by The Internationalist Commune of Rojava To the gilets jaunes (yellow vests), to those who demonstrate, who are on the barricades and are blocking the streets, who squat their schools, who are on strike and who organize themselves. We greet you as the Internationalist Commune from Rojava, the […]
by Utica IWW/Press Release On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 a panel discussion will be held at Mohawk Valley Community College about the Rojava Revolution in Kurdistan and the battle against ISIS. The event will take place from 7:00pm – 8:30pm at MVCC in Utica, NY in the Information […]
Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war by David Graeber / Analysis and Opinion Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, […]
Turkish-backed rebels toppled Kurdish monuments as many fear ethnic cleansing of the city’s population. by TeleSur / Global The Turkish army and its allies seized the northern Syrian city of Afrin from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) Sunday morning after nearly two months since the Turkish “Olive […]
by libcom.org – Views YPG-Training camp for international volunteers, canton of Cizîrê, April 12, 2017 This blog is the travel notebook of a libertarian communist who decided to join the revolution in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). I will try to hold it up do date (as far as practicable, […]
by Black Rose Anarchist Federation We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both […]
by Janet Biehl/ROAR Second Wave feminism, once it erupted in the late 1960s, called out misogyny where it came into view. Breathtakingly, it insisted on recognizing human rights for all women everywhere. But today many Western feminists hesitate to speak in such bold terms. Wrestling with the legacy […]
by Kurdistan Communities Union/Kurdish Question The umbrella organization of the Kurdish movement, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Presidency, has released a statement about last night’s coup attempt in Turkey. The statement said; “There has been a coup attempt by persons whose identity and purpose is yet not […]
by Alex Kemman/ROAR Magazine Many Kurdish towns across Turkey lie in ruin, but Yüksekova — a bulwark of the PKK — has so far escaped destruction. Still the war is always present. Egid called me today to tell me that the situation in his hometown is rapidly deteriorating. […]
by CIC/Guest The largely unknown until recently Kurdish city of Kobane managed to attract the attention of the world with its fierce resistance[i] against the invasion of the Islamic State and became an international symbol, compared to the defence of Madrid and Stalingrad. The bravery and heroism of […]
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