WORLD WORLDWIDE SYRIA MIDDLE-EAST - news journal UPDATE - (en) Rojava, Tekosîna Anarchists: The regime has fallen, the war continues. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The revolutionary dreams of millions of Syrians that flooded the streets

in 2011 has finally become reality: the regime has fallen. After decades
of Assad's dynasty, today we woke up in a Syria without functional
central government. The Syrian State has collapsed.---- We, as anarchist
and as revolutionaries, can't do anything else than to celebrate one
tyrant less. Cheers for that! But after more than 7 years of living in
the revolution, we learned an unpopular lesson: victory is just a first
step to the social transformation we need. Because every victory is
simply a step to the next fight.
Luckily, the Kurdish Liberation Movement has decades of experience in
their pockets, and they are more than happy to share it with us. And not
just that, they also have 12 years of hands-on lessons leading a
revolutionary society in north-east Syria, with women liberation, social
ecology and confederation of local governments as their compass to build
libertarian socialism. Not without shortcomings, not without mistakes,
but it is already more than many other libertarian revolutions ever
achieved.

At the same time, the military successes of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
against the regime, as well as their authoritarian islamist governance
in Idlib, opened an opportunity for their leader to influence the
headlines of world news agencies. The information society of the 21st
century forgets as fast as they scroll down their screen, so we may have
to refresh your memory. Today, who remembers the liberation of Manbij
from the claws of ISIS? Who talks about the jihadists who kidnapped and
trafficked yazidi women from Sengal all over the salafist world? And who
remembers the women who declared SDF's victory over Raqqa, once the
capital of the caliphate?

For those who forgot, we remind you that YPJ is still fighting, leading
the front of the women's revolution in Rojava. A front that is once
again under attack by proxy forces of the Turkish State, rallied under
the ironic name of Syrian National Army (SNA), a Turkish-controlled
coalition of criminal gangs. Today they threaten the multicultural city
of Manbij, a great example of pluralism and local governance integrated
in the system of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East
Syria (DAANES).

Rojava's revolution is not only reaching for kurds but for arabs, as
well as armenians, assyrians, syriacs, turkmens, circassians, and many
other ethnic groups present here. The arab forces of the Deir Ezzor
Military Council were cheered on by local population when entering the
city of Deir Ezzor, taking over the security vacuum that the fleeing
regime soldiers left behind. The confederal system of North East Syria
is a tested blue print that can serve as a foundation for a
revolutionary Syria. Omar Aziz, a prominent anarchist from Damascus,
worked for a confederal alliance of local councils, proposing them as a
backbone of the Syrian revolution. He was arrested and died in the
prisons of the Assad regime in february 2013. We have not forgotten him,
and we treasure his words and experience as anarchist and as a
revolutionary here, in Syria.

All revolutionary Syrians in exile, arabs, kurds and many others, bear
the responsibility to make sure that their revolution succeeds. Also
anarchists, communists, feminists, ecologists and other internationalist
revolutionaries must feel responsible to defend it. We have a beautiful
opportunity to set an example for revolutionary movements all around the
world, from Kurdistan to Myanmar, from Chiapas to Palestine.
Nation-States are the cornerstone of capitalist modernity, and only a
worldwide confederation of popular revolutionary movements can challenge
it. The alternative is a descent to authoritarianism, imperialist
occupation and fundamentalist hate. We won't let that happen.

Towards a new Syrian revolution!
As anarchists, we must also give answers to the question of
nation-State. While calling for the end of states and borders, we need
to push forward not just our criticisms, but also our proposals and
solutions. We have to do this not only in theory, but in practice,
organizing with local communities and social movements to build popular
power.

Authoritarian forces, like HTS or Erdogan's turkey, will always use
force to impose their control in times of instability. The only way to
counter it is popular organization, a strong ethical and political civil
society, building people's self-defense and a revolutionary culture.
With international solidarity, to challenge the nationalism and
chauvinism that divides us, and that deceivingly serves to legitimize
the nation-state system of capitalist modernity. With local governance
and confederal models, to challenge the centralized systems and borders
of nation-states, that only breed oppression and violence on diversity.
With women and queer organizing at the front, to challenge the
patriarchal oppression from where all authoritarian models stem.

Since the arab spring of 2011 we have seen many revolutionary attempts
in the middle east, but non of them succeed in achieving a libratory
solution, sinking again and again in new tyrannical forms of oppression.
What do we do after the fall of a tyrant to prevent another one from
replacing him? There is a small window of opportunity when a regime
collapses. A brief revolutionary time, where the people can take the
power back in their hands, preventing a new centralized authority from
imposing itself. We have to be ready to seize those opportunities when
they come.

Let's make sure that the Syrian revolution, as well as the kurdish
liberation movement that has been spearheading a democratic resistance
in the region, become an example for many more revolutions to come!
Let's fight together to build the new world we carry in our hearts!

Têkosîna Anarsîst media center,
December 7th 2024

https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/we-carry-a-new-world-on-our-hearts/

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Syrian Anarchists:

In the past few days, we’ve been inundated with overwhelming media
reports and political analyses attempting to unravel the "complicated"
situation in Syria. These reports have bombarded us with the names of
various competing factions, ideologies, and geopolitical theories. Many
of these narratives reflect the biases of their creators, whether driven
by Islamophobia, pro-Russia leftist perspectives, or pro-Western viewpoints.
However, the reality is much simpler. These are the indigenous people of
the land—children who were displaced by Assad 12 years ago. Those who
were 10 years old then are now 20, and they want to go home.
While Netanyahu’s aggression against Hezbollah may have played a role
and Turkish support has been critical, the human factor remains the most
important and just element. At the heart of it all, THOSE KIDS  WANT
NOTHING MORE THAN GOING HOME. So screw the geopolitical balance, Screw
Putin and Trump, Erdogan and Khamenei, Netanyahu and Assad. The kids
want to go home .. and They did it!!
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