Marv Gandall: Surprising how little attention the heroic defence of Kolbani by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) has drawn in progressive circles in the West. The YPG is is the only secular left-wing organization in the Middle East (or anywhere else, for that matter) currently leading a popular armed struggle. It's been the most effective fighting force resisting the fanatically reactionary Islamic State despite being starved by the Turkish and US governments of the heavy weaponry it needs to avert a massacre.
------------ (1) Of course the U.S. and Turkey would not give aid to any truly independent and/or "progressive" force in the Middle East. Democracy is too damn dangerous and must not be encouraged. (2) There is no coherent Left in either the U.S. or in Europe to pay "attention" -- and "progressive circles" is a meaningless phrase. (3) From the viewpoint of U.S. and European capital endless war and chaos in the Middle East is far preferable to any independent power arising there. Carrol P.S. Is it surprising or a mere curiosity that _no_ attention has been paid by those "progressive circles" to the horror unfolding in Honduras & Haiti? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
