A-Infos (en) freedom news: The frontline is everywhere: Communique from a comrade in Syria

On the day of a Call to Action against Turkey's invasion of Rojava, Syria, in a week where 
there was mass civil disobedience on the streets of London, molotovs and State-murder in 
Hong Kong, and police taken hostage in indigenous protests in Ecuador, we got in touch 
with one of our machine-gun-strapping, Isis-blapping, fascist-fragging anarchist comrades 
to find out how they are responding to the long-expected betrayal by former US allies and 
the next phase of persecution by Recep Erdogan's mob. ---- Speaking to us from inside the 
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, our comrade had the following to share 
as they enjoyed a dinner of fried eggs with their unit. ---- All around us are rooftops, 
echoing with the boom of occasional artillery hits as drones buzz overhead. On the 
not-to-distant border, we can see fires from where our friends have hit a tank, as they 
try to gain ground on the Turkish jihadis. In the streets each day more people leave and 
more and more shops close, and that means there are way more of the youth out. The youth 
here are hard as fuck. They patrol the city armed to the teeth, organising the defences. 
Right now, they're covering the streets with blankets and tarp so drones and jets can't 
see. They take turns on the front for a few hours each every day.

Everyone is rallying round, barricading doors and windows, getting the piss bucket ready 
to chuck from the roof, the mood like when you just got a high court order and are 
prepping to mount an eviction resistance. Except here we're loading up belts for our 
bixies[machine guns], filling all the spare AK mags we can find and making explosives in 
the kitchen.

Revolution. Nowhere else is there actual anarchism-in-action on this level. It's bigger 
than Chiapas in terms of number of people and area. The movement here wouldn't ever call 
themselves anarchists, but they accept us and our shared political heritage. The whole 
spectrum of leftists is represented, anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, Apoists (PKK 
supporters) and democratic-socialist types.

Everyone except Trots. We don't have any Trots.

If you want to know how to support us, it's three simple things.

Direct action.

Direct action.

Direct action.

Turkey is heavily reliant on weapon imports particularly from British Aerospace, Lockheed 
Martin, Rheinmetal in Germany. Shut these fuckers down. Target the Turkish state and their 
commercial empire across Europe.  Make sure every spare wall has images and words of our 
resistance, and pictures of our martyrs like our dear comrade Hêlîn Qereçox[Anna Campbell].

This is the best shot we've had since the Paris Commune to make another world work right 
here. If you are not supporting it you are not living your politics. You don't have to 
travel here to support the revolution, there is a massive battle to be fought at home. 
While we are fighting street by street with our AKs and RPGs, so you must be out with a 
determination to disrupt the weapon-mongers. Show us the kind of solidarity I know the 
anarchist movement in Europe is capable of, that we have seen at G20, that we have seen in 
Hambach forest, in the ZAD.

We need it now more than ever.

I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else in the world right now.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/the-frontline-is-everywhere-communique-from-a-comrade-in-syria/
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