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• 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.
• Final text of the 'National Stance Against Turkish State Occupation' conference 

  The "National Stance" document urged the need for unity which emerged at the working conference on National Stance Against the Occupation of the Turkish State promoted by the KNK.
• Yesterday Afrin, today Avashin  

  War has been raging in South Kurdistan for 25 days. War that aims at occupation and genocide. The Turkish AKP-MHP regime wants to occupy South Kurdistan and commit genocide against the Kurdish population in the course of this.
• PKK: We will break the isolation, smash fascism and end the occupation 

  "Regardless of what others do, we have set our path and will continue to follow this right path. We will break the isolation, smash fascism and end the occupation," said the PKK.
• Karayılan: Our goal is to break Turkish colonialism 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK has commented on the current war situation in the Medya Defense Zones in a video message. A situation map presented by the commander-in-chief of the central HPG headquarters provides important information.
• Ahmet Aslan: Two fallen brothers and a son in the guerrilla 

  Ahmet Aslan had nine siblings, his two brothers died in the Kurdish liberation struggle. Years later, his son also joined the guerrilla.
• Lawyer Turhallı: Isolation goes against Turkish constitution and laws 

  Abdullah Öcalan is still in isolation on Imrali prison island. Lawyer Cemile Turhallı explains how this contradicts the Turkish constitution as well as international law.
• Duran Kalkan: The PKK is still a workers' party 

  "Abdullah Öcalan rescued socialism from the clutches of a system of power and the state," Duran Kalkan explains in an ANF interview on the development of the PKK, which today is also a women's party.
• We must all stand together against Turkish attacks on Kurds, says Louise Regan 

  Louise Regan, National Officer, Membership and Equality, National Education Union and a Time Has Come Campaign, talked about the importance of standing together against Turkish attacks on Kurds.
• HPG commander on Turkish invasion: We will win 

  "The only obstacle to the realization of the neo-Ottoman dreams is the guerrilla. We are convinced that we can crush this operation as well," HPG commander Piling Suruç said about the Turkish invasion of Medya Defense Zones.