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Palestine

Meet the Polish pro-Palestinian artist challenging taboos about Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

Ten percent of all civic repression worldwide related to Palestine, study finds | Middle East Eye

Francesca Albanese and the industry of pro-Palestine defamation (newarab.com)

Ukraine

Canada bans more types of firearms and proposes donating guns to Ukraine | AP News

Russia ready to use ‘any means’ to prevent defeat in Ukraine: Lavrov | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994. Now it's asking why (bbc.com)

Russian disinformation aims to drive a wedge between the US and Ukraine | AP News

Sudan

Sudan documentary implores world to remember how a hopeful revolution became a forgotten war - ABC News

Threat of RSF invasion looms over el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur | Features News | Al Jazeera

Democratic lawmakers threaten to derail UAE arms sales over support for RSF in Sudan: Report | Middle East Eye

South Sudan resumes Tumaini peace talks in Nairobi | Africanews

Lebanon

Israel’s buffer zone, created by bombing Lebanon with white phosphorous | Israel attacks Lebanon | Al Jazeera

Middle East latest: Lebanon closes all land border crossings with Syria | AP News

LIVE: 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Syria

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: Syrian rebel HTS leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime | CNN

Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters | AP News

Inside the Iraqi factions’ decision to keep out of Syria | Middle East Eye

Syrian rebels capture second major city as army withdraws from Hama | CNN

ANF | To defend Rojava is to defend humanity (anfenglishmobile.com)

[spaghettioverdose]

how did u went from anarchism to ml question mark

I was just going to write a couple paragraphs but I basically ended up writing a novel so I'm going to put a keep reading link here for my everyone's sanity.

Tl;dr: I became disillusioned with liberalism, became ancom, saw many silly takes and analysis that felt incomplete, became disillusioned with ancom, learned more about ml, went "this makes way more sense, has been applied in real life and has also helped many millions of people", became an ml.

I became an anarchist when I was in my late teens. I was already disillusioned with liberalism, and while I was sympathetic to socialism because I come from a formerly socialist country and grew up with stories about it from my grandmother, I was still of wary of it. Partially due to some of the genuinely bad things that happened during it and partially due to the immense amounts of anti-communist propaganda I was constantly bombarded with growing up. Then I found anarcho-communism which to me at the time seemed like "communism with none of the bad stuff".

I got into it, I watched ancom youtubers, I read Kropotkin, Graeber, Bakunin, I joined online ancom communities etc.

Slowly, over time I started becoming disillusioned with ancoms.I found myself having to defend marxist-leninist projects a lot (mostly from usamericans) against some very silly cold war anticommunist propaganda a lot. Such as the idea that everyone was just miserable and trying to escape the country or brainwashed by the leader's cult of personality.

Keep in mind that I myself ate up a lot of anticommunist propaganda growing up, but I also come from a formerly socialist country and had someone who was around during the socialist era of my country to ground my view of it in reality to some extent. Most of the ancoms in these communities only had the propaganda.

I also didn't like the way so many of these people talked more about an idealised, aestheticised, romanticised and abstract idea of revolution, and especially past failed anarchist revolutions, rather than talking about the material results of revolution.

Even when I still was mostly convinced by anarchist theory, I still found anarchist analysis to be incomplete and lacking predictive power and real world practice. Other anarchists tended to excuse the fact we didn't have a lot of revolutions and that the vast majority of them were crushed within their first couple years by saying things like "we were up against everyone" or "we were betrayed" which didn't really hold up. The bolsheviks had to fight everyone as well and yet they still won. Same with the Chinese communists who were also against massive internal and external threats. This is because in both cases they had popular support and were capable of analysing the material conditions and formulating policies based on that.

Another rebuttal was that every socialist revolution was state capitalism because it didn't adhere to a very simplified definition of socialism. I thought that lacked nuance and in the end it mattered to me less than the fact that it got results and helped millions of people, but it didn't prevent me from internalising this to some extent. I did (for at least some time) think that most ml states were incomplete revolutions that eventually fell to state capitalism.

When I did believe to these ideas I often fell into pits of despair, as did other ancoms, over the fact that in our world view, communism was essentially entirely defeated and at best we (as anarchists) had two current revolutions: the Zapatista (a group who follows marxist theory, refuses to call itself anarchis and controls a very small region and only due to an agreement with the government) and Rojava (who also controls a small region, is a military ally of the US and has a constitution which guarantees private property and definitely fits the anarchist definition of a state).

The holes in anarchist theory became even larger and more apparent to me once I started reading Marx and Lenin. The contrast in the explanatory and predictive power of dialectical materialism against the philosophical idealism of anarchist analysis eroded my remaining trust in anarchism very quickly.

Anarchist analysis severely lacked much class analysis beyond "people do evil things to each other because of the profit incentive of capitalism" and "power wants to hold onto power" which while in some ways is correct, it is vastly incomplete. Which is why the conclusion of this analysis, that after an anarchist revolution the profit incentive would simply be gone and so would reactionaries, also felt incomplete.

As it turns out it's also historically been proven wrong. Revolution doesn't stop when the civil war ends and that capitalists (even if disposessed) don't suddenly stop being reactionary and don't suddenly stop being a danger to the revolution.

However many anarchists also viewed historical events in a vacuum and lacked any sort of tools for materialist analysis and therefore came to silly conclusions about why things happened the way they did.

Many propositions on how an anarchist society would run resembled some variation of Old West homesteading, medieval peasant communes or some other strange individualist fantasies.

In the end I realised about anarchism that it entirely resembled the philosophically idealist utopian communism of old. A form of communism that lost the debate against the scientific communism of Marx, Engles and Lenin over a century ago and there is no reason to engage with it in the present day.

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2025 - Propaganda video to promote a solidarity fundraising campaign to buy the Kurdish SDF gasmasks and drones to defend the revolution in Rojava against Syrian HTS jihadists and Turkish occupiers. [link]

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava WATCH How a small but powerful band of women led the fight against ISIS [UPDATES]

In the years-long battle to retake northeastern Syria from ISIS, a small but powerful band of fighters led the way. The women of the YPJ, a Syrian-Kurdish force, fought alongside their male counterparts and face-to-face against ISIS. Author and journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years reporting on their stories. She joins Amna Nawaz to discuss her new book, "The Daughters of Kobani."…

RELATED UPDATE: Book review: Woman, Life, Freedom

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ fighters defending the Tishrin Dam: The enemy will not be able to break our will

RELATED UPDATE: What Does the Future Hold for Syrian Kurds Post-Assad?

RELATED UPDATE: Boutiflat: We must support the resistance in Rojava

RELATED UPDATE: Uncle of Shaho Khezri, Kurdish victim of "Woman, Life, Freedom" protest crackdown arrested

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava and the Revolutionary Experiment in Democracy

RELATED UPDATE: Abd al-Samad Issa: story of man caught between revolution, steadiness in Rojava

https://hawarnews.com/en/abd-al-samad-issa-story-of-man-caught-between-revolution-steadiness-in-rojava

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH Australian YPG fighter Johnston martyred in Rojava commemorated at his grave

FURTHER READING:

[hero-israel]

If there are significant amounts of Druze in Syria who are reluctant to accept Israel's backing, I suspect it's because once you go down that road, there's no going back. The Islamists and jihadists will wait 100 years to take their revenge, but the revenge will come eventually. They do not forget or forgive. And any slight against them will be punished with what we're seeing on the Syrian coast right now.

If the Druze pick a side, that side will be chosen forever. I think many of them know this ends with being a statelet propped up by Israel or being part of Israel entirely, or being loaded into trucks and made to bark like dogs before being shot at point blank and shoved into mass graves. Any actions they take to defend themselves are already seen as treason and collaboration with Israel. They can live at the (limited) mercy of Salafist goons or they have to let go of the idea of Syria altogether.

It's a similar situation to the Kurds, who will never in a million years disarm now. America is a flaky ally at the best of times, but with Israel's unparalleled air force, they might feel comfortable openly seeking an alliance with Israel. But they must know there's no going back. The jihadists have no intention of reincorporating Rojava into Syria peacefully. They have no intention of welcoming SDF units and commanders into the military. They will massacre a few villages to make a statement and they'll make a few notable politicians and generals disappear, and then they'll immediately start subjugating everyone else.

For the Christians, Druze, Kurds, Alawites, and every other non-Sunni minority in Syria, the choice is basically Israel or Death, Israel or Apartheid. Because Jolani and his thugs decided that that's what the choice has to be. If the West continues to refuse to say a word or do anything, expect to see more and more of these minorities (even open Israel haters) start to see the appeal of the IAF's protection.

Islamists do indeed have no value higher than outgroup subjugation and revenge, at the expense of ever building something good. They still to this day sing their lovely "Khaybar" song.... one stabbed Salman Rushdie in 2022 for a book he wrote in 1988.

I have read that the Druze in the Israeli Golan who did not apply for citizenship, over 55+ years, made that choice because they were afraid if Syria ever retook the land, no matter how long it took, they would be killed for ancestral disloyalty (and they were probably right).

[probablyasocialecologist]

There are different kinds of courage: physical, legal, interpersonal. Richard Barnard was a participant in one of the Extinction Rebellion train-stopping actions of 2019, variously maligned as ‘tactically stupid’ and a ‘psyop’. Alongside Huda Ammori, Barnard has gone on to co-found the direct action network Palestine Action, which has seen major success in its campaign to attack and close weapons factories raining death on Palestinians. He has done this in the face of both pressure from the state and a wave of popular derision against XR, including from some who one might have hoped would have responded as comrades. Criticisms of XR’s founding branch in Britain circa 2019 – that their ‘apolitical’ approach was deluded, that they were tight with cops – were well-founded in that place and time. Yet they continue to be smeared over that organisation and over environmentalists as a whole, even as offshoots in Australia and elsewhere engage in increasingly abolitionist-inflected resistance, sometimes at great personal cost. While critique in good faith is an act of solidarity, much of what has been thrown is reprehensibly ungenerous. I have often turned to Huey Newton’s words: ‘We should never say a whole movement is dishonest when in fact they are trying to be honest… Friends are allowed to make mistakes.’

It’s hard to imagine how difficult Barnard’s experience must have been, but maybe it doesn’t matter. Richard Barnard is an extraordinary person. So is Mali Cooper, so was Tortuguita. And herein lies a paradox: for a truly mass movement, resistance can’t be the prerogative of a mythologised vanguard, distinct from ordinary people. Yet when they undertake action, climate defenders cease to be ordinary. They become, even if just for a moment, something other than what they were.

I think it matters that Richard Barnard is a Christian. It also matters that Palestine Action connects primarily white activists from XR with anti-imperialist movements, whose cultural and political vocabulary is drawn from sources other than Western liberalism. Some of these movements don’t share XR’s stated commitment to non-violence, instead affirming the right of a colonised people to resist their oppression by all necessary means, including armed struggle. Within such coalitions, a capacity for sacrifice becomes a weapon, transcending spectacle. Palestinian militants have long understood how an experience of pain or renunciation, such as a hunger strike, can have meaning larger than its effects on a single body. After Tortuguita’s execution in Atlanta, comrades smashed bank windows and ATMs, torched construction equipment and wrote ‘Martyrs never die’ – a slogan borrowed from struggles in Rojava, and the Koran.

29 August 2024

[scottishcommune]

In Northern Syria, 2.5 million people are living in a stateless, feminist, religiously tolerant, anti-capitalist society of their own creation. They call their territory Rojava, and they defend it fiercely. They’re at war with the extremist group ISIS, and they’re doing better than anyone in the world expected — least of all the Western powers who seek to treat them as pawns.

It’s a complicated situation, but we in the rest of the world have much to learn from the Rojava revolution. To that end, we offer this long-form introduction to the history and the present struggle of the Kurdish people.

Long live the Rojava revolution!

[leftistfeminista]

– Speaking of freedom, a topic that all women’s organizations especially highlighted in the last period. What would you like to say about this?

–It’s true, in fact freedom is at the top of the demands of all oppressed class. The patriarchal system is imposed on women from home to workplaces, and when they don’t accept the slavery, they will be “punished” with death. Notice that the women on the streets say, “We want to live.” Previously while the demands for how they wanted to live were highlighted, now they say, “We want a world, where we are not killed!”. The attacks on women are at the highest level. Freedom is the need of all oppressed segments in the imperialist-capitalist system. Freedom is the most fundamental problem of all women in the male-dominated system and its our first demand. Our fight and resistance are already for freedom and for liberation.

We must firstly explain that the women who are punished by all kinds of patriarchal methods are not victims, but the subjects that will destroy this system. In every material of bourgeois media, women shown as a violent “poor”. Without action, thoughts; women are seen as a victimized object that is cursed, beaten, abused and murdered. In fact, the message is clear; You will be thankful all the time, if you cross the line you will be punished with any method listed above!

We have lots of duties at this point. What will be our response to this violence, it’s a must that to go to an organization which will work beyond just seeking rights within the legal boundaries. We are not denying or underestimating this sort of works, but we will not be able to achieve true freedom by staying within these boundaries. We cannot break this violence without using revolutionary violence.

KBDH established with the claim of being a united-military-political organization of women that will organize the violence of women which will target all patriarchal institutions. Its currently true that we are not where we wanted to be and expected from us. However, there are objective conditions to take the women on streets to the illegal struggle which will spread the women’s struggle to the next level. Until now, we have carried out actions targeting the institutions of the patriarchal system, we want to increase these actions.

Women were left defenceless, unarmed, unorganized, with definitions such as “naive”, “peaceful”, “far from fighting” and “beauties”. We don’t accept these beauties, because what is trying to be imposed by them is deepening the slavery. Our only demand is freedom. First, we must create the awareness of freedom. Freedom, comes from organizing. Our call is: “Let’s organize, let’s get armed, lets create the united women’s struggle and be liberated”.

– Finally, what would you like to say…

– We believe we have the power, anger and sacrifice in order to do what we have mentioned, as long as we realize our power. Because while we are being taken to the cremation, we are the witches that who walks towards it with smile, and we dare to put our heads under the guillotine in order to be equal. We are the ones holding the positions on the front in defending the Rojava Revolution. We are the fighters/martyred in the mountains. We are the ones on hunger strikes to break the isolation in prisons. We are the ones who doesn’t leave the streets during the most violent attacks of fascism. Because we are women, we will become more beautiful as we resist and become free as we dare.

[kalopyrgos1]

Rojava - a Kurdish state where women play an important role, especially in defending it's (and their) freedom. An absolute exception in the Middle East. Sourrounded by enemies, Islamists - and imperialists like Erdogan who tries to destroy Rojava, especially now, in the present situation of Syria. (Photo: Wikipedia).

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Bibliography / further reading

Andrew X (2001) “Give up Activism.” from Do or Die, issue 9

Anonymous (2001) At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders and its False Critics (London: Elephant Editions)

Anonymous (2003) Call

Anonymous (2011) Desert (St. Kilda, UK: Stac an Armin Press)

Anonymous (2006) Down with the Empire, Up with the Spring! (Wellington: Rebel Press)

Anonymous (2003) “Insurrectionary Anarchy: Organising for Attack!” from Do or Die, issue 10

Anonymous (2013) The Issues are not the Issue

Anonymous (2015) “The Veil Dops.” from Return Fire, issue 3

Bari, Judi. (1995) “Revolutionary Ecology: Biocentrism & Deep Ecology.” from Alarm

Best, Steven, & Nocella, Anthony J. II (2006) “A Fire in the Belly of the Beast: The Emergence of Revolutionary Environmentalism.” from Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, ed. Best, Steven, & Nocella, Anthony J. I (Oakland: AK Press)

Best, Steven (2014) The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan)

Bey, Hakim (2003) TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (New York City: Autonomedia)

Biehl, Janet (2007) “Bookchin Breaks with Anarchism.” from Communalism

Bookchin, Murray (2001) The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868–1936 (Oakland: AK Press)

–––. (2004) “Listen, Marxist!” from Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Montreal: Black Rose Books)

–––. (2005) The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Oakland: AK Press)

Bonanno, Alfredo (1977) Armed Joy (London: Elephant Editions)

–––. (2000) The Insurrectional Project (London: Elephant Editions)

–––. (2013) Let’s Destroy Work, Let’s Destroy the Economy (San Francisco: Ardent Press)

Dauvé, Gilles (2008) “When Insurrections Die: 1917–1937.” from Endnotes, issue 1

–––. (2015) Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement (Oakland: PM Press)

Gelderloos, Peter. (2007) Insurrection vs. Organization: Reflections from Greece on a Pointless Schism

–––. (2010) An Anarchist Solution to Global Warming

Haider, Asad. (2018) Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (New York: Verso Books)

Invisible Committee. (2009) The Coming Insurrection (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e))

–––. (2015) To Our Friends (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e))

–––. (2017) Now (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e))

Næss, Arne. (1993) “The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects.” from Environmental Philosophy

Nibert, David (2002) Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield)

Öcalan, Abdullah (2013) Democratic Confederalism (Cologne: International Initiative Edition)

–––. (2017) Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution (Cologne: International Initiative Edition)

Pellow, David Naguib (2014) Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)

Pellow, David Naguib, & Brehm, Hollie Nyseth (2015) “From the New Ecological Paradigm to Total Liberation: The Emergence of a Social Movement Frame.” from Sociological Quarterly

Perlman, Fredy. (2010) Against His-tory, Against Leviathan! (Detroit: Black & Red)

ed. Schwartz, A. G., Sagris, Tasos; Void Network. (2010) We are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008 (Oakland: AK Press)

Singer, Peter (2009) Animal Liberation (New York: Harper Perennial)

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Tiqqun. (2011) This is Not a Program (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e))

van der Walt, Lucien, & Schmidt, Michael (2009) Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Oakland: AK Press)

Zerzan, John (1999) “Agriculture.” from Elements of Refusal (Columbia, MO: C.A.L. Press)

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Palestine

UNRWA pauses aid through key Gaza crossing as hunger stalks Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Tens of thousands attend pro-Palestine march in London | Middle East Eye

Palestinian woman and two children crushed to death outside bakery in Gaza | CNN

Which countries recognise Palestine in 2024? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Ukraine

US will send Ukraine $725 million more in counter-drone systems, anti-personnel land mines | AP News

‘Major compromise’: How Ukraine’s Zelenskyy shifted goals to end Russia war | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Has Ukraine helped the Syrian rebel offensive in Aleppo? | Middle East Eye

Sudan

Sudan conflict: BBC hears of horror and hunger in massacre town El Geneina

Chad struggles as refugees pour in from Sudan – DW – 11/28/2024

South Sudan kicks off Certificate of Secondary Education exams - Radio Tamazuj

Sudanese army advances in Al Jazirah state, retakes key locations - Sudan Tribune

Lebanon

Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds | AP News

She fled Israel's bombing of Lebanon four times. It still found her (bbc.com)

Trump taps Lebanon-born Massad Boulos as Arab and Middle East adviser | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

Gaza’s hopes for ceasefire dim despite renewed US efforts following Lebanon truce | CNN

Syria

Turkey calls for reconciliation between Syria government and opposition to end conflict | AP News

Who are the rebels who have seized control of Aleppo, Syria? : NPR

Mapping who controls what in Syria | Syria's War News | Al Jazeera

ANF | KNK calls on everyone to defend Rojava (anfenglish.com)

Syria's 13-year civil war: All you need to know | AP News

ANHA (hawarnews.com)

ANF | To defend Rojava is to defend humanity (anfenglish.com)

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Supporting the SDF in Post-Assad Syria [UPDATES]

To preserve its only reliable and capable partner in the fight against the Islamic State, the United States must help the SDF deter HTS and fend off Turkey-backed militias…

RELATED UPDATE: SDF: Raqqa Military Council Forces completed operation in Meidan

RELATED UPDATE: KONGRA-GEL calls for mobilization to defend the Rojava revolution

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish attack on civilians at Tishrin Dam kills 2, injures 20

RELATED UPDATE: General strike in East Kurdistan today against death penalty

RELATED UPDATE: Over 40 people detained during demo against the detention of socialists in Istanbul

[willamette-peoples-academy]

The Kurdistan Workers Party and its Connection to the Revolution in Rojava

by Armie

It is essential to recognize that the formation of the autonomous region in Syria known as Rojava did not happen overnight. The revolution arose from years of grassroots organizing, education, and active street struggle. While it is somewhat misleading to pinpoint an exact moment when the revolution began, understanding the current situation in Rojava is impossible without recognizing its deep connections to the revolutionary movement in Turkey.

In 1978, Kurdish and Turkish revolutionaries launched a mass movement against the Turkish state, coalescing under the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). At that time, there was a strong socialist current in Turkey, but much of the ideological landscape was steeped in chauvinism and anti-Kurdish racism. The PKK emerged as a radical alternative to this exclusionary socialism.

Given the asymmetric nature of the war against the Kurds, the PKK sought refuge in Syria with the permission of the Ba’ath regime. Understanding the relationship between Kurdish revolutionaries and the Syrian government is crucial, as it highlights the nuance and contradictions inherent in any revolutionary movement—a topic that I will explore in more depth later. The PKK established its ideological and political base in Damascus and Syrian-occupied Lebanon.

In the late 1990s, Turkey, which controls Syria’s primary water supply, threatened war unless the PKK was disbanded and its leaders expelled. The Assad regime complied, shutting down PKK camps and forcing Abdullah Öcalan to leave Syria.

What followed was an era of intense repression against Kurdish organizing and resistance in Syria. Despite this betrayal by the Syrian state, clandestine organizing persisted under the banner of the Democratic Union Party (PYD, Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat) between 2004 and 2011. Several Syrian Kurdish political groups continued to grow and gain popular support in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. That year, these groups coalesced into the People’s Council of West Kurdistan, which became one of the main coordinating bodies of the Rojava revolution.

In the fall of 2011, the Self-Protection Units (YXG)—the predecessor to the YPG—were formed. Soon after, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC) joined forces to establish the Kurdish Supreme Committee (KSC), officially creating the People’s Protection Units (YPG) to defend Kurdish-inhabited areas of Syrian Kurdistan, as well as the Kurdish enclave of Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo.

Thus, I conclude this introduction to the Rojava revolution with the creation of the YPG, a force that has played a critical role in defending not only Kurdish people but also Arab and other minority communities in the region. Following in the footsteps of the PKK’s ideological shift away from statism, the YPG has fought relentlessly to protect the people of Syrian Kurdistan from both state oppression and jihadist violence. Their struggle continues in pursuit of establishing Rojava as an autonomous, stateless, and truly democratic region for all its inhabitants.

Use this introduction as a springboard to further educate yourself on the revolution in Rojava. Hopefully, it will also serve as an inspiration to deepen your solidarity with revolutionaries worldwide—from Rojava to Gaza, from the Philippines to Turtle Island.

[e5e5e5e5e5]

New Zealand has been told to spend money we barely have 'defending our cyber security'.

For the purposes of securing our link to satellite technology.

Explicitly for private use, explicitly not for any satellite phones that might save lives here in NZ or Australia or Papua.

NZ and Aus are where you aim your drone strikes from while the rest of the world sleeps.

Long live Palestine.

Long live Gaza.

Long live Kurdistan.

Long live Rojava.

Long live Timor.

Long live Papua.

Long live Freedom.

Long live Gaza.