Women’s liberation – Page 7 – Internationalist Commune

From Raqqa to Kobane, from colonial past till today’s flourishing of the revolution.

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Through two short texts a comrade of the Internationalist Commune tells those two cities through his own experience there. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The stolen brothers of Kobane. 2. After war and death, the liberation of life and of women – The women council of Raqqa. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The […]

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The defence of the revolution

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The woman, who has become the centre of society, has made the greatest impression on the revolution in Rojava in recent years. Women who are resisting in the autonomous revolutionary peoples and society defense units – especially the YPJ – against the annihilation of the people through the fascist attacks of Turkey, as well as

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A Ray of Hope

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Foza Yusuf, member of the coordination of Kongra Star, former co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, on the importance of internationalist works against Turkish fascism. First of all I would like to greet all our people worldwide, all friends of the Kurdish people and all freedom-seeking women on the occasion of

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Call out: Women Defend Rojava

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To freedom seeking women and people of the world, to all internationalists, to democratic and revolutionary forces everywhere: Kongra Star and the women of North and East Syria call out to you to stand with us and take action in defence of our land and worldwide revolutionary values. We announce the campaign Women Defend Rojava.

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

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“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

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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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Women’s structures of Internationalist Commune of Rojava – The New International

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The eleventh episode of the New International follows the work of Heval Zelal, a French revolutionary who’s joined the education at the Internationalist Commune as part of the autonomous women’s structures. The New International is a biweekly, bilingual show broadcast on Kurdistan’s Stêrk TV. Each episode follows a day in the life of an internationalist revolutionary

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

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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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