its supporters.

For all these reasons and many more, UCL will continue to defend the Rojava
revolution!

Sersala te pîroz be Rojava - Happy Birthday Rojava!

On this day, we also have a moved thought for all those who gave their lives to
the revolution and more particularly for Ferhat Sibli, tireless craftsman of the
construction of AANES, martyred in Iraq under a drone strike from the Turkish
army on June 17, 2022.

We are also thinking of all those who have fallen, are imprisoned, persecuted or
in exile following their revolutionary commitment against dictatorships and for
the establishment of democratic societies in Syria, in the Middle East, and
during the Peoples' Spring revolutions.

Shehîd Nemirin - Martyrs never die.

Libertarian Communist Union, July 19, 2022

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?10-ans-apres-plus-que-jamais-defendons-la-Revolution-du-19-juillet
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