The Kurdish freedom guerrillas have undergone an intensive process of change in order to overcome the power imbalance in the war. In the last two months, air strikes by the guerrillas have had a major shock effect on the Turkish army.
This offensive in South Kurdistan is not a small tactical operation or merely a maneuver to move forces from point A to point B. It marks the beginning of the summer offensive anticipated by the Kurdish freedom movement since April this year. As early as mid-April, the People’s Defense Forces reported that the Turkish Army was slowly positioning its forces and moving more troops across the border. On the other side, in the Turkish-occupied territory of North Kurdistan, forces were also being amassed. It was stated that what started in April was not the expected offensive, but the major strike would come in the summer. It appears that this offensive has now commenced with the new operations of the Turkish Army in the region.
The “Development Road Project”, as envisioned, encircles South Kurdistan…Instead of calling it the “Development Road Project”, it would be more accurate and understandable to call it the “Occupation and War Road Project”.
For weeks, Turkey has been launching massive artillery attacks on areas in northern and eastern Syria. The regions most affected are around Minbic, Shehba, and Ain Issa. Fears of further escalation in northeastern Syria by Turkey are growing. This follows a sudden legal amendment by the Erdogan regime, granting the president authority to declare war and mobilize forces, and recent statements from MHP leaders calling for cooperation with Assad against the YPG. On the evening of May 28th, there were already rumors of Turkish troop movements near the border spreading.
In shedding light on Turkish hypocrisy surrounding the Genocide in Gaza, it becomes evident that Erdogan’s maneuvers are nothing short of a facade. Turkey’s actions, on the surface seem to be in support of Palestine, but are overshadowed by its complicity in fueling the very oppression it claims to oppose.
Since the 1980s, Abdullah Öcalan has always used the international day of struggle of the working class as an opportunity to analyse the situation of the world socialist movement and to derive perspectives for the struggle for self-determination and socialism in Kurdistan and the Middle East. After his abduction and imprisonment on the 15th of February, 1999, his opportunities to make himself known to the outside world were limited to short messages that only managed to get past the prison walls via his lawyers. Nevertheless, he never missed an opportunity to address his movement and the public with messages of greetings on the occasion of the working women’s day of struggle on the 8th of March, the Kurdish New Year, Newroz, on the 21st of March or the 1st of May. This text is a message from Abdullah Öcalan on the occasion of the 1st of May demonstration in Amed (Diyarbakir) in 2014. It is Abdullah Öcalan’s last May the 1st message before he was subjected to a stricter detention regime and total isolation in April 2015.
der Außenwelt kundzutun, lediglich auf kurze Botschaften die über seine Anwälte die Gefängnismauern überwinden konnten beschränkt. So lies er dennoch keine Gelegenheit aus um sich mit Grußbotschaften anlässlich des Kampftages der werktätigen Frauen dem 8. März, dem kurdischen Neujahrsfest Newroz am 21. März oder aber eben dem 1. Mai an seine Bewegung und die fortschrittliche Öffentlichkeit zu wenden. Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine Großbotschaft Abdullah Öcalans anlässlich der Demonstration zum 1. Mai in Amed (Diyarbakir) im Jahre 2014. Es ist die letzte Botschaft Abdullah Öcalans zum 1. Mai, bevor Abdullah Öcalan im April 2015 einem verschärften Haftregime und der immer noch weiter anhaltenden Totalisolation unterworfen wurde.
Resistance is Life: From the free mountains to Rojava, from the prisons to the streets of Europe, from Kurdistan to Abya Yala, from Imrali to the whole world!
We don’t feel the need to tell you again how much damage is done and how much this will harm the survival of the peoples of the region. Instead, we want to tell you about the people who refuse to give in to a barbaric enemy. People that refuse to be integrated into the capitalist system of accumulation, people that insist on a life in dignity.
