DO THE KURDISH PEOPLE NEED A STATE?
from Umanita Nova, Oct. 20, 1996 This piece was originally written for a festival which took place last September 1 called “the Festival for Peace in Kurdistan”. It was our purpose to briefly shed some light on the situation in Kurdistan and to confront the crocodile tears which the capitalists and their media have been crying over Kurdistan. Kurdistan is a land in which the Kurdish people live in a feudal, capitalist system, where the workers, especially women and children suffer from poverty, abuse and oppression at the hands of those in power such as the Kurdish parties (the Kurdish Democratic Party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) and from the North Kurdistan PKK who are doing for Kurdish freedom what Yasser Arafat (that national liberation hero for the last 20 years) has done for the poor Palestinian population. After the Iranians were forced by the soldiers’ uprising and by the poor population to leave southern Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdistan in March ‘9 1, for a brief period t
