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Make Rojava Green Again! Picture Gallery – June 2018

Our Make Rojava Green Again crowdfunding campaign to publish a book sharing information about the ecological struggle here in Northern Syria is underway, and the book is being prepared for publication – you can learn more about how to support the project from afar here. Here on the ground in Rojava, meanwhile, our practical efforts […]

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“I hear a difference in their shouts”: marching on Başur with the Kurdish youth

After two days on the road with the Kurdish Youth Movement, our feet are sore and our throats hoarse. In the end, a thousand-strong torrent of youth were beaten back by the gun-butts of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga as they attempted to cross the Tigris river border and join a “human shield” defending the Qandil

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Why we’re planting trees in northern Syria – Independent article

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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Palestina, Kurdistan! Intifada, serhildan!

Being the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, large mobilisations have been organized in Gaza under the slogan: “the march of the return”. Children and grandchildren of those who were forcefully expelled have tried to return to their homes, finding the brutal repression of the Israeli armed forces, which have murdered

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Rojava to Lesvos – solidarity with the #Moria35

We, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, stand in solidarity with the #Moria35 political prisoners. These refugees were subjected to police brutality, found guilty on false charges, and are currently imprisoned in direct contravention of a court order. Their only “crime” was to engage in a peaceful demonstration outside the European Asylum Support Office on the

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Call: „Global Action Day for Hasankeyf and Sûr/Amed“, 28.4.2018

The ‘Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive’, together with the ‘Mesopotamia Ecology Movemen’t and the ‘Platform No to Destruction of Sur’, are calling for a global action day for the 28.04.2018 Stop the destruction of Hasankeyf and Sûr! We call upon all people and organizations to stand against the destruction of Hasankeyf and Sûr (old town

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