DEMO: 1PM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18TH / CENTRAL LONDON For endorsements and help in mobilising for this bloc – please contact us at london@weareplanc.org Please keep up to date using our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/410114042778033/ For over two weeks, the citizen militias of Afrin Canton in Northern Syria have been bravely fighting against the Turkish army’s invasion. […]
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Kurdistan
We must join with our Kurdish comrades at this moment. As a small gesture of material support we will be donating £600 that we have raised through the sale of comic books to Heyva Sor , the Kurdish Red Crescent. We strongly encourage others to do the same.
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Kurdistan
A member of Plan C Manchester As a communist and an antifascist I’ve come to Rojava to join the revolution happening here. The social transformations taking place are a shining example of what revolutionaries, with dedication and courage, can achieve in just a short amount a time. The victories for social justice, women’s liberation and
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Anti-fascism, Kurdistan
International Womens’ day 2017 saw the first ever International Womens’ strike, and a huge range of activity in the UK and beyond. We collected some texts reflecting on the strike here. The following reports come from a few key areas where Plan C groups either led mobilisations or participated in events that have not been widely reported in
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Feminism, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strike
In October 2016 Peter Loo travelled to Rojava* to volunteer as an English teacher and participate in work within civil society – the outcome of over 14 months of organising within the Plan C Rojava solidarity cluster. He is currently working for the SYPG campaign in Qamishlo. As well as directly offering his skills Peter
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Kurdistan
I began this year by crossing into the Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria, commonly referred to in the West as Rojava. Rojava is seeing the creation of a radical, autonomous democracy with feminist and ecological values at its foundation, all whilst embroiled in the ongoing civil war and facing open hostility from surrounding countries.
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Feminism, Kurdistan
Peter Loo, Rojava Solidarity Cluster This report was originally published in December by the Red Pepper. In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from large parts of Northern Syria (Rojava
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
Bea Hughes, Birmingham Plan C From November to July last year members of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) s and Plan C partnered with Kurds to form an English Language teaching initiative. The project came about after members of IWW showed documentaries on the social revolution in Rojava and held discussions on texts on
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Borders/Migration, Commons, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
This article was written by two friends of Plan C who recently returned from Rojava. The Rojava Solidarity Cluster is interested the issue of support in Rojava and hope this text contributes to that understanding in the broader left. It is also worth noting that there is currently a member of the cluster in Rojava
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
This October I have travelled to Rojava to offer what skills I have as a volunteer. Despite three years of military attack, political hostility, and economic embargo the revolution in Rojava, complete with all the victories, setbacks, and contradictions that this process entails, is continuing to expand in the midst of the brutal Syrian civil
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
Interview with Cihan Kendal, YPG Commander in Rojava discussing the role of international volunteers, women in the YPG/YPJ, and the current nature of the revolution in Rojava.
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Kurdistan
A year ago yesterday, Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish toddler, washed up on the beaches of Europe and his much photographed dead body sparked outrage amongst populations, and the promise of action from politicians. Today there is silence as a boy is murdered in Kobane by the Turkish incursion, and the mostly Kurdish population of Rojava face
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan