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100 years after the October Revolution

October 2017 marks the hundredth anniversary of the October Revolution. One hundred years have passed since the revolutionary masses of Petrograd, calling for “All Power to the Soviets”, raised their weapons against the exploiters and collaborators. With the call for “Bread! Peace! Freedom!”, the October Revolution established its place in world history as the starting […]

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A short analysis of the economical and political situation in the Middle East

By analyzing and understanding the current political, social, and economic situation in the Middle East, we can better understand the crisis of capitalist modernity. This can give us perspective to build up alternative solutions to the many problems oppressed people face today. The Middle East, particularly the Mesopotamian region between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers

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Rojava’s economics and the future of the revolution

The next text of Salvador Zana was published on Kurdish Question on 1 July 2017: Rojava’s economy has been much discussed. Rojava has been lauded by leftists all around the world to be some kind of communal, confederal socialist utopia unparalleled by anything else existing around the world right now, so the question of how

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Marching to Qamişlo – the Meşa Dirêj

“We’re here to show that we are a part of the revolution,” says Şilan as she opens the trunk of the loudspeaker-truck to retrieve some more flags. Şilan is one of a few hundred mainly kurdish and arab youths marching on the main street of Derik/Al-Malikiya towards Qamişlo on this sunny but cold Thursday afternoon. As

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Kurdish Women’s Radical Self-Defense: Armed and Political

This article of Dilar Dirik was published in TeleSur the 7 july 2015 The Kurdish women’s resistance operates without hierarchy and domination and is part of larger, societal transformation and liberation. The world’s powerful institutions operate through the state-structure, which has the ultimate monopoly on decision-making, economy, and the use of force. At the same

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