Our attitude towards Rojava must be Critical Solidarity By Zaher Baher 30/01/2016 Many articles from different people about Rojava have expressed different views. The vast majority of them have covered the positive and bright sides of this experiment. I too have written many articles, in both Kurdish and English. In addition, I have given many […]
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Organising ourselves is the first and main step towards our aim By Zaher Baher October 2018 In June 2017 I wrote an article “Our struggle must go beyond what our lifestyle demands”*. In that article I stressed some major factors that may be obstacles in the way of our struggles. Since I wrote that article […]
Leftists and Communists have damaged the Socialist movement as much as the right-wing did By: Zaher Baher Sep 2016 The last century has seen a couple of historical catastrophes that continue to present day and the world still suffers from their fallout. The first one was so-called the Bolshevik revolution (Bolshevism) and the second was […]
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Is the working class revolutionary?
Is the working class revolutionary? By Zaher Baher August 2017 Well, this is not an easy question to answer in a short article like this. Before we go any further, we may need the actual definition of “working class”. I admit again this is not easy either. There are different concepts or definitions for “working […]
Is President Donald Trump a threat and danger? By: Zaher Baher June 2020 Certainly he is, but who is he a threat to? Before answering this question, I believe that history has so far taught us a few things about the revolution that we cannot ignore. Firstly, it has shown that political parties, such as-lefties […]
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Is Capitalism in Crisis, or Are We?
Is Capitalism in Crisis, or Are We? By Zaher Baher October 2015 Capitalism and its media have always tried to confuse and deceive us by presenting reactionary movements, events, and experiments as if they were revolutionary, when in fact they benefit the system rather than us. For almost a century media outlets tried to sell state capitalism to us as socialism, calling Russian bourgeois society a socialist society. For about forty years they tried to tell us that what happened in […]
Interview with Beyond Europe about Turkey Election 21/06/2018 1) Is there still a chance that Erdogan will not win the game? If so, who are his counterparts? What strategy do they pursue and what goals do they have? What is going to happen if the HDP exceeds 10 % and moves into parliament? A: I […]
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How can we take our movement forward?
How can we take our movement forward? By: Zaher Baher Feb 2017 The world still suffers from the current economic crisis that started in 2008. It has not only made the vast majority of us poorer, our life harder and, in fact it has limited our freedom as well. In the meantime the number of visible […]
Either it’s the people’s revolution or no revolution. By: Zaher Baher May 2019 Before going further I must stress that the revolution for me is a social transformation to a non-hierarchical and classless society, socialism. And this article is very much connected to some of my previous articles, especially, “The people’s movement desperately needs working […]
Dilar response of on my article about PKK and my reply Dear Zaher, 24/01/2018 Thank you for your article. I hope you are well. I disagree with many of the things that you have written, mostly because I don’t think you have backed up your arguments with substance, but of course I will try to […]