IFA call for solidarity with DAF in Turkey & Kurdistan

Source: IFA call for solidarity with DAF in Turkey & Kurdistan 24.10.2016

Since the coup in Turkey and the imposition of the state of emergency, we have seen increased repression of many groups and movements operating there. This is not only aimed at the organizers of the coup, but a wide repression of democratic, socialist, Kurdish groups and including our anarchist comrades of the DAF (Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet / Revolutionary Anarchist Action).

On two occasions, in 2010 and 2012, DAF has already been investigated by the state as a terror organization but these cases were dropped. Now, because of the state of emergency, the ability of DAF to organize is even more difficult. Their newspaper Meydan has been closed down and three new investigations have been started. This has also had serious economic impact for DAF.

In recent years DAF has been involved in many struggles including Gezi Park and supporting the Kurdish revolutionary process in Rojava and Bakur including refugee support. They are involved in workers’ and youth movement activities, ecological actions and anti-militarism, opposing patriarchy and supporting the LGBTI movement, and have been developing practices of collective living and economy and self-organisation.

IFA has already been involved in the solidarity movement with Rojava in many respects and in close cooperation with DAF. Now, due to the changed situation in Turkey, we must expand our support to DAF in more concrete ways. We also have to be vigilant of the real possibility of increased repression of DAF and the wider anarchist movement in the region and to be able to respond rapidly with strong solidarity actions. IFA is committed to this and we call on all friendly organizations to join us and also provide financial solidarity to DAF.

To support the call for solidarity & concrete support, you can contact the IFA secretariat

secretariat [at] i-f-a.org

DAF website: anarsistfaaliyet.org

Chronic and Advances in the International Anarchist Congress in Frankfurt 2016. Anarchists of the World Unite!

All we individual and collective anarchists around the globe are not alone, there are thousands of comrades scattered throughout the world and fighting, dreamers, freethinkers and nonconformist, wishing to organize:

Our efforts can be coordinated by the IFA!

We encourage everyone to contact! It's free, without compromis and as easy as participate in a global campaign a year. Each one in its own way and according to its possibilities, formal or informal, all the comrades are important.

Through microorganization of global decentralize network, we ants will chop down elephants.

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Tarcoteca Translation of: "Construir redes, fortalecer las luchas, Congreso Anarquista Internacional en Fráncfort" Tierra y Libertad, sep 2016, IFA-FAI

Its concluded the intense anarchist meeting in which participated hundreds of fellow delegates in the four days of discussions, labs and projects, during the International Anarchist Congress held in Frankfurt from 4th to 7th August 2016.

New South American organizations have joined to the IFA (International of Anarchist Federations) galaxy: the Valdivia Local Anarchist Federation  from Chile, the Initiative for the Brazilian Anarchist Federation and Mexican Anarchist Federation, during the Congress, while the Greek APO (Anarchist Political Organization) has request to joint. New organizational networks that enhance the possibility of social transformation in antiauthoritarian terms, particularly in Latin America.

Kurdish , Azeri, Turkish, Dutch, Croatian, Portuguese, American, New Zealand, Cuban, Dominican, Salvadoran and Venezuela anarchists realities have participated enriching the four days.

The times of collective discussion alternated with small groups workshops, to ease the confrontation and debate between present realities.

Coordinate the struggles and experiences, confront the international macro-process who looks enworsening in everyway from environmental conditions of life to the exploited classes work, in addition to the continuous reduction of the spaces of freedom together with the set of increasingly imposed policies by authoritarian governments and states, have been the focus of discussions and laboratories of Congress.

We have lacked spaces to compare experiences, to project and develop common campaigns against militarism, repression, patriarchy, solidarity and migrants support.

We will experience the success of these campaigns only over time and fight, but the fact of meeting and coordinate between geographically distant realities has already strengthened and enriched the experience we are carrying out on a local or national level.

The struggle for freedom and anarchy does not stop.

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