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• Abdullah Öcalan and Social Self-Defense – An Interview with Nazan Üstündağ 

  Connor Hayes spoke with Dr. Nazan Üstündağ about the concept and practice of social self-defense, in particular as developed by Abdullah Öcalan.
• Historic night as British government commits to Irish Language Act 

  Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has expressed delight early on Thursday morning after the British government committed to legislate for Irish language protections.
• Old wine into new wineskins? 

  As early as 1997, a Europe-wide human rights delegation to Kurdistan was criminalized with German assistance and the passage of the "Musa Anter Peace Train" was denied at the instigation of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. One participant remembers.
• Stop Kobane case! write EH Bildu MEP Pernando Barrena and Basque deputy Oihana Etxebarrieta 

  We can't leave the Kurds alone. They are fighting against totalitarianism and fanaticism, for a free society, based on social justice, feminism and ecology," write EH Bildu Pernando Barrena, MEP and Oihana Etxebarrieta, Member of the Basque Parliament.
• HPG and YJA Star guerrillas write historic epics on the mountains of Kurdistan 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas are writing historic epics on the mountains of Kurdistan with their resistance in defense of Medya Defense Areas, which have been under the attacks of the Turkish state since April 23.
• Karayılan: We do not want an intra-Kurdish war 

  In the second part of the interview on Stêrk TV, Murat Karayılan discusses the role of the KDP in the escalating clashes in South Kurdistan and warns against an intra-Kurdish war.
• Karayılan: Erdoğan asked the PKK for ceasefire in North Kurdistan 

  According to Murat Karayılan of the PKK, the Turkish government has asked the PKK for a ceasefire within North Kurdistan. In return, the Kurdish movement was offered a "free hand" in other regions.
• The Basque Self-Determination Struggle, a conversation with EH Bildu Senator Gorka Elejabarrieta 

  EH Bildu Senator Gorka Elejabarrieta speaks about the Basque Self-Determination Struggle.
• “KDP should avoid a Kurdish civil war which will serve Turkey and the enemies of Kurds” 

  Former peshmerga commander Awat Qehremani and politician Yasin Eli stated that the PKK has the right to conduct activities in South Kurdistan and called on the KDP to avoid a conflict among the Kurds.
• Guerrillas: Turkey won't occupy these lands as long as we are here! 

  The guerrillas, who are resisting the attacks carried out by the Turkish state with the passion of freedom, under the leadership of YJA Star forces, say, "As long as we exist, the Turkish state won’t easily occupy these sacred lands."
• The Rojava Revolution has given birth to a new society, writes Nilüfer Koc 

  The systemic crisis demands an alternative intervention.The Rojava Revolution has given birth to a new society argues Nilüfer Koc, Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), in a long feature published in Il Manifesto.
• Labour and Self-Determination: Scotland, Kurdistan and the World, An Interview with Dave Moxham 

  Dave Moxham, Deputy General Secretary of the STUC talks about the meanings of self-determination and labour as a self-determination issue.
• Commentary: US and Turkey aim to destroy the PKK 

  If the conflict between the KDP and the HPG cannot be settled peacefully and turns into an all-out war, the HPG will suffer damage. However, the real damage will be borne by the KDP.
• "The Ba'ath regime wants a Kurdish-Arab conflict" 

  The deputy co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria, Emine Osê, comments on the clashes in Manbij and Sheikh Maqsoud and warns that Damascus is trying to provoke a Kurdish-Arab conflict.
• Angela, your Turkish friends are gangsters 

  An analysis of Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker's confessions by Firaz Amargi, journalist in South Kurdistan.
• Connor Hayes: The Turkish state's war is a genocide against the Kurds 

  'The Turkish state's war is a genocide against the Kurds', said Connor Hayes.
• The Art of Freedom, or a Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle, by Havin Guneser  

  The revolution in Rojava captured the imagination of the left, sparking a worldwide interest in the Kurdish Freedom Movement. The Art of Freedom, by Havin Guneser demonstrates that this movement is firmly rooted in several decades of organized struggle.
• Ethnocide against the Yazidis in Afrin 

  For more than three years, the region of Afrin has been occupied by the Turkish army and Islamist militias allied with it. The Yazidi population in particular has been affected by massacres and expulsion.
• After Gaza comes Gare 

  We must understand that the solution to Palestine lies in Kurdistan. Because that is where an alternative to the state and capitalism is being defended. There, a hope is attacked that gives strength and perspective to democratic forces all over the world.
• Diyanet as a means of social engineering 

  Journalist Burcu Karakaş has investigated the activities of the Turkish religious authority and its Diyanet Foundation and written a book. She sees Diyanet as a means of religious engineering of society.
• HDP releases report called 'Systematic Oppression as the Basis for Erdogan’s New Turkey’ 

  The HDP has released a report called 'Systematic Oppression as the Basis for Erdogan’s New Turkey’.
• Living in the Feraşîn Plateau under embargo 

  Feraşîn Plateau has been turned into a military base. Electricity is not provided to dozens of villages and hundreds of households. The villagers are trying to resist the state's embargo.
• Zozan Çewlik: No attack will be able to stop us 

  The system of rule is based on the feeling of fear. Insurgents are guided by their passion for freedom and not by the feeling of surrender that arises from fear, said YJA Star Central Headquarters Commander Zozan Çewlik in an ANF interview.
• The Turkish plan to attack the Maxmur Refugee Camp 

  Baxtiyar Çelê, member of the People's Council of the Democratic Self-Administration in the Maxmur refugee camp in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) summarizes the situation on the ground for ANF.
• The Sheikh Jarrah Intifada, an article by Nayrouz Qarmout from Gaza 

  Palestinian writer Nayrouz Qarmout is living in Gaza. Last night she sent a whatsapp message saying Israeli bombing had reached West Gaza where she leaves. A few hours earlier she had sent ANF this text.