from soutien812.net
As the Internationalist Network Serhildan, a network of solidarity with the struggles of Kurdistan and the Rojava revolution, we would like to send our warmest greetings to the comrades who are currently facing repression, in a world where states wage wars for which we must pay, if not flee or die.
A system that ensures immeasurable wealth for the few, and exploitation for the many, from famine to burnout. A system that makes our planet uninhabitable for a large part of humanity.
Faced with such gloomy perspectives, it’s fair to organize and struggle against this system. To find ourselves accused of terrorism by a state that protects a system of such violence is a sign that we have succeeded in shaking it. And when the cracks open, it reinforces our determination and our confidence in our collective strength. Even the liberal media recognize that the prosecution case in this trial is shaky, to say the least. Yet this trial represents a major challenge not only for the co-defendants, but for the entire left-wing protest movement.
At the heart of the charges is the internationalist involvement of one of the defendants in Rojava. Since 2014, dozens of internationalists from France have traveled to Rojava to take part in the process of building a society based on grassroots democracy, women’s liberation and social ecology. It is these internationalists, many of whom have contributed to the fight against Daech, who are in the DGSI’s sights. Those who left without any political aim, solely to take part in the armed struggle against Daech or for Islamophobic reasons, are not worried.
In a context of growing social protest in France, it’s hardly surprising that the spread of the ideas of social revolution in Rojava, and of international unity between socialist forces around the world, should shake the tyrants who rule us. Repression of the political ideas of the Kurdish movement has a long history in France.
It will be recalled that recently, in 2021, as part of the investigation into the March 23 defendants, over 800 people were questioned by the DGSI, 11 of whom were later sentenced for membership of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization.
In the face of this attempt to intimidate and criminalize internationalism, we respond that it only strengthens our determination to continue our work of solidarity, spreading the ideas and practices of the Rojava revolution and bringing them into dialogue with our local struggles.
Strength to our defendants comrades!
THE DECEMBER 8th CASE. 