From NYC Anarchists to the YPS

Submitted to It’s Going Down

We placed this banner on the Manhattan Bridge to demonstrate our complete and total solidarity with the Kurdish resistance in Bakur. We hope to shed light on the current war of aggression in Kurdistan, unleashed by the Turkish state with unrelenting US complicity. The barbarism of the Turkish state, and its NATO patrons, have reached unprecedented heights and we call on anarchists and revolutionaries worldwide to take immediate action in solidarity with the rebels in Kurdistan.

While much of the world has plunged into darkness the revolutionary movement in Kurdistan stands in stark contrast. From the United States to Hungary, from Turkey to Brazil the forces of reaction are on the offensive. Our task seems daunting when we comprehend the totality of forces against us. But this is precisely why the revolution in Rojava and the struggle in Bakur is so important for humanity.

Despite the relentless military assaults by Turkey and ISIS, Bakur and Rojava have set a new standard for all human aspiration. The forms of revolutionary social organization gives existence meaning again and reflects human creativity’s desire to express itself freely in the face of unparalleled odds.

 

The advancement towards self-rule in Bakur proved too odious to the Turkish state’s drive for total domination. As Turkey arms ISIS, Al-Nusra, and other jihadi groups to attack Rojava, it has also launched a ruthless genocidal war against Kurds in Bakur and Iraq. Civilians are being callously gunned down in the streets, apartments are being bombed, people seeking shelter are being burned alive in basement hideouts, all while the Turkish state, with US arms, attempts to consolidate one of the cruelest military occupations in the world.

In spite of this the local youth have risen and formed a people’s defense force: the YPS and the YPS-Jin. Supporters from the region and international revolutionaries have joined their ranks, while HPG guerrillas support their activities in the countryside.

For three months these fighters have stopped the Turkish army, breathing a new life into the struggle for liberation and giving meaning to the nature of resistance. Their revolutionary war marks a decisive moment in the global battle of acceptance against fascism, self-rule against oppression, feminism against patriarchy, communal self-organization against authoritarianism and life against death.

This is not the time to sit at home and wonder what might be. In Bakur and Rojava people are building the future now. Not just for Kurdish people, not just for those in the Middle East, but for the world. Our call is total rebellion: rise up against the totalitarian machines, the nation-state system, NATO and its US emperor, and the institutions of the Turkish state.

Join the fight on your home territory. The people of Bakur and Rojava have opened a new horizon. Everywhere we replace hierarchy with decentralization, prison with liberation; everywhere we dismantle the forces of domination, humanity will triumph over power.

Kurdistan will be the graveyard of fascism.

Long Live Rojava and Bakur!

Biji YPS!
Biji YPS-Jin!
Biji YPG and YPJ!
Biji HPG!

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