Maria Edgarda Marcucci (Eddi) joined the YPJ and the women's movement in Rojava and participated in the resistance in Afrin in 2018. Back in Italy she was sentenced to special surveillance measures as she was considered "dangerous".

Marcucci was interviewed by Ozgur Politika. About the sentence she was given she said: "This measure is different from others, there‘s no crime committed. It‘s a political sentence that creates a dangerous precedent for internationalism in Italy and all of Europe I think. They want to discourage any connection between Europe and Kurdistan, they want to prevent the philosophy of Serokati to spread and deny the experience of the possibility to live according to societal values. Even though this is the first time in Italy, other European states tried to accuse of the most imaginative and instrumental charges many internationalists. It is clear the attempt to attack internationalism and to create the conditions for this attack to be very heavy."

Asked about how her experience in Rojava affected her, Marcucci said: "Sometimes we feel powerless in our struggles, we lack moral and perspective. The experience in Rojava taught me about the struggle as a lifelong process, of course, you‘ll have ups and downs but when we unite all of our intelligence and will, there‘s nothing we can‘t achieve, and all problems can be solved. I understood how revolution doesn‘t mean lacking problems, is something far from that actually, is a constant challenge, but the difference is how you face those challenges according to which values and which purpose. This was the deepest experience for me with the YPJ and the women‘s movement. The ideology of women liberation is such a fundamental tool to analyze this world nowadays. Without it, I think we would be in even bigger trouble! We need to deepen our understanding and our practices and share it with more and more women, but it already did so much for women like me who want to change society."

Asked about her experience in Afrin Marcucci said: "I was there for nearly a year and had the honor to participate in Afrin resistance. It was unbelievable how society as a whole resisted the invasion. It‘s hard for me to summarise a meaning because there‘s so much to say, still, I think Sehid Helin‘s words are the best example I can give: 'If you love your own people enough to fight for them and die for them -and you have to if you want to be a revolutionary- then you’ll love also people from far away enough to fight and die for them.' Every attack on democratic confederalism is an attack on global communities. All over the world we face the same enemy and confront similar issues: freedom of women on top of the list with all the intersections that this struggle has with ecology, the defense of natural and cultural resources, and democratic decision making. The latest movements across the world showed us how new generations have a clear understanding of the world as a whole, globalization is a given fact for them and they struggle to turn it in a common strength among people that want to build a different world."