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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dear friends, One year ago, 12th of June 2017, we shared the first public statement of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, presenting our project to the world. Also 12th of June is the birthday of Anna Campbell, şehid Helin Qereçox, who give name to the first Internationalist Academy of Rojava. Today, after one year of
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In December 2017 I had the chance to be one of the few internationalists to be sent to Afrin to works in society, a society that has been under embargo for more than 6 years, surrounded by the reactionary Syrian Arab Army, the fascist Turkish Armed Forces and a wide constellation of islamists factions. When