Öcalan calls for PKK dissolution, but Turkey may refuse to release him ~ Blade Runner ~ In a historic declaration, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has called for the organisation’s disarmament and dissolution.
At the dawn of 21st century’s second quarter, borders are again being redrawn in both Syria and Gaza, with regional powers strategically manoeuvring to maximise their geopolitical control in a rapidly shifting global order ~ Blade Runner ~ The weakened Assad regime collapsed in a matter of a days, and what initially raised cautious optimism
It’s sometime in the afternoon of February 7th, a day after the earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria.
Repost from Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) of parts of an interview with Duran Kalkan, member of the KCK Executive Council: “The centre of the earthquake and the areas hit by it are the areas where the PKK was founded.
On the 6th February, when two huge earthquakes struck South-West Turkey and North-West Syria, rescue workers failed to arrive in some badly hit areas for more than 24 hours.
In 2019 a crew of experienced documentary makers travelled to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava.
Neil Middleton looks into the broader political situations in Turkey and Greece which have fuelled horrific levels of violence and repression.
Tomorrow Eva Bartlett, a self-appointed “independent journalist” who fancies herself an expert on Middle East will be speaking in London.
This text was written by Leila Al Shami: a British Syrian whose been involved in human rights and social justice struggles in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East since 2000.
Syria Solidarity UK had an unexpected surprise for Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry during her £90 per head Spring Fundraising Dinner at a swanky restaurant in Islington.
Now it’s bare-faced fascism—but doctors are putting up more resistance than Democrats ~ Louis Further ~ As wildfires aggravated by climate collapse swept through the Pacific Northwest, last month a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives turned up at the site of the ‘Bear Gulch’ blaze in Washington state.
Just days after sacking one Epstein pal, Starmer is welcoming another to hang out with the King and preen in castles—while arresting embarrassing critics ~ Andy and Simon consider an extremely newsey week, from Tommy Robinson’s biggest-ever march and Keir Starmer’s hebdomadis horribilis, to Trump’s chaotic (and ill-timed) UK visit, the fallout from Charlie Kirk,
Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictions with any meaningful analysis ~ John Henri Nolette ~ As a semi-sympathetic critic of both “woke” and “anti-woke” narratives, I had high hopes for this book.
Kae Tempest, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Peter Gelderloos will be among the performers and speakers at this year’s big anarchist get-together ~ Freedom News ~ With the bookfair nearly upon us—this Saturday 20 September— Freedom threw a few messages at the organisers, who have kindly gotten back to us with the workshops schedule, fresh off
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
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