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Revolution and Cooperatives: Thoughts about my time with the economic committee in Rojava

What is a cooperative? As the name suggests, a cooperative is about an cooperation. People cooperate instead of competing against each other. An Internationalist from the Commune is describing his experiences and insights into the economical works in Rojava and touching fundamental questions about another way of economy, one that is part of a Democratic

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The way to Rojava – A way back to your own history

Germans comrades writing about the history of resistance in central Europe and today’s Germany. their search for this almost lost quest is inspired by the Kurdish freedom movement. The text is first published in the Kurdistan Report. “Your revenge for the long history of wars and annihilation the Germans caused, must be to organize and

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Arabs, Kurds, Armenians: Memoirs of an Armenian in the Bekaa Valley

Originally published on Komun Academy by Meral Çiçek Had he lived long enough, he would have just celebrated his 61st birthday. On November 25th, 1957, he was born in California, far away from his native homeland. Likewise, his father had been born far away from his family’s country of origin. Despite being among the third or

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Internationalism and struggle against patriarchy

A global problem means a global fight and makes internationalism necessary. But what does internationalism mean in a revolutionary sense? What does it mean for women? Women`s struggles have always been internationalist. What we have in common, is something that is hard to explain with words. It is the feeling we have when we see,

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People of Rojava comdemn German weapon delivieries to Turkey

We asked the people of Rojava for their opinion about German weapon deliveries to Turkey and the role of the company “Rheinmetall”. The people directly ask the workers of Rheinmetall to stop working “until no one is working anymore in these factories”. This said Baran from Derik, he continues: “We strongly condemn this. Why? Because

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Reflections about man, masculinity and patriarchal society

Notes for a historic-subjective analysis on the construction and the evolution of the ‘man’ identity in the patriarchal society The cultural construction of gender has been developed in different ways throughout history, and although all societies have gender cultural registries, not all of them have the concept of masculinity. A culture which does not treat

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