Women struggle
Over the last year or so, I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the women’s movement in North and East Syria. For a lot of that time I’ve been working, living, and sharing as a part of the Jineoloji Academy. When I first arrived, I honestly had only the vaguest grasp of what that […]
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In order to address the question of what role young women play as internationalists today, we must first look at the general situation young women’s live in. The reality of young women is first of all the union of two identities: that of youth and that of women. In the Kurdish Freedom Movement, the role
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Through two short texts a comrade of the Internationalist Commune tells those two cities through his own experience there. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The stolen brothers of Kobane. 2. After war and death, the liberation of life and of women – The women council of Raqqa. 1. Colonization and stolen history – The
From Raqqa to Kobane, from colonial past till today’s flourishing of the revolution. Read More »
The woman, who has become the centre of society, has made the greatest impression on the revolution in Rojava in recent years. Women who are resisting in the autonomous revolutionary peoples and society defense units – especially the YPJ – against the annihilation of the people through the fascist attacks of Turkey, as well as
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Foza Yusuf, member of the coordination of Kongra Star, former co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, on the importance of internationalist works against Turkish fascism. First of all I would like to greet all our people worldwide, all friends of the Kurdish people and all freedom-seeking women on the occasion of
To freedom seeking women and people of the world, to all internationalists, to democratic and revolutionary forces everywhere: Kongra Star and the women of North and East Syria call out to you to stand with us and take action in defence of our land and worldwide revolutionary values. We announce the campaign Women Defend Rojava.
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“I won’t stop fighting for my country until I die”(Anna Mae) Some time ago we painted the portrait of Anna Mae Aquash on the wall of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. Beside her are the faces of Commandante Ramona from Chiapas, the black American revolutionary Harriet Tubman, the PKK’s co-founder Sakine Cansiz and the Communard
Anna Mae Aquash – From the US to Kurdistan: the indigenous struggle for freedom Read More »
The Kurdish women’s liberation movement presented its proposal for a democratic confederalism of women for the first time in October 2018 at the International Women’s Conference in Frankfurt, which was organized by the network “Women Weaving the Future” under the title “Revolution in the Making”. In its five-page declaration for this year’s 8 March the
For a new Internationalism of Women: Democratic World Women’s Confederalism Read More »