📺 NEW VIDEO: Revolutionary People's War in North and East Syria

Youth and women from all the peoples of North and East Syria are taking their place in the Revoutionary People's War!

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INTERVIEW WITH TEKOŞINA ANARŞIST FROM THE FEDERATION OF ANARCHISM ERA’S

Tekoşîna Anarşîst is an anarchist organization that has been fighting in Rojava since 2017, when it was formed. We came together to give collective answers to the questions and hopes that brought many of us here, to support and to defend this revolution. This forced us to reflect about our dynamics and our history, not just as individuals or as organization, but also as a movement. Coming together from different places and different anarchist traditions created some challenges for us, but it also opened opportunities to develop more diverse and comprehensive analysis and perspectives. This allowed us to reflect on strengths and shortcomings of the movements we come from, as well as ways to improve.

Read the full interview

📢 Middle East Youth Initiative meets on developments in Syria and takes stand against occupation

The Middle East and North Africa Youth Initiative Coordination held a meeting on December 30th via "ZOOM". The meeting was attended by many youth organizations, individuals and women's organizations, who came from all over the Middle East and North Africa.

"The Syrian people must know that the nationalist Turkish state system is the common enemy of all and we emphasize that the only project that stands against these national, religious and gender-based and scientism-based practices is the democratic project that respects and includes all religions and beliefs. It establishes faith and free will for them. It paves the way for the construction of a free democratic society.”

➡️ Full Statement:
https://sharqalawsat.net/eng/index.php/2025/01/01/middle-east-youth-initiative-meets-on-developments-in-syria-and-takes-stand-against-occupation/

The Zapatista insurgency turns 31 in the midst of the first session of "Los encuentros de resistencia y rebeldía"

It has been 31 years since that Jan. 1, 1994 when the EZLN rose up in arms against oppression and for the autonomy of indigenous peoples. The story of these three decades has often appeared to us as a tale of magical realism masterfully carried out by former spokesman Marcos, but it is the tension toward the future that has enabled the Zapatista organization to achieve these results.

It is in that context that this anniversary is set: we are within the first of six sessions of international meetings that will accompany all of 2025 (Convocatoria-zapatista-2024-2025), with a particular focus on "the day after." But what do the Zapatistas mean by "the day after"?

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https://pastebin.com/raw/Pbtd82Z6

📌59 kolbars killed, 287 others injured in 2024

According to data from the Kolbar News platform, 345 Kurdish kolbars were targeted by Iranian state forces throughout 2024. As a result of the attacks, 59 kolbars lost their lives and 287 others were injured.

The murdered kolbars were under the age of 22 and at least one other died due to cold weather conditions.

The kolbars lost their lives or suffered injuries in the border areas of Urmia, Sine and Kermanshah provinces due to direct fire of the regime forces, cold weather, falling from rocks and mine explosions.

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Young women in Heseke learn to use weapons on the basis of self-defense

Against attacks by the invading Turkish state and SMO gangs on the territory of northern and eastern Syria, SDF fighters carry out a unique resistance. In addition, young women who are leaders and symbols of the revolution are participating in the process with a mobilizing spirit and showing their attitude and reaction against the attacks.

The key thing for greater participation in the spirit of mobilization is for all people to strengthen their power of self-defense so that they can protect themselves, their people and their land.

On this basis, the effort initiated by the Hesek City Young Women's Union to teach young women who do not know how to use weapons continues.

Dozens of young women learn how to protect themselves from possible attacks by training weapons according to the strategy of the Revolutionary People's War. Young women who in the early days learned how to open and hold a gun are now learning how to use it with a shot.

🎬 NEW VIDEO: What is Revolutionary People's War? - perspectives from a Kurdish revolutionary 🌹

We, Rise Up 4 Rojava, share our in depth interview with Harûn Apoyî a friend from Rojava who joined the Kurdish Freedom Movement in the early 2000s and saw the revolution in Rojava from the start.

The people of North and East Syria are organising themselves with the ideology of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and the strategy of Revolutionary People's War. A strategy for all societies to defend themselves against capitalism.

Watch here

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https://riseup4rojava.org/revolutionary-peoples-war-interview/

Zurich: Fire at Ege Market

On the evening of December 30, 2014, we set fire to the Ege Market on Feldstrasse. This was a sign of solidarity with the struggling peoples in Rojava against the attacks of the Turkish state and its henchmen of the SMO (Syrian National Army).

In order not to harm any bystanders, we placed the fire at a sufficient distance from the building and the parked cars.
Ege Market was already targeted twice last year by militant internationalists. We have nothing more to add to the published letters ( (https://barrikade.info/article/6718 & https://barrikade.info/article/6395 ). Instead, we want to use the action to publish a letter from an internationalist in Rojava that reached us indirectly at the beginning of December: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A letter from an Internationalist in Rojava:

Dear friends,
I send you warmest greetings from Rojava.

I am sure that all of you have been following the current events for days, so I don't want to bore you with the same analyses and calls that you all already know anyway. The situation is serious, that's for sure. What is currently brewing in Syria is not really foreseeable, and the consequences for the revolution in Rojava, indeed for the whole Middle East, are difficult to predict.

What is clear is that the revolution must be defended, as it has been in many phases of the war before. To this end, people here are taking up arms, entrenched in their neighborhoods in Aleppo, reinforcing their front sections, organizing supply lines, and taking care of the evacuation and accommodation of hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Already, areas such as Shehba and Tel Rifaat have been lost, where many people had been waiting for years to return to the liberated Afrîn. This hope now seems even more remote. Who among us can imagine what it means to lose everything for the second time, ten thousand times over, and to have barely escaped with your life again? Those who could not or did not want to flee are now at the mercy of the gangs of murderers. You can guess what that means: slowly, news is coming out that is reminiscent of the horror stories from the time of the Islamic State: civilians beheaded, women abducted, Yazidi families murdered. That it could come to this at all is mainly due to the fascist regime of Turkey, which, in addition to drones and fighter jets, is now also sending tens of thousands of Islamist mercenaries against the achievements of the revolution.

It is also clear that we must fight against this together. To this end, the revolutionary youth organizations in North-East Syria are volunteering for military service and to this end we, as internationalists, are taking to the streets worldwide. We organize actions as a sign of solidarity, we demonstrate, we collect money, we educate people about what is happening in Syria, and that is important.
Many of you may not know this, but every little stir of resistance in Europe shows the people of Rojava that they are not alone, that maybe the governments of this world abandon and betray them, but not the people.

But, and I don't know about you, sometimes I wondered: is that enough? We demonstrate, again and again, and that's important, I know, but is that really all we have to counter the suffering and terror in the world? Sometimes the mood is euphoric, sometimes depressed in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. We must not be discouraged by this, because that too is something we can learn from the revolution in Rojava: to keep going despite all the difficulties.

In Europe, too, we need strong revolutionary organizations that are able to intervene in history at the right moment, instead of just letting it happen. Only in this way can we fight in the future to defend this and all future revolutions with our own strength.

When you go home today, you should tell yourselves: the world as it is must not remain. Everything must change; anything less would be madness, and we should do everything in our power to make that happen. We cannot do it alone, but need the strength that we can only give each other.
A Kurdish comrade said to me: revolution is planting flowers on a floor of stone. We must succeed in nothing less.

Love and strength to all our fighting friends!

Şehîd Ronahî Yekta group

🔴 In Evîn prison, the women do exactly what the mullah regime is most afraid of: they dance and shout Azadî - Freedom!

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📌 Compulsory veiling in the 'new Syria'!

A video has been shared on social media showing a group using loudspeakers in the streets of Aleppo to call on women to wear a headscarf (hijab). This image is causing concern in many parts of Syria, especially among women.

In the predominantly Christian neighborhoods of Eziziye and Silêmaniye, a group could be seen shouting "Hidschab, Hidschab, oh community of Allah" and "Allah-u Ekber" from loudspeakers.

In Hama, a group called "Banga Xêrê Kirin" distributed books and brochures in the city. A book with the inscription "Whoever blasphemes God must be killed" was particularly striking. In addition, an initiative called the "Hidschab Dissemination Initiative", which consisted of 25 women, distributed 100 items of Islamic clothing in Hama.

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https://justpaste.it/fa8rv

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📚 New Brochure: Psychological and Special Warfare - Our duties and responsibilities against it

➡️ in modern warfare, armed struggle constitutes only about twenty percent of the conflict. Psychological warfare, on the other hand, operates twenty-four hours a day, almost every second of the war, focusing on psychological assault.

➡️ In the recent war in Syria psychological warfare and miss-information plays a significant role, as for example in the fall of the Assad-Regime. Turkish fascism tries to gain success against the revolution in Kurdistan and North-East Syria through the same methods.

➡️ Due to the exhausting and demoralizing impact of psychological warfare, those who fight for a free life must focus heavily on organization, propaganda, and agitation efforts.

Read now in English Armenian, Italian, Spanish, German:
https://internationalistcommune.com/psychological-and-special-warfare-our-duties-and-responsibilities-against-it/

Kobanê residents prepare food for SDF fighters with chants.

JIN TV

🔷The Baloch and Kurdish peoples' decades-long struggle against oppression was discussed in an X space on Saturday, hosted by the Ronahi Youth Centre (@ronahi_youth).

#Kurdistan #Balochistan #MiddleEast

🔗 https://medyanews.rs/FawPQns
➡️ alternative: https://justpaste.it/3knqj

19th anniversary of Commandanta Ramona's death

Comandanta Ramona was an indigenous revolutionary. She died on January 6, 2006 after suffering from cancer. She became one of the symbols of the Zapatista movement. She belonged to the Tzotil, the largest indigenous community in Chiapas. She took part in the capture of San Cristóbal de las Casa and was a member of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee.

When the EZLN was still organizing underground, it and others conducted surveys among women about their situation, had discussions and conflicts with comrades, and began organizing women. The revolutionary women's law in 1993 was a success.

She suffered from kidney cancer for many years. In 1996 she received a transplant and then withdrew from the public eye. In 2005 she took part in the first “Otra Campaña” conference. Her death was announced at a campaign meeting in Tonalá.

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