While the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad has collapsed, Syria is still
being bombed by Israel on one side, by Turkey on the other. And the newIslamist government installed in Damascus worries a large part of Syrian
society, particularly on the rights of women and minorities. The
Arab-Kurdish left, which is currently resisting the armed attacks of
racist militias subservient to Erdogan, must have its say on the future
of Syria. ---- As every year, the Libertarian Communist Union will be
present in the streets alongside the organizations of the Kurdish
diaspora, for a large anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist demonstration.
See you
on Saturday, December 11, 2025
at 11 a.m. in Paris
in front of the Gare du Nord
Then march and large meeting at Place de la République
Several internationalist organizations, including the Union communiste
libertaire, have co-signed this call for participation:
AGAINST FASCISM, FOR JUSTICE:
INTERNATIONALIST RESPONSE
On January 9, 2013 and December 23, 2022, two attacks struck the heart
of Paris. On two occasions, three Kurdish activists were brutally
murdered. On January 9, Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
were victims of a triple feminicide committed by an undercover agent of
the MIT (Turkish secret services). Almost ten years later, Evîn Goyî,
Mîr Perwer and Abdurrahman Kizil were murdered at the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish
Cultural Center.
Sakine Cansiz (Sara) was, notably with Abdullah Öcalan, one of the seven
founders of the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a Kurdish national
liberation movement). After suffering torture in Turkish jails, she
founded the women's army (YJA-Star). Fidan Dogan (Rojbîn), responsible
for diplomacy for the CDK-F (Kurdish Democratic Council in France), was
in regular contact with French left-wing organisations as well as state
representatives. Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) was a young activist, organised
in the youth branch. Like Sakine Cansiz, Evîn Goyî was one of the
pioneers of the women's revolution. She fought in all four parts of
Kurdistan and was wounded in Rojava. Mîr Perwer, a renowned singer, had
requested asylum in France to be able to sing in his language.
Abdurrahman Kizil had taken refuge in the country after fleeing his
village attacked by the Turkish colonial army.
We know full well that behind these two attacks hovers the shadow of the
Turkish fascist state, via its secret services. Several journalistic
investigations have demonstrated the responsibility of the MIT in the
triple femicide of 2013 and many elements suggest an involvement at
least inciting in the attack of 2022. Since then, several assassination
attempts or actions planned by the MIT targeting journalists, activists,
politicians (including former Kurdish deputies) or Turkish opponents in
exile have been foiled on European soil.
However, in most cases, these actions and intimidations take place with
the complacency of the Western imperialist states, which each time
conceal or minimize Turkey's responsibility. This is what successive
French governments have done by maintaining "defense secrecy" on
evidence needed for the judicial investigation into the triple
assassination of 2013 or by refusing to collaborate with the Belgian
police regarding the activities of several men suspected of attempted
assassination in Brussels.
While many agents and informants of the Turkish intelligence services
can operate without being worried on French soil, Kurdish activists are
themselves harassed by the authorities and can be used as bargaining
chips with Turkey, as revealed recently by an investigation by the
newspaper Marianne. Thus, in 2024 alone, three Kurdish activists were
expelled to Turkey, two of them still imprisoned there today. Two other
activists were placed in a detention center after having their political
refugee status withdrawn. Their expulsion was prevented thanks to the
legal action of their lawyers.
At the same time, the French state continues its collaboration with
Turkey, maintaining its commercial and economic relations with the
country, providing weapons and equipment to the Turkish army, despite
the flagrant violations of human rights in the country and the areas it
occupies in Syria. The Turkish regime continues to repress every voice
of protest, robs Kurdish town halls, imprisons at will and imposes
isolation on a large number of political prisoners. For example, no news
of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned since 1999 on a prison island, had
reached us for more than 44 months until his message of October 23,
2024. These inhumane practices and those amounting to torture have never
been condemned by France, which has also imprisoned Georges Ibrahim
Abdallah, a Lebanese communist activist for the Palestinian cause, since
1984, even though he has been eligible for release for 20 years.
This collaboration by France is also taking place despite the multiple
violations of international law and war crimes committed by Turkey
through its bombings and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria. These target
not only the bases of the PKK guerrillas - which are exercising their
legitimate right to armed resistance to colonialism - but also multiple
infrastructures and civilian homes. Dozens of villages were forcibly
evacuated by the Turkish army in its attempted invasion of the mountains
of southern Kurdistan (Iraq), while in Rojava hundreds of thousands of
people were left without access to electricity, heating or cooking gas
following the destruction of energy infrastructure. However, this
collaboration by France does not surprise us. Indeed, its complicity in
the ongoing genocide in Gaza has destroyed all credibility of the
country in terms of respect for human rights and shows us the true face
of imperialism: it is ready to sacrifice entire peoples and the rules
that it has itself set in the defense of its allies and interests. Faced
with this unity of imperialist states, it is imperative to build an
internationalist and anti-fascist struggle. This is why we invite all
political, trade union and associative forces that recognize themselves
in this call to mobilize on January 11, 2025 in Paris, alongside us, to
build an internationalist bloc during the demonstration for the 6
Kurdish comrades assassinated in Paris.
For Sara, Rojbîn and Ronahî, we shout "Jin Jiyan Azadî"!
For Evîn, Mîr and Abdurrahman we demand Truth and Justice!
For all we cry "Long live the resistance of the Kurdish people, the
Palestinian people and all the oppressed"!
At the call of:
Antifascist Action 77, Antifascist Action Geneva, Antifascist Action
Paris-suburbs, Antifa social club Marseille, Cafez Liège,
Internationalist Revolutionary Circle, Rosa Liège Collective,
Marseille-Kurdistan Internationalist Collective (CIMK), Sahmaran
Collective, Geneva Committee of Earth Uprisings, National Confederation
of Labor (CNT), Counter-attack and autonomy, El Manba support migrants
13, Libertarian Federation of the Mountains (Switzerland), United Trade
Union Federation (FSU), Revolutionary feminists Paris, Climate strike -
Switzerland, Young Guard Paris, Internationalist Youth, Kessem Jewish
feminist decolonialists, Le Silure, center of autonomous struggles,
Geneva, L'Offensive, National High School Movement (MNL), Mut vitz 13
(Marseille-France), New Anti-Capitalist Party (L'Anticapi̇tali̇ste),
Offensive against femicides - Switzerland, Trans Solidarity Organization
(OST), Pole of communist renaissance in France, For a popular and social
ecology (PEPS), Internationalist Network Serhildan, Riseup 4 Rojava,
Sami̇doun Paris/suburbs, Secours rouge Geneva, Solidarités, Tsedek,
Jewish decolonial collective, Libertarian Communist Union, Union
syndicale solidaires, Volksbühne Basel, Young Struggle, zora.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Le-11-janvier-2025-dans-la-rue-avec-la-gauche-kurde-pour-la-verite-la-justice
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