Kurdish Obsession

While checking some German sites supporting the Kurdish Resistance I came across S.Castro, a German, left-wing rapper. Most information about him is in German (so it's not much helpful to me), but google translate helps a lot with this interview. He's of Kurdish ascent and says interesting things like this:

The S in my stage name is my second name Sinan. The Castro is Fidel Castro, because I greatly admire him as a person and I'm a big supporter of the Cuban Revolution.

In this video one of the guys next to him wears a t-shirt with what I think is the face of the Venezuelan Revolutionary Comandante Hugo Chávez. The music, same as in this other one, is pretty interesting, it sounds rather epic and powerful.

This site contains some very interesting articles about the heroic fight of the Kurdish people. It's quite noteworthy how they stress the fact that this Kurdish fight is more than just the (very noble) cause of defeating the biggest monstrosity humanity has ever seen (IS), it's a fight for a new model of society, more egalitarian and let's say "socialist" (assemblies, cooperatives...). I had already mentioned here my perception of Kurdish nationalism as inclusive and left-wing, and how inspiring it is to find something like that in a human group that is mainly Muslim; what has been going in Rojava in the last years seems to corroborate such perception. Who knows, if hopefully some day the IS monster is dead and buried Rojava will turn into a hot spot for left-wing tourism.

What I've just said is a clear sign of the moral decline of our society. Someone that for so many years has felt such an enormous hate for fundamentalist Islam and other kinds of fascist, discriminatory and oppressive ideologies, should not be thinking of going as a tourist to a calm and free Kurdistan, should be thinking of getting a weapon and joining some sort of XXI century International Brigades and go to Rojava to defend humanity from such abomination of hate and madness. We should all feel Kurdish blood flowing through our veins, but let's assume it, in spite of the economical crisis, most Europeans still live comfortable lives when compared to other generations, and that has made us coward bastards. This article drawing parallelisms between Rojava and the fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War is real food for thought. If you can read Spanish you must also check this page.

I can't find a better way to finish this article than treating you with this brilliant sentence taken from this brilliant article

To forget is to betray