On 23 June, three activists of the women’s movement in north-east Syria were killed as a result of a drone attack carried out by Turkey in the village of Helincê (Halinja) near Kobanê
The people of Kobane went to the tent of condolence for the martyrs of Helinj massacre, and said that the enemy tries to break the will of women in Rojava Revolution, and stressed the necessity of solidarity among the peoples and the continuation of the struggle.
The Martyrs’ Families Council of Kobane canton organized a funeral ceremony for the families of the three strugglers who were targeted by the Turkish reconnaissance plane a few days ago.
Hundreds of families and members of civil institutions in Kobane district participated in the ceremony held at the Martyr Dijlah Shrine, south of Kobane city.
Great Anarchists by Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper started life as a pamphlet series. We’ve collected all ten essays and illustrations together to make this beautiful book.
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Ruth Kinna is a professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University, working in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations where she specialises in political philosophy. Since 2007 she has been the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. Her most recent book is The Government of No-one (Pelican).
Clifford Harper is a worker, illustrator, and militant anarchist. He has worked for many radical and alternative publications, the international anarchist movement and almost all of the UK national newspapers.
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Our best-selling book to date is an illustrated exposition of social ecology in the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava, with a foreword by Debbie Bookchin.
A collection of Youth Liberation writing, originally published online by Stinney Distro. This anthology draws together all 20 issues of the NO! zine series into one print edition. It is jointly published with Active Distribution.
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Revolutionaries in Portland looted businesses and set one side of Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct on fire early Friday morning, as the anti-police uprising that has spread throughout the US continued.
The north side of the North Precinct was set ablaze around 2:15 a.m. Police used CS gas, a type of tear gas, to try to disperse the crowd, but militants threw canisters back at the pigs.
At one point in the early morning, militants and pigs physically clashed as police tried to move them from the area. Some militants shot paintballs at the pigs’ face shields, rendering them unable to see.
Several businesses were looted overnight after windows were smashed and more fires were set. A nearby bank is believed to have been vandalized as well.
Revolutionaries in Portland looted businesses and set one side of Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct on fire early Friday morning, as the anti-police uprising that has spread throughout the US continued.
The north side of the North Precinct was set ablaze around 2:15 a.m. Police used CS gas, a type of tear gas, to try to disperse the crowd, but militants threw canisters back at the pigs.
At one point in the early morning, militants and pigs physically clashed as police tried to move them from the area. Some militants shot paintballs at the pigs’ face shields, rendering them unable to see.
Several businesses were looted overnight after windows were smashed and more fires were set. A nearby bank is believed to have been vandalized as well.
Multiple pigs were injured in the uprising.
For the first time since George Floyd was killed exactly one month ago, people in Portland demonstrated at two police precincts simultaneously overnight, and set up barricades outside the precinct in North Portland, which was set on fire.
The protesters had marched from Fern Hill Park in Northeast Portland to the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct earlier Thursday evening.
Revolutionaries vandalized the police building by spray-painting graffiti along the outer walls, blacking out security cameras and rolling dumpsters into the street to form a barricade as a line of uniformed pigs looked on from a distance.
Across the Willamette River at the Justice Center, another group formed on Thursday evening for a vigil for George Floyd and others killed by police. Later, the group dismantled the fence near the building and vandalized the structure.
The revolutionary uprising against police that began after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is not over. The burning of precincts will continue until all pigs are driven off the streets permanently.
Published June 27, 2020 by AMW English shared with thanks
On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to Beijing Normal University—published an important paper in Science. This paper—“An Investigation of Transmission Control Measures During the First 50 Days of the COVID-19 Epidemic in China”—proposes that if the Chinese government had not initiated the lockdown of Wuhan and the national emergency response, then there would have been 744,000 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases outside Wuhan. “Control measures taken in China,” the authors argue, “potentially hold lesso[n]s for other countries around the world.”
In the World Health Organization’s February report after a visit to China, the team members wrote, “In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.”
In this report, we detail the measures taken by the different levels of the Chinese government and by social organizations to stem the spread of the virus and the disease at a time when scientists had just begun to accumulate knowledge about them and when they worked in the absence of a vaccine and a specific drug treatment for COVID-19.
The Emergence of a Plan
In the early days of January 2020, the National Health Commission (NHC) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began to establish protocols to deal with the diagnosis, treatment, and laboratory testing of what was then considered a “viral pneumonia of unknown cause.” A treatment manual was produced by the NHC and health departments in Hubei Province and sent to all medical institutions in Wuhan City on January 4; city-wide training was conducted that same day. By January 7, China CDC isolated the first novel coronavirus strain, and three days later, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and others developed testing kits.
By the second week of January, more was known about the nature of the virus, and so a plan began to take shape to contain it. On January 13, the NHC instructed Wuhan City authorities to begin temperature checks at ports and stations and to reduce public gathering. The next day, the NHC held a national teleconference that alerted all of China to the virulent novel coronavirus strain and to prepare for a public health emergency.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 27 June 2020 (SPS) – Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to put an end to the sufferings of the Sahrawi prisoners detained in the Moroccan jails and to intercede to Rabat to ensure their immediate and unconditional release in the face of the serious… Covid-19: […]
Two hundred people manage to stop the first eviction by court order, which was scheduled for Thursday, June 18 in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. PAH denounces government measures to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis are insufficient. (Note… PAH is a state wide network of community groups which aids morttgage and rent victims)
The street where Liliana and her two children, aged 7 and 13, live, was already full of people long before one in the afternoon, when the eviction of this family was called, this Thursday, June 18. Finally, they managed to gather more than 200 people, convened by the PAH Barcelona, who managed to paralyze the eviction that was intended to take place.
This is the first eviction that has been stopped since the state of alarm for the coronavirus pandemic in the metropolitan area of Barcelona was declared. The PAH denounces that the government’s measures to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis are insufficient and alludes to the obvious evidence of the eviction of Liliana and her family.
Liliana paid the rent on time every month to a person who claimed to own the apartment, but when a month ago they cut off her water, she learned that this person was not actually the owner of the apartment and that, for both were occupying the flat for legal purposes.
The Cerberus vulture fund, which is the real owner of the property, began the process of evicting the apartment where this mother and her two children live.
Liliana and PAH Barcelona denounce that the attention given during the pandemic to the tenant has been disastrous and insufficient and that, instead of strengthening the teams, both in Social Services and in Housing, offices have been closed to give telephone attention in many cases negligent, thus leaving tenants to their fate in a complicated context.
Dues-centes persones aconsegueixen aturar el primer desnonament amb ordre judicial, que estava previst aquest dijous 18 de juny a l’Hospitalet de Llobregat. La PAH denuncia que les mesures del govern per pal·liar els efectes de la crisi de la COVID-19 són insuficients
El carrer on viuen Liliana i els seus dos fills, de 7 i 13 anys, ja estava replet de gent molt abans de la una de la tarda, hora a la qual estava convocat el desnonament d’aquesta família, aquest dijous 18 de juny. Finalment s’han aconseguit reunir més de 200 persones, convocades per la PAH Barcelona, que han aconseguit paralitzar el desnonament que es pretenia dur a terme.
Aquest és el primer desnonament que s’ha aconseguit aturar des que es va decretar l’estat d’alarma per la pandèmia del coronavirus a l’àrea metropolitana de Barcelona. La PAH denuncia que les mesures del govern per pal·liar els efectes de la crisi de la COVID-19 són insuficients i al·ludeix a la prova evident del desnonament de Liliana i la seva família.
Liliana pagava el lloguer puntualment cada mes a una persona que deia ser propietària del pis, però, quan fa un mes li van tallar l’aigua, es va assabentar que en realitat aquesta persona no era la propietària de l’habitatge i que, per tant, estava okupant el pis a efectes legals. El fons Cerberus, que és el veritable propietari de l’immoble, va iniciar els tràmits per desallotjar el pis on habiten aquesta mare i els seus dos fills.
Liliana i la PAH Barcelona denuncien que l’atenció que s’ha donat durant la pandèmia a l’inquilinat ha estat nefasta i insuficient i que, en lloc de reforçar els equips, tant en Serveis Socials com en Habitatge, s’han tancat oficines per donar una atenció telefònica en molts casos negligent, deixant així les inquilines a la seva sort en un context complicat.desnonamenthabitatgel’Hospitalet de LlobregatLilianaPAH
Turkish drones killed three women in Kobanê 
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