#rise up 4 rojava

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Ανάρτηση πανό αλληλεγγύης στους 5 Κούρδους πολιτικούς πρόσφυγες-απεργούς πείνας στο ΠΡΟΚΕΚΑ Ξάνθης και στον πολιτικό κρατούμενο Αμπντουλάχ Οτσαλάν | Rise Up 4 Rojava

Ανάρτηση πανό αλληλεγγύης στους 5 Κούρδους πολιτικούς πρόσφυγες-απεργούς πείνας στο ΠΡΟΚΕΚΑ Ξάνθης και στον πολιτικό κρατούμενο Αμπντουλάχ Οτσαλάν | Rise Up 4 Rojava

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Graff mural in Vienna promoting an antifascist demonstration on 26 June 2021

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

#RefendRojava

Resistance is Life

Designed by the Gulf Revolutionary Artist Formation

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Jin Jiyan Azadi Biji berxwedan / Women Life Freedom, Long live resistance!. ROJAVA REVOLUTION ~ 7 years of women’s resistance.

Jin rabin ser piyan hibo Efrine / Women rise up for Afrin!

“Our people have embraced the revolution with great sacrifice and a great price paid. Our people have stood with the fighters at every turn, and worked hard to grow and protect the revolution. We celebrate the 7th anniversary of the July 19 Revolution for Leader Apo, the defenders of the sacred lands, the immortalized martyrs, the peoples of Rojava and Eastern and Western Syria, and all the peoples of the world. We repeat our promise to defend the revolution as we remember with respect all the martyrs of the revolution in the person of Jinda, Ruksen, Xebat, Arin, Revana, Gelhat, Avesta and Karker." Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) statement on the 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution.

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/ypj-we-will-grow-and-defend-the-july-19-revolution-36362

[severthelibertarian]

💪SERKEFTIN✌️

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#CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern

#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Let us unite our efforts in pursuing the remnants of terrorism [UPDATES]

https://sdf-press.com/en/2019/05/let-us-unite-our-efforts-in-pursuing-the-remnants-of-terrorism/

The Syrian Foreign Affairs Ministry sent two simultaneous letters to the UN Security Council and the United Nations, there were a lot of lies and fabrications against our forces in the two letters. It worth mentioning that our forces liberated Deira Zour region from the terrorist organization ISIS and continues to pursue its terrorist cells...

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH Berlinale Live 2023: The "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulg7IhxLMP4

RELATED UPDATE: 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' resistance in Rojhilat Kurdistan and Iran continues

https://anfenglish.com/women/jin-jiyan-azadi-resistance-in-rojhilat-kurdistan-and-iran-continues-65594

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ: We will fight for 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' to resonate everywhere

https://anfenglish.com/women/ypj-we-will-fight-for-jin-jiyan-azadi-to-resonate-everywhere-65903

RELATED UPDATE: Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom): The Genealogy of a Slogan

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/08/jin-jiyan-azadi-woman-life-freedom-the-genealogy-of-a-slogan

RELATED UPDATE: The role of university students in the "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" uprising

https://anfenglish.com/news/the-role-of-university-students-in-the-jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-65938

RELATED UPDATE: KJAR: Women dealt a great blow to Iranian state with the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi revolution

https://anfenglish.com/women/kjar-women-dealt-a-great-blow-to-iranian-state-with-the-jin-jiyan-azadi-revolution-65955

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH “Jîn, Jîyan, Azadi” becomes paradigm of freedom: International Kurdish Conference

https://medyanews.net/jin-jiyan-azadi-becomes-paradigm-of-freedom-international-kurdish-conference/

RELATED UPDATE: Is Rojava a socialist utopia?

https://unherd.com/2023/03/is-rojava-a-socialist-utopia/

RELATED UPDATE: 'Iranian women's uprising not first feminist revolution, we must take note of Kurdish Revolution in Syria'

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/iranian-womens-uprising-not-first-feminist-revolution-we-must-take-note-of-kurdish-revolution-in-syria/articleshow/99059080.cms?from=mdr

RELATED UPDATE: “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Syrian Women Are Rising Up Against Patriarchy

https://truthout.org/articles/woman-life-freedom-syrian-women-are-rising-up-against-patriarchy/

RELATED UPDATE: 4 April celebrated in Rojava as the beginning of a new era

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/4-april-celebrated-in-rojava-as-the-beginning-of-a-new-era-66437

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava people embrace fighters of the freedom movement

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/rojava-people-embrace-fighters-of-the-freedom-movement-66692

RELATED UPDATE: Jineoloji organizes conference-performance in Lausanne

https://anfenglish.com/women/jineoloji-organizes-conference-performance-in-lausanne-66705

RELATED UPDATE: "Jin Jiyan Azadî" panel in Lausanne

https://anfenglish.com/news/jin-jiyan-azadi-panel-in-lausanne-66770

RELATED UPDATE: SDF arrests ISIS members, leader in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/30042023

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish forces kill Islamic State chief in Syria raid, says Erdogan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/turkish-forces-kill-islamic-state-chief-in-syria-raid-says-erdogan

RELATED UPDATE: Erdogan says Turkish forces killed IS chief in Syria

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/erdogan-says-turkish-forces-killed-is-chief-in-syria-1.6378002

RELATED UPDATE: US Not Backing Turkish Claims Islamic State Leader is Dead

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-not-backing-turkish-claims-islamic-state-leader-is-dead/7073730.html

RELATED UPDATE: Two suspected ISIS smugglers arrested in Rojava

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/020520231

RELATED UPDATE: Syrian Democratic Forces arrest ISIS militant in security operation

https://medyanews.net/syrian-democratic-forces-arrest-isis-militant-in-security-operation/

RELATED UPDATE: "Kurdistan and Rojava Revolution" panel at University of Lausanne

https://anfenglish.com/news/kurdistan-and-rojava-revolution-panel-at-university-of-lausanne-67159

RELATED UPDATE: Senior SDF commander survives ISIS attack in Deir ez-Zor

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/20052023

RELATED UPDATE: Panel Discussion on Labor and the Revolution in Rojava with Rojavan Annes Union Leaders

https://vt.aflcio.org/events/panel-discussion-labor-and-revolution-rojava-rojavan

RELATED UPDATE: US-led coalition against Islamic State building new base in northern Syria

https://www.newarab.com/news/global-anti-coalition-building-new-base-northern-syria

RELATED UPDATE: UK Man Gets Life Sentence for Joining IS in Syria

https://www.voanews.com/a/uk-man-gets-life-sentence-for-joining-is-in-syria-/7111036.html

RELATED UPDATE: SDF commander, regime personnel killed in suspected Islamic State attacks in Syria

https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-sdf-commander-killed-suspected-attack

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Ανάρτηση πανό αλληλεγγύης στους 5 Κούρδους πολιτικούς πρόσφυγες-απεργούς πείνας στο ΠΡΟΚΕΚΑ Ξάνθης και στον πολιτικό κρατούμενο Αμπντουλάχ Οτσαλάν | Rise Up 4 Rojava

Ανάρτηση πανό αλληλεγγύης στους 5 Κούρδους πολιτικούς πρόσφυγες-απεργούς πείνας στο ΠΡΟΚΕΚΑ Ξάνθης και στον πολιτικό κρατούμενο Αμπντουλάχ Οτσαλάν | Rise Up 4 Rojava

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On critical solidarity with Rojava as anarchists

[allthecanadianpolitics]

do you know of any rise up 4 rojava movement in Canada?

This post lists events in Vancouver and Montreal:

https://allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com/post/188243154735/antifainternational-blackcoyote

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Mural in Exarchia, Athens in memory of anarchist fighter Lorenzo Orsetti, who was killed on 18 March 2019 in combat against ISIS in Baghouz, Syria.

Lorenzo was a member of the armed anarchist unit Tekoşîna Anarşîst based in Rojava.

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(Radio Vedeng a Rojava)

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“The economic crisis and extremely harsh class differentiation in Iran is not simply the result of the US sanctions—as the pseudo-anti-imperialist wants to make us believe—nor is it simply the result of the structural adjustments imposed by the International Monetary Fund after the Iran-Iraq war in the 1990s. While these are absolutely important factors, we see the social problems not simply in abstract and “external” terms but rather as the result of a deeper and more longstanding historical process in which the ruling oligarchy has dispossessed many populations, rendered labor precarious, commodified various domains of social reproduction, and brutally repressed syndicates, labor unions, and any other organized form of doing politics.3

We should not underestimate the catastrophic and destructive effects of the US and EU sanctions on the daily lives of people in the current conjecture, nor do we want to downplay the relevance of the past histories of “semi-colonialism” in Iran up to the present. We cannot forget the participation of the Labour Party in the UK in the 1953 coup, engineered by the Central Intelligence Agency, to overthrow the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who championed the nationalization of the oil industry in Iran. It was precisely imperialist interventions like this that provided the social conditions for the rise of Islamists like Khomeini who hijacked the progressive revolution of 1979 and established an autocratic dictatorship.4 Rather, our position is a political negation that operates with the logic of neither/nor, criticizing the Islamic Republic and the US and its allies at the same time. This double negation is fundamental to forming genuinely international solidarities and to the cause of internationalism itself.5

Now, despite all the cycles of struggles and forms of political organizing of the past five years, this time round is different, because the riots are ignited by the killing of Jina Amini, a woman of Kurdish ethnicity, due to compulsory Hijab—the structural pillar of patriarchal domination in the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Revolution. The ethnic and gender dimension of this state killing has changed the political dynamics in Iran, giving rise to unprecedented developments.

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Hence, one of the slogans that emerged after the murder of Jina was “Kurdistan, Kurdistan, the graveyard of fascists.” In the immediate aftermath of Jina’s murdering, it was Kurdish women who began chanting “Jin, Jian, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom), the famous slogan originally chanted by Kurdish women in Turkey and more recently in Rojava (the Northern and North-eastern parts of Syria). In Iran, this slogan has now spread beyond Kurdistan across the country to the point that the current movement, which is indeed a feminist revolution, is known by this name, “Jin, Jian, Azadi.”6

Among the three terms of the slogan, the second one, Jian [Life], has some striking features. While Jin [women] refers to gender liberation and Azadi to autonomy and self-governance, Jian, is first and foremost reminiscent of the name of the symbolic martyr of the movement, Jina Amini (as in Kurdish, Jina also means life). On Jina’s grave, her family inscribed the following sentence: “Dear Jina, you are not dead, your name become the Code.” She became the universal symbol of all previous martyrs, signifying all the other Jinas whose lives are ruined by the Islamic Republic, both directly and indirectly, because of their gender, class, sexuality, or the destruction of their ecological environment.

There is an existential component to this movement, which is also expressed on Twitter (with #Mahsa_Amini or #Jina_Amini) among the Iranian users who recount how their lives and the lives of their friends and families have been wasted over the past 44 years—tortured, imprisoned in both extra-juridical ways and show trials, their lives wasted outside of prison in everyday life without any chance to be fully actualized. Lives that did not live, as the German philosopher Theodor Adorno put it [Das Leben lebt nicht]7. Yet this melancholic recalling of the past is oriented towards the future, with an aspiration to finally put an end to the zombie Islamic Republic that drains our vital energies and life processes. There is a future to be reclaimed, a future in which no one will be killed on account of her gender or her hair, in which no one will be tortured and no one will suffer from poverty—a classless society governed by a genuine and not just formal freedom (though not everyone shares that last goal).

For what does class struggle mean, if not reclaiming life in its entirety by liberating it from the ways it has been colonized by capitalist accumulation and all the other forms of domination that sustain and secure that?

The fear of standing up to a monstrous authoritarian regime that displays no principles whatsoever has turned into its opposite: rage, power, and solidarity. The oppressed classes have never been this united since the 1979 Revolution. The videos showing sisterhood among women, united against misogynist repressive forces, have given everyone goose bumps.8 The solidarities established between the so-called “center” and the “periphery” across the country as well as among traditionally opposed ethnic minorities (between the Kurds and the Turks in the province of Western Azarbaijan) are unprecedented. The courage and determination of the youth to build barricades and fight with their bare hands or cobblestones against the police are astonishing and admirable.

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In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, on March 8, 1979, tens of thousands of women marched in the streets of Tehran against the imposition of compulsory Hijab, chanting “Either a headscarf or a head injury” and “We did not make a revolution to go back”—referring to the reactionary aspect of compulsory Hijab that aims to “turn back” the wheels of history. At the time, the Islamist media and Khomeini labeled the feminists and other women on the streets as supporters of imperialism who subscribed to “Western culture.�� Tragically, no one heard the women’s voices or heeded their warnings, not even the leftists who—catastrophically—accorded an ontological priority to the struggle against imperialism, relativizing and downplaying all other forms of domination as “secondary.” Today, when women burn scarves on the streets and the whole society emphatically rejects compulsory Hijab, this shakes the entire patriarchal and autocratic authority to the core, along with the pseudo-anti-imperialist legitimacy of the Islamic Republic. These are the pillars of class rule in Iran and the whole population is rejecting them. The Islamic republic is already dead in the minds of its people; now the people must kill it in reality.

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The problem is not just how to overthrow the Islamic Republic, but how to defend the revolution and its progressive forces after its toppling. The more support radical forces and progressive elements receive, the easier it will be to defend the revolution against reactionary forces. The Islamic Republic plays a crucial role in the global accumulation of capital (via the supply of raw materials such as oil and gas) and also in geopolitical power relations in the Middle East. Clearly, regional and global powers will do everything they can to shape the revolutionary process and its outcome to align with their own economic and geopolitical interests. Only with strong international solidarities supporting the most radical tendencies within the movement could the yet-to-be revolution maintain itself against the reactionary forces of loyalism, against geopolitical interventions, and against the violent integration into global circuits of accumulation.

The future is marked by uncertainties. Yet, class struggle from below and against all forms of domination will remain an important material force in the course of capitalism’s history. Of that much, we are certain.”

Revolt in Iran—The Feminist Resurrection and the Beginning of the End for the Regime

https://crimethinc.com/Jina

Iranian and Kurdish feminists explore the historical significance of the uprising in memory of Jina Mahsa Amini, the forces that set it in motion, and the horizon ahead.

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guys! today is the last day of the rise up 4 rojava week

https://womendefendrojava.net/en/2020/10/11/1st-november-world-kobane-day/?fbclid=IwAR21e7FXZud9SfaYCOVadihRQKb91caekMPWByO9YnOTwzWwDCOIfgARHGE

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#HailCaesar #BirtherInChief #CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit

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Internationalist "Rise Up 4 The Revolution" demo in Berlin

https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/internationalist-rise-up-4-the-revolution-demo-in-berlin-45177

Under the motto "Fire in the heart - Our whole life is a struggle" Women Defend Rojava calls for participation in an internationalist antifa demonstration in solidarity with revolutionary movements worldwide on July 19 in Berlin...