The 2018 Durham Miner’s Gala, the largest annual trade union festival in Europe, was dedicated to the Freedom For Öcalan trade union campaign, which is supported by 14 national trade unions, including the TUC, representing six million workers in the UK. 250,000 people participated in the festival.

After the festival, activists of the Special Patrol Group in London hung big pictures of Öcalan with the same demand. Other motives of the action were images that symbolize the Rojava revolution. Especially in the highly frequented district of Whitechapel, dozens of bus stops were decorated with pictures of Öcalan and Rojava.

The group has already done a similar action for Anna Campbell. Anna Campbell was a British international who fell a martyr in the defense of Afrin.