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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In remembrance of Mahir Serhat, who was murdered by the Turkish Air Force on 15 August 2018 Text was originally published in German by Lower Class Magazine on September 2 2018, written by Peter Schaber Someday in the last few weeks a Turkish delegation of men in suits and uniforms met with an American delegation
A revolution is taking place in Rojava as we speak. It might not be perfect, nor the utopia we dream of as we read Bonano while sipping coffee on our couches, nor the spontaneous insurrection against all authority that the invisible committee talks about, nor the epic revolution that we imagine when we speak of
We asked the people of Rojava for their opinion about German weapon deliveries to Turkey and the role of the company “Rheinmetall”. The people directly ask the workers of Rheinmetall to stop working “until no one is working anymore in these factories”. This said Baran from Derik, he continues: “We strongly condemn this. Why? Because
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An article written by the Ecuadorian journalist and sociologist, scholar of the Kurdish question Carlos Pazmiño. The threat of globalized capitalism requires that the efforts of the revolutionaries take an international dimension; a revolutionary process in Kurdistan or Latin America will hardly triumph if the imperialist centers are not weakened if not defeated. This fact makes us
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After several demonstrations and a two-day march to the border of Basur to go to Kandil, in order to resist the Turkish attacks, people were not allowed to cross the border. Therefore, a solidarity tent was erected on the border of Rojava with Basur in Semalka, north-east of Rojava, to protest against the turkish attacks
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The story by the witness of yesterday’s protest at the border of Syria and Iraq about the final journey of Zeki Şengali, leader of Ezidis. Caravans from cities in Rojava started toward Şengal to bid farewell to Zeki Şengali. Many kilometers of hundreds of white cars drove to the border of Rojava and Iraq… the
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In Memory of Sehid Zekî Şengalî – Sehid Namirin! When we get into our cars on 18th August 2018, the sun is still low in the sky of Rojava. For outsiders, it seems like a normal day. But it is precisely these outsiders that are not visible to us in the entire city of Derik.
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