WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #358 - Culture, Reading The Syrian Revolution, A Reader (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of Omar Aziz's passing,

Syrian libertarians and internationalists have launched a call to draw
lessons from this revolutionary figure for the future of the Syrian
revolution, and to rediscover the writings of Syrian revolutionaries[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
within these new coordinates." ---- Omar Aziz, a Syrian anarchist born
in 1949 and died in 2013, returned to his native Syria during the 2011
uprising. He was involved in the creation of local councils-in the
suburbs of Damascus-that were supposed to become the embryo of a new
popular power against the state of Bashar al-Assad. These popular
committees from the early days of the revolution, which had been the
site of direct democracy, albeit limited, were crushed by state
repression in the years that followed, but also swallowed up by Islamist
opposition. In 2011, Omar Aziz published Local Coordination Committees
in Syria, in which he theorized the early stages of this experiment.
Omar Aziz was arrested in his home in Mezzeh in November 2012 and died
the following year at the age of 63.

"Omar Aziz told his friends: 'If the revolution fails, my life and that
of my entire generation would be meaningless... Everything we dreamed of
and believed in would have been an illusion.' He died before seeing the
triumph of the revolution and reaping the fruits of his work. Syrians
who are still alive owe an enormous debt to Omar Aziz and the tens of
thousands of Syrian martyrs." This is a debt that cannot be repaid with
tears and moving tributes. Nothing else would be enough but to fight for
a free Syria."

Judi (UCL International Relations)

Collective, The Syrian Revolution, a Reader, Seditionist Distribution,
2024 (1st ed. 2022), 120 pages, price freely available.

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[1]Book freely available at: Rememberomaraziz.net.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-The-Syrian-Revolution-A-Reader
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