Article in other languages: – ESP – GER – ITA This landFertile with dreamsOpens our heartsIn a single heartThousands of souls liveBecause love has no bordersMy courageDoes not belong only to this bodyMy courageIs that of thousands of othersLoveHolds the whole universe togetherIt is the key to lifeAnd of our successThe brightest starsAre the comradesWho […]
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Following Assad’s fall in December 2024, the Turkish state and its mercenaries intensified its attacks on the autonomous administration of north-eastern Syria. The situation was uncertain, but the people were prepared for anything. This was particularly evident in Kobanê, where the Tishreen Dam had been attacked, leaving the city without a water and electricity supply
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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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The new song “On the lands of Afrin” of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava and the Young Internationalist women is dedicated to the two woman revolutionaries Şehîd Hêlîn Qereçox and to Şehîd Ronahî Yekta. Both of them martyred in the struggle for freedom in North-East Syria.
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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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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
Monte Melkonian was an US-born Armenian revolutionary who struggled for the liberation of his land from Turkish occupation from the late 80’s until the Nagorno-Karabach war against Azerbaijan where he fell martyr in 1993. The struggle for the Armenian cause brought Monte to Lebanon where he joined the ranks of ASALA (Armenian secret army for
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