Women struggle
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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Statement of YPJ international Erdogan and the AKP- MHP fascists have shown with the recent bombings of already displaced people in the camp in Maxmur and Yazidis in Şengal their will to invade also Rojava/Northern Syria and introduce fascism all over Kurdistan and beyond. Since a long time the Turkish state has kept a strong
Yesterday the Internationalist Women from the Commune went together to Xana Sêr, a village next to Dêrik. We joined the march of young women for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, who is in captivity since 20 years on the turkish prison-island Imrali. We were more than 200 young women, who walked together from Xana Sêr
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As Women of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava we are greeting all of the women worldwide, fighting daily against patriarcal opression and violence and taking their struggle to the streets . We are standing shoulder to shoulder with you and recognise this fight as a common struggle. The fight for the liberation of women is
Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Read More »
A global problem means a global fight and makes internationalism necessary. But what does internationalism mean in a revolutionary sense? What does it mean for women? Women`s struggles have always been internationalist. What we have in common, is something that is hard to explain with words. It is the feeling we have when we see,
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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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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 »
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
“They sold me for a cigarette”: voices of Shengal women #2 Read More »