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Society‘s roots: the battle for history at Rojava’s archaeological sites

Rojava is home to many of the oldest sites of human society, culture and history, dating back 5000 years or more. Members of the Internationalist Commune, together with archaeology students from Rojava’s Tevgera Xwendekaren Demokratik (TXD, or Democratic Students’ Movement), recently visited several of these ancient sites as part of a joint education. We saw

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We need your help! Crowdfunding for the book “Make Rojava Green Again”

“Help bring a new world into being in Rojava. And spread its vision: that a free, ecological society is possible everywhere.” – Debbie Bookchin In the beginning of this year, we started the campaign “Make Rojava Green Again” together with the responsible entities within the self-administration for the ecological work. Several initial ecological projects, mainly

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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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Rojava to Bașur: Internationalist Commune to march on border with Kurdish youth

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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Vedenga Rojava, 3rd program of the internationalist radio project

The third program of Vedenga Rojava is out! You can listen it on the soundcloud site of this internationalist radio project: https://soundcloud.com/vedengarojava This episode was dedicated to all women and non male revolutionaries. In the third episode we had a closer look on Turkish anti-propaganda and a discussion about how media work in times of

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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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