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Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance

The next article was published on RoarMag Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born to Russian

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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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Statement from şehîd Şevger Ara Makhno’s anarchist comrades in Rojava

Our anarchist comrade and friend Şevger Ara Makhno arrived in Rojava on 20th January 2018 to take part in the revolution. Only the day before the army of the Turkish state and its jihadist proxies had begun the invasion of the autonomous region of Afrin, an area which had remained at peace throughout seven years

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In memory of şehid Sahin Hosseini (Haukur Hilmarsson)

We publish an article that first appeared on IndyMedia about the martyrdom of YPG internationalist fighter Haukur Hilmarsson, nom de guerre Sahin Hosseini, in Afrin. The sad news has come with us that our Icelandic friend and comrade Haukur Hilmarsson, nom de guerre Sahin Hosseini, has fallen in the battle of the Kurdish city of

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The resistance is not over – Open letter after the #WorldAfrinDay

[Letter in english, translations below:portuguese,]   We, who are working here in Rojava as internationals, are part of the worldwide fight of the opressed against the reign of state, capital and pathriarchy. – șehid Hêlîn Qercox The #WorldAfrinDay has been a historical example of resistance and international solidarity. Thousands took to the streets and stood

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What has happened in Afrin? A guide to understand the Middle East puzzle

Afrin has become the scene of the latest episode of the bloody war in Syria. After two months of intense resistance, the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces, a multiethnic militia led by the Kurdish YPJ/YPG] have withdrawn from the city that gives its name to the Afrin Canton so as to ensure that civilians have an

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Letter to Şehid Legerîn Çiya (Alina Sánchez) from her comrades at the Jineolojî Academy

[English, Spanish below] Dear family and friends of our beloved friend and comrade hevala Legerîn Çiya (Alina Sánchez), We send you our warmest greetings from Rojava – a part of Kurdistan where we have been living, working and struggling together with our friend hevala Legerîn. While all powers of the world have united to impose

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