Istanbul Industrial Workers of the World's statement against the invasion of Syria. The following statement was originally published on Yeryüzü Postası.
We
call on all workers — workers who are exploited under this system,
workers who have become increasingly impoverished and who are being
sent to die — not to join this war, but to unite against it.
At
a time when war is taking place in Syria, war which has no purpose
other than death, destruction, and poverty, the AKP government
launched a mission of occupation that will only further increase
chaos. Like the previous occupation of Afrin, this operation shows
that neither Russia, the US, nor other imperialist powers care about
the Kurdish people.
This
operation is a continuation of the extermination and denial of the
Kurdish state based on the rejection of a peaceful solution to the
Kurdish question and is also part of the AKP’s imperial fantasies
that will only complicate the Syrian problem. The provocation by
Turkey, with the help of other countries, caused more Syrian people
to leave their country and triggered a new wave of migration that
made it impossible to build housing for refugees who were evacuated
from the border region. It is madness.
To
eliminate Kurds from the border zone eliminates the possibility of a
peaceful solution to the problem. It makes the war even worse and
only increases the chances of further chaos spreading in the Middle
East.
Worker’s
pay has already started to be cut back with the increased cost of
operations in Turkey. The meaning of this operation is “do you know
the price of one bullet?”
The
increasing nationalism and militarization of Turkey only strengthens
the capitalist system and the bosses who run it. This operation and
the crisis it creates weakens our struggle against capitalism.
We
are completely against this operation because it means more death and
poverty for our class. We condemn all wars between nations, as a part
of our historical heritage. We believe that it is the historic duty
of the working class to fight against this war and the lie of
national unity that is intended to be promoted in the name of this
war. We have no common interests with the bosses and the governments
in their service!
Furthermore,
Turkish workers and thousands of other people have lost their lives,
are getting poorer every minute, and live terrorized because of the
Syrian war. To end this war, the workers of the world have to
organize and move. We must strongly oppose the policy of states that
provoke, deepen and make even more destructive the war for the
interests of the ruling classes.
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We
call on all workers—workers who are exploited under this system,
workers who have become increasingly impoverished and who are being
sent to die—not to join this war, but to unite against it.
It
is time to talk about what we can do against this war from our shopfloors, how to silence the chauvinists, how to defeat the smell
of nationalist blood in the air, and how to stop the war and mitigate
its effects. We are organizing workers against the war. Immediately!
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On the vital question of the welfare of the working class and the World Socialist Movement, we urge all workers, Turkish, Kurd, Syrian and others, to recognise their common interest in standing together as a class for the overthrow of capitalism. There are no circumstances justifying working-class support of capitalist governments or movements, including those that masquerade under the name of nationalism.
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