Today, on the 22nd of December, we commemorate the internationalist revolutionary and fighter Emîr Qubadî, (nom de guerre: Rojvan Kobanê) a Persian youth that came to Kobanê to fight against ISIS for peace and freedom in the Middle East. He fell Şehîd while rescuing an injured friend in the battle of gaining the Culture and […]
I met Elefteria in 2018. From the first moment until the last time I saw her, she was always determined to fight and never doubted it for a moment. Elefteria the German anarchist who spoke a lot about her time in the Hambi and the struggle to protect the forests and nature. She was deeply
My memories of Şehîd Elefteria Read More »
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
Butterflies & the fire: Internationalist guerrillas fallen in the mountains of Kurdistan Read More »
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
Şehîd Lêgerîn Çiya: “A Beacon of Hope for the World.” Read More »
Eight years have passed since our comrades Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Fidan Dogan (Rojbin) and Leyla Saylemez (Ronahi) were murdered in cold blood by an agent of the Turkish secret service on January 9, 2013. Back then, as well as today, there is no doubt that the order for the bloody deed was given in the
Comrades Sara, Rojbin and Ronahi are immortal! Read More »
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
To our families, the families of Ş. Nûdem, Ş. Avaşîn, Ş. Şiyar, Ş. Bager and Ş. Andok: Read More »
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
