The imperialist policy of global capital, which feeds on blood, is the memory of the third war of division that began with the shaping of the Middle East in human history. When we look at the issue with this memory, we can better understand why the Kurdish people are always in the middle of war.
The centuries-old division map of the Middle East is a geography where not only national borders but also class interests are drawn in blood. Since the First World War, the Kurdish people have been kept at the center of the imperialist powers' showdown over oil, water and trade routes.
The process from Sykes-Picot to Lausanne shows that leaving the Kurdish people without status is not just a historical mistake, but a conscious choice of international capital to keep the region manageable. The division of the Kurdish geography into four parts was designed as a mechanism to keep the people under control both politically and economically. Because imperialism and their domestic collaborators, this division is not only a national oppression, but the construction of an order that deepens the class exploitation of the Kurdish People's Workers, Peasants, Workers and poor working peoples.
The Enmity against the Kurdish People is not only the policy of Nation-States, but also of Global Capital and their collaborators. In order to implement this policy, the oppression of the Kurdish people is not only the result of the internal policies of the states of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. This oppression is directly linked to the interests of international capital in the Middle East. The Mosul-Kirkuk oil fields are the main reason why the imperialist powers ignore the status of the Kurds. The Kurdish demand for freedom is seen as a threat to energy lines, military bases and trade corridors. Therefore, the Kurdish question is not only a question of national identity but also a class question imposed by the regional interests of the capitalist order. In this sense, the line of struggle in Rojava, the Rojava Revolution has revealed the class character of the national question.
The Rojava experience in Syria is a historical rupture that makes the class character of the Kurdish question most clearly visible. It is a multi-ethnic and multi-faith Democratic Self-Government model that puts women's freedom at the center, organized through local assemblies. In this sense, the Kurdish People's question and the Rojava revolution, which comes from the historical process, presented a revolutionary line rising against not only national oppression, but also against the male-dominated, centralized and exploitative structure of capitalist modernity, as an alternative to the Working Peoples of the World, the Oppressed Righteous and Oppressed and the Revolutionary-Socialists. In fact, this is the reason why Rojava is targeted by Imperialism and their collaborators and the counter-revolutionary forces ruling the society. Because Rojava has united the Kurdish People's struggle for freedom with social struggle, with Class and Revolutionary transformation. This unification has disrupted all the calculations of the imperialist powers and the regional states.
It is a war over the foreseen weak point in Syria, where the dominant powers are dividing their trump cards in the Third War of Sharing. The Syrian Transitional Government's attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria together with armed groups backed by Turkey are not only a military operation, but also an attempt to strangle the Rojava Revolution. These attacks are also part of the plans of the imperialist powers to redesign the region.
The US, Russia and European powers will want to use Rojava as an element of balance in line with their own interest calculations, not the revolutionary process in line with the demands of the Kurdish people. However, when the will of the Kurdish people for freedom strengthens, it will prevent every step that will upset this balance. This picture clearly shows that the attacks the Kurdish people are experiencing today have a class character, not a national one.
Today, in the geography where the Kurdish people live in four parts, national oppression and class exploitation are interconnected. The Kurdish people are struggling today in different forms in the four parts, but within the same historical line. The repressive policies of the state in Turkey, the conflict of interests of regional powers in Iraqi Kurdistan, the suppression of popular uprisings in Iran and the siege of Rojava in Syria are all parts of the same strategic line.
Unless the Kurdish people's demand for national freedom is united with the national and international Revolutionary-Socialist struggle of the class and social struggle of the Kurdish laborers, the barbaric and bloodsucking oppressive massacres of Imperialism on the Kurdish people will not disappear. With this perspective, it should be among the priority tasks of every individual who is enlightened, democratic, progressive and who will stand in favor of a solution.
As long as the Kurdish question is defined only as a national problem, it will remain unsolved. Because the problem is a class problem as well as a national one. Today, from Berlin to Paris, from Stockholm to Toronto, the Diaspora is the strongest expression of the international legitimacy of the Kurdish people. But the Diaspora is also a new front of the Kurdish workers' struggle against the global capitalist system.
Workers, migrant workers and youth of the Kurdish people in Europe are organizing against both national oppression and class exploitation. This situation carries the struggle of the Kurdish People beyond national borders and creates the potential to meet the international working class movement.
The Kurdish Question is also a Class Question. With the components of the revolutionary-socialist struggle for its solution, the demands of the Kurdish people today are not only struggling for a national identity. It is also waging a historical resistance against the exploitation mechanisms of the capitalist order in the Middle East. Rojava is a revolutionary experience that most clearly demonstrates the class character of this resistance and is a Women's revolution against the male-dominated system.
Therefore, the solution to the Kurdish question lies not within national borders, but in the unification of the Kurdish people's struggle for freedom with the working class struggle of the region and the world. The freedom of the Kurdish people is the freedom of the Middle East. And the freedom of the Middle East depends on the success of the class struggle against the capitalist exploitation order.