This attack is a sign of solidarity with the oppressed Kurdish and Palestinian populations who face a highly armed occupation regime on a daily basis. We stand in solidarity with the struggling revolutionary movements in Palestine and Kurdistan. AXA invests in involved arms companies and banks, both in Turkey and Israel. AXA exemplifies the role that Western capital plays around the globe.
In 2019, AXA withdrew (at least partially) from its business with the largest Israeli defense contractor called Elbit Systems. This was a result of public pressure. But millions continue to flow from AXA into the maintenance and expansion of the occupation – and profits flow back. The insurance company invests in banks that finance the illegal settlements, in technology companies that build the pipelines that carry water from Palestinian sources to the settlements, or in companies that supply the servers for the racist checkpoints in the West Bank.
AXA gained a strong position in the Turkish market through a joint venture with Oyak. Oyak – the pension fund of Turkish officers – is something like the backbone of the military-industrial complex in Turkey. Oyak holds large stakes in the Turkish defense industry, but is also one of the most powerful economic players in other sectors. With privileges, Oyak has secured the loyalty of officers for decades. For AXA, cooperation with this control center of Turkish fascism was a key to success. In 2008, AXA bought out all the shares and paid Oyak half a billion for them.
And even today AXA invests in the Turkish defense industry, for example in the Aselsan Group, one of Turkey’s central defense companies. Aselsan has multiplied its profits in the last seven years. The armament of Erdogan’s dictatorship and the brutal wars of aggression in all parts of Kurdistan have brought a lot of money into the coffers. AXA is also profiting from this bloody money.
With attacks like these we show: the global system of exploitation and oppression is not a purely abstract structure floating somewhere above our heads. The rich and powerful corporations that finance and profit from the world’s wars have names and addresses. As revolutionaries in the West, we need to work on a practical internationalism that targets these corporations. We need an international movement that fights uncompromisingly against this system. We salute the revolutionaries of Kurdistan. This attack is a sign of solidarity with the oppressed Kurdish and Palestinian populations, who face a highly armed occupation regime every day. AXA invests in involved arms companies and banks, both in Turkey and Israel. AXA exemplifies the role that Western capital plays around the globe.
Hail to international solidarity!
source: https://barrikade.info/article/5379
video of action: https://gfycat.com/questionableserenecoelacanth
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