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• The ghost of dictator Franco still haunting Spanish society 

  The Spanish Supreme Court supported the Government's decision to transfer the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco.
• Westminster to resume today after Supreme Court ruling 

  Protesters celebrated outside the Supreme Court in London after judges ruled that Johnson’s advice to the English queen to prorogue Westminster for five weeks was unlawful.
• Rojava University opens new faculty and departments 

  The Rojava University 2019-2020 academic year will begin on 1 November.
• Yazidis in Armenia remember their dead  

  The Yazidi community in Armenia remembered their dead in the town of Armavir and Aygeshatt village. Religious scholars recited Qawl, the women sang lamentations.
• First blow to EU-Mercosur agreement comes from Austria 

  The Austrian parliament has rejected the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.  
• Derry witnessed first hearing of Bloody Sunday trial  

  After almost 48 years, the case of a British soldier accused of murder during the Bloody Sunday massacre, the first and only prosecution for the 1972 killing spree, finally began at Derry’s courthouse this week.
• Van Mayor called on the UN to follow trustees appointment process 

  Mayor Ertan was prevented from traveling to Geneva and attending the conference in person.
• SDF Commander General: We will not accept Erdoğan’s threats 

  SDF Commander General Mazlum Abdi Kobanê stressed that they will take no steps outside of the agreement made.
• Kobanê and Rojava universities are growing 

  There are a total of 22 departments in Rojava and Kobanê universities. In addition there is a strong interest in both universities from Arab population from Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij and Dêir ez-Zor.
• Portuguese ISIS member under SDF arrest for 6 months 

  Nero Saraiva from Portugal is one of the first European fighters to arrive in Syria and join the terrorist organization in 2012.
• HPG calls out to families of Turkish soldiers under their arrest 

  HPG Commander Mahir Deniz stated that the AKP-MHP government did nothing to reunite the Turkish soldiers under HPG custody with their families. Deniz said the government furthermore ignored this issue and avoided discussing it.
• Leyla Güven: Chaos is being organized again 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven said that visits to Abdullah Öcalan are no longer regularly approved and a chaos is organized: "If it continues like this, a coup mechanism mentioned by Öcalan could be set in motion again."
• Trees planted in Switzerland in memory of Rojava martyrs 

  Forest dedicated to the martyrs of the Rojava Revolution.
• New Academic Year begins in Northern and Eastern Syria 

  The preparations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria for the 2019-2020 academic year have been completed and today hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers will be going to their classes across the region.
• 50,000 NO in Bilbao to criminalisation of defense of prisoners 

  Some 50,000 people took to the streets in Bilbao against the macro trial that will start on Monday in Madrid against 47 Basque citizens for their defense of the rights of prisoners.
• PKK’s Karayılan: Nobody is abducted to join the guerrilla 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK commented on the staged protests in front of the HDP headquarters in Amed, stressing that; "We are an ideological movement based on voluntary participation. We do not hold anyone against his will."
• 46 MEPs to Erdoğan: Election results must be respected  

  The Members of the European Parliament expressed concern at the new announcement by Erdogan of "further orders to remove elected officials.
• Sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf! 

  Today is Global Action Day for Hasankeyf. Organisers invited people to "sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf".
• PKK’s Karayılan: Cizre massacre ordered by Erdoğan 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK has commented on Ahmet Davutoğlu's knowledge of the bloody series of attacks between June 7 and November 1, 2015 in Turkey and North Kurdistan.
• Demos in Sweden against the Turkish invasion 

  The attempt by AKP-MHP fascism to invade Rojava is met with reaction in Sweden.
• Argentine justice reopens the case of Santiago Maldonado 

  The Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia ordered the reopening of the case on the disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado, following the police intervention against a protest in the territory of the Mapuche Cushamen community, in August 2017.
• Wallerstein: The chaos will not go on forever 

  In his message to the Hamburg Conference where Öcalan’s ideas were discussed in 2012, Wallerstein summarized the current world order and proposed the ways out.
• A Sage of Our Times – Immanuel Wallerstein 

  Wallerstein stood firmly on the side of the oppressed people around the world. He was widely read in Kurdistan, and many of the concepts he developed over time have proved very influential on the thinking of freedom-loving people in the Middle East.
• Tragedy of refugees in Van continues 

  The influx of refugees to Van continues. Hundreds of refugees have been struggling to survive for months at Van Intercity Bus Station.
• Michael Panser: Good luck to you all! 

  Guerrilla fighter Michael Panser tells of his ideas of a contemporary revolution and his experiences in the free mountains of Kurdistan in a video recorded in autumn 2018.