What some are sarcastically calling the “anticipated results” of the Turkish election will soon be announced. The Council of Europe has added its voice to the chorus of doubters, deeming the result to be being illegitimate in advance because of a general flouting of the fundamental conditions of a free election. But the situation is […]
A perspective on the Turkish election from Rojava Read More »
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
“I hear a difference in their shouts”: marching on Başur with the Kurdish youth Read More »
A previous march from Derik to a Yezidi refugee camp in January 2018 Members of the Internationalist Commune are marching from Rojava to Bașur (South Kurdistan) alongside the Kurdish Youth Union, protesting Turkey’s violent invasion of the Qandil mountains and the craven complicity of Masoud Barzani and the puppet state of Iraqi Kurdistan. We will
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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
Why we’re planting trees in northern Syria – Independent article Read More »
This is at the same time a farewell letter and a declaration of attack. It is a communiqué claiming responsibility and a personal reflection as well. „There‘s only one thing that is bigger than the love for freedom: the hate against those who take it away.“ – Che Guevara I feel myself part of an
From Germany to Rojava. Perspective of an anarchist youth from the BRD Read More »
The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement’s [RAM] participation in World Afrin Day demonstrates the importance of establishing links between revolutionary freedom struggles in the world today. RAM is positioned in the United States as a political organization dedicated to fighting against the continued enslavement of black people, and against the state and capitalism. The organization regards the
Letter of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement about the Afrin Resistance Read More »
Thinking and writing about the issue of women, means calling into question all of history and society. The reason for this is the unprecedented scale of the systematic exploitation of women. From this viewpoint, the history of civilisation can be defined as the history of women’s losses. During the course of this history – the
The Revolution is Female Read More »
This article was published in The Region “Everything was green before,” sighs a young peasant from Sawidiyah, a small Syrian village at the banks of the Euphrates near Tabqa’s massive dam. “Now it should be the season, but the crops are lost, because of Turkey cuts the water, preventing the production of electricity. For us
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