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August 28, 2016

In Defence of Rojava

Turkey backed FSA militants, made up of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Battalions, Faylaq al-Sham (Sham Legion), Sultan Murad Brigade and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) among others -all Salafist/Islamist groups responsible…

October 25, 2015

Democratic Confederalism (excerpts) Abdullah Öcalan

Democratic Confederalism (excerpts) Abdullah Öcalan This kind of rule or administration can be called a non-state political administration or a democracy without a state. Democratic decision-making processes must not be…

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A Kurdish leftist thinker Professor Amir Hassanpour passed away

25 June, 2017

He was totally dedicated to social justice and women's rights,he was comrade, honest and kind.   We are receiving this sad news at the time that more than ever Kurdish people under attacks of cultural and there history, he was truly said that when the…

KODAR CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF IRANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

17 May, 2017

The joint statement on behalf of the parties was read by KODAR Co-president Fuad Bêrîtan who stressed that the conservatives and reformists turned a deaf ear to the demands of the society and fought for power. The statement said the following: “The 12th Presidential and…

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‘I am a Democrat and Revolutionary’: Important Messages from Abdullah Ocalan

30 September, 2016

  Mehmet Öcalan met the PKK leader on 11 September 2016 after an 18 month isolation and ban on communications imposed by the Turkish government. Mehmet Öcalan said the Kurdish leader did not want to meet him when he was finally allowed access to Imrali. According to brother Öcalan, it had normally taken the PKK leader 5 minutes to come to previous meetings over the past 18 years, but took him 30-40 minutes this time, and only after he was convinced by prison administrators. Öcalan said his brother was furious at recent developments, adding: "I already guessed that he did not want to come out…

In Defence of Rojava

28 August, 2016

Turkey backed FSA militants, made up of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Battalions, Faylaq al-Sham (Sham Legion), Sultan Murad Brigade and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) among others -all Salafist/Islamist groups responsible for countless human rights crimes- have already declared they will march onto Manbij, which had…

A revolution is not a dinner party

26 August, 2016

In the 20th century, it was clear what people meant when they used the word “revolution”. Mao Zedong said it as well as anyone: “A revolution is not a dinner party…it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and…

A Love Letter to Jarablus

24 August, 2016

Even worse, though not surprising, is the widely held belief that Barzani endorsed the invasion after a meeting between him and Erdogan yesterday. Betrayed, surrounded, suffocating amidst the stifling stench of treachery, the YPG-YPJ-SDF, weary from the recent liberation of Manbij and then the conflict…

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Kodar (Democratic and Free Society of Eastern Kurdistan) is a social confederative system based on the right of self-determination of peoples, freedom of women and environmentally friendly life. Kodar is a non-state system and organizes the societies on the socio-political, cultural and democratic basis.