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• UK academic Wall calls on government to stop arms sale to Turkey 

  Professor Wall underlines that more governments should put pressure on Turkey to make sure it complies with human rights international laws.
• Besê Hozat: Democratic opposition must take to the streets 

  KCK Executive Council co-chair Besê Hozat said that the democratic opposition should move to the streets and squares.
• KCK co-chairs respond to women's letter on Zînî Wertê 

  KCK co-chairs, Cemil Bayık and Besê Hozat replied to the letter sent by over hundred women about Zînî Wertê and the need for Kurdish unity.
• The importance of the guerrilla offensive of 1 June 2004 

  After Abdullah Ocalan's kidnapping in 1999 and attempts to annihilate the Kurdish liberation movement both internally and externally, the guerrilla offensive of 1 June 2004 was an important liberation strike.
• Maxmur Camp doctors struggle because of the embargo 

  The embargo imposed on Maxmur refugee camp has been going on for ten months and, among other things, has a negative impact on the health care of the around 12,000 residents. 
• Assyrian villages in the Khabur valley under constant attack 

  Of the 20,000 Assyrians who were living in the Khabur valley in northeast Syria before the war began in 2011, only about 1,000 remain today. Madeleine Khamis, commander of the "Khabur Guards", fears that even the last Assyrians will be forced into exile.
• The siege of Zînî Wertê 

  If the people of Zînî Wertê had not protested and there had been no public reaction, we would already be experiencing a new tragedy.
• Iğdır, the city of the sun, did not bow to the racist alliance 

  Peace, democracy, justice and egalitarian service, meant that the people of Iğdır once again, in the 31 March 2019 elections gave their vote to the HDP, against the racist bloc of the AKP, MHP and IYI Party.
• Maxmur Camp: Struggle for dignity and identity 

  The embargo imposed on Maxmur Refugees Camp has been going on for ten months. Yet people repeat the same maxim they used to say: "We will not surrender to the policy of the enemy, no matter what may come."
• The Letter of the Four: Fire will break through the darkness 

  The letter by the four; Ferhat Kurtay, Eşref Anyik, Mahmut Zengin and Necmi Öner, written before their self-immolation action.
• Interview with an internationalist health worker in Rojava 

  To start where the oppression begins, is the main key of social changes and rebuilding the values of a holistic world and life and society, says Jiyan, a German internationalist in northern Syria.
• Supreme Court says Gerry Adams internment was 'unlawful' 

  Convictions against former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams dating from the 1970s have been overturned by the Supreme Court in London in a judgement which could have consequences for many others who were interned without trial.
• HDP deputy Dağ: The spirit of '68s today lives in Kurdish youth 

  HDP Amed MP Dersim Dağ stressed that the Kurdish youth, who shoulder the revolutionary legacy of the 68th Generation, continue to struggle with the same faith and determination.
• Sinn Féin pays tribute to hunger striker Bobby Sands 

  Bobby Sands was the first to start the hunger strike in the notorious Long Kesh prison.
• Today marks the 83rd anniversary of Dersim genocide 

  4 May marks the 83rd anniversary of the beginning of the Dersim Genocide. The Turkish government massacred thousands of people, those who survived were banished, Dersim was depopulated.
• "The Turkish government uses pandemic to consolidate its power" 

  "Those who believe in the freedom line in Kurdistan are resisting. In all areas, people are fighting against the occupation", says YJA Star commander Feride Alkan.
• The building of a women's army in the words of PKK Viyan Amara 

  Viyan Amara is a freedom fighter of the PKK. The text below is an excerpt from her diary from 1997, in which she talks about the first steps towards the creation of the autonomous women’s army.
• Black scenario for South Kurdistan 

  Political analyst Niyaz Hamid, from South Kurdistan, said that what was lived in Zini Werte, is Turkey's joint plan with the KDP. He claimed that this plan also covers Mosul and Kirkuk.
• Our goal is the liberation of the human 

  The following text is from Abdullah Öcalan’s book “Sosyalizmde Israr – Insan Olmakta Isrardir” (To insist on socialism means to insist on being human) from the year 1998. It was taken before Abdullah Öcalan’s deportation to the prison island of Imrali.
• Turkish attacks in South Kurdistan protested in Europe 

  The attacks carried out by the Turkish state against South Kurdistan were protested by actions organized in various countries of Europe.
• Internationalistists on the pandemic and capitalist system 

  Members of the Internationalist Commune in northern Syria explain their perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic and the capitalist system.
• Öcalan: Kurdish unity urgently needed 

  In a telephone conversation with his brother Mehmet Öcalan, Abdullah Öcalan gave an assessment of the current situation in the Middle East and the crisis in Southern Kurdistan. He stressed the necessity of Kurdish unity.
• Power and truth 

  Analytics of power and nomadic thought as fragments of a philosophy of liberation.
• 16-year-old Yazidi girl freed after six years in ISIS captivity 

  Ronya F. was ten years old when the ISIS committed genocide in Shengal. She was taken to Mosul and sold in a slave market. At 14 she was forced to marry a 32-year-old jihadist. She has just been freed in the Hol Camp.
• Oil low price unleashes an unprecedented crisis 

  The sharp drop in international demand for oil, as a result of the international coronavirus pandemic, has been compounded by congestion in storage capacity.