Coups, putsches and revolutions
Not only real, but counterfactual history too, can provide valuable political insights. Derek James reports on the Spring Communist University, held over the long bank holiday weekend of April 30-May 3
Organised by the CPGB and Labour Party Marxists, Spring 2021 CU, was designed, in part, to cast a sharp light on the momentous January 6 events in Washington. Titled ‘Coups, putsches and revolutions’, its aim was, though, designed not just to assess what exactly happened with Donald Trump, Capitol Hill, the boogaloos, the DC police and the servile GOP establishment, but to provide a much wider picture, so that we can draw operative conclusions when it comes to our own revolutionary practice in the future.
The Grey Wolves: A Marriage of Ethnic Religious Extremism
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February 22, 2021
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairperson Devlet Bahçeli during his party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara shows the plans of the school to be built in Shushi, Jan. 26, 2021. (Anadolu Agence Photo)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will reportedly join his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev at a groundbreaking ceremony Shushi for a “Grey Wolves” school, named after the ultra-radical, militant and national Turkish organization.
Plans for the establishment of such a school in Shushi, which was surrendered to Azerbaijan as a result of the November 9 agreement, were proposed last month by Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli. The Grey Wolves are considered the military wing of the party, which has close ties to Erdogan.
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton waded into troubled US-Turkey relations when she and her daughter Chelsea announced last week that they had acquired the rights to produce a television series based on a forthcoming book about Syrian Kurdish women fighters.
Written by bestselling American journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon,
The Daughters of Kobani is to be released on February 16 and will recount the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units’ (YPG) 2014 defence of the border city of Kobani from an ISIS assault and early days as the main local fighting force in the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS.
Turkey views the YPG as part of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has led an armed insurgency in the country’s south-east for decades and is labelled a terrorist group by the US and EU. Ankara s state-run news agency expressed fears that the Clintons’ series would “whitewash” terrorists as freedom fighters.