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THE Scottish TUC Congress called on Western governments yesterday to recognise the rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and resolved to support Rojava in Syria, defend Kobane and defeat Islamic State (Isis).
“The heroic struggle made by the defence forces of Rojava including women and youth and the PKK Kurdistan Workers Party has inspired people around the world,” South Lanarkshire TUC delegate Phil McGarry told the STUC Congress.
“Reinforced by peshmerga forces of the Kurdish regional government they have defeated Isis and liberated their city Kobane.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS