In the period of capitalism's decadence, it is no longer possible for the working class to given any support of any kind whatever, to so-called movements of "national liberation". All states are equally imperialist.

How the revolutionary wave of 1917-23 was weakened by support for "national liberation" movements

Submitted by International Review on 22 July, 1991 - 18:43

The Kurdish tragedy is the latest demonstration of the bloody barbarity brought about by so-called 'national liberation' struggles. The United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Iran, all the different imperialist protagonists who brought about the outrage of the Gulf War, encouraged the Kurds in one way or the other to rise up in armed insurrection for their 'national liberation'. Now we can see how they left Saddam Hussein to crush them and cast them into exile...