Interview with Commander Kurdistan of Euphrates Region YPJ
Interview with Kurdistan Washukani, YPJ Commander of the Euphrates Region The journalist Avrîn Masûm of the Kurdish TV Channel Ronahî TV spoke with the YPJ Commander of the Euphrates Region, Kurdistan Washukani, about the developments in 2019 and the aim of the Turkish invasion against North and East Syria as well as the plans of the Women Defence Units YPJ in the Euphrates region for the year 2020. The YPJ …
Foza Yûsif: “2020 will be the year in which women’s revolution will become permanent”
In the interview with Foza Yûsif, Executive Committee Member of the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM), she made important assessments on the developments and women’s work in northern and eastern Syria in 2019. She described the establishment of the women’s council in North and East Syria as one of the biggest gains of women in 2019, and said that women through this council now have a organized power to solve their …
Message from Rojava women’s movement to Zapatista women’s gathering
In December 2019, indigenous and Zapatista women hold their second “International gathering of women who struggle”. The situation in North and East Syria prevented delegates being sent from Rojava, so a solidarity video message was sent from the women’s movement Kongra Star, on behalf of the women in North and East Syria, to the Lacandon jungle. As the indigenous and zapatista women announced in the invitation, this year the gathering …
“We’re fighting for life” – Interview with a catalan anarchist and feminist who fought in Serekaniye
Interview with an anarchist and feminist from Catalonia, who after learning what was happening in the North of Syria decided to join the revolution and who participated in the Serekaniye resistance until the moment she received the order to withdraw. One of the first towns attacked during the Turkish invasion started on the 9th October 2019 was the municipality of Serekaniye, where a tough resistance of 10 days was carried …
[Video] Jinwar – Free Women’s Village Rojava presents itself
The documentary collective Şopdarên rojê ya çandê have made a short film about Jinwar, which gives a short introduction on the perspective of the free women’s village with very nice shots from the village life. 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 …
A letter to Şehîd Ceren Güneş from one of her sisters in arms
Ceren Güneş fell şehîd on the Til Temer frontline against the Turkish state invasion in November 2019, fighting with internationalist revolutionary group DKP. Another internationalist woman who knew her as a friend and comrade wrote a letter to her some weeks later… Dear comrade Ceren Güneş, How to start this letter? How I can express in words all the love and rage I have inside of me? Still deep in …
