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 […]
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 Dilar Dirik/Guest We publish this letter here on Love and Rage from Dilar Dirik, a committed activist in the Kurdish liberation struggle. It is an open letter in response to the recent publication of a racist cartoon depicting Alan Kurdî in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Kurdî […]
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 Sarah Abbas/Guest An interview between a father and daughter about the former’s journey from Iraq to the US. In March 2002, my mom and I left Iraq and traveled to Syria where we stayed for three months with my grandpa (my mom’s father). In April 2002, my […]
by Doug George-Kanentiio/Guest Any Native person who knows their history can see the similarities between the massive influx of refugees into Europe from Africa and Syria. They know that the European powers met after WWI to carve up the Middle East into areas of self-interest based upon the exploitation […]
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 […]