Femicide in Turkey 346 women murdered in 2015

 by KurdisCat    Umut Foundation has published figures for 2015 relating to violence against women in the Republic of Turkey, which recorded a significant increase compared to the previous year. Turkish-Women-Rights-Protest-678x381The Foundation was set up in 1994 to develop humanism and non-violence in Turkish society. 346 women were murdered in Turkey in the first 10 months of 2015.

A total of 46 women were murdered by their husbands or ex-friends who later committed suicide. Continue reading “Femicide in Turkey 346 women murdered in 2015”

Nikos Romanos: “Requiem for a Journey of No Return”

Nikos Romanos is a young anarchist imprisoned in Greece for revolutionary acts.

“Requiem for a Journey of No Return”

by  Nikos Romanos (extract from Contra Infos.)Untitled

…….”If we close our eyes and ears to the ceaseless flow of dominant propaganda, we’ll be able to listen to the thousands of anonymous deaths in police stations, terrestrial and maritime border areas, concentration camps, psychiatric institutions and prisons, war zones across the Middle East, and sweatshops that exterminate contemporary slaves. greeceAnyone can hear the cries of people who are being tortured in police cells, who commit suicide in a confinement facility out of desperation, who are sunk by coast guard cops and drowned in the cold waters of the Mediterranean Sea, who are crippling their bodies over multinationals’ production machines in third world countries, who are buried under rubble after blind aerial bombardments conducted by capitalist empires. Continue reading “Nikos Romanos: “Requiem for a Journey of No Return””

Victory in Paris vs Monsanto GMO Cabal

YPJ Commanders: We Have Struck At All Forms Of Patriarchal Power

---'s avatarThe Rojava Report

ypjkomutanlari(Kobanê) In a new interview with journalist Gulan Botan for JINHA, two YPJ commanders shared their thoughts on the recent push by the Forces of Democratic Syria (HSD) – of which the YPJ is a founding member – into the town of Tishrin west of the Euphrates. Both women, Aryen Efrîn and Berwar Şervin, emphasized how the recent victories against ISIS were not only a blow against this criminal gang but a victory for all women against the entrenched forces of patriarchal power in the region and beyond.

Both women stressed the importance of the YPJ as an entirely female fighting force and its role in defending women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, as well as in the recent fighting to capture Tishrin. “The role of the YPJ in the success of the operation was important” notes Efrîn, “the YPJ does not only project women in Rojava we have…

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Assembly Party ‘CUP’pulls plug on Catalan Parliament.. and maybe PP in Madrid

assembly of CUPThe CUP is a radical new assembly based far-left party in Catalunya which grew from the 15m Take The Streets movement and retains anarchist principles, except for being in favour of making a political party.

In the recent Catalan elections CUP got 10 seats and the balance of power to give an absolute majority to the coalition for Catalan Independence.

But CUP refused to cooperate if the leader was Artur Más, ex rightwing president who presided over cuts, repression and corruption.

CUP assembly

CUP assembly

Under extreme pressure to save the Independence Process a general assembly was called last week and incredibly the 3rd vote TIED.. with 1515 votes in favour and 1515 votes against. Continue reading “Assembly Party ‘CUP’pulls plug on Catalan Parliament.. and maybe PP in Madrid”

Organizing Autonomy: Support Days for the ZADs

  UntitledAgenda d’ailleurs

Call for bids on the ZAD 27 Dec.  by zadist
’To build a future without an aeroport’

Resumption of public works 30th and 31st January 2016

Hereinbelow the list of proposed lots, updated 25th December

The « steering committee for a future without an aeroport » launch a call for bids to start the public works (which never ceased from our side) on the ZAD the 30th and 31st January 2016, just after the confectioners’ truce.


This call for bids is addressed to everyone who participated in the Continue reading “Organizing Autonomy: Support Days for the ZADs”

‘Climate-Smart’..more capitalist Greenwash

How multinationals use climate change to impose an industrial agricultural modelclimate greenwash

by SOPHIE CHAPELLE      in French /Spanish here

  • Governments are keeping an eye on the agricultural sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. A new concept is emerging: “climate-smart agriculture,” with the objective of producing more, better. In the arena of climate negotiations, multinational corporations are getting set to promote “smart fertilizers” and plants genetically modified for heat tolerance. While industrial agriculture is about to win the battle with organic agriculture, researchers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are trying to overturn the deal.

Close to a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to agriculture [1]. A worrying figure, and a disturbing one since it includes all agricultural systems of production, from “conventional” agriculture to organic agriculture, from battery farming to pasturing, from industrial monocultures to small, mixed farms. While farmers are blamed for their responsibility in climate change, actors from industrial agriculture take advantage of these conflations to greenwash their image. Continue reading “‘Climate-Smart’..more capitalist Greenwash”