Syria

Anarchist Federation of Uruguay joins Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan campaign

 Anarchist Federation of Uruguay joins Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan campaign

From ANF

The Anarchist Federation of Uruguay said in a statement that it has “joined the campaign for the release of Abdullah Öcalan to put an end to his unjust imprisonment as well as that of thousands of Kurdish and Turkish leftist militants in the worst prisons in the world, the prisons of the Turkish state.”

Remembering Lobo, a Revolutionary, a Comrade, a Friend

From Unoffensive Animal
August 2, 2023

Last week we heard that Lobo, known in Rojava as Elefteria Hambi, was martyred in Syria. After joining the YPJ in 2018 they moved to the mountains where they joined the YJA Star guerrillas and on the 25th of November 2019, they were murdered by the Turkish state during an airstrike. The news of their martyrdom was not made public until today.

International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan

International Statement: Call for Solidarity in Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

This statement was issued and endorsed by an international coordination of anarchist organizations. It is the first statement issued by this grouping that Black Rose / Rosa Negra has signed on to.

Reading Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Sketches” against Russia’s Wars on Syria and Ukraine

The book cover of Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol. English edition of 1888.

From New Politics by Javier Sethness

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a globally renowned White-Russian prose poet, journalist, ethicist, and Christian-anarchist critic. Though he fought as a cadet in the Eastern Caucasus and became an artillery officer in the Imperial Russian army as a young man, he would resign as a first lieutenant in 1856, after two years.3 Rather than affirm Tsarist colonialism or jingoist pan-Slavist ideologies, as did the celebrated novelist Fëdor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Lev Nikolaevich from the start of his writing career expressed critical views of imperial violence and dispossession. This can be gleaned from “The Raid” (1853), the “Sevastopol Sketches” (1855), The Cossacks (1863), and War and Peace (1869). In its dual rejection of the exaltation of violence and the worship of power, the writer’s humanist war correspondence is motivated by the utopian hope that lending a voice to those who suffer the most in armed conflict might “drastically reduce its incidence” in the future.4

Every Storm Begins with a Single Raindrop

Every Storm Begins with a Single Raindrop

From CrimethInc.

In Memory of Two Who Fell in Rojava

This eulogy honors the lives of Lorenzo Orsetti and Ahmed Hebeb, who were killed during the last days of the fighting against the Islamic State in March 2019. For more background on the conflict, read this article and this interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst.

Anarchist Struggle in Rojava

Anarchist Struggle in Rojava

From The Final Straw Radio

Anarchist Struggle, or Tekoşîna Anarşist in Kurmanji, is an anarchist combat medic collective operating in Rojava since the time of the war against Daesh / Isis, though its roots go back further. For the hour, you’ll hear a voice actor sharing the words of a member of TA calling themselves Robin Goldman about the their experiences of Asymmetric Warfare waged by Turkey and its proxies in the TFSA, the culture of TA right now, the medical work they’re doing, queerness in Rojava and other topics.

Interviewing a comrade from the Revolutionary Anarchist Action

Interviewing a comrade from the DAF (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet | Revolutionary Anarchist Action)

From Anarkismo

Interview conducted by the KAF (Kurdish-speaking Anarchists Forum ). Please see the translation of the interview in French, Spanish and Esperanto in the attachment. The translation has done by comrades from ( CNT-AIT France )

Anna: The woman who went to fight ISIS

From BBC, [documentary airing 03 July 2019, 59 minutes - BBC @ 21:30]

In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell from Lewes in East Sussex travelled in secret to Northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the country. In the midst of the civil war in Syria, a fledgling feminist democracy had been established but almost immediately came under threat from the so-called Islamic State. Just eight months after arriving and with no military background, Anna went to the front line to fight with Kurdish YPJ. A month later she was killed by a Turkish air strike.

Politics as we know it should die and loving anarchy should prosper

This fundamental structure, how we govern and indeed our whole way of living together, needs to change. Scratching a cross in a box every five years does not feel anything like enough nor does showing up for a demo or signing a petition. Something more is needed.

Lorenzo Orsetti: The life of an anarchist partisan of the 21st century

From AMW English

Lorenzo Orsetti was a anarchist fighter who was 33 years. Tekoser Piling was the battle name with which he had been given. He had traveled to northern Syria in September 2017 to join the Kurdish resistance that, at that time, was fighting against the last Islamic State (Daesh) jihadists in the city of Raqqa, considered for several years as the administrative capital of the Islamist group in Syria after the fall of Mosul in Iraq.

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