“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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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the 100th anniversary of the III. international Yesterday we, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, were celebrating the birth of the Communist Internationale also known as 3rd Internationale. Most of our contemporaries see the Comintern as a tool of control in the hands of the Stalinist leadership of USSR. It is held responsible of the defeat
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The war on Northern Syria/Rojava is exacerbating the ecological crisis in the Middle East. But at the same time it offers the chance to reveal the connections between imperialism and the destruction of nature and to unite struggles for ecology, radical democracy and peace; an opportunity to learn from each other and to reach out
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