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 Love and Rage Team/Trending News has broken that a few hours ago a potential coup is happening in Turkey as people reported fighter jets flying low overhead, tanks in public squares, incidents of the military disarming police and a video on Twitter which shows a Turkish soldier […]
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 Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Urged on by local activist John Furman in the middle of his speech, the gathered protesters started chanting, “No borders! No fences! No borders! No fences!” The words echoed throughout Utica’s historic Oneida Square on an unseasonably warm evening on […]
by David Graeber/The Guardian In the wake of the murderous attacks in Paris, we can expect western heads of state to do what they always do in such circumstances: declare total and unremitting war on those who brought it about. They don’t actually mean it. They’ve had the […]
by Petar Stanchev/Kurdish Question Despite being continents apart, the struggles of the Kurds and Zapatistas share a similar purpose: to resist capitalism, liberate women and build autonomy. Power to the people can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the […]
by MV Freedom School Derek Scarlino and Brendan Dunn will give a talk and lead a discussion about the events in the fight against ISIS in Kobane, Syria, and the Kurdish social revolution. The Kurds are a people who have for years been denied a nation to call their […]
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