After 200 days of incomparable historical resistance, the hunger strikes in Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe have been declared over today. We send our warmest revolutionary greetings to all comrades who took part in the hunger strike and the many resistance actions and congratulate the free peoples on this victory. On November 8, 2018 the Kurdish […]
With the spirit of the hunger strikers to the end of Turkish fascism Read More »
Today, on the 15th May 2019 we write to remember the struggle in Palestine and to call for building democratic confederalism all over the Middle East. Remembering the Nakba, 15th May 2019 Today, on the 15th May 2019 we write to remember the struggle in Palestine and mark 71 years since the Nakba (catastrophe) expelled
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In May, we will be releasing a series of articles related to the history of revolutionaries and their struggles. The stories and fights of Bobby Sands and Ulrike Meinhof, Hakî Karer and Deniz Gezmis still have a special meaning for us today and give us revolutionary perspectives for the future. As internationalists, we continue their
I. “Remembering means fighting” – the day of Ulrike Meinhof’s death Read More »
Dear Comrades, We greet you on the 1st of May! The 1st of May is a historical day for the working class and has a great importance for the revolutionary movement worldwide. It is a day where struggles against murderous capitalist exploitation and against patriarchal oppression become visible worldwide. It is a day that connects
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Originally published on Komun-Academy, Written by Hêlîn Asî, March 15 2019 Around the world, currently, thousands of people, especially youth, protest and demand action against climate change. Under the slogan Fridays for future global strikes and mass demonstrations took place on March 15th. In light of the statistics and prognoses about the causes and effects of
Ecology against Capitalism – Seeking a Renewed Relationship to Nature Read More »
“What is more morbid, a lifeless body in the system or a free body and mind in a hunger strike,” asks a Berlin-based activist in a commentary on the mass hunger strike against Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation. As we all hear from the latest news, there are hundreds of people in Turkish prisons and people here
Comment: Ready to die for life Read More »
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
Women in the fight for freedom: Yesterday and today of hunger strikes Read More »
We publish two statements about Newroz, Internationalism and the revolutionary struggle in Kurdistan. One is written by members of the Internationalist Commune, the other one by an activist in the feminist campaign “Gemeinsam Kämpfen – für Selbstbestimmung und demokratische Autonomie“. The campaign started on November 25, 2017, with demonstrations in Hamburg, Berlin and Celle. The
Newroz pîroz be!: Newroz, Internationalism and the revolutionary struggle in Kurdistan. Read More »