Guerre / Antimilitarisme
[Canceled] Defend DAANES - Stop the Turkish Aggression of North-East Syria !
Call for a Demonstration denouncing the NATO-backed Turkish assault on North-East Syria. Wednesday 11th of December, 10:30 at Place de Namur.
To all Antifascists and Revolutionaries !
Join us at the solidarity protest in Brussels (11/12 : 10:30 at Porte De Namur)
Get active and join the solidarity committees !
Defend Manbij and North-East Syria ! Mobilise against Turkish fascism !
As we celebrate the fall of the Butcher of Damascus, the dictator Bashar al-Assad, our comrades from the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria (DAANES) are fighting for their lives against Turkish-backed mercenaries, supported by the Turkish Air Force.
Manbij, a diverse city of 300.000 inhabitants, is under assault. If it falls, the road to the DAANES is open to a Turkish military offensive.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has referred to DAANES as a « terror state » and has consistently voiced support for the annihilation of its armed forces and Turkish colonisation of the region. Manbij must hold. There can be no new Turkish invasion of Northern Syria.
DAANES is one of the only revolutionary democratic and autonomous societies in the world. It is organised in autonomous administrative and military councils, independent worker and women’s unions, direct democratic processes, popular education, and full participation of women and minority groups to all political institutions.
Their autonomous, antifascist struggle has inspired revolutionary movements and antifascist militants all around the planet, most notably in Myanmar, Greece, Chiapas, and West Papua. DAANES was first established by beating back both the Assad regime and the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (DAESH), through the combined efforts of Kurdish, Arab, Syriac-Assyrian, Turkmen, Yezidi, and other minority groups’ revolutionary forces, with the support of thousands of internationalist fighters.
Spanning an area larger than Belgium, and home to a population of 4.6 million, DAANES is far from a Utopia. It faces significant challenges, but its ideals and resilience make it worth defending, and it must be supported.
As a consequence of imperialist divide-and-rule tactics, authoritarian state violence, eurocentrism, nationalism and sectarian conflicts, there has been a historical lack of support among the different peoples of the region. This must be remedied, especially in the face of Turkish and Zionist state aggression. Since 2016, it has resisted constant Turkish assaults and bombing campaigns, as well as new DAESH infiltration attempts. Today, more than 80% of the DAANES’s power-grid has been destroyed by the Turkish air force, incapacitating hospitals, schools, and public services. Dams blocking the Euphrates river have also made farming impossible due to droughts. Political figures and journalists are constantly being assassinated by Turkish drones and Daesh sleeper cells. The war on the DAANES is a clear part of the NATO imperialist aggression against the...