How the youth of Bakur rose up in defense of communal life By Marcos Pacheco The fireworks illuminate the sky with red, green and yellow colors throughout the night. In the streets, bonfires have been lit everywhere and people of every age have congregated around them. Many of them are dancing in circles around the fires to the rhythm of the deafening music that plays through speakers. Whenever there is a pause in the music, the young people use their powerful voices to chant the songs...

Written by Gathanga Ndung’u, a community organizer and activist with Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) and a political organizer with Revolutionary Socialist League – Africa (RSL). Kenya gained its flag independence in 1963. The much-awaited sovereignty never came, as the tools of economic emancipation, such as land and industries, remained in the hands of the colonial powers, together with their local proteges, the comprador class, led by the first president, Kamau Wa Ngegi (alias Jomo...

Reader’s submission: A Reflection on the Southern Question and Democratic Confederalism. It is not an exhaustive analysis, but a first step into developing a debate on the topic, and a revolutionary theory based on our history. For this reason, we invite our readers to send any answers, insights, further elaborations or critiques, which may be published on our website. The southern question represents the largest single contradiction of the Italian nation-state. The roots of this...

Alongside the attacks on Rojava, threats have multiplied against the autonomous territory of Şengal (northern Iraq, southern Kurdistan), where the majority of the Yazidi people live. The Iraqi state, in collaboration with the Turkish state, seeks to disarm the YBŞ-YJŞ self-defence forces, which fought alongside the PKK guerrillas and YPJ-YPG to save Şengal from genocide and to liberate the territory from Daesh. Since 2014 and up to the present day, the YBŞ-YJŞ have been defending the...

Lêgerîn Britain Committee Image from: Karapatan.org In the forests of central India a war is being waged against the indigenous and Adivasi people. For years the ruling Modi BJP government has been strangling the peoples of India between two hands. In the one hand is the intense Hindu fascism and nationalism that is trageting the rich diversity of peoples, languages and religions in India. Targeting in particular the Muslim population and seeking to create a homogeneous Hindu nation-state and...