ECR's Meredith Tax writing for Dissent: Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava

Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left. Read the full article at Dissent.

"Turkey’s invasion of Rojava is not only a source of deep shame and disgust to many Americans, particularly those in the military, but a terrible defeat for the international left. The revolutionary system now in place in Rojava is an attempt at a new socialist paradigm, something the international left has been looking for since the end of the Cold War.

From this point of view, the real reason Turkey invaded Rojava is the same one that made the UK, France, and the United States invade Russia in 1918 at the start of the Bolshevik Revolution. There is nothing more threatening to a decaying system than an alternative, and to patriarchal conservatives like Turkey’s President Recip Tayyip Erdoğan, the feminist democratic paradigm being developed in Rojava is intolerable."