A nation state is not the solution but rather the problem - Abdullah Öcalan Article by imprisoned Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, arguing against…
Interview with the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum (KAF) An informative interview with Kurdish anarchists from 2010.
2012 Newroz riots in Turkey In defiance of government's ban on Newroz, the day the coming of the spring is celebrated in the Kurdish culture hundreds of thousands took to the streets. Violent clashes occurred.
Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference Kadir Ateş and Toros Korkmaz analyse the Tekel tobacco plant strikes in Turkey between 2009 and 2010…
Wildcat strike in Diyarbakır ends with victory Wildcat strike of brick workers in Turkey wins pay increase.
Interview with Kurdish anarchists, 2010 The spanish anarchist site alasbarricadas.org interviewed last month members of the exiled Kurdistan Anarchist Forum. Here is the full interview:
Do Kurdish people lack a state? This was originally written for a festival on 1st September 1996, which was called "Peace in Kurdistan Festival". It is our task to highlight briefly the situation in Kurdistan and refute the crocodile tears by capitalists and their media over Kurdistan. From Subversion #20 (1996)
Class struggle in Iraq - interview with a veteran An interview covering class struggle in Iraq from the '40s to early '90s in Iraq.
1991: The Kurdish uprising The following is an account of the uprising in Kurdistan in 1991, which buries the lies of the western media which presented this proletarian…
1988: The Halabja Massacre The history of the Saddam Hussein's poison gas attack, with the complicity of the West, in the working class stronghold of Halabja.
The Bacton Fashions strike, 1990 - Mark Metcalf An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…
1991: The South Iraq and Kurdistan uprisings The history of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during …
