Let’s fight against isolation. Let’s put an end to fascism. Let’s liberate Kurdistan.
International Reviews Rojava LAURA GIMENO -CNT TERUEL
During the week of 11 to 16 February a hundred internationalists have been marching from Luxembourg to Strasbourg for the “Long March internationalist”, a march that has been organized for three years and has as its main objective to demand the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.The long marches are one of the fighting tools that have been applied for many years in the points where there is a large Kurdish population in the diaspora.
For three years, this tool has been internationalized and has become a meeting point for people from different parts of the world who support the Kurdish cause, a meeting point to share experiences and training, a meeting point and confluence between different tendencies and ideologies of the left, united under the slogan “Let’s fight against isolation. Continue reading “Planting Freedom; CNT Backs Rojava Revolution”
Responding to a call for solidarity on January 26th and 27th with the ongoing struggle for freedom, women’s liberation, and autonomy in Rojava, people across the world took part in solidarity actions under the banner, #RiseUp4Rojava. Large solidarity actions took place in Greece, in London, and in many other cities and towns. Below is a roundup of actions that took place in the US and some international highlights.
January 27th also represents the four year anniversary of the revolutionary defeat of ISIS in Kobane. As Abolitionist Media Worldwidepointed out, anarchists and other autonomous antifascists have been active in these ongoing military engagements, both fighting within the YPG and the YPJ, but also in autonomous anarchist and international antifascist formations as well.
MidCat/STEP gas pipeline between France and Spain was just cancelled!
People power has won another victory against fossil fuels: the MidCat/STEP gas pipeline between France and Spain was just cancelled!
Yesterday the French and Spanish energy agencies announced that the pipeline, which was meant to link the two countries, was scrapped. The controversial fossil fuel project would have damaged communities and the environment, and was terrible news for the climate.
Many organizations and groups around the world followed the call of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, to defend the revolution in Rojava. We want to share some of the events, that will happen in this global days of actions. More will come…
New: Stockholm (Sweden)
Protest: Monday 28. January, 4pm
Olof Palmes gata 17, SE-111 22 Stockholm, Sverige
SAAB’s head office in Stockholm
„No Support For Erdogan“
New: Malmö (Sweden)
Protest: Monday 28. January, 12pm
Rönnviksgatan 13, SE-213 74 Malmö, Sverige
„No Support For Erdogan“
Here are the links to the latest books uploaded to The Anarchist Library in the last month or so. All are free to read online and download in various formats
Title: Beyond the ImpossibleDate: 2012Notes: Published in L’Impossible #2, April 2012. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! on 16 May 2012.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/beyond-the-impossible.htmlRaoul Vaneigem –
”Concerning the “Yellow Jackets”: Everything is possible, even self – managing assemblies in the middle of street intersections, villages and neighborhoods”Vaneigem
Title: The Prisons Must Be DestroyedDate: 2004Notes: Written by Raoul Vaneigem in 2004. Translated from the French by Jordan M.L., 2005. Footnotes by NOT BORED!, except where noted.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/prisons.html
Title: Six Questions for Raoul VaneigemSubtitle: “A Radical Change Is At Our Door”Date: 2007Notes: Questions posed in French by Javier Urdanibia. First published in Castilian in La Felguera #12, 2007.
Printed in French as part of Vaneigem’s book L’Etat n’est plus rien, soyons tout [Editions Rue des Cascades, 2010]. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! 19 May 2012.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/six-questions.html
Title: The Politics of Le Guin’s OpusDate: November, 1975Notes: Retrieved January 13, 2019 from Web version at https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/7/porter7art.htmSource: Copied from online version, Science Fiction Studies #7 – Volume 2, Part 3, November 1975
Title: Indigenous Anarchy & The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer’s “Civilization”Date: 2018-11-12Source: Retrieved on 2019-01-12 from https://raddle.me/wiki/Indigenous_AnarchyJan 13, 19
Title: Guy Debord – RevolutionarySubtitle: Reviewed by John ZerzanDate: From Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #44, Fall/Winter 1997-’98, Vol. 15, No. 2Source: Retrieved on January 11, 2019 from https://archive.org/details/AnarchyAJournalOfDesireArmedNoTwoJan 11, 19
Title: The Principle of FederationSubtitle: and the Need to Reconstitute the Party of RevolutionDate: 1863Notes: Translated by Richard Vernon. Only the first part and the first chapter of the second part are translated, as these were what Vernon considered “the theoretical core of the work”. Introduction and preface by Richard Vernon. Conclusion translated by Ian Harvey. Footnotes are both Vernon and Proudhon’s.Source: Retrieved on 09 December, 2018 from http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#11, introduction retrieved from http://www.ditext.com/vernon/proudhon.html and conclusion retrieved from Iain McKay’s Property Is Theft! Jan 9, 19
Title: The StraitSubtitle: Book of Obenabi. His SongsDate: 1988Notes: Black and Red, Detroit.Source: Scanned and OCR’d from the original book by a librarianJan 6, 19
Title: The Ecology of FreedomSubtitle: The Emergence and Dissolution of HierarchyDate: 1982Notes: Converted September 2018; Published by Cheshire BookJan 5, 19
Title: My anarchismDate: 2018Notes: This text was written following the publication of « Contre l’anarchisme, un apport au débat sur les identités. [1]» It isn’t a conversation with the peddlers of ideas who let themselves spit sneakily on a diverse stream they are incapable of understanding. It is though a ”response to a response”[2] that was written answering this text, and which seemed to me as sorry as the first one was. Translation from french by Bus Stop Press.Source: original translation from frenchJan 5, 19
Title: Trump’s Betrayal of YPG – Paris Commune Falls Again?Date: December, 2018Jan 5, 19
North-East of Syria, Rojava: The Kobani canton, in the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava, more commonly known as Syrian Kurdistan or Western Kurdistan, struggles against Daesh. Here, demonstration in a street of Kobani for the release of Apo, Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Young Kurdish women in the crowd of demonstrators. (Photo by: Andia/UIG via Getty Images)
Title: Notes on the CommuneDate: Spring 2012Notes: footnotes references at end are missing the textual reference.Source: copied out of Lawless: a manual for warJan 5, 19
Title: Notes on the CommuneDate: Spring 2012Notes: footnotes references at end are missing the textual reference.Source: copied out of Lawless: a manual for warDec 21, 18
Title: Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest AttackSubtitle: A Response to “Beyond Negativity: What Comes After Gender Nihilism?”Date: 12/8/2018Dec 17, 18
Title: From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent PowerDate: 2013Notes: Transcript of a public lecture by Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed auditorium in Athens on November 16, 2013.Source: https://roarmag.org/essays/agamben-destituent-power-democracyDec 16, 18
Title: Address to the LivingSubtitle: Concerning the Death That Governs Them and the Opportuneness of the Present Moment for Getting Rid of ItDate: October 16th, 1989Notes: Translated by Jordan Levinson in 2005. Six missing paragraphs (four in “Against Anti-Terrorism” — which was missing completely, the last from “To Rediscover a Blooming Childhood…” and the first from “The Time Torn from the Living”) were subsequently translated from the printed edition, that also served as a basis for adapting segments of the text and for organizing the chapters.Source: Retrieved on October 2nd, 2018 from http://inventin.lautre.net/livres/Vaneigem-Address-to-the-living.pdfDec 16, 18
The residents of Afrin in al-Shahba canton said that they resisted and struggled for 58 days in the face of attacks and raids by the Turkish occupation of the region.
They are determined to respond to the Turkish aggression and will not accept it, stressing their continuation in the second phase of the Resistance of the Age until returning to Afrin after liberation.
Mona Brem: We faced the second state in NATO, which attacked us with all kinds of heavy weapons and modern warplanes, the attack on Afrin was an international conspiracy, but our resistance breaks this conspiracy.
Arife Bilal: Turkey fought us with 72 warplanes brutally and killed thousands of children and women and destroyed our homes over our heads. We resisted and did not stand idly by in the face of these attacks. Our resistance did not stop in the face of the occupation. We are resisting till returning to Afrin.”
Ahmed Haso: The goal is to annihilate the people of the region and the culture and the Kurdish identity, and as a youth we will defend and resist to preserve our culture and identity, we will resist in spite of the difficult circumstances to return to Afrin.
# RiseUp4Rojava – Call for global days of action … 27 and 28 Jan 2019
…#RiseUp4Rojava – Defending the revolution together.
Rally mass from Afrin and al-Shahba canton’s people and members of Democratic Autonomous Administration to Tel-Qarah village since morning to participation in the demonstration which organized to denounce Turkish occupation change the demographics of the area and looted civilians’ properties by Turkey’s gangs.
The demonstration launched shortly after protesters gathered towards Sardam camp in Sowsin village where it will stop there and an event will be held with several speeches.
The demonstrators raised banners of People and Women Protection Units (YPG, YPJ)Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM), Kongra Star and the emblem of the al-Shahba’s Council.
They also held banners reading
“Russia and Turkey are partners in dividing Syria and changing its demography (Afrin and al-Ghouta).
The Gaziantep Council is the mercenaries and traitors’ board.
Stop the crimes of the Turkish occupation against our Afrin people .
We condemn and denounce the international silence and violations of the Turkish occupation in Afrin.
Al-Shahba people are continuing to support Afrin resistance to expel the Turkish occupation.
January 7th: Dutch authorities ignored a UN ruling protecting the social centre today to brutally clear the area with riot police, private security and heavy machinery.
Amsterdam: ADM eviction
– January 7th, 2019
The ADM eviction has started on Nonday morning, 7 january 2019. Time line, pictures, videos and more news are to be found on Indymedia Nederland.
No statement at the moment about this eviction on the ADM website. More news to follow as soon as possible…
Let’s fight against isolation. Let’s put an end to fascism. Let’s liberate Kurdistan.
The long marches are one of the fighting tools that have been applied for many years in the points where there is a large Kurdish population in the diaspora.
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