Solidarity with Kobane and Rojava!
More than 80 people attended the Solidarity with Kobane and Rojava dayschool in Nottingham on 31 January 2015. The event was organised by Nottingham Kurdish Solidarity Campaign and the Kurdish Society of Nottingham Trent University. Speakers included: Alan Semo, UK Representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the PKK’s Syrian sister party; Aysegul Erdogan, Roj Women and an Islington Labour councillor; Zaher Baher, Kurdish Anarchists Forum and Haringey Solidarity Group; Houzan Mahmoud, activist with the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq; Chris Leslie MP (Nottingham East); and Derek...