Re: [Marxism] Yassamine Mather on Kurdish politics today

[Ken Hiebert via Marxism]

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http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5134 


Kurdish independence in Northern Iraq: Between hope and contradictions

Joseph Daher ends his article with these words:

We must nevertheless support the possibility for the Kurdish people in Iraq to 
decide their own future in total independence, in other words the right to 
self-determination, including separation from the Iraqi state. It is important, 
however, that the rights of ethnic (Arabs, Turkmens, Assyrians) and religious 
minorities (Christian, Yazidi, etc) also be guaranteed in the process of 
independence.
The right to self-determination for all oppressed people is a fundamental 
element of their liberation. For decades, this right has been denied to the 
Kurdish people who have suffered from the violent repression and oppression 
imposed by the chauvinistic regional states and betrayals of various 
imperialist states.

Let us therefore support the self-determination of the Kurdish popular classes 
in Iraq while opposing the bourgeois and authoritarian leadership of the KDP 
and PUK.

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For her part Yassamine Mather does not explicitly say that the Kurds have the 
right to take the planned vote.  Nor does she explicitly say they should be 
denied the vote.
She does offer the Kurds her pity.

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[Marxism] Yassamine Mather on Kurdish politics today

[Philip Ferguson via Marxism]

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Very interesting piece:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/imperialism-kurdish-nationalism-and-regionalism-a-view-from-an-iranian-revolutionary/
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