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1. 'Don't throw Kurds under the bus for NATO membership': An open letter to the ambassadors of Sweden and Finland

   Turkey's war on Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Sweden Finland ... quasi-Sultan Erdogan has waged war on the Kurdish people both inside and outside of the boundaries of the ... Turkey's Genocidal War on Kurds World ...

2. Lessons from the siege of Kobane

   Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity John Tully Kobane Democratic Kurdish ... Parliament on November 8. The event was organised by the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre (NSW) and Rojava ... translate that from the Kurdish it means “Women, Life and Freedom”. It’s a remarkably simple sounding ...

3. Rojava: A beacon of solidarity, cooperation and progress

   plunged the country into a disastrous civil war. The democratic impulse of the opposition was swamped by ... Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava ... People’s Protection Units/Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) and their allies organised in the Syrian ...

4. Abdullah Ocalan: Symbol of 100 years of Kurdish resistance

   imprisonment. For much of that time he has been confined on Imrali island, in the Sea of Marmara, without any ... Yet world governments and much of the media continue to avert their eyes from Turkey’s war crimes and ... parties, and other organisations of civil society: people who have seen the injustice heaped on the Kurdish ...

5. A century of oppression: The Kurds and the Turkish state

   coincidentally, Turkey has also just quit the Istanbul Convention on violence against women — this, as the writer ... victorious Western imperialists in the aftermath of World War I. Lenin was indubitably correct to insist on ... Democracy Far right History Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East John Tully ...

6. Vale David Graeber 1961-2020

   Dubrovsky, when he complained of feeling unwell and developed massive internal bleeding. He died on September ... part, studied the impact of escaped slaves on society in Madagascar. David, however, did not retreat ... attracted some unwelcome attention. David had been employed on contract as an associate professor at Yale. ...

7. An open letter to a comrade: Why the left must support Rojava’s revolutionaries

   the Palestinian people. I salute you for this, yet I despair that your voices are silent on a conflict ... that many have called the Spanish Civil War of our age — the struggle in Rojava of the Kurdish people ... rape on such a scale that the United Nations has called it genocide. ISIS’s intention was to wipe out ...

8. Turkey: After Afrîn occupation, Erdoğan dreams of empire

   Middle East John Tully Rojava Syria Northern Syria Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) On March ... predominantly Kurdish cantons to the east. The Kurds gambled unsuccessfully on international support against the ... circumstances, the fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) decided ...