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Si Amo Afrin

Si Amo Afrin A5 lenticular postcard. Fundraiser for Si Amo Afrin / Kurdish Red Moon.
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Under the banner of International Pink Bloc Solidarity with Afrin, we are holding a fundraiser to contribute to the call out for international solidarity with the people of Afrin, Rojava, who have been forced to flee their peaceful homes after Turkey’s fascist invasion & destruction of the canton in Northern Syria.
We have two items for sale, all proceeds going to Si Amo Afrin (We Are Afrin), a grass roots campaign set up to collect urgent funds for food, water, shelter & medicine.
‘It’s estimated that around 450,000 people fled from their homes. The displaced are currently living in the open air, without food, water and milk formula for babies. Illnesses like tuberculosis and leishmania are spreading fast, and there is a lack medical supplies.’ https://www.retedeldono.it/it/progetti/gus/siamoafrin
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Sehid Avêsta Xabûr

 

 

Long live Avesta Khabur, long live the resistance!

Avêsta is a symbol of emancipated woman!

‘The invasion of Efrîn by the occupying Turkish army has with all the suffering inflicted entering its ninth day. With this invasion, the occupying Turkish state wants to thwart our federalisation project, which promotes the sisterhood of peoples for the north of Syria, and to spread a wave of terror across the region.

The Turkish killing machine has mobilised and equipped thousands of gangs from the terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida, ISIS, Nosra Front, and the so-called Free Syrian Army, and unleashed them on our people. As a result, tens of civilians including women and children have been killed. Our people have put up a gallant resistance to this invasion in order to safeguard what our Revolution has accomplished.

On the 8th day of the invasion, January 27, the Turkish army and its affiliated Jihadists attacked the village of Hemam, of the Cindirêsê district. Their attack was counteracted by our fighters. A YPJ fighter, Avêsta Xabûr, empowered by the will she inherited from her comrades such as Jînda, Newal and Silav and following on the path of Arîn Mîrkan and Rêvana Kobanê, attacked with her grenades a Turkish tank which was trying to entre Hemam village. As such she exploded her body and destroyed the tank.

A girl form Kurmênc Mountain, Avêsta Xabûr (Zalûx Hemo) was from a patriotic family from the village of Baliya of Bilbilê district. She was brought up with the philosophy of loving freedom and her homeland. With this action, she made good on her promise of defending her people and their achievement. She reached the point of martyrdom and joined the caravan of the martyrs.

For our units, Avêsta is a symbol of emancipated women. With the powerful belief and ideology she had equipped herself with, she became a selfless spirit, representing a profound military tactic and theory. Avêsta had felt the threat the terrorist groups pose on the wold. For this reason, she decided to join the Anti-Terror Units, where she participated in tens of actions against the terrorist groups. Avêsta’s was a strong response to the Turkish fascist state and its affiliated Islamist groups, as well as the ongoing silent position taken by the international community.

We in the Command of Women Defence Units promise our martyrs and our people that until the last drop of our blood we resist the Turkish invasion in order to achieve our legitimate right of enjoying a free and honoured life. Our fighters follow the path of Avêsta, Arîn û Rêvana and will turn Efrîn into a cemetery for fascism, women’s and humanity’s enemies.’

https://www.ypgrojava.org/Av%c3%aasta-is-a-symbol-of-emancipated-woman!

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Şehid Ivana Hoffmann

Şehid Ivana Hoffmann lost her life fighting Daiş, which is an undoubtedly selfless and courageous act. However, today, on her birthday, we choose not to focus on what she died for, but rather what she lived for. Today, we want to remember the life she lead and the passion she brought to life. We want to remember her as someone that went into struggle with clarity, due to a relentless commitment to liberation. Ivana truly used the time she had with a driven purpose. Already, in her early teens, she had become involved in student protests. Wasting little time, from there she became more and more active in political movements, eventuality involving herself in union work and communist youth organizing (KGÖ). She was someone that didn’t shy away from what it means to struggle and understood both the internal and external dimensions of it. At the age of 19, in her last letter to her comrades, Ivana stated “I want to be a part of the Revolution in Rojava. I want to evolve. In these six months I want to get to know the fight… Maybe I will reach my limits and fall back but I will never give up the fighting spirit and I will go on.”

Ivana Hoffmann came to Rojava as an internationalist with MLKP, someone that was born in Germany to a German mother and a father from Togo. However, her internationalism was not just something inherent in her citizenship status or heritage. Her belief and commitment to internationalist ideals went far beyond that, exemplified clearly by her recognizing it as important to know the languages of those she would be struggling along side with and in turn learning both Kurdish and Turkish before her arrival in Rojava. As a revolutionary lesbian woman of German-Togo decent, we see her as someone that truly connected the different struggles she committed her life to, opposing imperialism, colonialism, racism, fascism, patriarchy and homophobia.

So, today on her birthday, we invite you to take a moment and celebrate the life that Ivana Hoffmann led. Ivana promised that “When I come back, I will infect my comrades and my surroundings with both the fighting spirit and willpower. I will be like a beautiful song and pull everyone under my spell. I will be a guerrilla full of charity and hope.” Today we say that she never left. Instead, we say that she is right here with us as we not only remember but also draw inspiration from her life in order to continue the struggle for which she lived. This way, we can live life to it’s fullest, not waste a breath, and enjoy every moment that we commit ourselves to the struggle. In celebration of both Ivana’s memory and life itself then, we loudly state that we are ready to sacrifice everything if necessary. However, not because the struggle is for martyrdom, but rather exactly because it is for life.

VICTORY TO THE WOMEN’S REVOLUTION IN ROJAVA AND AROUND THE WORLD!

VICTORY TO THE REVOLUTIONS IN ROJAVA, KURDISTAN AND TURKEY!

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE!

International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces IRPGF

https://insurrectionnewsworldwide.com/2017/09/02/irpgf-celebrates-the-birthday-of-s-ivana-hoffmann-nom-de-guerre-avasin-tekosin-gunes-mlkp/