Afrin, Afrinlilerindir. Afrin’de yaşayan halklar, bu topraklarda ölmüş ve bu topraklarda doğmuşlardır. Orada yaşamak, herhangi bir planla programla alakalı değildir. Bir strateji olarak Afrin’de değillerdir. Afrin onlar için su, ekmek , aş, oyun, öykü, arkadaş, dost, sevgili, sokak, ev, mahalledir. Devlet içinse sadece bir stratejidir. Afrin ve Afrinlileri umursamayan bir strateji.

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This article looks at the recent events around the removal of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe. It argues that this will not bring liberation for the people of Zimbabwe, as it does not address the problems Zimbabwe faces – a ruthless ruling class, its state, capitalism and imperialism.

Robert Mugabe, the longstanding authoritarian ruler that has waged a war against Zimbabwe’s poor, is gone. He was forced to resign in the wake of a coup – although the main actors in the coup comically denied it was one.

When it was announced that Mugabe was exiting power, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Harare to celebrate. Many are hoping that his exit will bring change for the better for Zimbabwe. This hope, unfortunately, may be wishful thinking. The reason for this is that Mugabe was a symptom of far deeper problems, and without addressing those problems, Zimbabwe cannot be free; nor can there be genuine equality. Similarly, those that removed Mugabe are cut from the same cloth, and come from the same ruthless ruling class.

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La masacre que recientemente se ha producido en el corregimiento de Llorente, en Tumaco, en la que ha muerto un número aún indeterminado de campesinos, cifra que no baja de los ocho muertos según los datos que recibimos de personas en el terreno, nuevamente enluta al movimiento popular colombiano. Hechos como los de Tumaco son particularmente graves por el número de muertos, pero son escasamente excepcionales: en el marco de las erradicaciones forzadas, se han venido presentando hechos de violencia similares en el Meta, Guaviare, Caquetá, Putumayo, Cauca, Antioquia. Trump chasquea los dedos, amenaza con descertificar a Colombia, exige más erradicaciones, y Santos le ofrece a su amo, servilmente, sangre colombiana para quedar bien y aplacar su ira.

When Obama received the Nobel Prize in 2009, the committee acknowledged his commitment to peace. He has since bombed eight countries.

On January 3, 2017, Syrian refugees, joined by Iraqi refugees and international supporters, marched on the Russian embassy in Thessaloniki, Greece. An article reporting on the march quotes a Syrian refugee as follows:

“They are trying to kill all the flowers in Syria, but they cannot kill the Spring. The Spring is coming. We are here, they cannot kill all the Syrian people.”

(“Syrian refugees in Greece despair over Aleppo,” reported by Marianna Karakoulaki and Dimitiris Tosidis, DW, January 3, 2017 (../http//dw.com/p/2vBIT))