• December 9, 2020

by Mark Campbell

It is important to understand from the beginning that the wider Kurdish Movement has always had a strong tradition of internationalism and has attracted non Kurds to their movement long before the Rojava Revolution but it is also true to say that never before have International Volunteers joined with the Kurdish struggle in such numbers.

The Rojava Revolution, is the only multi-religion, feminist, ecological and horizontally organised movement in the whole middle east.

It is also true to say that the International Volunteers have made a widely reported, significant and evidently meaningful contribution to not just the struggle and defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) but also to the development of civil society in North East Syria too, often at huge personal sacrifice.

Context

Following the so called ‘Arab Spring’ – a series of uprisings that began in December 2010 in Tunisia and spread to many countries in the Middle East including Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain – protests began in Syria against the Assad regime. Beginning as social movements against the regime, the conflict quickly became a battlefield for influential powers using proxies to further their regional interests.

The Kurds, taking advantage of Assad’s new situation battling Syrian opposition groups, began a revolution in their own areas that Assad had held them under brutal suppression for decades. They began to build a new society in their newly found freedom and self-control.

Continue reading “International Volunteers in Rojava – Part 1 and 2”

Comunicado sobre el incendio en la nave del Gorg en Badalona

11 diciembre 2020 in https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com

Pablo Casado y Xavier García Albiol atienden las explicaciones de un bombero frente a la nave incendiada en Badalona. / Alejandro Garci

Un día de luto oficial ha decretado el gobierno de la Generalitat y 3 el Ayuntamiento de Badalona. Así quieren demostrar las administraciones su duelo por el incendio de la nave del Gorg con su secuela de muertos y heridos.

Inmigrantes de la nave ‘okupada’ que se incendió este miércoles se manifiestan.. Supervivientes de la nave industrial incendiada en Badalona este miércoles 9 de diciembre, han protestado este jueves por las calles de la ciudad. La mayoría de los okupantes de la nave, que tras prender fuego ha dejado un balance provisional de tres personas muertas y 19 heridos, eran immigrantes de origen senegalés y gambiano que comercian con chatarra por unos míseros euros.

Semejante reacción sobre todo en el caso del alcalde Albiol no reflejan su contrición por los hechos sino el enorme repudio social a su racismo y la solidaridad despertada para con las víctimas.

Con la voz temblorosa y cogiendo aire, los supervivientes en la nave industrial arrasada por las llamas reviven la escena una y otra vez. Seydou Camara, de veintipocos años, natural de Senegal, llegó en patera hace un año a Lampedusa y logró entrar en España en autobús. Recoge chatarra y sobrevive como puede. Ayer, subió a la terraza a hablar por el móvil cuando vio cómo una humareda espesa avanzaba sin parar por el hueco de la escalera. “¿Qué es este humo tan raro?”, se preguntaba. En pocos segundos reaccionó. “Bajé corriendo como puede, no veía nada, pero pude salir”

La actitud de las administraciones es de todas formas, pura hipocresía, porque la tragedia estaba desde hace largo tiempo anunciada y es responsabilidad de las 3 administraciones: El Ayuntamiento de Badalona, el gobierno de la Generalitat y el Gobierno Central. Es por ello que no cabe hablar de simples muertes, son asesinatos.

Continue reading “Comunicado sobre el incendio en la nave del Gorg en Badalona .. Esp/Eng”

10thDec. × ’20 By tekosinaanarsist

Together with more than 20 anarchist organizations, we call for a general amnesty against the represion of the Chilean State.

Free all political prioners! International solidarity with the rebelion, with special voice for the anticolonial struggle of the Mapuche people!

“That our companions do not feel alone, the people with whom they shared joys and sorrows, failures and victories, are with them more than ever, fighting with stubborn fervor. Feeling more love and hate every day. That love, and hate with which, together, we will change the world of bases”.

(Juan C. Mechoso – Acción Directa Anarquista: Una Historia de FAU)

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More than a year has passed since the struggle overflowed the streets of different cities in the territory dominated by the State of Chile. And since that October, the peoples have maintained the cope without rest. Despite the repression, the pandemic, and hunger, the will to organize and fight flourishes. We are in times of fight and resistance in territories around the world, from the indigenous people in Ecuador to the proletarians in France. The peoples rise against the system of domination.

Continue reading “Freedom for the Revolutionary Struggle in Chile! 20 anarchist orgs call for prisoner amnesty”

Tenants, Landlords Face Imminent Crisis As Pandemic Lifelines Expire

By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge – 12/08/2020

January is going to be a mess in the US. America’s small-time landlords, along with their tenants, are in trouble as safety nets are set to expire. Tenants haven’t been able to pay rent in months, with a looming eviction moratorium expiring at the end of December.

According to Reuters, the lack of rental income for landlords has also been troublesome, with many skipping mortgage payments, potentially resulting in a firesale of properties in the year ahead.

For 12 million Americans and their families – this Christmas will be their worst – as the extended unemployment benefits that have kept many of them afloat are set to expire later this month. ……

Then on New Year’s Day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction moratorium expires, which could result in a massive wave of evictions in the first half of 2021.

Continue reading “Eat The Rich! Tenants, small Landlords, Workless Face Ruin As Pandemic Aid Ends”

from Alma Cubanita shared with thanks

The crimes of the US police do not stop, where the violations of Human Rights are constant.

Casey Goodson, 23, was killed with his house keys in the lock, shot by a police officer.

A police officer, working for a fugitive unit, shot and killed a black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that is now under investigation by federal authorities.

Casey Goodson, 23, was shot and killed Friday by a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy, identified as Jason Meade. Meade was working for the fugitive unit, looking for violent criminals at the time, but Goodson was not a person on whom there was a search warrant for the unit, Columbus police said.

Goodson had put the keys in the door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the floor with a sandwich, family attorney Sean Walton told the CNN.

Continue reading “Police shoot and kill innocent black Casey Goodson, who was entering his home Eng/Esp”