The American Empire goes about doing in the world what it does so well
at home; divide and contain. How many puffed up dictators will learn
the hard way that the American Empire is not their friend. When, as
with Iraq, their usefulness is at an end, Poof! There goes their
Palace...with them in it.
It does take some planning, as well as an eternal war, to keep ahead
of those groups who grow quickly in resistance.
I often wonder which off-shore banks will be safe guardians of the
Billionaires wealth. And more to the point, what will their wealth
buy when they have destroyed the planet as we now know it?
Carl Jarvis
On 8/9/15, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2015/7929/792920.html
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Vol. 79/No. 29 August 17, 2015
(front page, editorial)
Join protests to demand
end to anti-Kurd attacks!
Turkish bombing — with Washington’s full support — of fighters for
Kurdish rights was met with protests last week in Paris, London, Berlin,
New York and Turkey. These actions should be applauded, repeated and
emulated.
The airstrikes continue and the situation is critical. Hundreds have
been killed or injured and more than 1,000 arrested in Turkey.
Kurdish fighters have shown time after time that they are the most
effective force combating the advance of the reactionary Islamic State.
While the Kurds fight for their homeland — denied them by the
imperialist powers and capitalist governments in the region for a
century — and for a civil society where national minorities are
respected and women’s rights valued, Islamic State jihadists carry out
attacks on civilians and promote a repressive society based on Sharia
law where women are treated at best as chattels and non-Sunni Muslims
and Christians are killed or enslaved.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bloody bombing offensive
against camps of the Kurdistan Workers Party has the green light from
the U.S. rulers. Like the Turkish capitalists, Washington wants at all
costs to stop or slow down the march toward the formation of an
independent, united and sovereign Kurdish homeland.
The Kurdish people are the largest nationality in the world without
their own state. Every step toward the formation of an independent
Kurdistan is an advance for the working class and a blow against
imperialist domination in the region.
Ankara and Washington are threatened by advances made by the
increasingly confident Kurdish people recapturing Syrian towns taken by
Islamic State. And the gains of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic
Party in the recent Turkish elections, which won support from non-Kurds
and set back Erdogan’s ambitions to consolidate more power in his own
hands, demonstrated growing solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in Turkey.
Defending the Kurds is in the interests of steelworkers and
communications workers fighting boss concession demands in the U.S., of
people fighting police brutality and insisting that Black lives matter,
and of supporters of women’s rights defending the right to choose
abortion. The same dictatorship of capital we are fighting here is
attacking and undermining the Kurdish struggle in the Mideast.
We urge Militant readers to contact Kurdish organizations in your area
and join protests. If there are no such actions planned, join with
others to organize demonstrations, speak-outs and forums demanding
Washington and Ankara stop their attacks on the Kurdish people.
Related articles:
Stop the murderous assault on Kurds!
Washington, NATO back Turkish gov’t bombings
NY protest condemns bombing of Kurds
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