There’s a lot of important info in this report from a London-based Kurdish anarchist who just came back from visiting Turkish occupied Kurdistan. “42 people and 2 police officers were killed during the recent demonstrations in the area, some 1,128 people were arrested including 53 children, with 221 still in prison.” The repression continues. Many thousands of refugees are surviving in harsh conditions along the border as winter arrives. But the Kurds inside Turkey’s borders, as across the line in formerly Syrian Rojava, continue to build a “power from below” that they call social revolution, and that presents a serious challenge to the Turkish state. For sure this is no pure “anarchist revolution” (as if there has ever been such a thing). But there are real anarchist tendencies developing, and a tremendous passion for freedom.
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