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Butterflies & the fire: Internationalist guerrillas fallen in the mountains of Kurdistan

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A few days ago we received the message that a German friend had fallen in the mountains. The identity of the friend who fought to the last breath during a guerrilla action against advancing Turkish troops in Xakurke (mountain massif in southern Kurdistan) was published: Azad Şerger, real name Thomas Joham Spries. When we read […]

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Şehîd Lêgerîn Çiya: “A Beacon of Hope for the World.”

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Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn Çiya, on the Rojava Revolution1 Editorial introduction After listening to a talk in the auditorium at the University of Nariño, Alina approached us and said: “From the way the speaker talks, one can tell he has a people behind him.” She was referring to how one can tell how much someone has

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To our families, the families of Ş. Nûdem, Ş. Avaşîn, Ş. Şiyar, Ş. Bager and Ş. Andok:

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We have read the open letter that you wrote to Merkel and we are very happy about your coming together and the joint initiative. As internationalists who are part of the revolution and freedom struggle in Kurdistan and Rojava in different ways, as comrades of your children with whom some of us spent beautiful, precious

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Hevalê Çîya – two letters to the memory and to pay tribute to our internationalist comrade

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Those letters have been first published in Spanish onto the Rojava no está sola blog, then kindly translated to allow their publication in English that we reproduce here. Letter 1: Truly, it is really difficult to start this letter. No beginning is adequate to express the immense pain that comes with the death of a

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Bager Nûjiyan: The Seeker of Truth who insisted on another world

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Our friend, internationalist revolutionary and guerrilla fighter Michael Panser, Bager Nûjiyan (also Xelîl Vîyan) died and became immortal on December 14, 2018 in a Turkish air raid on the Medya defense areas in Southern Kurdistan. “Our hearts are full of pain, our heads are full of memories. Heval Bager was a friend who will remain

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In memory of the internationalist Kevin Jochim (Dilsoz Bahar)

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Throughout Kurdistan and the Middle East, and finally around the world Ronahî “Everyone can become part of the revolution in Rojava. Of course, if you are a person who stands up for democracy, equality, justice and freedom. These values are the basis of the revolution in Rojava, values of humanity that have been lost in

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A socialist fighter: Şehîd Bager Nûjiyan – Text written by Şehîd Qasim Engîn

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The freedom movement is like a river. For years, exceptional fighters from all four corners of the earth have been flowing into this river. When the process of becoming society, also called sociality by scholars, becomes the ideological beacon of hope for humanity, Kurdistan becomes the home for a person from the other part of

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