Kurdistan

Kurdistan teachers need your support!

About 170,000 primary and secondary teachers and university lecturers in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region who work on a permanent basis have stopped work for 75 days over non-payment of their salaries, suspension of promotions, and casualisation of their contracts.

Statement by Têkoşîna Anarşist

This is a statement from Têkoşîna Anarşist, a "revolutionary anarchist collective working in NE Syria (Rojava) with a focus on people's self-defense." It is reposted from its Twitter/X page, here. Workers' Liberty does not share or endorse all the views expressed in statements we repost. For our own statement on the war, click here . After an unprecedented attack organized by armed groups of Hamas in Israeli territory, Netanyahu declared war against Gaza and its population. Since then, IDF started a massive military operation, once again bombing and massacring Palestinian people. Palestinians...

"The barbarity of Hamas and the Israeli government will make the future bleak": article by Aso Kamal

The below is an article by Aso Kamal, a Kurdish socialist and human rights activist. A version of this text was originally posted on Aso's website . The barbarity of Hamas and the Israeli government will make the future of humanity bleak! If we look at this war from a human perspective, we see its victims as humans only, and that is the basis of our stance on this massacre, which is nothing but barbaric. The justification for these killing operations is the victory of one party, one ideology, and the solution to the problem. This is the goal of this war—killing, terror, and terrorism! For a...

Rojava: bombings, millions without electric and water

Turkey has stepped up its bombing campaign of both Iraq and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, more commonly known as Rojava. This is in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara carried out by the PKK on 1 October, which injured two police officers but killed no-one other than the attackers themselves. The attacks have targeted civilian infrastructure, and at least 48 civilians have been killed so far. Erdoğan’s recently appointed Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, claims that the PKK members came from Syria, and that Turkey would be counting “all infrastructure, superstructure...

"Solving the Palestinian and the Kurdish question": statement by the PKK

This statement was published by the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The PKK, through its Syrian organisation the Democratic Union Party (PYD), has been the leading political force in establishing the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava. It is reposted from their website, here . We are not sharing their statement because we consider the PKK to be part of our movement or political tradition. We have previously criticised the PKK for their authoritarian record, and their organisation as a cult-of-personality around their leader, something which is...

Refugees under attack in Turkey

The three to four million Syrian refugees in Turkey face increasing racist attacks and exploitative bosses. More and more refugees have been dying while trying to cross to Greece, and many fear forced repatriation to Syria. In Turkey, a campaign on social media has offered bounties for maimed or killed Syrians, and there is a constant stream of videos of Syrians and Afghans being harassed and attacked in public. Last year a more consciously neo-Nazi group gained some attention, the Ataman Brotherhood (ATK). Their aesthetic borrows heavily from European and American neo-Nazi terrorist groups...

Women’s lives matter: protests sweep Iran after police kill Mahsa Amini for how she was dressed

Protests have been taking place in many parts of Iran since 17 September, after the “morality police” killed a young Kurdish woman for failing to comply with rules on how women should be dressed. 22 year old Mahsa Amini (Kurdish name Jina Amini) was travelling with her family from Iranian Kurdistan when she was arrested, reportedly because she was not wearing her hijab and trousers correctly. Witnesses have suggested she was beaten even in the police van. Amini's family were told she would be released after a “re-education session”. They were then notified she was in an intensive care unit in...

Support striking cleaning workers in Kurdistan!

We share below an appeal from comrades in the Worker-Communist Party of Kurdistan, who are supporting a strike of cleaning workers. Workers' Liberty sends our support and solidarity to the strike, and encourages activists to email the Kurdistan Regional Government expressing support for the strikers. The WCPK's appeal can also be downloaded as a PDF, here. Cleaning workers in the Kurdistan Region have been protesting for six days over a salary delay in Kakamand's area (in Sulaymaniyah), and despite the fact that they have been without wages for 65 days. Neither the Kurdistan Regional...

The Kurds and the Turkish left in the 1960s

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the "founding father" of the Turkish Republic, who had crushed Kurdish uprisings in the southeast and tried to forcibly assimilate Kurds into the Turkish nation, died in 1938.

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