Support Kurds (PKK and PYD) over Islamic State

Not since World War II have the interests of leftists and imperialists overlapped. And this has happened near the border with Turkey and Syria in Kobanê. Until that time ISIS was clearly taking on the US and European imperialists in that area. They even found some support in parts of Iraq that were occupied by the US and its lackeys.

Since that time they have attacked Kurdish towns and Kurdish interests. Even though the Kurdish groups and the US now have a common enemy, the nation of Turkey has decided that Kurdish nationalist groups, especially the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which they have designated as "terrorist organizations," are still as much of an enemy as ISIS (Islamic State). Turkey has been treating the ISIS threat as a terrorist against terrorist situation. By now all the other imperialists, including the US, have clearly decided that ISIS is the real enemy in that part of the world. ISIS has taken the world empire head on and has made it clear they want to be the major power broker in that part of the world. Despite the lack of revolutionary character of such groups as the PKK and the PYD, they still deserve our support over the imperialist powers and the nationalist Turkey Government that has tried to wipe out all traces of the Kurd culture.

-សតិវ​អតុ
Jack Lieberman, on the Facebook page SOCIALIST PARTY USA: America's Voice for Democratic Socialism, said:

“It is time for progressives around the world to speak out and demand that the US and EU end their blacklisting of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) as "terrorist organizations". The PKK & the PYD, which is leading the resistance in Kobane, are freedom fighters, who should be receiving whatever assistance they need in their fight to deal ISIS a decisive defeat in Kobane.”

From Maoist Road:

TURKEY | 27-10-2014 | Turkish support for ISIS gangs has been proved once more with photographic evidence.  Armed gang members have been photographed at the border with Turkish soldiers, bidding each other farewell.
Turkish support for ISIS gangs, which is constantly on the international agenda, has been documented once again by footage shot by the Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which shows armed men talking to soldiers before crossing into Rojava.
This close support for ISIS contrasts with the treatment accorded to dozens of civilians from Kobanê who have been made to wait for hours at the Murşitpınar border gate by soldiers and have lost their lives as a result.
Footage shot on the Zorava hill in Kobanê on 22 October 2014 shows five gang members arriving at the border where citizens of Kobanê have left their vehicles. The gang members burn the property of the Kobanê citizens, before taking away anything useful in the cars and heading towards the village of Siftêk, which is under their control. Then 2 gang members come to the border and talk to 7 soldiers who get out of an armoured vehicle. After about half an hour they say farewell to each other and leave the area. While what was said in the conversation is not known, the gangs who said farewell to the soldiers will be preparing to perpetrate fresh massacres. (ANF)