Ciao you all! I send greetings to the comrades in solidarity during this hunger strike, and I want to tell them that their solidarity is a great moral support for us. I also send my sincerest regards to the leader of this strike, Leyla Güven and to all the other strikers. At this moment, all […]
Greetings from Erol Aydemir in Rome to internationalists on hunger strike Read More »
The hunger strikes launched by DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Guven demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan have continued for 5 months. The Kurdish people and peoples of the world who share a similar fate display a spirit of revolutionary solidarity with every chance they get.
Comrade of Bobby Sands: The silence is shameful Read More »
“What is more morbid, a lifeless body in the system or a free body and mind in a hunger strike,” asks a Berlin-based activist in a commentary on the mass hunger strike against Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation. As we all hear from the latest news, there are hundreds of people in Turkish prisons and people here
Comment: Ready to die for life Read More »
In the March issue of the women’s newspaper Newaya Jin the journalist Füsün Erdoğan, who herself spent eight years in a Turkish prison on terror charges, writes about the history and present of hunger strikes as a means of struggle. Hunger strikes and death fasting are historical means of struggle. If in this day and
Women in the fight for freedom: Yesterday and today of hunger strikes Read More »
We publish two statements about Newroz, Internationalism and the revolutionary struggle in Kurdistan. One is written by members of the Internationalist Commune, the other one by an activist in the feminist campaign “Gemeinsam Kämpfen – für Selbstbestimmung und demokratische Autonomie“. The campaign started on November 25, 2017, with demonstrations in Hamburg, Berlin and Celle. The
Newroz pîroz be!: Newroz, Internationalism and the revolutionary struggle in Kurdistan. Read More »
Dear comrades in Italy, dear comrades all over the world, our friend and comrade Lorenzo Orsetti, Heval Tekoşer Piling, internationalist revolutionary fall Şehîd fighting bravely in the final stages of the battle against the Islamic State near Baghouz (Deir Ezzor) on March 18th. A death so painful for all internationalists in Rojava, just when the
For Şehîd Tekoşer Piling (Lorenzo Orsetti) Read More »
Originally published on Komundergi, written by Asli Polat. The women‘s communes “les Pétroleuses*” In the spring of the year 1871 in Paris.. In the popular uprising known as the Paris Commune the participation of women was very high. Typically, women were seen as those who carry medicines, canned foods or other supply to the front.
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Interview about Sehid Helin Qerecox with Heval Berivan and Heval Gelhat Anna Campbell, Helin Qerecox, left for Rojava in May 2017 to join the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ). A year ago, on March 15, 2018, she fell in an attack by the Turkish army in the defense of Efrîn. With others, she has become a
Interview: “… learning about Helin has affected other people’s decision to come here” Read More »