Month: Mar 2021

“I didn’t go to Rojava just because I’m a good person who wanted to help the Kurds. I wanted to live in a world of women”: Eddi Marcucci’s story on the YPJ frontline”

Adapted with thanks from post by Alice Camilleri Burke at Redaction Politics shared with thanks original in Catalan HERE.. illustrations and story added

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Maria Edgarda Marcucci, the Italian activist and former Women’s Defense … ‘Eddi’ travelled to Rojava in 2017, where she joined the YPJ and on her return to Italy has received severe restrictions of freedom and ‘special surveillance’ measures./..Currently Eddi, without having been convicted of any crime, is prohibited from leaving her municipality, her passport and her driver’s license have been withdrawn.

She must necessarily stay at her house between 9pm and 7am. She is prohibited from meeting with more than three people at the same time, therefore also approaching or participating in any public event. In addition to it, she must carry a red notebook always with her, in which any member of the State security forces can write what they are doing with her, with whom and in what place, at any time that they are required to do so.

All these measures must be strictly complied with for a period of two years, which in reality means that she is sentenced to 2 years in an open-air prison

EDDI Marcucci was not a born activist.

Raised in Rome and studying philosophy in Turin on a scholarship, she would never have imagined being on the frontlines against ISIS a few years later.

After reporting on the heroic anti fascist resistance of the YPJ in Syria, she found herself stranded in the revolutionary Rojava – but accepted by the group as one of many women on the frontline.

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“You have shown us that being peaceful is useless” – The Case of Pablo Hasél: An Interview By RadioFragmata (Greece) with An Anonymous Anarchist in Spain

The following is an interview with an anonymous anarchist in Spain regarding the recent riots and general response to the prosecution of anti-fascist rapper Pablo Hasél. We hope this interview helps both to inspire others around the world with news of this uprising, but also to prepare for similar policies that are being implemented across the neo-liberal world; intent on repressing our movement’s voice...

With love and solidarity, we spit on the grave of Franco from Greece, welcome the passion of those in the streets of Spain attacking symbols of the state and capital, and present this conversation as part of a broader project of borderless solidarity in the struggle against fascism.

An Interview By RadioFragmata (Greece).

Who is Pablo Hasél ? And what is happening in Spain in regards to his case and the riots that followed?

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