Jinwar women’s village is a project to build a free life, to find the future by walking there together, to change the world whilst living in the day to day. Crops are grown, bread is baked, children raised. And a new life carved out. Although due to the location of the village many more vulnerable residents have moved to other places, life still goes on in Jinwar. Jinwar also holds …
To all revolutionary and freedom-seeking women On the 25th of November 1960 the tyranny of the dictator Trujillo, a symbol of the systematized patriarchy, killed the Mirabal sisters. The dictatorship declared the Mirabal sisters an archenemy and killed them through a conspiracy. Their resistance and their murder increased the struggle against the fascist dictatorship. Six months after they were killed, the organized force of the people brought an end to …
Over the last few days, a delegation of 21 women from South Kurdistan (Iraq) has arrived in Rojava and been making their way around to support the women and the resistance of Rojava. They are formed of activists, academics, representatives of organisations and groups, and media professionals. Their number includes Dr. Wejdan Noureddine; the member of Rebak Women Organization, and Najiba Omer; the former co-chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution …
Call for the Establishment of Women Defend Rojava (WDR) Platforms and Local Committees Outside Rojava We send our warmest greetings from Rojava to all of you who have been a part of the resistance and mobilisations to stop Turkey‘s occupation war against Rojava / North and East Syria. Millions of women and people in all parts of Kurdistan and all over the world have shown their solidarity with our struggle …
I’ve been in North and East Syria for almost a year now. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to stay here and work here, involved in the women’s movement. That’s meant meeting a lot of different women from this part of the world. Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, Syriac, Yezidi, and more. Young women, mothers, fighters in the self defence forces. Women giving political analysis from their work in diplomacy, women …
In a village in Til Temir area, an Assyrian woman talks about how dozens of refugees from Serêkaniyê, Amûde and Dirbesiyê areas have arrived in her village. They have opened empty houses to them, houses that before belonged many of the Assyrian people who fled when ISIS attacked. The Assyrian population in Syria is declining due to the extremism of the ISIS gangs and the so called “Syrian National Army”.
Since the 9th of October 2019 systematic attacks and attempts of genocide have continued against the Kurdish, Arab, Armenian and Syriac population of North and East Syria. This occupation is a direct attack on the democratic, social institutions and the democratic self-governance of the people. Those brutal attacks carried out by the Turkish army and jihadist proxy forces are taking place under the command of Turkish terrorist leader Erdogan. Turkey …
The callout for the second of November was answered by the thousands of feet and voices and fists that marched, chanted, and were raised up for Rojava. Actions took place across the world…. and across Kurdistan. Your freedom is our freedom, there is no difference!
ENOUGH! ENOUGH OF THE COLLABORATING COMPANIES HIDING THE DIRTY WORK OF THE GENOCIDAL STATE! As we know, at the beginning of October, in the northwest of Syria, the Turkish army started a military operation against Rojava, with the intention of imposing an imperialist project. Erdogan has started his invasion by occupying and controlling this territory, which means the displacement and murder of thousands of people, endangering the revolutionary (and in …
