A combatjet passes in low flight over the city of Til Temir, making the windows of the houses vibrate, where Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians coexist in this arid city located today few kilometers of the front. When the blazing sound of the engine passes, the crying of a baby is the first thing to break […]
Til Temir: Front line – A letter from an internationalist friend Read More »
Antifascist activists, we came to Rojava. We were born and raised in Europe. We asked ourselves some questions. The ones we all ask ourselves. What am I doing here, what is this society in which I live. We were socialized, we went to school. We followed, for a time, the path that is determined by
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Published in German in Yeni Özgür Politika and on ANF German. “When I arrived in Besta and saw the sun rising on Mount Herekol, it was wonderful, to say it in one word. You feel like newborn there.” Wolfgang Struwe is a revolutionary who has dedicated himself to the freedom struggle of Kurdistan. Wolfgang (63)
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Article was originally published by lowerclassmagazine on August 8 2018 A german internationalist at the PKK. Interview with Heval Delia. On his journey to Rojava LCM-reporter Bernd Machielski met the german internationalist Delia, who joined the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, the PKK, one year ago. A talk about her motivation and the Left in Germany. One
„I went to the mountains to start all over“ Read More »
My interest in Rojava and Kurdistan ignited after a long time spent searching for a similar model or concept inside the Russian movement. The Russian movement is small and disorganised, and each person within it acts by themselves. A good example is the struggle against the ‘Nord Stream’ gas pipeline. Beginning in Vyborg city, the
Not scared to fight: Why I left Russia for the ecological struggle in Rojava Read More »
This article is part of our series on life for Êzidî (Yazidi) women, written by a member of the Internationalist Commune who is currently working in the women‘s structures in Shengal. Only the Kurdish movement intervened when the Kurmanci-speaking Êzidî people suffered genocidal massacre at the hands of Daesh in 2014, yet earlier this year
“We’re creating a society based on free women”: voices of Shengal women #3 Read More »
After two days on the road with the Kurdish Youth Movement, our feet are sore and our throats hoarse. In the end, a thousand-strong torrent of youth were beaten back by the gun-butts of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga as they attempted to cross the Tigris river border and join a “human shield” defending the Qandil
“I hear a difference in their shouts”: marching on Başur with the Kurdish youth Read More »
This is at the same time a farewell letter and a declaration of attack. It is a communiqué claiming responsibility and a personal reflection as well. „There‘s only one thing that is bigger than the love for freedom: the hate against those who take it away.“ – Che Guevara I feel myself part of an
From Germany to Rojava. Perspective of an anarchist youth from the BRD Read More »