Rojava General

The revolution would have happened either way. It's misleading to say that they would be content with staying under the assad regime
They're doing well so far despite the embargoes. The point is that they've already taken great steps towards socialism and have the institutions in place to promote and ensure them.

There's no way of knowing that and if it had just been a straight up Kurd uprising it would have played out very differently. The land they've taken from ISIS (or Assad as he will view it once ISIS is kill) contains a good chunk of Syria's oil, accounting for about 15% of Syria's GDP. If they don't go down a federalism route with Syria they're going to struggle for trading partners to grow this economy after the war. It will also be interesting to see if the social order they've achieved holds up once the unifying factor, the fight for survival is gone.

twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/849516678409052160

DAILY REMINDER: supporting Rojava = supporting Israel

twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/849499796721340418

every. fucking. time.

It's started to wander into racist territory now with these idiots. Holding Syrian Kurds and the YPG responsible for what Iraqi Kurds and KDP is doing, or saying that they're the exact same, is kinda racist if you ask me. It's like if Egyptian Arabs did something and you blame Syrian Arabs for it because "they're all the same" or something

Why?
Why does it matter if they're at war or not? Are you implying socialism is irreconcilable with a war economy?

I've seen the same attitude on Holla Forums. "Kurds are all the same!".

You know, at this point I wouldn't mind cutting down on this polyp "turkroach" meme. There are actually a lot of Turks opposed to Erdogan and even plenty of them fighting on the side of the Federation.

Flag test

Cause. War gives them a common enemy and purpose.
I'm suggesting the opposite.

Not to mention, Roo links to a NazBol site (Katehon) or his info.

I missed /rojava/ in leftypol's down time. Not a great deal has happened over the past few days in relation to Rojava. Tabqa citiy is about to be encircled. Still haven't captured the dam. Ocalan's birthday was celebrated across Rojava yesterday.

The biggest news is non Rojava related, which is that SAA apparently gassed civilians in Idlib with sarin. SDF issued a statement condemning the attack but they didn't mention who did it.

Where do you guys get your news about Rojava and the Syrian civil war as a whole?

I've posted about this before, can't be bothered to look through the archive for the exact post, but I don't think using "turkroach" is a problem as long as it's explicitly used to make fun of turkish nationalist identity. It's like using United Snakes or Klanada, it's not so much the ethnicity of turkmen that's ridiculed - but more the TURKEY STRONK attitude - by calling them roaches.
I agree that using "turkroach" outside of the explicit context of Erdogan/AKP and the Turkish oppression of minorities can easily seem very reactionary though, and some of the /int/ comics people post are pretty trash but honestly who cares what words people use on an imageboard if it isn't an honest representation of their political beliefs anyway?

Erdogan likely means they'll expand operations to Qandil or Sinjar, most likely the latter. Don't see how Turkey could hope to do anything against PKK in Qandil aside from pounding them w/ airstrikes. I mean look at that terrain.

Are you retarded or did you just want to show us how you've never read a page of Marx? "FALC" is a memetic internet neologism.

/sg/

twitter and /r/syriancivilwar

syria.liveuamap.com/

twitter.com/EndiZentarmi/status/849579762309881857

So wooswoos shit all over PPG, the YPG, and Rojava this morning. They even went after the original International Brigades in true Trot fashion of denouncing absolutely everyone of being pseudo-left.Fucking Trots…
wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/05/beld-a05.html

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Apparently this is engraved in one of the walls at IFB headquarters, courtesy of PPG's twitter.

Yes. We must instead support ISIS in it's anti-imperialist struggle!

How susceptible are our sisters and brothers in YPG/J to chemical warfare?
The recent events have me worried for them in their Raqqa seizure.

theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/chemical-weapons-found-in-mosul-in-isis-lab-say-iraqi-forces

ISIS seem to want chemical weapons, but they struggle to make them. It's hard for a non state actor to really use or get chemical weapons. The rebels in Aleppo hit Sheikh Maqsoud YPG with chemical weapons, but it wasn't sarin.

In regards to the Ghouta Sarin attacks, it's hard to know who did that

The Rojavan government controls most machinery and capital, and is also the biggest investor.

What they've got is better than anything a leftcom or M-L has ever produced.

Please get the theory right

yes, yes whatever. local municipalities are still government

The NRO supposedly monitors Syria through US intelligence satellites and sensors planted throughout the country for changes in the status of the chemical weapons held by Assad. You can't just drop sarin on a whim. There's a strict procedure for arming the warheads which can't really be masked and the shelf-life of these warheads, once armed, is very short as the sarin erodes the delivery system. So how the fuck did this happen without any alarms going off?

twitter.com/RizgarDerik/status/849529200981794816

I notice this guy (think he's scottish) volunteered for the YPG and then joined YBS later on.

US intelligent satellites aren't useful if they're looking in the wrong place. Assad probably had secret stashes he didn't tell anyone about.

I miss the days of Al Bab memes and having updates of Turkey getting BTFO every week.

I unironically believe a liberal-friendly "working" socialist state would do far more good than a legit but liberal unfriendly one.

Like Rojava can only be useful as a foothold, and it can be more useful as a foothold if it gains "us" better access to normal first-worlders as well as third and second worlders.

Even better if it gets crushed by imperial powers.

Not gonna lie I would dang doodley diddle Anita.

The best part was thinking that Turkey was on the verge of finally taking the city but then being thrown back by two villages and knowing it will take another 2 weeks for them to get another shot at taking the city.
And just as you thought they could take the city they get btfo yet again.