ARDITA GIOVENTÚ

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 1963

Turkish Marxist–Leninist Communist Party member fighting in Rojava 

"Sara" Sakine Cansiz 1958-2013

Revolutionary and co-founder of the PKK, the political and military movement for Kurdish liberation.

"the excitement of entering the movement as a young woman--and discovering quickly that she would have to challenge traditional gender roles as she rose among its ranks. And she succeeded: total gender equality is now one of the central tenets of the PKK."

She wrote 2 memoirs about her activist youth and when she was in prison.

She was sadly assassinated by the ethnoreligious fascists in Turkey in 2013.

This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in NGC 2264 are both smaller and larger than the Sun, ranging from some with less than a tenth the mass of the Sun to others containing about seven solar masses.

Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ultraviolet view of Jupiter.

March 8th, International Working Women's Day.

Students in Greece honor the 50 years since the Polytechnic uprising against the military junta by raising Palestinian flags