I met Elefteria in 2018. From the first moment until the last time I saw her, she was always determined to fight and never doubted it for a moment. Elefteria the German anarchist who spoke a lot about her time in the Hambi and the struggle to protect the forests and nature. She was deeply […]
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A few days ago we received the message that a German friend had fallen in the mountains. The identity of the friend who fought to the last breath during a guerrilla action against advancing Turkish troops in Xakurke (mountain massif in southern Kurdistan) was published: Azad Şerger, real name Thomas Joham Spries. When we read
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On the 24th of March we gathered together with many internationalists and local families of martyrs to commemorate six internationalist martyrs that fell in the month of march: Alina Sànchez (Lêgrîn Çiya), Eleftheria Fortoulaki, Anna Campbell (Hêlîn Qereçox), Lorenzo Orsetti (Têkoşer Piling), Ivana Hoffman (Avașîn Tekoșîn) and Theofilos Georgiadis. While we used this day to
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Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn Çiya, on the Rojava Revolution1 Editorial introduction After listening to a talk in the auditorium at the University of Nariño, Alina approached us and said: “From the way the speaker talks, one can tell he has a people behind him.” She was referring to how one can tell how much someone has
Şehîd Lêgerîn Çiya: “A Beacon of Hope for the World.” Read More »
We the Internationalist Commune publish here a memorial video of friends of S. Bager (Michael Panser) about his life and his search for truth. “Our friend, son, brother and comrade Michael Panser or for most simply Micha was killed as a guerrilla in the free mountains of Kurdistan by the Turkish military on December 14,
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We have read the open letter that you wrote to Merkel and we are very happy about your coming together and the joint initiative. As internationalists who are part of the revolution and freedom struggle in Kurdistan and Rojava in different ways, as comrades of your children with whom some of us spent beautiful, precious
To our families, the families of Ş. Nûdem, Ş. Avaşîn, Ş. Şiyar, Ş. Bager and Ş. Andok: Read More »
Those letters have been first published in Spanish onto the Rojava no está sola blog, then kindly translated to allow their publication in English that we reproduce here. Letter 1: Truly, it is really difficult to start this letter. No beginning is adequate to express the immense pain that comes with the death of a
Our friend, internationalist revolutionary and guerrilla fighter Michael Panser, Bager Nûjiyan (also Xelîl Vîyan) died and became immortal on December 14, 2018 in a Turkish air raid on the Medya defense areas in Southern Kurdistan. “Our hearts are full of pain, our heads are full of memories. Heval Bager was a friend who will remain
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