The Turkish Interior Ministry on Sunday announced that 735 people have been arrested for ‘supporting Kurdish PKK resistance fighters’.Torture is routine in the Turkish state and prisoners spend years awaiting trial.
The PKK fighters, led by Ocalan, had maintained a 2 year unilateral ceasefire and led the Kurds into communal democratic participation until Erdogan ordered the attack and destruction of Kurdish cities in 2016.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE …..Leyla Guven is transferred to hospital, refuses treatment ANHA
The health situation of parliamentarian Leyla Guven deteriorated and she was transferred to the hospital as she is continuing hunger strike on the 98th day. Leyla Guven refused any medical intervention to treat her.
13 Feb 2019, Wed – 15:45
The co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress and Parliamentarian Leyla Guven continues her hunger strike for the 98th day in a row. Due to the deterioration of her health status, Leyla Guven was transferred to the hospital, and information was reported that Leyla Guven refused treatment. ANHA
Right now over 300 people, mostly Kurdish prisoners in Turkey , are on indefinite hunger strike, and many of them are reaching the stage of permanent health damage and death.They are striking not to protest their obvious innocence or the shocking conditions, but for the right of their leader, Ocalan, to have contact with the outside world.Ocalan in the past has declared long ceasefires with the Turkish State rejecting terrorism and separatism in favour of ‘municipal anarchist’ communal ideas and feminist emancipation which have swept through the 15 million Kurdish population.
That seems a strange thing to die for, but Ocalan in the past has declared ceasefires with the Turkish State which have lasted years
see also 300 on Hunger Strike – How Ocalan Transformed the PKK into Anti-TerroristsSo when the hunger strikers demand Ocalan be allowed to speak they are demanding the first step in a new peace process, and the end of the ongoing anti Kurdish pogrom in Turkey and the north of Syria.But because the PKK is branded as terrorist by the US they get little international support. Turkey is the real terrorist, with documented massacres or mass killings of Kurds in 1930, 1978, 1987, 2009, 2011, and 2016The Turkish state has impunity though it is the real terrorist, with documented mass killings of Kurds in 1930, 1978, 1987, 2009, 2011, and 2016……
Letters from Leyla Güven to the women of the world
Dear women,
Even though our geographies are divided by thousands of kilometers, I’m glad you heard my voice. Even though we are from very different corners of the world, as women, we always feel. As Hypatia says, “none of us resemble each other, but the things that unite us are greater than those that separate us.” We are all sisters. What unites us the most is our struggle for freedom, our resistance against all kinds of fascism, against the dictatorship and the patriarchal mentality. Continue reading “UPDATE .Leyla Hospitalised Refusing Treatment/ International Action plea for Hunger Strikers”
by ‘power to restorative justice!’ …. …. translation updated 18:53 10/02/19
Leer en español aquí abajo. / Original en Catalá AQUÍ
We write this communication in order to share our concern and irritation due to many situations that we have known or experienced directly in recent times in relation to the definition of gender violence and its management in social and libertarian movements.
We start from the idea that gender violence is the product of a heteronormative model that imposes a unique form of existence in terms of what our body, our identity, our gender expression, our sexuality and our relationships are. All those people who do not comply with this norm can be exposed to violence, as punishment for transgressions and non-compliance with the hetero-norm.
And those agressions that happen in the spaces that should be of support and solidarity make the lives and militancy of those who fight untenable, and for that we strongly oppose them. All of us who signed this communique have spent years fighting against the heteropatriarchy, as well as for the liberation of all.
A Greve Feminista é uma proposta feita pelo movimento feminista internacional, que convoca uma greve de mulheres como forma de protesto e revolta face às situações de precariedade e violência que invadem as nossas vidas. É o maior movimento mundial de mulheres de paralisação social das últimas décadas, acontece no dia 8 de Março, Dia Internacional da Mulher.https://climaximo.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/a-caminho-da-greve-feminista-internacional-8-de-marco-de-2019/
Now that our position is clarified, it is essential to share a reflection on how the hegemonic feminist discourse is defining violence and, by default, how the so-called aggressions are being managed.
The first issue that is problematic is the way in which gender violence is being framed, conceptualized and considered. From certain feminisms it is named with this term structural or symbolic gender inequalities, causing the concept of violence to take on too great a spectrum of meanings. Continue reading “You will not find us there: on Gender Violence and Collective Management”
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.
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“
UPDATE: The call for a feminist General Strike, at work and at home is spreading around the world and extending for more days. Reports are appearing of extensive organising, especially in Spain, Italy, Rojava and Brazil.
Again this year it will be the minority CNT and CGT anarcho-syndicalist trade unions who call the Feminist General Strike on 8th March International Women Workers Day in Spain. This strike registration gives the huge popular ‘Work and Home’ feminist strike some legal protection against continuous State attacks.
The National Confederation of Labor, in response to the call of the feminist movement and in accordance with the principles of the organization, will convene on March 8 a feminist general strike of 24 hours in all sectors, so that anyone from any part of the territory will have all the legal guarantees to support the strike.
The Spanish Stateis a land where the feminist fight stands strong. on January 15 there were protests of women in many cities for two reasons: 1) supporting their Andalucian sisters on the inauguration of the new right wing government of Vox-PP-Ciudadanos, and 2) uniting forces towards the 8M strike. Though the main unions (CCOO, UGT, USO) called for partial strikes, others (CGT, CNT) called for a general strike. Meaning, the movement broadens.
Almost a year after the historic 8M strike of 2018 that mobilized millions of people in defense of women’s rights, the reasons that motivated that call remain fully valid.
Women continue to face day after day a capitalist and patriarchal society that denies them the most basic right to non-discrimination.
The violence that is exerted on women, at home, in the street or at work, must be attacked and annulled by society as a whole to aspire to live in a more just and egalitarian environment.
As a union, CNT faces every day the labor discrimination suffered by women only because they are so. Neither the current legislation nor the courts protect the right of women to work on equal terms with their male colleagues.
Abusive agreements, lack of effective tools to guarantee the same salary for performances of equal value, unrecognized illnesses characteristic of work in feminized sectors, harassment and sexual abuse, are just some examples of the conditions that women live in their work environment.
Faced with this reality, CNT will summon the entire working class to a feminist general strike on March 8 to demand the elimination of the wage gap, both direct and indirect, the elimination of obstacles in access and promotion in employment (sticky soil). and glass ceiling), measures that facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life from co-responsibility, eliminate the reform of the pension law in
which only 23% of women will retire at 65, as well as the end of all discrimination at work at the service of the family home.
Like last year, CNT is positioned behind the feminist movement and, along with other social groups and organizations, will continue working to achieve a true political and social change where care is recognized, valued and shared.
Because all oppression will find the CNT in front, the 8M will go out to join our strength and contribute to the success of the call.
Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committee
CNT convocará huelga general feminista de 24 horas el 8 de marzo
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
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