The recent developments in Syria- or, more accurately, the
geographical area that used to be the Syrian state until 2011-
constitute the most complex link in a chain of revolutions that
started to take place in the Arab world towards the end of 2010.
The uprising against an autocratic regime, the uncompleted
revolution of the local committees, the genocidal involvement of the
USA and Russia, the chaotic war against everyone, the emergence of
ISIS, the special case of the Kurdish communities of Rojava, the
hundreds of thousands of deaths and the millions of refugees, the
total war conflicts as well as the seemingly incongruent alliances
and a lot more aspects are all pieces of a puzzle that reflects a
battlefield of geopolitical competitions among the global dominant
powers of our times.
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As events as such write the modern world history, all revolutionary
movements need to process the information available, discuss and
come to conclusions and eventually choose sides and fight without
failing to take the context of this historical reality into account.
The text on hand does not set out to provide an exhaustive historical
narrative. Yet, it does set out to open a discussion that will look into
all the critical issues raised. Also, our aim is to turn our ideas into
action, thus we choose to go against the widespread inertia that
surrounds the subject matter.
A historical period as such requires much more than a mere
theoretical analysis. As the hotbed of war keeps spreading and is
now reaching Europe, it is urgent that we create an anti-war
movement which will fight for and demand an end to the
international military interventions, put forward ideas on horizontal
self-organization, empower the oppressed and ultimately stand up
against the rise of totalitarianism.
We know well that we can achieve nothing and nothing will be
spared for us unless we fight at all levels and to all directions in
order to intensify and expand our horizontal, grass-roots self-
organization.
For the war against state and capitalism.
Korudallos prison, November 2016