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International Bulletin / Issue 206 / January 2020

The year 2019 was a year of popular uprisings in which the effects of the existential crisis of capitalism intensified. The will for change and the end of social approval for bourgeois rule only deepened the bourgeoisie's crisis of rule. In contrast to the social movements and uprisings after the Great crisis of 2008, today's popular uprisings are even more destructive, the impoverished are on the streets against poverty, unemployment, hunger and futurelessness in capitalism. In the phase of imperialist globalization, the old forms of political rule no longer work, and the demands and aspirations of the workers and oppressed can no longer be locked away as easily.
Women play a key role in these uprisings. They rise both against the crisis of the imperialist-capitalist system, as well as for their gender liberation, against the inequality and violence that this crisis exercises on their bodies, their sexuality and their labor. The international women's movements and actions, which have developed through the collectivization of slogans, symbols and forms in recent years, have also progressed this year. The will of women for social change remains a fundamental dynamic in social struggles.
Hope and the topicality of the revolution are spreading through these developments.
But in the popular uprisings this year, the question of revolutionary leadership remained largely unsolved, a lack of direction is spreading, the opportunities also increase the risks. The rulers let the world workers and oppressed pay the price for the existential crisis with their lives, the nature and the herritages of human history. The development of fascism and political reaction in many countries, hostility to migrants, chauvinism and racism are concrete effects of the crisis of rule, because the crisis of the capitalist system is not an ordinary one. It is increasingly taking the form of a crisis of the social order that runs from the imperialist centers to the colonies.
Within the imperialist competition and polarization, the Middle East remains a focus.
As a result of the uprising of 2010-2012, Rojava emerged as a 3rd front that offered a different future, a new life to the whole world. Rojava is a flagship of today's will for change. The AKP fascism tries to solve the ongoing regime crisis of the Turkish state, which is linked to the Kurdish question, with occupation attacks and a war policy against northern and eastern Syria. After the occupation of Afrin, the state is now taking action against the achievements of the Kurdish people all over Rojava. However, the resistance in northern and eastern Syria has written history. Chauvinist agitation and war propaganda cannot hide the critical situation in which fascism finds itself. We saw last year that all the fascist violence only deepened the regime crisis.
The disintegration phenomena within the AKP are illustrated by the founding plans of new parties by old companions. The appointment of trustees in the municipalities of Northern Kurdistan after the municipal elections of March 31 and June 23 only expressed the AKP's crisis of rule. The war of occupation in Syria, the attempt to overcome the economic crisis through war economy and expansionism in the eastern Mediterranean are nothing but desperate attempts to overcome the crisis. The AKP- MHP rule block produces less and less approval within the population. With the economic crisis, the political ties of fascism to its masses are also braking. The will for change is spreading.
The workers and oppressed, however, have passed a period of important resistances. Even if they do not yet have the desired mass power, the oppressed have filled the streets with various social and democratic demands. They have not bowed to regional war politics, isolation, prison, square prohibitions and trustees. The Kurdish liberation struggle, the women's liberation struggle, the workers' movement and newly growing ecological movements have shown that a social combat force is accumulating.
Last year the silence was broken by the hunger strike started by Leyla Güven. The Justice Commissions for Şule Çet, a young student whose murder was tried be disguised as suicide by ruling class men, and many other actions against feminicides, the struggles of workers, ecological struggles from Hasankeyif to the Ida Mountains were among the most significant moments of resistance last year. The communists positioned themselves according to the willingness for change of the working class and the oppressed, with the vanguard mission to carry all the struggles of the movement forward. Political and military strikes were inflicted on the armed colonial fascist state from the mountains to the cities at every opportunity. Despite all the state's liquidation attacks, the revolutionary movement could not be stopped. While on the one hand the self-sacrificing defense war continues in northern and eastern Syria, the search for the most effective means of anti-fascist struggle continues with all determination and the forces for the resistance of the masses against fascism are strengthening. At this critical stage, the situation bodes well for future struggles.
 

 

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International Bulletin / Issue 206 / January 2020

The year 2019 was a year of popular uprisings in which the effects of the existential crisis of capitalism intensified. The will for change and the end of social approval for bourgeois rule only deepened the bourgeoisie's crisis of rule. In contrast to the social movements and uprisings after the Great crisis of 2008, today's popular uprisings are even more destructive, the impoverished are on the streets against poverty, unemployment, hunger and futurelessness in capitalism. In the phase of imperialist globalization, the old forms of political rule no longer work, and the demands and aspirations of the workers and oppressed can no longer be locked away as easily.
Women play a key role in these uprisings. They rise both against the crisis of the imperialist-capitalist system, as well as for their gender liberation, against the inequality and violence that this crisis exercises on their bodies, their sexuality and their labor. The international women's movements and actions, which have developed through the collectivization of slogans, symbols and forms in recent years, have also progressed this year. The will of women for social change remains a fundamental dynamic in social struggles.
Hope and the topicality of the revolution are spreading through these developments.
But in the popular uprisings this year, the question of revolutionary leadership remained largely unsolved, a lack of direction is spreading, the opportunities also increase the risks. The rulers let the world workers and oppressed pay the price for the existential crisis with their lives, the nature and the herritages of human history. The development of fascism and political reaction in many countries, hostility to migrants, chauvinism and racism are concrete effects of the crisis of rule, because the crisis of the capitalist system is not an ordinary one. It is increasingly taking the form of a crisis of the social order that runs from the imperialist centers to the colonies.
Within the imperialist competition and polarization, the Middle East remains a focus.
As a result of the uprising of 2010-2012, Rojava emerged as a 3rd front that offered a different future, a new life to the whole world. Rojava is a flagship of today's will for change. The AKP fascism tries to solve the ongoing regime crisis of the Turkish state, which is linked to the Kurdish question, with occupation attacks and a war policy against northern and eastern Syria. After the occupation of Afrin, the state is now taking action against the achievements of the Kurdish people all over Rojava. However, the resistance in northern and eastern Syria has written history. Chauvinist agitation and war propaganda cannot hide the critical situation in which fascism finds itself. We saw last year that all the fascist violence only deepened the regime crisis.
The disintegration phenomena within the AKP are illustrated by the founding plans of new parties by old companions. The appointment of trustees in the municipalities of Northern Kurdistan after the municipal elections of March 31 and June 23 only expressed the AKP's crisis of rule. The war of occupation in Syria, the attempt to overcome the economic crisis through war economy and expansionism in the eastern Mediterranean are nothing but desperate attempts to overcome the crisis. The AKP- MHP rule block produces less and less approval within the population. With the economic crisis, the political ties of fascism to its masses are also braking. The will for change is spreading.
The workers and oppressed, however, have passed a period of important resistances. Even if they do not yet have the desired mass power, the oppressed have filled the streets with various social and democratic demands. They have not bowed to regional war politics, isolation, prison, square prohibitions and trustees. The Kurdish liberation struggle, the women's liberation struggle, the workers' movement and newly growing ecological movements have shown that a social combat force is accumulating.
Last year the silence was broken by the hunger strike started by Leyla Güven. The Justice Commissions for Şule Çet, a young student whose murder was tried be disguised as suicide by ruling class men, and many other actions against feminicides, the struggles of workers, ecological struggles from Hasankeyif to the Ida Mountains were among the most significant moments of resistance last year. The communists positioned themselves according to the willingness for change of the working class and the oppressed, with the vanguard mission to carry all the struggles of the movement forward. Political and military strikes were inflicted on the armed colonial fascist state from the mountains to the cities at every opportunity. Despite all the state's liquidation attacks, the revolutionary movement could not be stopped. While on the one hand the self-sacrificing defense war continues in northern and eastern Syria, the search for the most effective means of anti-fascist struggle continues with all determination and the forces for the resistance of the masses against fascism are strengthening. At this critical stage, the situation bodes well for future struggles.