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 […]
People of Rojava comdemn German weapon delivieries to Turkey Read More »
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
Criticism of paper internationalism Read More »
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
From Semalka to Kandil: Solidarity! Read More »
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.
In Memory of Şehid Zekî Şengalî – Şehid Namirin! 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 »
Comrades from the Special Patrol Group recently launched a subvertising campaign in London, hacking ads to display images from the Internationalist Commune’s forthcoming book ‘Make Rojava Green Again’. The images, of imprisoned representative of the Kurdish movement Abdullah Ocalan and a flower blooming from an AK-47, appeared overnight in bus-stop advertisement hoardings. Now Special Patrol
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