The time has come! Online rally 16 July 2020
Join the Freedom for Öcalan campaign for a major online rally on 16 July 2020. Help us to renew the calls from the trade union movement and the international community …
Operation Claw-Eagle – Turkey bombs refugee camps in Iraq
Operation Claw-Eagle – The Turkish military is again targetting Kurdish communities outside its borders, bombing Kurdish refugees and Yazidi victims of genocide in Iraq. The Freedom for Ocalan campaign condemns this unprovoked …
The Musicians Union affiliates to the Freedom for Öcalan campaign
The Musicians Union affiliation to the Freedom for Öcalan campaign is hugely symbolic. Songs of freedom, liberty and emancipation have held a vital place in the workers’ movement from the …
The isolation of Abdullah Öcalan
The isolation of Abdullah Ӧcalan is far more extreme than the one many of us are now adjusting to. A world in which we are profoundly isolated from contact outside …
Turkish prison amnesty bill discriminates against political prisoners
In an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID virus in the Turkish prison system, the ruling coalition in the Turkish parliament has passed a prison amnesty bill. In …
The Coronavirus crisis in North East Syria
The Coronavirus crisis in NE Syria could become a catastrophe. Nine years of war and the systematic targeting of health and water infrastructure by occupying Turkish forces, lack of international recognition and …
What is Mutual Aid? Our universal heritage of solidarity
Ben Norman of Unite explores what mutual aid tells us about our shared instincts and traditions to build grassroots solidarity and power in times of crisis, from Kurdistan to Keighley. …
Newroz 2020 events cancelled as the world reacts to Covid-19 pandemic
Large Newroz 2020 celebrations have been cancelled across the world due to the extraordinary steps being taken to contain the spread of Covid-19. However, The Kurdish community remains united in …
Interview: Veteran of the Anti-Apartheid movement joins the Long March 2020
The Long March 2020 took place between 9 and 15 February. Internationalists, socialists and the Kurdish liberation movement marched from Strasbourg to Luxemburg under the motto “Freedom for Ocalan – shoulder to shoulder …
Video: Rojava the suspended future
Chris Den Honds latest film, Rojava the suspended future, documents the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria and it’s uncertain future, trapped between Turkish occupation and the Syrian regime which wishes …