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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Published in German in Yeni Özgür Politika and on ANF German. “When I arrived in Besta and saw the sun rising on Mount Herekol, it was wonderful, to say it in one word. You feel like newborn there.” Wolfgang Struwe is a revolutionary who has dedicated himself to the freedom struggle of Kurdistan. Wolfgang (63)
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Article was originally published by lowerclassmagazine on August 8 2018 A german internationalist at the PKK. Interview with Heval Delia. On his journey to Rojava LCM-reporter Bernd Machielski met the german internationalist Delia, who joined the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, the PKK, one year ago. A talk about her motivation and the Left in Germany. One
„I went to the mountains to start all over“ 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
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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
“My children are still in ISIS’ hands”: voices of Shengal women #1 Read More »
This interview was first published June 2017 in Lower Class magazine. At that time the academy was still under construction – see here for the changes the last 12 months have brought, including the completion of the academy, the launch of the Make Rojava Green Again campaign and our first education together. Baz Soz is
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This interview/article was originally published in the Independent newspaper. “Thirty years ago this area was full of trees,” Adin says, pointing at a dusty swathe of harvested wheat fields spreading to the horizon and the Turkish border beyond. “Then the regime sent men to cut them all down.” We are in the autonomous region of
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This interview was originally published in the New Statesman. Turkey’s recent, bloody invasion of Rojava is codenamed “Operation Olive Branch”. It’s a cruel misnomer, and not only because scores of civilians have died in Turkey’s relentless and indiscriminate shelling of the progressive, Kurdish-led autonomous region. Afrin is the isolated western enclave of Rojava that’s currently
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