(Ebook) Syrian Revolution: Anarchist initiative from Koridalos prison by coll.

(Ebook) Syrian Revolution: Anarchist initiative from Koridalos prison by coll.

Authors: Anarchists from Korydallos prisonThe recent developments in Syria - or, more accurately, the geographical area that used to be the Syrian state until 2011 - constitute the most complex link in a chain of revolutions that started to take place in the Arab world towards the end of 2010. The uprising against an autocratic regime, the uncompleted revolution of the local committees, the genocidal involvement of the USA and Russia, the chaotic war against everyone, the emergence of ISIS, the special case of the Kurdish communities of Rojava, the hundreds of thousands of deaths and the millions of refugees, the total war conflicts as well as the seemingly incongruent alliances and a lot more aspects are all pieces of a puzzle that reflects a battlefield of geopolitical competitions among the global dominant powers of our times.2As events as such write the modern world history, all revolutionarymovements need to process the information available, discuss andcome to conclusions and eventually choose sides and fight withoutfailing to take the context of this historical reality into account.The text on hand does not set out to provide an exhaustive historicalnarrative. Yet, it does set out to open a discussion that will look intoall the critical issues raised. Also, our aim is to turn our ideas intoaction, thus we choose to go against the widespread inertia thatsurrounds the subject matter.A historical period as such requires much more than a meretheoretical analysis. As the hotbed of war keeps spreading and isnow reaching Europe, it is urgent that we create an anti-warmovement which will fight for and demand an end to theinternational military interventions, put forward ideas on horizontalself-organization, empower the oppressed and ultimately stand upagainst the rise of totalitarianism.We know well that we can achieve nothing and nothing will bespared for us unless we fight at all levels and to all directions inorder to intensify and expand our horizontal, grass-roots self-organization.For the war against state and capitalism.Korudallos prison, November 2016