In remembrance of Mahir Serhat, who was murdered by the Turkish Air Force on 15 August 2018 Text was originally published in German by Lower Class Magazine on September 2 2018, written by Peter Schaber Someday in the last few weeks a Turkish delegation of men in suits and uniforms met with an American delegation […]
A revolution is taking place in Rojava as we speak. It might not be perfect, nor the utopia we dream of as we read Bonano while sipping coffee on our couches, nor the spontaneous insurrection against all authority that the invisible committee talks about, nor the epic revolution that we imagine when we speak of
An article written by the Ecuadorian journalist and sociologist, scholar of the Kurdish question Carlos Pazmiño. The threat of globalized capitalism requires that the efforts of the revolutionaries take an international dimension; a revolutionary process in Kurdistan or Latin America will hardly triumph if the imperialist centers are not weakened if not defeated. This fact makes us
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After several demonstrations and a two-day march to the border of Basur to go to Kandil, in order to resist the Turkish attacks, people were not allowed to cross the border. Therefore, a solidarity tent was erected on the border of Rojava with Basur in Semalka, north-east of Rojava, to protest against the turkish attacks
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The story by the witness of yesterday’s protest at the border of Syria and Iraq about the final journey of Zeki Şengali, leader of Ezidis. Caravans from cities in Rojava started toward Şengal to bid farewell to Zeki Şengali. Many kilometers of hundreds of white cars drove to the border of Rojava and Iraq… the
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In Memory of Sehid Zekî Şengalî – Sehid Namirin! When we get into our cars on 18th August 2018, the sun is still low in the sky of Rojava. For outsiders, it seems like a normal day. But it is precisely these outsiders that are not visible to us in the entire city of Derik.
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Comrades from the Special Patrol Group recently launched a subvertising campaign in London, hacking ads to display images from the Internationalist Commune’s forthcoming book ‘Make Rojava Green Again’. The images, of imprisoned representative of the Kurdish movement Abdullah Ocalan and a flower blooming from an AK-47, appeared overnight in bus-stop advertisement hoardings. Now Special Patrol
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Pictures of the şehids, or martyrs of the revolutionary struggle, are everywhere in Rojava. Backed by canary-yellow and forest-green YPG/YPJ livery, they stare out from roadside hoardings and the walls of schools and hospitals, from the phone backgrounds of comrades in the military and civilian structures, at the entrance to each city and in endless
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