International Brigades of Rojava

People are dying fighting actual fascism, while we get baited by anfems and strugle together.

Feels Bad Man.

facebook.com/IBORofficial/videos/1875152522770175/

I'm at a crossroads. I'm either going to go back to school or join. I'm in my late twenties and don't really have much going on. I'd at least like to contribute to something meaningful.

If I had the resources I would probably go (I've had exchanges and contact with Lions of Rojava and other groups that try to help westerners get there), but I'm poor as fuck.

I heard that they weren't looking for new volunteers. Is that true?

I might join, but I'd probably sign up with the national guard first to get some kind of basic combat training.

I think it's because the KRG aren't letting anyone into Syria from Iraq. One of the volunteer groups shut down because the wrong sort of people were trying to join.

I am considering going to Rojava after I learn Kurdish.

who?

Nice camaradas. Don't forget to show us your souvenirs is you decide to do it.

whoop-de-fucking-do

Fuck off

I'm currently in the process of learning Kurmanji before I go over. I hope to go and help them with my medical knowledge (I've worked as a Paramedic at my local EMS for a few years now.)

There were some french lefties when WW2 started that had the same question more or less.
"Why should we fight in this bourgie war".

I guess they didn't had much fun after the Nazis took over.

Nice.
This may be similar to when the socialists in Spain accepted international recruits during the Spanish Civil War

Yes, and that turned out so well for anarchism.

I daydream about doing shit like that all the time but I'm too pussy sorry OP

I was just comparing the recruitment aspect.

anarchists weren't the only to receive recruits btw.

also, that is the shallowest of conclusions

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Besides translators of Kurdish and English, what skills are Rojava looking for?

daily reminder that rojava, zapatistas, naxalites, DPRK, china, vietnam and laos are all socialist factions and must be defended unconditionally by all leftists.

lol :)

lol :)

TANKEK!

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I am not to make an "Argument" as you have your tankie ideology, I believe everyone after Lenin was shit (expept Fidel), we cannot have "Arguments" it's pure ideology.

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What do they even think of volunteers without military experience? I figure an untrained man isn't just useless but an actual hazard in battle.


Are they still a thing? Their site went tits up, their FB page is abandoned and I read somewhere that YPG was splitting foreign fighters among various platoons.

For that matter, are there groups other than the Lions and IBOR? I'm very curious about someone keeping track of all the foreigners killed or maimed in the Kurdish front.


If you mean that blockade they started months ago, they lifted it.

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Folks without prior military training are being used in support, security, and logistic roles.

No, Achmed. This pallet is backstock. Backstock, si? Comprende?

OP pic is from FB page.


You get training there.

How are you getting there? Is it just a plane ticket to Iraq, waltz over to the nearest PKK building and be like "hi gib revolution pls"?

Not entirely true, vice did a video on Western fighters and one of them was some fat Canadian girl who referred to the gas piston of her AK as "the pump action part".

Yeah. I saw that too. Pretty fucking funny. That's why I said they weren't all in combat roles.


You get basic training.

I mean the Lions of Rojava.

I know they're awfully busy and internet is a luxury there, but still, is there a way to talk to volunteers? I would like to know about everyday living for them.

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Why, fighting in a bourgie war is more fun?

I didn't realize Lee was an Irish name

leftcom and some others are such humongous faggots and retarded uneducated pieces of shit

they make me ratzer stand with rojava and catalonia

wow
kill yourself

Democratic Confederalism is not a nationalist project. It's a decentralized bookchinian anarchist model packaged as a solution to rampant hyper-nationalism and fundamentalism in various regions - the middle east and the balkans are perhaps the readiest examples.
This is effective in identifying and circumventing the material causes of ultra-nationalism in such regions, which may be thought of as "struggles for autonomy in disguise." The principal theoretical weakness, of course, is a failure to deal with capitalism as a global system. US intervention in rojava will pull at this loose thread, and we will have to see what unravels.
Do you have any evidence they've broken from Ocalan? Last I checked political differences were a major obstacle to unification with kurdish iraq.

They really need medical people, farmers, plumbers, electricians, journalists, and artists in that order. If you have trade skill experience they'll probably take you, even better if you can teach others about those things.

What about chemists/scientists?
Their agricultural woes seem like a ripe area for educated professionals/academics, but serious lack of access to the internet would be a problem and their goals seem much the type you'd find on an altmed woo site.

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Yeah, I'm also skeptical of that. I'm an artist, and if they really need an artist from America to help with propaganda, I'd consider going, but I doubt that's the case.