Against the Turkish Invasion! Call to Action: Solidarity with Rojava! October 12th Day of Action and Beyond. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ "Thousands of civilians flee from border areas as Turkey presses assault against Kurdish forces for third straight day. Turkish forces have killed at least 277 Kurdish fighters in a major military operation in northeast Syria, now in its third day, Turkey's defence ministry says...The International Rescue Committee aid organisation said 64,000 people have reportedly fled their homes in northeast Syria, along the border with Turkey, and warned that the number could increase drastically."—Al Jazeera, 10/11/2019 This is the inevitable result of the Trump administration pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria on October 6th, 2019. It has essentially given Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a green light to invade Rojava, carry out genocide, and forcibly resettle the area. **We are calling for people around the world to engage in protest and/or disruption at Turkish consulates, U.S. government offices, arms manufacturers, and businesses connected with the Turkish government, such as Turkish Airlines.** Since 2012, the autonomous region of Rojava has hosted an inspiring multi-ethnic experiment in self-determination involving a network of councils, communes, and cooperatives, all while fighting the Islamic State (ISIS). After years of struggle, despite sustaining massive casualties, fighters from Rojava participated in liberating all of the territory that ISIS had occupied and freeing those who had been held captive in ISIS strongholds. In an attempt to justify permitting Turkey to invade Syria, Trump has tweeted that U.S. taxpayers should not have to pay to keep ISIS fighters detained. In fact, the U.S. has not paid a cent to detain captured ISIS fighters; that has been completely organized by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The reality is that the Turkish invasion of Kurdish territory will create the conditions for ISIS to reemerge and resume operations in Syria and around the world. For years, Turkey has permitted weapons, recruits, and resources to reach ISIS through its borders. Both ISIS and the Turkish invasion pose an existential threat to all the ethnic and religious groups indigenous to the region, including Arabs, Christians (Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs), Turkmens, Chechens, Alevites, and Yazidis. Many of these groups have gained a voice in their own lives for the first time, yet now face massacre at the hands of the Turkish military and the jihadists. Turkey’s invasion of Rojava sets a new precedent for military aggression, ethnic cleansing, and the destruction of egalitarian and feminist experiments like the one in Rojava. It sets the stage for more bloodshed and oppression everywhere around the world, paving the way for ethno-nationalist autocrats like Trump, Erdoğan, Bashar al-Assad, Jair Bolsonaro, and Vladimir Putin to dominate world politics for generations to come. To keep silent is to be complicit. The Rojava Solidarity Committee Europe has joined organizers in Rojava in calling for a day of action on October 12th, against the Turkish invasion. See planned actions or add yours HERE. #Riseup4Rojava Read more from CrimethInc. Learn about The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Revolution in Rojava Listen to Havin Guneser on Against the Grain Listen Here In solidarity, select titles are 40% off through 10/31 Coupon code: Solidarity  The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava This book gives an account of the history and the present situation of the Canton of Afrin along with interviews with the inhabitants. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region in 2012, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD), the Syrian sister party of Abdullah Öcalan’s outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to first introduce a Kurdish self-administration and then, in 2014, to establish the Canton Afrin as one of the three parts of the heavily Kurdish Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which is better known under the name Rojava. This self-administration—which had seen multiparty municipal and regionwide elections in the summer and autumn of 2017, which included a far-reaching autonomy for a number of ethnic and religious groups, and which had provided a safe haven for up to 300,000 refugees from other parts of Syria—is now at risk of being annihilated by the Turkish invasion and occupation. Retail price: $19.95 Sale price: $11.97 Thomas Schmidinger Preface by Andrej Grubačić • Translated by Michael Schiffmann Order now Less than a month before President Trump pulled U.S. troops out of northern Syria, author of The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Thomas Schmidinger, was denied entry into the U.S. by Homeland Security. Read more about it HERE. Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution Noam Chomsky Edited by Davor Džalto • Preface by Andrej Grubačić Through articles, public talks, and correspondence, Chomsky addresses some of the crucial political and social issues affecting both the Balkans and the international community. Retail price: $19.95 Sale price: $11.97 Order now Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia Andrej Grubacic Introduction by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  This collection of essays, commentaries and interviews represents the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. Retail price: $20.00 Sale price: $12.00 Order now Forthcoming titles about Rojava and the history of the Kurdish Freedom Movement available for pre-order: Please note these titles will not be shipping until December 2019-May 2020. Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan Editor: International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan”  Featured in this extraordinary volume are over a dozen contributors whose ideas have been investigated in Öcalan’s own writings. Available for pre-order. Shipping in December. Retail price: $20.00 Sale price: $12.00 Order now Beyond State, Power, and Violence Abdullah Öcalan This book is a breathtaking reconnaissance into life without the state, an essential portrait of the PKK and the Kurdish freedom movement, and an open blueprint for leftist organizing in the twenty-first century. Available for pre-order. Shipping in February. Retail price: $29.95 Sale price: $17.97 Order now Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II), Second Edition Abdullah Öcalan Preface: Radha D’Souza • Translator: Havin Guneser The second volume of Öcalan’s five-volume work making the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization. Available for pre-order. Shipping in May. Retail price: $26.95 Sale price: $16.17 Order now The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III Abdullah Öcalan Foreword by John Holloway • Translated by Havin Guneser • Edited by International Initiative The fascinating third volume of a five-volume work presents Öcalan's stunningly original thesis of the Democratic Civilization, based on his criticism of Capitalist Modernity. Available for pre-order. Shipping in February. Retail price: $28.95 Sale price: $17.37 Order now The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle A vital introduction to the Kurdish struggle, this is the first English-language book to deliver a distillation of the ideas and sensibilities that gave rise to the most important political event of the twenty-first century. Available for pre-order. Shipping in April. Retail price: $15.95 Sale price: $9.57 Havin Guneser Introduction: Andrej Grubacic • Interview: Sasha Lilley Order now Like what we do? 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