WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL: Webdito: Remember Revolution, remember Omar Aziz (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "Omar Aziz told his friends: 'If the revolution fails, my life and that

of my entire generation would be meaningless... Everything we dreamed
and believed in would have been an illusion.' He died before seeing the
triumph of the revolution and reaping the fruits of his work. The
Syrians who are still alive owe an enormous debt to Omar Aziz and the
tens of thousands of Syrian martyrs. It is a debt that cannot be paid
with tears and moving tributes. Nothing else would suffice but to fight
for a free Syria." ---- On the occasion of the 12th anniversary of Omar
Aziz's death on February 16, Syrian libertarians and internationalists
are calling for lessons to be learned from this revolutionary figure for
the continuation of the Syrian revolution, and to rediscover the
writings of Syrian revolutionaries in a freely accessible work.[1]

"A new beginning also needs a new roadmap, a new direction to continue
moving forward. We want to move forward together. To do this, we must
first find ourselves, recognize each other, and orient ourselves in
these new coordinates."

Omar Aziz, a Syrian anarchist born in 1949 and who died in 2013, had in
fact returned to his native Syria during the 2011 uprising and had
invested in the creation of local councils - in the suburbs of Damascus
- supposed to become the embryo of the new popular power against the
State of Bashar Al Assad. These popular committees of the early days of
the revolution, which had been the site of a direct democracy, even if
limited, were in the years that followed crushed by state repression but
also swallowed up by Islamist opposition. In 2011, Omar Aziz published
the book Les Comités locales de coordination en Syrie to theorize the
first moments of this experience.

Omar Aziz was arrested in his home in Mezzeh in November 2012 and died
the following year at the age of 63.

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[1]https://rememberomaraziz.net/

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Remember-Revolution-remember-Omar-Aziz
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