Şehîds

Remembering Şehîd Şahîn Qereçox (Farid Medjahed)

Şehîd Şahîn Qereçox (Farid Medjahed) arrived to Rojava in June 2018 to fight alongside the YPG and in the defense of their revolution against Daesh, the Turkish army and fascism. He came to this decision, having been involved in many struggles against a system that is bringing death to nature and the communal values of […]

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“We bear their names” – In memory of Sehid Ronahi

The following speech was first shared at the demonstration and memorial event in Munich on October 27. October 23rd 2018 Speech of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava Dear friends and comrades, 20 years ago, at the 23rd of October, 24 of our comrades were killed in Catak, Bakur, by the Turkish military. One of them

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Haukur Hilmarsson: The victory over fascism is humanity’s struggle

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8OqAvnpPs[/embedyt] Sehid Sahin Huseyni (Haukur Hilmarsson) came in 2017 in Rojava to support the revolution. The social progress in north Syrian groung is a process of decades of the kurdish autonomous movement. In recent years we see and understand that the legacy of north Syria’s autonomy is an outcome of many enthnicities as Kurds,

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Something worth fighting for: why we remember the martyrs

Pictures of the şehids, or martyrs of the revolutionary struggle, are everywhere in Rojava. Backed by canary-yellow and forest-green YPG/YPJ livery, they stare out from roadside hoardings and the walls of schools and hospitals, from the phone backgrounds of comrades in the military and civilian structures, at the entrance to each city and in endless

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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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