Article in other languages: SPA – GER When I first visited Raqqa in 2022 with friends from the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, the consequences of the fight against the Islamic State were still evident everywhere: collapsed houses between the open rows of shops in the city center and bullet holes in the walls of many […]
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Other languages: ITA – GER – KURDÎ In hierarchical and statist society systems, the most important political phenomenon is the conflict between the democratic element and the war and power clique. There is a constant struggle between the democratic elements based on communality—society’s mode of existence—and war and power cliques that disguise themselves as hierarchy
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Article in other languages: ITA GER FR When we first arrive in the Middle East, and especially in Rojava, we have to learn everything again from the beginning. We have to admit to ourselves that we have not really understood much of the reality here. Everything we have read, heard, and discussed gives us perhaps
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Other languages: ITA Introduction Following the proposal of Abdullah Öcalan expressed in his message released on February 27, 2025, the central committee of PKK held its 12th congress. On May 12, 2025, it took the decision to dissolve the party and halt the armed struggle. On the occasion of the 42th anniversary of the beginning
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Article in other languages: ITA – GER We will spend a few days in Tabqa, a large Arab majority city on the bank of the Euphrates river, not far from Raqqa. Since its liberation from the Islamic State in 2017, Tabqa is part of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES). For
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In commemoration of the 74th genocide against the Ezidian people we created a mural with a quote of Rêber APO, saying “The freedom of the Ezidis and the freedom of the people of the Middle East are intertwined”. This is our statement: On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State attacked the Shengal region and tried
During the 12th congress of the PKK, held between May 5 & 7 in two separate locations in the Free Mountains of Kurdistan it was announced that Heval Fûat (Ali Haydar Kaytan) one of the leading cadres of the party had been fallen martyr in 2018. Heval Fûat was a guerrilla, intellectual, politician, poet and
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Şehîd Mizgîn (Hozan Mizgîn) clearly showed us what music has to do with the fight of the guerrilla What would life be without music? In times when cultural genocide is advancing all over the world, it is more important than ever to understand the connections between art, culture, and revolutionary struggle. Instead of asking “either
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