Digital Security Protocol: A basic safety guide for everyone

We use our phones, tablets or smartphones as well as our computers and our cameras every day. Therefore, our security when using them is a very important topic we have to confront ourselves with. Especially for people who organize and fight against the capitalist system, security and self-defense are essential topics that should equally be taken into consideration on the digital level.

⚠️ Why is it important to take care of our security?
⚠️ What types of attacks do we face?
✅ Privacy Alternatives for OS, Messenger and more
✅ Best practices

Protecting yourself, your devices, phone and computers means at the same time protecting your comrades, your collective or your organization!

Read it now in ENG // IT // GER // FR: https://internationalistcommune.com/digital-security-protocol-a-basic-safety-guide-for-everyone/

▶️ Jina Amini's death sparked resistance worldwide

🌹 September 16 was the 3rd anniversay of Jina Amini's murder. She was a young Kurdish woman from Saqqaz in East Kurdistan (Iranian State) who was captured by the local 'moral police' in Teheran.

⚫️ She was arrested because of the way she was wearing her hijab. On September 16, at the age of 22, she died due to the state's torture.

🌟 She became a symbol for the struggle for autonomy, equality in Iran. Since this day, we see uprisings and revolutionary actions under the slogan 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' worldwide.

🔒 The protests against the Iranian regime does not change their approach to political prisoners and the general life conditions of women.

🙋‍♀This is visible in the situation of three woman activists now arrested in the Evin House Prison who are condemned to death because of their political actions.

🌍 When remembering Jina, we also think of other courageous revolutionaries who defend a socialist and democratic world where every woman can live freely.

📣 Re-Release: In Remembrance of Riza Altun, founding member of the PKK we republish this in-depth perspective:

“The Global Crisis of Capitalism and the Chaos in the Middle East” — a manual for understanding the reality of the Third World War in the Middle East and around the world:

Rıza Altun, co-founder of the party had fallen on September 25, 2019 due to an Turkish airstrike in the Qandil mountains. We republish this interview not only to commemorate his lifelong struggle for a free life, but because his analysis continues to enlighten our current reality

➡️ Download here: https://riseup4rojava.org/the-global-crisis-of-capitalism-and-the-chaos-in-the-middle-east/

📚 Please share in your networks!

⁨✊🌼Perspectives from Rojava - SPECIAL EDITION OUT NOW🌼✊

Young Revolutionaries in Rojava talk about the internationalist struggle in the current phase

🔸This special edition is an outcome of the Şehid Hêlîn Qerecox Academy in Rojava, which is a place for young people from all over the world to educate themselves on the principles of democracy, ecology and women’s liberation.

🔸In the pages that follow we open our dreams as young internationalists in Rojava and examine our limits and difficulties in order to achieve them, our emotions, our fears and our goals inside of the Revolution.

🔻 Available in EN | IT | PT | GE | ID | FR

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⚡️ATTACKS ON THE PEOPLE IN ALEPPO⚡️

❌ Forces of Syrian Transitional Government (HTS) attack demonstration in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh (Aleppo).

❌ The people are demonstrating against a siege, imposed on the autonomous areas today. The siege blocks 500.000 people from going in and out.

❌ Dozens of people have been injured, at least one martyred!

❌ Even if the HTS is attacking with heavy weapons, the people resist in the streets.

🕊 Against the international conspiracy we say unity of peoples in the Middle East!

▶️ Every year on October 9, the main role of the hegemonic Western forces in the conspiracy repeatedly comes back to mind.

▶️ The main aim of Turkey showing solidarity with Palestine is to create contradictions between the Kurdish movement and the Palestine movement.

▶️ Only a union of democratic forces in the Middle East can destroy the hegemony of the states and create a new perspective for life. That is one of the goals of Rêber Apo.

🔥 We, as internationalists in Rojava, call on all women, young people, socialists, communalists to join the fight for the physical freedom of Rêber Apo!

📍Read our full statement on the international conspiracy against Rêber Apo and the current situation in the Middle East:
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⭐ North East Syria Diary: 8 Years of free Raqqa

"During a conversation over dinner in one of the high-rise buildings in the center of Raqqa, surrounded by Arab and Kurdish revolutionaries, Aziz tells me in the dim light of a flashlight how he woke up in his parents’ house on the morning of January 13, 2014, and suddenly saw the black flag of ISIS flying over the city."

We bow our heads to those who lost their lives in the liberation of the city. Today, Raqqa is liberated, but the road to the liberation of the Middle East is still long and unpredictable.

➡️ Read the whole article here in ENG/GER/SPA

🌹 A revolutionary woman and internationalist guerrilla fighter – Ronahî / Andrea Wolf

Heval Ronahî, Andrea Wolf, fell in the fight against the Turkish state on the 23rd of October 1998 together with 23 of her comrades in Catak, Northern Kurdistan. Ronahî was a German revolutionary that had joined the PKK movement.

She went to the free mountains of Kurdistan and took her place as a member of the free women’s army YAJK in the war against the occupiers of Kurdish soil.

27 years ago today, she gave her life in the fight against fascism and became immortal. With her struggle she paved the way for all internationalists the followed her example and are fighting today against fascism and capitalism in the ranks of the PKK.

🕊 What does Rêber Apo mean to you?

We spread Quotes by Rêber Apo at the opening ceremony of the football stadium in the frame of the Şehîd Bawer Agir Youth festival in Kobanê and asked the people what Rêber Apo means to them.

Şehîd Bawer Agir was an important figure in the Youth Movement in Kurdistan.
The festival was connected to sports and culture. During the day, activities for the little ones were held as well as other kinds of activities like chess games. During the afternoon, dance and music groups performed and football games were played.
The festival ended after the third day. Thousands of residents from the Euphrates canton and representatives of the autonomous administration attended the festival.

We keep the struggle of the ones who preceded us; with the same strength and conviction of Şehîd Bawer Agir. We stand and we keep demanding the physical freedom of Rêber Apo.

Şehîd Namirin, Bijî Rêber Apo!

🔴 LÊGERÎN #18 OUT NOW!

🚩 What is Socialism? In this issue we try to answer to this question, by uniting the voices of youth from all over the world. This issue contains:

📌 In depth pieces on the history and the present of socialism & the role of young women in building a socialist society
📌 Interviews with youth from all over the world & the testimony of Kemitooma, Ugandan political exile
📌 A memorial for the revolutionary Emine Erciyes
📌 Art from Ayshe-Mira Yashin (@ayshemira on Instagram, website: www.ayshemira.com), Eric Andriantsialonina (@Dwa.Artist on Instagram and Facebook). Also original works featured from artists Selma Uhlisch, Siria and Ola.

🔗 The magazine is free to download from our website https://www.revistalegerin.com/en

👉 Available in 8 languages ES | EN | IT | PT | DE | ID | FR | CA

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🌹 NEW BROCHURE: YOUNG WOMEN AND SELF-DEFENSE 🌹

Interview with YPJ Commander Nesrîn Abdullah

Sexism, violence, self-alienation.

🔸We as young women are facing attacks of the sexist system every day. This is why we need to defend ourselves, not just physically!

🔸 Who is our real enemy, and how can we fight it?

🔸 In a system that dismembers and degrades us, puts us in boxes and makes us dependent on men, how can we become ourselves again?

🔥 This brochure lays the foundation for us to come together, learn and discuss self-defense, and put it into practice!

Read and download our brochure:
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Spanish
Italian
German

👉 Coming soon in Portuguese, French, Greek, Kurdish and Arabic

☀️The Message of Rêber Apo for 25th November:

Society is not a single-layered class structure; it is a field of struggle based on gender, is historical, and is composed of many layers. The first and greatest problem of humanity is the counter-revolution, which began with the enslavement of woman and attacked the socialisation built around her. Domestic violence, the murder of women, and the oppression of patriarchy are all signs and a continuation of this historical attack. The caste structure that attacked the communality and socialisation around women later transformed in Mesopotamia into the council of gods, the Sumerian priests, and from there into pharaohs and kings, thus making patriarchal oppression over society permanent.

In this era, the woman is capitalism's most valuable raw material. Her body is sold, her personality is offered to the market. The woman whose spirit has also been occupied by man, lives with the very dagger of slavery that the patriarchal system has stabbed in her back. The patriarchal social hierarchy, created by the millennia-long civilisational war, brings with it violence and war. Patriarchal civilisation with the state has taken the voice, production, the female body, and subsequently, society from women. Until this truth is recognised, no step can be taken towards freedom.

The problematic situation that the patriarchal system has imposed upon women must be understood and resolved. When one considers the killing of women, domestic violence, violence against women, and discrimination-based colonialism, the extent of their enslavement is far greater than one might expect. Women have been completely subjugated. Her reality has been turned upside down. The trinkets that women wear for adornment and status, the piercings they wear on their noses, are all signs of slavery that have persisted throughout history. Within capitalist modernity, the enslavement of women has become even deeper; the system has transformed women into an instrument of the market and adornment. To be liberated from this systematic enslavement, to achieve freedom, requires profound depth and organisation.

No social freedom movement can be a genuine revolution unless it makes women's freedom its cornerstone. I see the relationships between women and men as very problematic. We made women's liberation our principle and evaluated relationships accordingly. The largest part of our work is the work concerning women. It is important to understand the relationship and conflict between women and men. We have analysed and assessed male domination, which hinders women's freedom and enslaves women in every way. We have created a sociology of freedom. It is clear that being a woman is difficult, and liberation is not easy, but women must do this with courage. To remove the dagger of male domination that has been stabbed into the back of humanity and to build a free and democratic life, they must take the lead."

Abdullah Ocalan


➡️ See the message here in ENG // IDN // ESP // GER:
ENG: https://internationalistcommune.com/message-of-reber-apo-for-25th-november/
IDN: https://internationalistcommune.com/pesan-dari-reber-apo-untuk-25-november/
ESP: https://internationalistcommune.com/el-mensaje-de-reber-apo-para-el-25-de-noviembre/
GER: https://internationalistcommune.com/botschaft-von-reber-apo-zum-25-november/

Interview with Mustafa Karasu: "The PKK is a turning point in Kurdish history"

Interview with Mustafa Karasu, founding member of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) on the anniversary of the PKK’s founding:

☀️"This struggle has grown over not just six months, but over four or five generations. Almost everyone in Kurdistan today has grown up witnessing this struggle and becoming familiar with the values it has created.

🔥 "A new culture has been created, a new culture of struggle has emerged."

🌱 "Women, who created the first society and created humanity, have been subjected to tremendous pressure in the Middle East, and the women who created Middle Eastern society have been relegated to a very backward position. But today, in line with Rêber Apo's ideas, Kurdish women have become the most free-thinking women not only in the Middle East but in the world."

Read the Full Interview here:
https://internationalistcommune.com/the-pkk-is-a-turning-point/

🔥Heval Cemal (Murat Karayilan) on the anniversary of the founding of the PKK:

"Before us already socialist leaders and movements, were talking about women’s rights and the equality of women and men. This sentences were used. But Rêber Apo’s approach was more foundational. Rêber Apo said: the earliest class that had been enslaved was the women. First the Women was oppressed and until Women aren’t free society will not be free. Because of this first a women’s revolution is necessary."

🔥MESSAGE FROM ÖCALAN TO AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ISTANBUL

"I address you today from İmralı Island under the conditions of isolation of 26 years, at a moment when a new dialogue with the state over the Kurdish question in search for peace and a democratic society has resumed again. To address you, at the International Conference on Peace and Democratic Society, on the path of rebuilding socialism, is both meaningful and significant. [...]

The PKK has fulfilled its historical mission by securing the national existence of the Kurdish people, while also exposing the limitations of nation-state socialism. Twentieth-century socialism emerged as a negative revolutionary intervention, yet failed to present a lasting alternative.

Despite enormous sacrifices, this struggle has become a legacy enriched through both theoretical and practical critique. To honor and to own this legacy properly requires transforming socialism from a mere memory to a living social force beating at the heart of the people.

The socialist tradition in history must be understood as a legacy aimed at building both peace and democratic society, and the path forward lies in fulfilling internationalist responsibilities—in theory and in practice."

➡️READ THE FULL MESSAGE: https://english.anf-news.com/features/abdullah-Ocalan-sends-message-to-the-peace-and-democratic-society-conference-82521

Documentary about People's Resistance in Kobanê: Life in War

🔸 Following Assad's fall in December 2024, the Turkish state and its mercenaries intensified its attacks on the autonomous administration of north-eastern Syria.

🔸The situation was uncertain, but the people were prepared for anything. This was particularly evident in Kobanê, where the Tishreen Dam had been attacked, leaving the city without a water and electricity supply for several months.

🔸This documentary reflects on the situation and the people's resistance, led particularly by women, young people, and the people's self-administered structures. With fewer opportunities, but with a collective spirit, the people employed the strategy of a Revolutionary People's War.

📍Watch Documentary with English or French Subnoscripts on our website:
https://internationalistcommune.com/documentary-about-peoples-resistance-in-kobane-life-in-war/

Brochure: The Seeker of Truth – Bager Nûjiyan

Şehîd Bager fell martyr on December 14, 2018, due to a drone attack by the Turkish state. In his memory we publish today the 2nd edition of "Seeker of Truth – Bager Nûjiyan"

Şehîd Bager was born with the name Michael Panser in September 1988 in Eastern Germany. On his search for a free life he traveled, organized, discussed, thought, learned & taught. The starting point for his journey to Kurdistan were the ideas of Rêber Apo which gave the answers to many questions that we are asking today as well, but more importantly he asked the right questions: How to live? What to do? Where to start?

2nd Edition with 2 new texts:
“Creating space for each other in our hearts”:
A comrade shares her memories about Şehîd Bager

“Email to two friends”:
Email Şehîd Bager send from Rojava in 2016 sharing his experiences connecting them with the necessities of the fight in Europe

Read in ENG / CTA / PT / GER: https://internationalistcommune.com/seeker-of-truth-bager-nujiyan/