A call for solidarity!
Since 12.03., together with about
300,000 other people, including two members of the IWW GMB from Rostock
(Germany), were locked up in Afrin. They reported the collapse of power
and water supplies, casualties and death, destruction and the fear of
massacres awaiting Turkish forces and allied militias (including former
IS members and other radical Islamists).
The interest of Turkey is clear. It is about the worst adversary of Turkish fascism, so the Kurdish movement, under the thought of counter-terrorism hit a big blow. To distract from domestic political problems by this aggressive war and to continue to rely on aggressive nationalism in order to consolidate or expand the power position of the fascist Erdogan and his AKP. The methodologies used by the Turkish state, full burdens, torture, exit barriers in many cities, the elimination and suppression of the opposition, atrocities against the Kurdish population, etc., which are taking place directly in Turkey, clearly show that with the fall of Afrin with massacres on the civilian population is to be counted.
But why is the German government silent and why is there hardly a
statement from a party representing parliament? The answer is
frighteningly banal from our point of view. There is a dirty package
with Turkey to keep the Federal Republic as many of the unpleasant war
refugees from the State. One
is allied with them in NATO and not
least, the German defense industry and thus directly the Federal
Republic earns heavily on the now and, inter alia, used in Afrin weapons
such as the 'Leopard' tanks. One crow does not hack the other's eye,
and since people are subordinate to the bourgeois nation-states over
their own power and capital interests, one just keeps
quiet. Other imperialist actors also seem to have concluded a suitably rotten pact with Turkey.
The defense of ours is the most fundamental principle our union applies to us the motto 'An attack on one, is an attack on all!' What calls us as a basic trade unionist duty! We call accordingly all members of the IWW and all trade unionists and workers to practice solidarity with the IWW members and all other suffering and fighting people there and to turn decidedly against this imperialist war of aggression! Take action, create publicity, break the silence!
The people in Afrin and all of Rojava and the IWW base trade unionists on site count on us!
IWW Rostock
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