Two days ago a fire started in a field near the International Commune. It’s unclear if it was started deliberately or accidentally. Last year ISIS sleeper cells and other Turkish proxies waged a brutal campaign of arson against crop fields in Rojava. Many thousands of acres of wheat were lost, and a number of farmers […]
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Burning crops is a common strategy of repressive states. The Turkish State also regularly burns forests in occupied areas that refuse to submit to their rule. They often destroy villages in the process. On the one hand, this serves as collective punishment and as a warning to others. On the other hand, it is part
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The Internationalist Commune send our support to Solidarity Keeps Us Alive, a campaign to release all political prisoners whose lives and health are at serious risk due to Coronavirus pandemic. The campaign’s aims are- + To establish meaningful contact between prisoners, especially women, relatives and supporters and to make the situation and voices of the
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The Autonomous Administration has just announced the extension of the anti-Corona quarantine measures for another ten days. This is a shorter period than before, and the curfew has also been amended to allow money exchanges to operate for two days a week. This was a common demand from the people here. Many families rely on
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As Corona exposes the fragility and callousness of the Nation-State system, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria is proving far more capable. In many ways the system is designed to operate well in times of challenge and crisis – and for years it has weathered war, embargo, and terrorism. Despite these constant pressures,
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Through two short texts a comrade of the Internationalist Commune tells those two cities through his own experience there. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The stolen brothers of Kobane. 2. After war and death, the liberation of life and of women – The women council of Raqqa. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The
From Raqqa to Kobane, from colonial past till today’s flourishing of the revolution. Read More »
Already for some days there are increasing signs that a renewed offensive of the fascist Turkish army could soon be imminent. We have always stressed that the war was never stopped, but only changed its form. But the warfare of low intensity could soon turn into new open fronts. The enemy is again pulling together
Dictator Erdogan threatens further invasions in Syria – Prepare the defense of Kobanê Read More »
Actually, it’s very difficult to start this letter. No beginning is adequate to express the immense pain that the death of a companion, of a friend, of a great “Heval” produces. More than a month has passed since his departure, and it is still difficult to find the words that can describe the emptiness that
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