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There are several problems with this reply:
1) Stalinist Cuba was dependent on and opportunistic towards the USSR, a
deformed workers state involved in a cold war with the imperialist
powers. The YPG is dependent on and opportunistic towards US imperialism
and the Saudi Kingdom, which are among the world's most reactionary powers.
2) Turkey shall be "the most powerful state in the Middle East apart
from Israel". Leaving aside that the U.S. and Russia are certainly more
powerful states in the Middle East, there are other states in the region
which are certainly not less powerful than Turkey: Iran, Saudi Arabia
(which pays the YPG) and Egypt.
You simply take over the PKK/YPG narrative that Kurdistan is the
starting point to understand the Middle East and to take positions. In
fact, the Middle East and the world relations are the starting point to
understand the Middle East (as well as Kurdistan)and to take positions.
3) Nevertheless, your comparison with Granma is not completely wrong:
the Cuban Stalinists implemented the same opportunistic policy of
following the interests of the Soviet foreign policy. The Stalinist
parties in the West did the same. According to your logic, this can be
excused because they were paid by Moscow. The YPG deploys the same logic
- it just replaced the USSR with US imperialism. All this is the logic
of political prostitution - serve those who are paying you. This has
nothing to do with Marxism!
In the end you have to decide: are you an Australian opportunist serving
Kurdish nationalists who serve US imperialism or are you an
internationalist Marxist?
Am 20.10.2018 um 05:43 schrieb Chris Slee:
Under attack from Turkey, the most powerful state in the Middle East
apart from Israel, the Rojava revolutionaries are cautious about
criticising Saudi Arabia, a state which might (for its own reasons)
gave them a bit of aid.
In this respect ANF reminds me of the Cuban paper Granma, which I used
to read many years ago. Granma's international coverage was extremely
inadequate because it never criticised any government that was willing
to have friendly, or just non-hostile, relations with Cuba. This was
a survival tactic for Cuba faced with the US threat.
Chris Slee
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Great, 17 days after the murder of Kashoggi and at the same time when
Trump puts pressure on the Saudis to offer an "explanation", the "Rojava
revolutionaries" manage to say something on one of the most important
current events in the Middle East and world politics! But could we
expect any criticism of the Saudi kingdom or MBS? Surely not! These are
the YPG's friends and (surely) financier. How shameful for the
"progressive" YPG and their "revolutionary" supporters in the world!
*Pressure building over the Khashoggi incident *
As claims that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the
consulate can’t be hidden any more, the pressure is building on the
Riyadh administration.
ANF, 19 Oct 2018,
https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/pressure-building-over-the-khashoggi-incident-30271
Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul on
October 2, and was never heard from again. The suspicions that Khashoggi
was murdered in the consulate are all but certain at this point. The
Saudi government hasn’t made any statements to this end as of yet, but
many countries and institutions are upping the pressure against them.
*ATTENDEES WITHDRAWING FROM THE ECONOMY CONFERENCE*
As the pressure builds over the Jamal Khashoggi incident, the number of
countries and institutions withdrawing from the economy conference
titled Invest in the Future Initiative to be held in Riyadh next week is
on the rise.
The IMF, the World bank and many other institutions were to attend the
conference at the presidential level, but have withdrawn. With this
decision, several countries also withdrew from the conference.
*TRUMP: IT IS CERTAIN THAT HE WAS KILLED, THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES*
US President Donald Trump, after criticism that he didn’t exert clear
pressure since the Khashoggi incident broke out, said it was “most
probably” certain that the opposition journalist was killed.
Trump stressed that the incident is “very bad”, and that there will be
consequences for the Saudi administration.
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