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Well that’s another evidence-free repetition of anti-Rojava revolution talking points http://links.org.au/fake-news-rojava-revolution The Assadists seem most enthusiastically taking them up recently BTW. On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 at 6:49 pm, RKOB via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > The supporters of the pro-American SDF/YPG militias repeatedly point to > the role of women unit. These supposedly progressive features should > divert attention from the facts that > > * the SDF/YPG militias operate under US command so that Washington can > advance its imperialist goals in Syria. It is certainly true that the > PYD/YPG retains an element of flexibility as it is also willing to serve > other interests: those of Assad until at least 2013 (or during the siege > of Aleppo) or that of Russia imperialism (e.g. yesterday they handed > over a military airport to the Russian Air Force in the Afrin province) > > * the (Kurdish-dominated) SDF/YPG militias operate under US command in > largely Arab-populated areas and is received there as an occupation force. > > Leaving aside all this, one should not forget that women - like men - > can also play a counter-revolutionary role in a war. Just remember the > so-called "Women’s Battalions of Death" in Russia during World War I. > They served as soldiers to the cause of Russian imperialism and were > among the last defenders of the White Palace of the Kerensky government > when the Bolshevik-led Red Guards took power in October 1917. > > > A > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
