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DÜSSELDORF – Led by the European Kurdish Women’s Movement (TJK-E) and the Kurdistan People’s Democratic Congress in Europe (KCDK-E), thousands of people gathered today for a demonstration in Düsseldorf under the motto “Li dijî êrîşa dewleta Tirk û bikaranîna cekên kîmyewî, Kurdistanê Biparêze (Protect Kurdistan from Turkish State Attacks and Use of Chemical Weapons) together.

Thousands of people gathered in the city began the demonstration with the song “Ey Reqîb” and participated in the demonstration with high morale and enthusiasm. Political parties and human rights representatives, representatives of women’s movements from all four parts of Kurdistan and various countries around the world, as well as activists from the ecological movement also took part in the large demonstration. Representatives of the Tamils, Zapatistas and Ezidis will also speak at the rally.

The Mekap shoe, which has become a symbol of solidarity with the fighting guerrillas at least since the protests in London against the KDP, was worn as a big statute during the demonstration. The crowd showed their allegiance to the resistance of the guerrillas who sacrifice themselves in the free mountains of Kurdistan to prevent Turkish fascism from occupying the territories and to protect the people from the cruel attacks. With this symbolism and with the high participation, the crowd gave a clear signal, not only for the repressive politics in Germany, which supports Turkish fascism, but also against the attacks of the fascist AKP-MHP regime with banned weapons and massive bombing of the civilian population .

In addition, they used white suits and yellow symbols to draw attention to the prohibited use of chemical weapons, thus drawing public attention to the crimes of the occupying Turkish state. The high spirits and morale at the demonstration was reinforced with joint singing and dancing, which also referred to the peaceful character of the demonstration in the face of the aggressive attacks by NATO partner Turkey, the Kurdish community and political activists involved in the freedom struggle in Kurdistan show solidarity as terrorists.

The crowd made it clear that they are no longer prepared to accept the public’s silence regarding the attacks on their homeland and the bearers of their hope and showed this by filling the streets of Düsseldorf.

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Indigenous people claim ownership of land in the city of Amambaí. Area is known to be dominated by farmers and land grabbers

BRAZIL – The Military Police (MP) Shock Troop, mobilizing a helicopter and about 100 agents together with gunmen at the service of the large estate, promoted a cowardly massacre against young Guarani Kaiowá in the early morning of June 24 in the retaken territory Tekoha Gwapo’y Mi Tujury in Amambai, in Mato Grosso do Sul. According to reports from the Guarani Kaiowá people received by the editorial staff of AND, five people were killed and ten others were hospitalized, some of them in serious condition.

The attack began at 4am with the arrival of the gunmen at the resettlement. The reports of the indigenous people reveal that the military police also invaded and surrounded the territory with six vehicles and corroborated the attack under the pretext of a repossession without any legal validation, without a court order, and therefore in an illegal action. From a helicopter, the reactionary military fired at the indigenous people on the ground, dropping gas bombs on the resisting masses.

At least six young people shot by the reactionary military were taken to the Amambai Regional Hospital. In spite of the military police’s attempt to delay treatment of the wounded, according to a statement issued by the Aty Guasu, the indigenous people Nayara Souza, 15, Wilke Vasques, 17, and Natieli Rodrigues, 23, are still under medical care and police escort.

The indigenous youths present in the territory filmed the attacks as they resisted.

JOPARA RETAKING

The night before, on June 23, approximately 30 Guarani Kaiowá Indians took back part of the Kurupi/São Lucas territory. The action took place in response to the murder of young indigenous man Alex Ricarte Vasques Lopes, 18 years old, which occurred on May 21 on the Taquaperi farm in the municipality of Coronel Sapucaia (MS).

This was one of the reoccupations promoted by the Guarani Kaiowá people after the murder of young Alex. On May 22, another occupation took place on the Taquaperi farm, site of the crime promoted by the latifundium.

During the afternoon of May 22, after the retaking, the Department of Frontier Operations (DOF), acting at the service of the large estate, began a police siege, blocking the MS-286 highway with vehicles, the access road to Tekoha Jopara, the Taquapri TI and other indigenous territories.

On May 23, drones and vehicles circulated in the area and landowners gathered at the police barrier. However, the indigenous resistance continued and the people still remained camped.

On the same day, in a letter issued by the Great Kaiowá and Guarani Assembly of the Aty Guasu, the indigenous people declared: “Alex is not an isolated case and we cannot allow it to be defined as such. Alex’s death is another attack against our territory and the lives of our people. It was not just one family, Alex’s family, that rose up against his murder, but an entire community. This would not happen if the community did not have in its soul the notion that a collective attack has been inflicted on them, just one of many. Isn’t that right? The indigenous people also said that for a Kaiowá like young Alex, to live is to fight, and demanded justice for the attacks and cowardly murders that had occurred.

I'm trying to get into Abdullah Ocalan's written work and I've had Sociology of Freedom recommended to me. Do I need to read the previous two volumes of "Manifesto of a Democratic Civilization" before Sociology of Freedom? How reliant is the book on the previous two books, or is it worth reading on its own?

So assuming a future in which communalism becomes a dominant societal template, what is stopping a small community from rising up and taking over other communities for their own person gain? Would there need to be a militia force at every community? Or would there need to be some over-arching governing body protecting the communities?

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I have question. on theory I find communalism great Idea. no thing is 100% perfect. everything have drawbacks. I was wondering does communist ideology allow people like elon musk/tesla or apple to benefit for their innovation. are they allowed to patent stuff??? or it will be free for everyone to copy stuff. This companies which spend lot of money on R&D needs to make money or atleast breakeven. if intellectual property rights are not acknowledged then people may not innovate

Having this essay rejected by r/anarchism, and most likely r/communism as well after someone reads through it (I admit the r/anarchism stalinist filter is faster), I thought that even if this was meant as a comment responding to an inquiry about the zapatistas I believe it is best at home in r/communalism than anywhere else.

Rejected comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/ctcuyz/how_is_the_quality_of_life_in_zapatista/exk64xy

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https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/27/between-light-and-shadow/

Everything they have to say about themselves is written through this site. The rest that you read is what others say about them, and as this essay explains they have not authorized anyone to speak for them, and when it appears that someone does, it is because they want the people who have learned to listen to "delegates" to listen to them through an apparent delegate.

As far as I know health (physical and mental) has seen drastic improvements in 25 years to the point that the health infrastructure they have created serves more the surrounding enslaved peasants than their own population. Mental health can be summarized by regaining the long lost dignity that people within capitalism had lost. All thanks to "autonomy". That took "a lot of work" and a lot more organization, which is the key in how oppressive and exploitative mechanisms work, by leaving people disorganized so they can be bought and sold individually. Organized people, organized communities, can not be blackmailed and ordered around easily. Individuals have no option but to submit for survival.

Don't let third parties, including myself, ascribe some -ism to the zapatista struggle. In the earlier stages they invited "solidarity" and the varieties of Marx-ism came for solidarity to ascribe and characterize their struggle as part of their own. The zapatistas played the innocent peasants, indigenous peasants, that the clergy of -isms came to enlighten. So in a way they got the boot. Then in a second wave of solidarity the clergy of the (A)...-isms came, and they seem to be failing. What are they failing at?

They are all failing to "respect the principles" of the zapatista struggle. The zapatistas invite people, groups, academics, peasants, labor leaders, labor lead (past tense), to participate in workshops/schools, and exchange experiences. They treat everyone as equal but they silently expect to be treated as such. And then some look down on the peasants, and some look down at other invited participants. That is disrespect and in their eyes it is failure. When Marxisms figured out they could no longer sell Zapatismo as their own, they vanished and bitterly criticized them that they have achieved nothing since capitalism and the capitalists' state still reigns in Mexico. Then Anarchists are following the footsteps of other -ism clergy, and couldn't sell Zapatismo as something of their own, since Zapatistas still respect the revolutionary flag of Mexico and live in it, without overthrowing the state. Both capitalism and the state belong to Mexicans, who are the zapatistas to "enforce" their ideations on other Mexicans?

They have achieved so much in such little time, 25 years, the rest of us have achieved 0 "ZERO", because we still live under capitalism, unless we are filthy rich we have to sell ourselves cheap, and we have to abide by the decisions others make for us. Still, we have the audacity to go there and look down on those indigenous peasants and act like we know better.

The zapatistas don't claim any revolution, they don't claim to have reached their goal or have made the perfect society, or have freed themselves completely from capitalism, religion, class structures, racism, sexism, but they have made some improvements, they have taken the first step. They said they are waiting for us to take a first step too, so we can be together! Not to lead, or be lead, to take the first step and be together. If we are heading to the same place we will meet, eventually, one way or another.

And this is what I know and understand, and if this is against anarchism, communism, trotskyism, stalinism, primitivism, syndicalism, christianism, anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, it is what it is. I have therefore freed myself, I no longer attend mass of any -ism, including anarchism, I have not received anarchist communion and submitted to confession, I have been excommunicated from orthodoxy, and I am just looking for other willing to form a community with similar principles like the 7 principles that brought the zapatista communities together and shaped their struggle.

But, who cares what I do or anyone else does individually. Collectively we have done nothing. This is our identity, the non-doing never-achieving evangelists. We stuggle part time within the norms of the "excuse that we are doing something". We have located some practices of globally accepted activism, we make a banner, we organize a march or a protest, we spread a few hundred leaflets, we put posters up on public streets where the government cleans up daily, we scream meaningless slogans, the police keep us away from any significant social structures, and if we get too loud we get clubbed in the head and exterminated like cockroaches with toxic gases. And we find this practice satisfactory to our activism and return for more gas. It is like we have been addicted to this gas and we have GMed ourselves to metabolize it. Ohh.. please mr cop, throw some gas to us today, we are hungry. We are hungry because we have missed ONE day of work for participating in this national massive strike, which only puts a few thousands down on the street for protest. The rest go to the beach or if it is May-day they go to the fields and gather wildflowers for their office desk. On may second we look through the Windows with a bucket of wild-flowers next to it.

But we can criticize the zapatistas for not achieving much. Surreal! It is like Buñuel has hired us to play this satiric elite of political thinkers. And we are so bad at it he wants to burn all the reels with us in them.

Finding and forming a community based on the 7 principles!

Do I think it is likely in the society I live in? Do I think at my age do I have time and energy to keep looking? Do I think the indigenous people around here deserve any dignity? Probably not. Centuries and centuries of submission and lack of struggle have caused a sever loss of identity. One must know what one is before they can start struggling as what they are. Our peoples have lost their sense of identity. They chose the identities served to them by their tribal leaders so they can serve the interests of other leaders, and in this path of submission all was lost. Like the old folk song says, "god bless the queen that made you a moron".

So this is how the story goes according to this story teller.

ref: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2016/11/26/a-story-to-try-to-understand/

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