Bekijk volle/desktop versie : Blanke terroristen bij PKK/YPG in Syrië roepen op tot aanslagen in Turkye & Frankryk



23-04-2018, 21:55
French Leftists with the “Syrian Kurds” Threaten Terrorism Against France



The Facebook group for the Antifascist Forces in Afrin (AFFA) posted a video message and transcript yesterday, which was dated 12 April, threatening terrorist attacks against two NATO states, France and Turkey. AFFA, announced in February, comprises French-speaking Left-wing extremists, who are part of the foreign fighter brigades within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) command structure in Syria. A rough translation of the statement (and the original) are reproduced below, with the key sections highlighted in bold.

Afrin is the canton in north-west Aleppo previously occupied by the PKK, which operates under the name of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria. The PKK is an internationally-designated terrorist organisation that has nonetheless been the primary partner in Syria of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS). The YPG/PKK was driven out of Afrin by Turkey last month.

Several hundred Westerners have joined the YPG/PKK. In August 2017, I wrote a report that profiled some of the foreign fighters who have joined the PKK in Syria and noted in concluding that there were trendlines indicating that these people could pose an internal security challenge for the West in the future. Even raising this matter caused considerable anger, not least among the YPG “volunteers” and of course their families. However, developments since then have reinforced the indicators I noted last summer and the below statement pushes in the same direction.

x x x x x

ENGLISH TRANSLATION



AGAINST MACRON AND HIS WORLD

[Written in] Rojava, 12 April [2018]

There has been a war going on. A war with multiple fronts. A war against a global, yet heterogeneous, knowing within itself factions and antagonisms.

This enemy is imperialism, it is fascism, it is the reactionary forces.

Depending on place and time, it [the enemy] will be Daesh [a.k.a. the Islamic State] or NATO, nationalist groups or the police, but whatever they are, all these groups answer to the same logic, that of annihilation. The annihilation of all forms of free life, all social and political experiences that are out of the ordinary, and all revolutionary possibilities.

Rojava and ZAD[1] are precisely two spaces where these revolutionary possibilities are being carried out, and it is no surprise that for years both have been repeatedly threated and attacked. Here we confront the enemy in its most barbaric form, Islamist fascism, while our comrades in France confront it in its most unrelenting form, the bourgeois state.

War is raging everywhere and, despite our will and our sacrifices, there are battles that we have not been able to win. We lost the ZAD Testet[2] and some others. We lost Afrin, at least for now. We refuse to lose Notre-Dames-Des-Landes.[3]

Because this place [NDDL] is not only symbolic, it is also real and effective. The ZAD is the common effort of people with varied subjectivities to build something “other”. To build projects independent of capitalist logic. The ZAD is meadows, woods, groves, but also houses, huts, and gardens, on which we live and fight as environmentalists, farmers, anarchists, students, communists, insecure workers, feminists, and poets. The ZAD is the promise of better days and happier nights of struggle. But for four days, it has been under the a massive police and military attack. Against our comrades, the state uses lethal weapons and advanced equipment that are not reminiscent of those we have experienced here in Rojava and Syria. Le Pouvoir [The Power] uses uncontrolled violence to terrorize those who dare to resist it. Macron, the new monarch of France, cannot tolerate the slightest dissent in his Empire.

There is something frenzied in his desire to eradicate what cannot conform to his world.

It is good that this is the problem: there are two worlds, theirs and ours, which collide and cannot coexist.

For several weeks, students, railway workers, and hospital workers have been fighting laws that further accentuate social selection at university and the deterioration of the public rail service, as well as the health service. The state and its media are working against them with a campaign of stigmatization, presenting them as inconsistent, privileged people. This same state sends its police against the students who occupy their universities, as in Strasbourg, Nanterre, and Lille, as well as in the demonstrations of the railwaymen. The extreme Right is gaining confidence by attacking student strikers, especially in Tolbiac and Montpellier. The state and the fascists must understand that we will respond to every attack. The striking students have started to move in this direction: 1,100 people in AG in St Denis, sabotage of the computer servers of the university of Montpellier, blockades of universities everywhere in France.

To roll back the government, we have to attack the wallet of the state and its masters.

Let us organise ourselves at our places of work, study, and life! Let us organise self-defence [forces] against the police militias and fascists! Organise the blockages of railway stations, clubs, and the roads! Organise the sabotage of the means of production! Organise the solidarity and action between all sectors of the struggle! Organise a general strike! Let’s block everything!

We have been combatting al-Qaeda and [Jabhat] al-Nusra. We fought the Islamic State and the Turkish state. We will fight the French state with the same determination. We will no longer allow it to interfere in every aspect of our lives. The enemy started this war, not us. But we will be the ones who put an end to it. We need to develop new strategies and practice other tactics. We want diffuse guerrilla warfare, intense and without pause.

For now, our priority targets are the Turkish state and the French state, as well as all the fascist groups that are running rampant with their support. Our enemies have weaknesses. Their flank is exposed. Their official representations [i.e. diplomats], their economic support and their political support, those who work and collaborate with them—all are targets within our reach. Their armies, their police, their intelligence services, and all the servile militias under their control are powerful but not invulnerable.

Faced with this situation, there are those who collaborate with the oppressor and those who stand against him. Those who choose submission and those who prefer insurrection. Those who are content to exist and those who prefer to live. Those who obey the police and those who attack them. We are of these. We are those who struggle and fight. Those who think it’s time to be offensive and more, to be aggressive. To attack the enemy where he is and where he is not.

Nothing is more sustainable. This is our chance because we have nothing left to lose.

Let’s open new fronts, launch offensives and destroy our targets.

May the 1st is approaching. Whatever the outcome of the current attack on the ZAD, May 1 is a day of rage and revenge. For all those whom our enemy has assassinated or imprisoned. For our friends who are struggling around the world. Fear must change sides.

Revenge is political.

From France to Rojava, long live Internationalism, long live the Revolution!

http://https://www.facebook.com/AntifascistForcesInAfrin/
http://https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/french-leftists-with-the-syrian-kurds-threaten-terrorism-against-france/