Ocalan and the Kurds - silence

[Chris Burford]

By comparison with the opposition to NATO's action in defence of a national
minority oppressed by a non-NATO country, the silence about Ocalan in
marxism space is deafening.

This is about the oppression of a national minority in a NATO country,
whose leader was kidnapped by US intervention, and is highly likely to be
sentenced to death.

Is is that people cannot get their heads around camaigns for partial
reforms, and regard marxism as an abstract stance, a sort of style
accessory, a mark of political purity.

Or do people think the defence of an oppressed population group is not
important, unlike class struggle?

Chris Burford

London