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  1. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

    (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's ... condemnation. But the group's attack on Kobane in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) — and the fierce resistance ... about another terrorist attack that was occurring at the same time. Kobane attack On June 25, about 100 ...

  2. Political music: 11 of the best new albums- and why you should hear them

    family of drowned toddler Alan Kurdi were fleeing their hometown of Kobane, whose women soldiers have hit ... David Rovics released his latest album, featuring a song dedicated to the city. On "Kobane" he ... West. The only sensible thing to do was run away. But instead thousands stood and fought. Kobane ...

  3. Good news (for a change)

    to be teachers. Classes will be conducted in Arabic and Kurdish. KURDS POISED TO RETAKE KOBANE ... Kurdish forces have recaptured most of Kobane in recent weeks and ISIS now controls just 20% of the town, ... by ISIS, which was then on the verge of taking Kobane. But in the face of fierce Kurdish fighters ...

  4. Seminar on feminist struggle in northern Syria

    Democracy Karen Fredericks Kobane Northern Syria Feminism Naarm/Melbourne "Northern Syria’s ... international prominence during the siege of the north Syrian town of Kobane in 2014–15. Their heroic frontline ... Azeez will address the seminar via video link from Kobane. She came to Australia as a Kurdish refugee ...

  5. Greens MP: Lift the ban on PKK

    gave this speech at the Sydney rally for World Kobane Day on November 1. * * * I'm here in ... solidarity with the people of Kobane and with all Kurds. I have spoken about the YPG and YPJ before, but now ... people of Kobane and all Kurds, and also for Arabs, Asyrians, Yazidi, and so on, the government, Labor ...

  6. Kurdish liberated zone appeals for support against assault by Islamic State thugs

    September 15, the city of Kobane in the Kurdish-majority liberated area of Rojava in northern Syria has been ... Kobane (Arabic name: Ayn al-Arab) was besieged by 5000 IS thugs armed with US heavy weapons seized from ... fallen to the IS. Located 135km north-east of Aleppo, hard up against the Turkish border, Kobane is now ...

  7. Socialist Alliance: End the crackdown on the People’s Democratic Party in Turkey

    part in protests within Turkey, back in 2014, in support of Kobane in Rojava. You may not have heard of ... Kobane against ISIS attacks. At least 43 people were killed by the Turkish police in that protest, many ... Kurdish fighters in Kobane in 2014. The HDP believes that since then, the government’s aggression has ...

  8. Turkey: Crackdown on HDP escalates with 82 new arrests

    the grounds of their 'role' in the Kobane protests in Turkey on 6‒8 October 2014". ... According to the HDP, "the office of the prosecutor refers to the Kobane protests as the reason for ... Kobane in northern Syria by the ISIS and the inaction of Turkish government in the face of an imminent ...

  9. Seminar discusses Rojava’s feminist revolution

    children. Former Newcastle University lecturer Hawzhin Azeez spoke via video link from the city of Kobane ... revolution. Azeez works for the Kobane Reconstruction Board, coordinating work to make the city habitable ... a cooperative-run restaurant (“the nicest place to hang out in Kobane”) and a Women’s Village inhabited by women of ...

  10. West could have prevented deadly ISIS prison breakout in northeast Syria

    Kobane Day marked in Sydney Turkey: HDP, Kurds persecuted by the Erdogan regime World ...

  11. Webinar: The time has come — Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan

    set up at the time of the siege of Kobane in 2014. Clare Baker  has worked in the British trade union ...

  12. RIP Comrade Ebrahim Ebrahim (July 1, 1937- December 6, 2021)

    a photographic report of the refugees from the siege of Kobane by Daesh – there were then about 300,000 refugees ...

  13. Australia must support Kurdistan

    Kobane, Raqqa and elsewhere. But Erdoğan was and is far more threatened by the multi-ethnic democratic ...

  14. Rojava fights off new Islamic State attack

    Imperialism & war Democracy Housing Tony Iltis Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava ... People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) The Kurdish town of Kobane in northern ... Autonomy-ruled cantons of Kobane and Cizire. It also cut off IS forces from the Turkish border. After the ...

  15. Turkey: HDP, Kurds persecuted by the Erdogan regime

    HDP leader denounces show trial as ‘political revenge’ The Kobane case — a Turkish show trial World ...

  16. Kurdish journalist on Rojava's inspiring revolution

    (IS). Despite sustained attacks by IS on Kobane in Rojava, resistance fighters liberated most of the ... introduced to the world from Kobane on July 19th, 2012. The fate of the area's 3 million Kurds, who had ... year, the Kobane Canton on January 27 and the Efrin Canton on January 29. The Democratic Autonomous ...

  17. Kurds come under attack at film screening

    National liberation Chris Jenkins Kurdish community Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kobane ... People's Protection Units (YPG) were on the front line of the heroic defence of Kobane and succeeded in ...

  18. HDP condemns Suruç massacre

    of the border from Kobane. The victims were members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations ... (SGDF) who were travelling to help with the reconstruction of Kobane that has been in the front line ... to do. Turkey’s revolutionaries who were on their way in order to act with solidarity with Kobane to ...

  19. What's new at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

    were held worldwide in solidarity with Kobane,” writes Tony Iltis. “Protests took place in most ...

  20. Turkish state moves to ban Peoples' Democratic Party

    deputies over the “Kobane protests” that took place in October 2014 [against the attack by ISIS on the city ... of Kobane in the north-eastern region of Syria known as Rojava]. Two weeks later, the prosecutor ...

  21. The revolutionary feminists fighting ISIS

    little-known town of Kobane in Syria’s north. Having overrun Mosul, Tel Afar and Sinjar in Iraq, as well as ... by Kurds as Rojava. What ISIS did not anticipate in Kobane was that it would encounter an enemy of ... revolutionary Kurdish woman, would become the symbol of Kobane’s victory. A fighter in the Women’s Defence Units ...

  22. Thousands converge on Afrin for large solidarity march

    the marchers advanced to the Cizire canton, before meeting with others and marching to Kobane. From ... Kobane, they met another delegation awaiting them in Manbij before making their way to Afrin. An ANF news ...

  23. Turkey declares war on Syria's democratic hope

    Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection ... Rojava city of Kobane in 2014, the Kurdish-led Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection ... time, tenacious resistance to the ISIS siege of Kobane in September 2014, combined with worldwide ...

  24. Resistance statement: Support the struggle in Kobani

    Socialist Alliance Kurdish struggle Kobane Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance released this ...

  25. Petition calls for arrest of Turkey’s president

    Democracy Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Anti-terror ... world’s attention has become focused on the heroic, besieged town of Kobane. This border town is besieged ...

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