Whenever we asked activists in Rojava what the best form of solidarity would be, the most common answer we got was “Build a strong revolutionary movement in your own country.” That response caused us to reconsider the very concept of solidarity. In the history of the Western Left, solidarity has often amounted to a subject-object relationship, in which the “object” of solidarity is tied to the metropolises’ longings and needs for strong emancipatory movements. But this form of solidarity reproduces the colonial perspective on southern, traditionally nonindustrialized, and historically exploited countries. [...] This problem arose in most solidarity movements in the last decade. But solidarity, activists in Rojava say, means building solidarity movements together, movements that can learn from and support one another. [...] For leftists, solidarity with Rojava is not a question of benevolence but a necessity.
— Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboğa (2016)
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Communalist Library (most extensive list of texts, audio, videos, links; some are repeated here)
The Institute for Social Ecology YouTube Channel
Öcalan
✳︎The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan
✳︎Reflections on the Antisemitic Content in Öcalan’s The Sociology of Freedom
Ocalan and Anti-Semitism by Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Review of Abdullah Ocalan’s Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Dr. Donald H. Matthews Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley, University of Cambridge
“How to live, what to do, where to start?” – Extract from Öcalan’s 4th manifesto
The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî
Freedom and Socialism: For a renewal of Socialism in the 21st century
Democratic Modernity
✳︎The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism
The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism
✳︎In Defence of Öcalan’s Vision of ‘Democratic Society’
✳︎(VIDEO) Dual Power and the State by The Institute of Social Ecology
Democratic Modernity Paves the Way for Democratic Socialism
The understanding of fascism in Öcalan’s concept of democratic modernity
Autonomous organisation as a principle of women’s liberation
Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man
There Never Was A West by David: Or, Democracy Emerges From The Spaces In-Between by David Graeber
DAANES & the Rojava Revolution
✳︎The Rojava Revolution: A Decade On
Rojava: Is the Revolution Over? Understanding the January Offensive Against Northeast Syria
DAANES' Social Contract, 2023 Edition
✳︎Beyond The Frontlines: The building of the democratic system in North and East Syria
Building an Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava
Beyond Rojava: North and East Syria’s Arab Regions
Explainer: The Religious Assembly and Academy for Democratic Islam
“This is the first time, after thousands of years, that our identity has been accepted and valued” – Eisha Sido, Yazidi Women’s Union of Afrin
The Anti-Terror Trial System in NES
Hidden Battlefields: Rehabilitating ISIS Affiliates and Building a Democratic Culture in Their Former Territories
After ISIS: Ensuring a future for Christians and other minorities in North and East Syria
(VIDEO) The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self-Direction by Neighbor Democracy
(VIDEO) The Communes of Rojava Six Years On: Towards Many Democracies of Neighbors by Neighbor Democracy
DAANES & Syria
About the attacks on DAANES by the transitional government and the siege of Kobanê:
✳︎Rojava and Syria at war – a political assessment
Rojava’s reality and possible regional developments
Attacks, Escapes and Withdrawals: A timeline of events at al-Hol camp on January 20
Interview: “They were attacking and burning the camp offices” Jihan Hanna, al-Hol Camp manager
Anxiety and resolve in Rojava
Interview: “This does not mean building a new Syria, it means ethnic cleansing.” Mkrtich Varoujanm, Armenian Civilian
Groups affiliated with the transitional government loot people’s property in villages of Kobanê
Interview: “After all the martyrs, sacrifices, and coexistence, how could we suddenly switch sides and ally with parties whose mentality we do not believe in?” Sheikh Akram Mashoush
Stalemate in the SDF–Damascus prisoner exchange: Agreement not being implemented
Interview: “They may take our braids, but our dignity and our ideas cannot be eradicated” – Ruksen Mohamed, spokesperson of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ)
Parties in Kobanê call for reversal of district administrator appointment
Other:
Explainer: Syria’s transitional constitution
Explainer: the SDF-Damascus agreement
✳︎After the Earthquake: Impacts of the Natural Disaster Within War-Torn AANES Territories
Syria’s Kurdish-led region decries lack of international support in COVID-19 fight
DAANES & Türkiye
Violence and torture against participants of the ‘Peoples’ Caravan – Caravan for the Defense of Humanity’ in Turkey
✳︎After Assad – Turkey and SNA crimes against civilians in NES
From Idlib to Damascus – HTS’ Evolution Into the Syrian Caretaker Government
Turkey’s October Campaign – Airstrikes Targeting NES’ Essential Infrastructure
Targeting of journalists and obstruction of information-gathering by Turkey and the SNA in northern Syria
✳︎Explainer: Afrin, 5 years under Turkish occupation
Dossier: Turkish provision of material support to al-Qaeda-linked groups in Idlib
The SNA Encyclopedia: A Guide to the Turkish Proxy Militias
Incessant War: Turkey’s Drone Campaign in NES, 2022
"Why did the PKK disband? Have they given up?"
Making Sense of the PKK’s Self-Dissolution
✳︎The Paradigmatic Roots of Öcalan’s Call for “Peace and Democratic Society”
Struggle with and without arms: The 15th of August and its meaning in the current phase
What does the dissolution of the PKK mean?
Evîndar Ararat: The PKK’s difference lies in its approach to women
Democratic integration as a new social model
What does “democratic integration” mean?
Democratic integration as the answer to the question: “How to live?”
Öcalan's concept: Democracy through communes, integration through negotiation
New Internationalism
✳︎Towards a New Internationalism by Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Shengal’s liberation: heroism of resistance, challenges of Autonomous Administration
Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance
The roots of the conflict and the Sudanese vision of democracy
On bottom-up organization and internationalism in the Philippines
From Chiapas to Rojava – more than just coincidences
LEARNING HOUSE LIRE KUNUME: A Tool To Reclaim Our Papuans Identity
An alternative Uganda: Borrowing a leaf from the Rojava struggle for autonomy and freedom from State oppression and Imperialist Invasion
✳︎World War III Has Begun – There Is Another Way
✳︎Third World War in Abya Yala
Perspectives from Rojava - Young Revolutionaries talk about the Internationalist Struggle in the current phase
For An Internationalist Intifada
A Path Out Of Darkness: Internationalist Youth Perspective
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Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.
On this day, 26 July 1937, British colonial authorities in Barbados secretly deported Clement Payne, a worker who was trying to start a trade union, to Trinidad where police were waiting to arrest him for possessing prohibited literature.
Payne was originally charged with knowingly making a false declaration for stating he had been born in Barbados, whereas unknown to him, he was actually born in Trinidad of Barbadian parents. He appealed his conviction on the 26th, and although his appeal was successful, he was expelled from the island.
In response, workers rioted, and strikes spread for several days.
Learn more about workers' struggles at that time in Trinidad in episodes 75-76 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-76-trinidad-general-strike/
It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.
It has always been possible. It is still possible.
Interesting reading, but i wanna nitpick something that jumped out at me- the graphs it uses to illustrate using groupings i find a bit odd
"World" for everyone else is odd to me, North America/Oceana is odd to me considering how commonwealth countries in the Oceana region are under the U.K monarchy. So why is it not grouped with Europe which it is about as far from geographically as the northern american continent anyway. What about the geographic region of micronesia through polynesia? Are they in the same economic category as the north americas? Making a bigger graph with more specific categories would actually be more informative of economic disparity here. Kind of weird categorising going on
Not disputing the importance of the topic just pointing out that you can reach the same conclusion using the same data just shown more accurately
That's a really good question - exploring on their website a bit more, you can make your own graphs with more individual countries - and the difference between the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand bloc, versus Mexico and the "other North America and Oceania" countries (because none of the others can be selected individually) is naturally rather vast. Again, not too criticise the overall good of this report, but I'm definitely curious as to why these were all put together.
james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
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Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
The case began shortly after Tunick got off a plane in Atlanta, returning from a vacation spent whale-watching and enjoying nature on a friend’s boat. He did not know that a homeland security agent had circulated an email three hours before. The email contained Tunick’s name and photo and indicated he was being investigated for “suspected terrorism activities”. It was sent to agents on the Customs and Border Patrol tactical terrorism response team and an FBI Atlanta joint-terrorism taskforce officer.
When Tunick arrived in Atlanta, an agent took him to a room with a table, several chairs and a camera and microphone, and several agents began a “secondary inspection”. But all their questions were centered on child sexual abuse images.
These and other details were revealed in Monday’s hearing, held for a judge to hear testimony on a motion filed by Tunick’s federal public defenders, asking the court to suppress all evidence the agents obtained, including the erasure of the phone’s contents after he gave them a passcode, due to violations of his constitutional rights.
The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was “a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick’s connections” to the movement against Cop City, according to the motion.
Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights.
But a justice department attorney and the airport agents testifying on Monday asserted Tunick was merely subjected to an everyday interrogation at an international airport, “looking for anything that’s prohibited”, as Larry Findley, a CBP officer, said.
Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart”, according to the motion.
every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.
go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.
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Effigy Vessel from Oaxaca, Mexico dated between 200 - 600 CE on display National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, Spain
This vessel is is thought to depict a warrior ruler of the Zapotec people. She wears a elaborate attire with an ornate helmet adorned with the head of jaguar. This animal is often associated with warriors and warfare in Mexican history as well as the right to rule. While female rulers were not common there are accounts prior to colonisation as well as Spanish records of women being granted rights to ancestral lands.
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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.
literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)
i feel like that story is particularly important because it highlights the multiple layers of positive impact of giving young people democratic access to knowledge
its not just that one child knowing about rape allows them to recognize when it happens to them. one child knowing about rape allowed them to not just help another child, but to teach many other children about it, that it is wrong and the methods they can use to help themselves, and created an environment on that bus where that child's disclosure of csa was not received with confusion or mockery or alienation, but with compassion and comfort.
July 22, 2026 - Protests against Jared Kushner's proposed multi-billion-dollar resort on Albania's Adriatic coast entered their second month, with demonstrators once again clashing with police outside parliament in Tirana. Police used tear gas and water cannons, while protesters threw eggs and bottles.
The demonstrations have expanded beyond opposition to the resort to include broader criticism of the Albanian government and allegations of corruption. [video]
watching stuff with kids in it and talking to adults about kids is so fucking weird as someone who works with kids. it is extremely transparent that very few people ever interact with kids, so they just fully forget what they're like and lump them into a broad category of essentially toddlers with different levels of speech capability.
I genuinely believe the stringent age-based separation most of us are experiencing is one of the single most destructive forces in our society. you need to interact with people of all ages regularly or you start to get all "think of the children" and "parent's rights" and fucking "11 year olds can't comprehend basic ratios". or, worse and frankly way more common for leftists, "I hate kids they're so annoying" or "kids are fine I just never want to interact with them if I can help it".
They are people. they have complex thoughts and emotions and knowledge. they are aware of the political goings on in the world, and they think deeply and talk frequently about the issues that impact you (often because those issues impact them as well, but often even when they don't!). they share space with you in your communities, locally and online, whether you're aware of them or think of them as part of your communities or not.
you need to talk to them regularly so you can remember that they are people, the ways in which they are people, the kinds of people they are, the needs they have, and how to advocate for them in a society that increasingly flattens them to varying sizes of toddler. or, if nothing else, so you can share your communities with them instead of expecting them to take what they can get and fit themselves in however makes you, personally, most comfortable.
otherwise you get weird and start talking like a republican.
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July 25, 2024 - This week we celebrate the life of Cathy Rutherford, the amazingly fierce lady with the umbrella in the video above. Your hatred for Thatcher and refusal to be nice about it genuinely remains an inspiration 🫡 [link]
This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.
for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies
Also her claim that authors are not getting paid per borrow is.... wrong. With ebooks (which is what she's talking about here with Libby) there are two forms of licensing for libraries to lend out ebooks.
The first kind is that they buy a license for a pre-determined amount of check-outs. I'll just make some numbers up for the sake of illustrating what that looks like: Let's say $20 for 20 borrows. When the ebook has been checked out 20 times, the library has to renew the license and pay more money in order to continue lending out the ebook. The author gets a cut of that $20 as their royalties.
The second kind is literally paying per borrow. (Again just making up numbers here) Let's say the library pays 50 cents every time the book is checked out. The author still gets a cut as their royalties. Is it just 10 or 20 cents per borrow? Yes, but that adds up! AND it means that people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to read my book at all are able to read it, which is great! AND it means that the library is thriving and being used, which is also great!
So yes, authors DO get paid from library activity!!!!!!
Do not feel guilty for using the library. I don't know one single author (except this Little Miss Ma'am in the screenshots, apparently) who would resent their readers for using libraries.
It's true that authors are usually paid very little per sale and even less per borrow, but blame the publishing companies, not the libraries or readers.
If new books are $35 and authors are making less than minimum wage and bookstores can't stay open and libraries can't afford ebook licenses... all that surplus value is going somewhere, and it's not to authors or libraries.
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