Partisans from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) blew a Turkish military attack helicopter out of the sky yesterday in Northern Kurdistan (The Iraqi occupied area of Kurdistan). The fascist Turkish state claimed that it went down due to a technical fault. PKK had proof that is a lie, PKK had video footage of the whole thing.

Resistance to Turkish state fascism will continue unless the Turkish state ceases aid to Daesh and unless they cease attacks on Kurdish partisans and civilians in occupied North Kurdistan.

Video showing thousands of PKK partisans crossing from Qandil into Iraqi occupied North Kurdistan:

Anarchists call us anarchists, Marxist-Leninists call us Marxist-Leninists and the list is endless. We, the Kurdish socialist resistance, are none of these things. We are socialists but we have our own take on socialism rooted in our experiences and culture. We reserve our right to have our own take on socialism.

We appreciate support from all sections of socialism but I can not help but think some have their own agenda. Labeling us as what you think we are based on your own fantasy is nothing short of chauvinism and imperialism.

Of course we have partisans fighting in the YPG/YPJ and other armed socialist Kurdish groups who are anarchists, Marxist-Leninists and other tendencies. As a whole though our movement is based on our own take of socialism, let us have that or leave us alone.

Cizre is nestled within the Turkish government occupied section of Kurdistan just beside the border with Syrian government occupied section of Kurdistan. It is in a beautiful part of the world but what was beautiful now has turned to ruin. It is absolutely true that fighting has existed for a long time in Cizre but the city has been all but reduced to rubble. This makes my heart weep for Cizre because it is close to my heart. I went there for only the second time in my life and I wish to return one day when the flowers bloom, my children dance and play in the streets and parks and life thrives. The get to this point we need to fight the imperialist and fascist occupying forces of the Turkish state. In Cizre we have Yekîneyên Parastina Sivîl (Civil Protection Units) engaging in combat against the fascist forces of Turkish government imperialism.

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE OF CIZRE! VICTORY TO THE YPS! VICTORY TO THE YPJ!

Against my better judgement and the advice of my boyfriend I went to the People’s Assembly walk about yesterday and what a waste of time it was. It was the same as every other demonstration of this type which I have attended.

It was painfully ineffective, painfully irrelevant and painfully middle class. This does not make a very tasty cocktail, rather one which leaves a bitter taste in the mouth followed by a sickly feeling of regret.

Regret because it was a waste of time from point A through to point B and regret because I actually bothered to listen to the nauseating speakers at the end. It will come as no surprise for me to say that I was not impressed.

Those speakers were unrepresentative of the working class. I came to Britain as a refugee from the Turkish occupied section of Kurdistan and lived on London council estates ever since. This was 25 years ago that I came to Britain. I was not old enough to remember the class conditions in Kurdistan daily life but my family and friends tell me that it is the same the world over just with unique features in each place. This has been a defining philosophy for my life. This has also made me able to draw a mental and political line between those on our side and the fakers. I would call the speakers at the end the fakers because as a working class person I can not feel any relation to the speakers and those making the claim to represent us. Of course I stand with the doctors, the steelworkers and others in dispute against the horrible government but overall I was not feeling like the demonstration represented my interests as a working class person. I will not see any of the end speakers on any estate I have lived on. This reminded me of the following quote from The Communist Manifesto which I first read in Kobani late last year after receiving it as a gift from my boyfriend:

“…all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat…”

Of course the two principle writers of The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, were themselves middle or upper class but their point was correct.

This leaves me with one final thought on the matter. The People’s Assembly need to stop chatting shit and get with the real world or leave us alone to fight for ourselves.