Response to US-Turkish aggression against the Iraqi Kurds

Below is a statement from the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey / Northern Kurdistan (www.mlkp.info/index.php) on the recent bombing of Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkey. Now it is coming out that our government allegedly aided and approved of this attack against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Kurdish villages. This is the kind of liberation the Kurds and Iraqis have as subjects of US-UK imperialism after being "liberated" from the capitalist and dictatorial, but independent and nationalist, rule of President Saddam Hussein. And the two dominant and pro-occupation parties in southern Kurdistan, the PUK and KDP, both collaborated with Saddam Hussein against the other.

For a free and socialist Kurdistan:

LET US PROTEST AGAINST THE POLICY OF DENIAL AND ANNIHILATION OF THE KURDISH NATION FROM THE FASCIST DICTATORSHIP AND ITS ATTACK AGAINST SOUTHERN KURDISTAN

The Turkish bourgeoisie divides the society through laicism-Sharia, Allevi-Sunni, Kurdish-Turkish into different fronts meanwhile also the conflicts of the cliques within the bourgeoisie also continue. But concerning its policy of denial and annihilation the Turkish bourgeoisie was able to reach a unity of will and passed the decision of war through parliament. This parliamentary decision was a declaration of war against the Kurdish nation and also against the progressive, revolutionary and communist movement.

The Turkish state continues to aggravate the terror and make it more extensive. The fascist dictatorship wants to intimidate the progressive, revolutionary and communist movement in Turkey; in short everybody who is in opposition to it and to liquidate them and it applies the concept of denial and annihilation against the Kurdish nation with all force. By organising the Turkish chauvinism they bring the masses to the streets and create a mass bases for attacks and massacres.

The Turkish state attacks all the progressive people, the revolutionaries and socialists who exist in Turkey and Kurdistan. An attack against Southern Kurdistan aims not only at the PKK. The main aim is impeding the formation process of a state there.

The demands of the Kurdish nation are justified and its struggle legitimate. The Kurdish nation fights for its right for self-determination and we support this struggle. Neither the revolutionaries and communists nor the Kurds are the terrorists. The terrorist is the Turkish state.

To which extend the fascist dictatorship, which got moving its army already, will apply its plans depends on the negotiations made with its master USA. These negotiations were concluded in the talks between Bush and Erdogan [the Islamist Turkish Prime Minister]. The USA gave the go-ahead for a limited attack of the Turkish army, a precision operation.

The imperialists and its local collaborators continue to make the peoples of our region [massacre] each [other] and by that maintain their hegemony. In order to get through the confrontations for their different interests between themselves they shed the blood of the workers and labouring masses.

In the name of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East we strongly oppose the policy of denial and annihilation of the Turkish state against the Kurdish nation as well as the attack against Southern Kurdistan and call upon everybody to protest against this attack.

DOWN WITH IMPERIALSM!
DOWN WITH THE FASCIST DICTATORSHIP!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!

Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East

18 December 2007

[I also changed the preamble to this blog somewhat. The old text is:

This is a personal political blog looking at news and issues, mainly on a local and state level, but including national and global events, from a progressive, democratic (revolutionary) working class perspective from the Triangle area of NC. M-L politics are already somewhat represented in the progressive movements here, but revolutionary socialism is necessary to create an America truly governed by the people. I want to reaffirm the communist perspective through this blog and other media.]