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Anna Mae Aquash – From the US to Kurdistan: the indigenous struggle for freedom

“I won’t stop fighting for my country until I die”(Anna Mae) Some time ago we painted the portrait of Anna Mae Aquash on the wall of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. Beside her are the faces of Commandante Ramona from Chiapas, the black American revolutionary Harriet Tubman, the PKK’s co-founder Sakine Cansiz and the Communard

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For a new Internationalism of Women: Democratic World Women’s Confederalism

The Kurdish women’s liberation movement presented its proposal for a democratic confederalism of women for the first time in October 2018 at the International Women’s Conference in Frankfurt, which was organized by the network “Women Weaving the Future” under the title “Revolution in the Making”. In its five-page declaration for this year’s 8 March the

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Commemoration of two internationalist women – Uta Schneiderbanger

Uta Schneiderbanger with Kurdish name Nudem, which means “New Time”, was born on July 20, 1961 in Mühlheim an der Ruhr in Germany. Since her youth she has been active in leftist movements, especially in the women’s movement. Uta heard about the new Kurdish liberation movement for the first time at the end of the

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Commemoration of two internationalist women – Ekin Ceren Doğruak

She was born in January 1981 in Ankara. Her family was originally from Agean region of Turkey. She left her studies in Ankara University Sociology Department in her last year. During her university studies she met Kurds and the Kurdish freedom movement. She participated in different student movements. At the same time she participated in

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Women in the fight for freedom: Yesterday and today of hunger strikes

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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